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Dec 12 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
#NazisRaus @elonmusk, is there a reason you felt that Ye had gone too far but you're cool with this? The hashtags under which the Nazis gather aren't hard to discern. Even a very understaffed Twitter could easily get rid of them. Why do you want #Nazis on Twitter?
You say you draw the line at "threats of violence." What would you call this? You say you draw the line at "illegal." I'm in a country where this is very much illegal. But I'm still seeing it.
You say you draw the line at child abuse. Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed 1.5 million Jewish children, tens of thousands of Roma children, and about 7,000 disabled German children--children who might have Aspergers, for example, like you.
Don't you think this qualifies as the promotion of child abuse?
I've reported this, but I know I'll get the same canned response: Your team can't see a violation of the Twitter rules.
It's not just "San Francisco liberals" who find this objectionable, Elon. @ADL
Hey, @bariweiss, I know you're busy these days, but how about using your proximity to Musk to do something constructive? You could explain to him that there's more than one dangerous mind virus, and this one has an especially bad track record?
Explain that many Americans have a grandfather who is sleeping-- forever--in a graveyard in France that stretches further than the eye can see. Even if he doesn't care for Jews, this photo might help him to grasp that Nazis are a problem for everyone.⬇️⬇️⬇️
His alien masters don't seem to have briefed him properly on our earthling customs, but you're in a great position to explain to him--politely, of course!--that on this planet, we fucking *hate* Nazis.
And that letting this Nazi filth dominate the "trending topics" --where anyone's kids can and will see it -- is not the brave stand against the "woke mind virus" he thinks it is.

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Claire Berlinski. Profile picture
Dec 12
So this sort of stuff is now flooding Twitter. Reporting it doesn't help--you get an automated reply saying they couldn't see a problem with it. People see the tweets below if they click on one of today's "trending topics."
There's now no possibility of getting these sorts of things removed. The theory, with free speech, is that bad speech will be countered with good speech. But the only people who will speak to people like this are his fellow antisemites.
"Just ignore it" is, first, not possible--because these tweets are being promoted. But it's also not a good idea to ignore it. Healthy societies do not feature images like this on the front page of their "public square."
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Dec 11
One more hypothesis, 5: He's a noble humanitarian who's doing this as performance art--an experiment in mass moral education.

At first, I was sure that at some point, Trump was going to suddenly whip off the mask and say, "I'M JUST KIDDING! LOOK HOW YOU ALL FELL FOR IT!"
Then, sort of like a movie with an overly-obvious moral at the end, he'd say to Americans: "Do you see now? Do you understand how easily it can happen? It can *even happen here.*"
Americans would learn a chastening lesson;
and everyone would be really embarrassed. And we'd all be saying, "Chapeau, Mr. Trump. You really had us going for a while there. We really thought this was happening."

Maybe Musk had the same thought? Maybe he's doing this to teach Americans a lesson about demagoguery?
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Claire Berlinski. Profile picture
Dec 11
Back to hypothesis 2--it occurs to me that the fanatic loyalty he's generating among his fans would probably encourage them to pay real money--not 8$--when he rolls out a new verification scheme.
Could this be worth it? Might he be able to recoup his investment this way?
How much exactly is he apt to lose in advertising? (All of it, at this rate, I should think.)
How much could he make if a large number of his devoted fans paid, say, $50 for special badges--
--ones that came with the implicit promise that the Great Man will occasionally reply to their tweets, while making those of people who don't pay less visible--plus some, say, for $10,000, that allowed your tweet to *replace* that of the missing advertisers? I mean,
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Dec 11
I agree. The open question is why. I have five theories:

1. He actually believes these things, ideologically. This seems implausible to me. He's can't be as stupid as he's pretending to be. He couldn't do what he's done if he were.
Surely his reading comprehension skills aren't as bad as those of the large crowd whose chain he's cheerfully yanking. He can't really *not understand* what the First Amendment says. He's surely capable of understanding an article written in Slate.
Yet he's behaving like someone who's only barely literate and may not be *able* to understand written material. I believed that of Trump. I don't believe that of him.
2. He's grifting: Playing to these MAGA/QAnon-addled mobs as an easy way to gin up excitement about Twitter,
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Dec 11
Actually, that's not true: I hope the people to whom he did that sue him for libel. It's not a slam-dunk case--the situation is in some ways similar to the Covington Kid case, and he lost: businessinsider.com/covington-kid-…
And since Musk has such deep pockets, it would hurt them far more than him. I wonder if there's a lawyer who would take the case pro bono, though, and at least turn this into very unpleasant PR for him--the way the guy in Thailand who he accused of being a "pedo" did.
Possibly, the courts would find his long history of accusing people who bruise his ego of pedophilia relevant to the establishment of "actual malice." Certainly, it meets the test of "knowingly false" and "reckless disregard."
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Dec 11
This is very insightful: nytimes.com/2022/12/10/opi…
After watching Musk capriciously launch his QAnon drone armies at private citizens, though--declaring them guilty of capital crimes without a public trial--I think we have to conclude he's no benign king. He's a crazy tyrant.
I find this very chilling. No private citizen should have that power. No one elected him. There are no checks and balances. There is no recourse if he wakes up and decides you're the next person he'll call a child molester.
QAnon is a warmed-over Nazi conspiracy theory against the Jews, and he's using these people as a personal army. This is exactly what we all worried about when we said, "The next one who comes along after Trump will be smarter and more dangerous."
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