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Good thread. Obvious unless woke derangement syndrome is blinding you. For all its elitist faults, bluecheck-nobility culture (RIP) was strong enough to prevent owner authoritarianism but too weak to police the narrative. Now it’s an imperial rather than democratic public space.
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Thoughts on Twitter, Musk, and the destruction of the virtual public square.   The end may be near. No amount of snark or schadenfreude will change the fact that this situation is a disaster. Twitter has always been a mess – but also a crucial instrument to democratize America.
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I’m confused by your response. What does it being a feature of society have to do with the desire to root it out? And why is child safety a fixation of the right and not all parents?
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A selectively deployed stalking horse for broad social conservative politics (hence Epstein cabal being treated as a bigger deal than say Catholic Church abuse), combined with a convenient panic button and unconscious projection of repressed creepy shit in for eg “purity” culture
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do you think the majority of conservatives are 1: catholic and 2: have done nothing over the past 30 years to root out and end abuse in that area? The results, at least n the US, since 2002 have been pretty positive. what is your particular stalking horse, here?
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Or, your assumption of projection is revealing about you? We could just take people like at their word and assume they are opposed because, you know, they are actually opposed. Because it hurts kids. Just like the Catholic church scandal, and Epstein.
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