Tag: Citizen Musk

Citizen Musk

By Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

It’s going to be pretty ironic if, ultimately, it’s Elon Musk that brings down Tyrant Trump. It’s easy to game out a scenario where Musk’s dumb disruption of basic Federal services causes the country to heave with chaos to the point that finally someone shows some grit and stands up to the Trump’s tyranny.

We’re now entering a pretty wild moment in our nation’s history. Trump and Musk STILL have a lot of political slack to play with. People are just too distracted by other things. The country is just too big and it won’t be until we reach some moment where all of the tyrannical shenanigans that Trump and Musk are doing really comes into focus will anything happen.

So, for the time being, Citizen Musk has full reign to do whatever the fuck he wants. And it’s going to keep getting worse and worse until it all reaches a boiling point. Or…maybe not? Maybe not enough people will care?

I dunno. All I know is I have a few novels to work on. Maybe I can just be a man in a high castle and be (largely) unbothered by all the chaos of the outside world for the time being.

What Is ‘Citizen Musk’ Up To?

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

While I still struggle to figure out what Elon Musk is up to, I think I may at least have a theory. While in the past a plutocrat would have bought a newspaper, Musk is trying to transform Twitter in a pillar of the Right wing echo chamber, up there with Fox News itself.

As such, he doesn’t really care that center-Left people on the service get fed up and leave for various dumb things he’s thought up to do. He figures that if he can corner the market on Right wing discourse that his fanboys will be so passionate about Twitter — and him — that they will be willing to pay for elements of the service that were once free.

So, if Post or Spoutable is flooded with center-Left refugees, he sees it — from a business standpoint — as something of a luz. Citizen Musk knows how profitable Fox News is and he knows that after the kinks are sorted out that he could make a lot — A LOT — of money from MAGA who may come to see Twitter as a “safe space” for all their hate fueled rage.

At least, that the only explanation I can think of for why Musk is acting so weird and driving half the userbase off the service.