Thread by @PnictogenHorses

the host of our system, Kris (@KrisAtLarge), is celebrating a birthday today, a birthday shared by a few other system members. I think Chara will be attempting to make us a birthday cake at some point.

I would like to give Kris and Chara and Asriel a gift, if I can.

~Mona

I don't know how realistic a prospect this is, but I would very much like to give Kris (and the entire Pnictogen Wing) the gift of @elonmusk's head on a platter—metaphorically speaking, of course.

this may seem silly. after all, this awful man is already roasted hourly.

~Mona

hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of @Twitter users hurl jeers and vitriol (and probably death threats) at @elonmusk constantly—that's a logical consequence of being as openly dedicated to evil as #ElonMusk is. he's a fascıst; fascısts earn undying scorn and hatred.

~Mona

and @elonmusk's *self-pity* about being despised is something that he can turn to his advantage.

this is a trick that right-wing Christian bıgots, especially the money-grubbing evangelical grifters like @dalepartridge and @aigkenham, have learned and taught to others.

~Mona

"everyone hates me, that proves I'm telling the truth," is this Christian-bıgot fallacy.

@dalepartridge probably tells himself some variation on this sentiment a hundred times a day, for Mr. Partridge is like @elonmusk in being dedicated to evil and causing maximal harm.

~Mona

it's ridiculous, but as a psychological defence mechanism, "they hate me therefore I'm correct" works admirably for @dalepartridge, @elonmusk, and so many other evil people.

hence it's not enough to *excoriate* these people; they're prepared for it, and benefit from it.

~Mona

so—one of our nine readers might ask—what can I possibly say to @elonmusk, or at any rate *about* #ElonMusk (I can't assume he ever reads anything I tweet about him), that could possibly do him any lasting damage? especially when most of @Twitter has roughly the same idea?

~Mona

I have only a wild surmise about how to approach this issue. I'll have to think and plan how to achieve it, and I may need to take a few days in order to do a better job.

I can say this much right now: the appeal of Mr. @elonmusk is the same as the appeal of any dictator.

~Mona

@elonmusk has attracted an enormous crowd of lickspittles and sycophants and hangers-on—@stillgray, @ShellenbergerMD, @Timcast, @mtaibbi, not to mention a legion of #cryptocurrency scam artists and bargain-basement #entrepreneurs—because he has *dictatorial* appeal.

~Mona

Western society and #capitalism are profoundly authoritarian—after all, fascısm is a product of Western civilization, its showiest blossom in a sense—so Western society adores *autocracy*, i.e. leadership by a single person who exercises unchallenged power and authority.

~Mona

the NSDAP fascısts gave a name to this worship of "point source" leadership, this fallacy that all greatness and creativity and wisdom flow downwards from single Great Men™: they called it the Führerprinzip, the "leadership principle". @stillgray &c. endorse this concept.

~Mona

@elonmusk endorses the Führerprinzip—and of course he tries as hard as possible to imagine that he's the only Führer in town, although every celebrity #CEO thinks the same way about themselves. @peterthiel thinks he's Supreme Leader material; so does @pmarca and @jack.

~Mona

and @elonmusk has attracted such a loyal, cultlike #ElonMusk fan club because Western society has been heavily conditioned over many centuries into viewing autocratic leaders as the *best possible* leaders. to @mtaibbi &c. an autocrat Gets Things Done™ as nobody else can.

~Mona

why does Western civilization have such a fondness for tyranny and unchallenged power wielded by single persons like @elonmusk who get to do whatever they want?

#Christianity is the answer. Western authoritarianism and "#Christian values" have always gone hand in hand.

~Mona

when crawlers like @stillgray and @ShellenbergerMD group themselves round @elonmusk, fawning over him and flattering him and talking to Mr. Musk as though this catastrophic child were their best friend...they're behaving like apostles to Christ. to them, Musk is as Jesus.

~Mona

#ElonMusk is no ordinary "genius" to @APompliano _et alii_; he is no ordinary worker of technological miracles. in their heart of hearts, @elonmusk is THE miracle worker, come back to Earth to lead us all into the promised land. in Elon Musk, they see the Second Coming.

~Mona

therefore I propose a two-pronged attack on the premises that support the @elonmusk cult phenomenon: attack the Führerprinzip, by showing that single-person autocracy is an absurd form of leadership that leads to inevitable failure; and attack #Christianity itself.

~Mona

without #Christianity and the "#Christian values" of Western civilization, Mr. @elonmusk would not even be a problem—it was *Christianity* that taught "the West" to throw itself at the feet of every autocratic strongman who reminds them even a little of Jesus's promises.

~Mona

#Christian civilization has remained, for millennia, stuck in perpetual childhood.

Mr. @elonmusk, who himself seems stuck in perpetual childhood even though he's over fifty, is one of the prices the West must pay for its continued intellectual and spiritual puerility.

~Mona

#Christianity is rotten and corrupt; it always has been, because it inherited and continued the rottenness and corruption of the slavedriving Roman tyranny that gave rise to this most absurd of religions. @dalepartridge &c. are like maggots infesting a putrescent corpse.

~Mona

when we finally kick this mouldering structure to pieces, a great evil will be removed from the world—a force that has empowered and emboldened dictators and police-states, and given strength to the cultlike worship of false saviors like Mr. @elonmusk.

~Mona Drafter of Pnictogen

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