Politico ran an ironic and a little bit sad story Tuesday, headlined “
Democrats can’t quit Elon Musk’s X.” Poor democrats. They
want to quit. They just can’t stop themselves.
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For three years, democrats enjoyed special privileged status on Twitter, where their comments and posts went unchallenged by the government-fueled censorship machine that was busy chewing up and spitting out all the conservatives on the platform.
But, now that he’s bought the platform and shutdown most of the “misinformation” filters, Politico’s article announced Elon Musk is now the left’s new, number one,
most-hated person. Elon somehow even dethroned President Trump. (At least for now.)
According to Politico, it’s all because of
Israel. You probably thought conservatives were the main Israel supporters, but according to Politico, rank-and-file
democrats are so strong for Israel that they are outraged at Elon over Twitter’s weak support for the Jewish homeland, and because of Media Matters’ claims that Twitter is antisemitic:
It’s weird how in just a couple days, a person can become a “full-on villain for much of the American left,” isn’t it? It must be totally organic. Anyway, the “news” was that 25 democrats sent Elon a threatening letter on Tuesday, making the totally-believable claim that Twitter “is profiting from Hamas’ terrorist propaganda.”
Then, as soon as they clicked “send,” the democrats all
raced to Twitter to announce they’d sent Elon their letter complaining about Twitter. They’d rather not use Elon’s antisemitic platform, but where
else are they supposed to announce things?
It’s a conundrum. Democrats tried creating their own “fully moderated,” progressive Twitter-killer, called something-or-other, causing lots of establishment journalists to rage quit Elon’s platform with great fanfare, but then have to sneak back in shame because — oddly — nobody wanted to read their wacky leftist scribblings in their “digital safe spaces.”
So I guess it’s Twitter for now. But owning a popular and uncensored social media platform put Elon right in the crosshairs, making him a “full-on villain” to democrats. After all, how dare he allow conservatives any free speech?
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