One way to understand Musk's takeover of Twitter is ask how many OTHER media outlets are now owned by right-wing billionaires.
THEN you start to see what's happening.
@dcjohnson do you mean it's most of them?
And there's pretty much no such thing as a not right wing billionaire. Gates made that abundantly clear when he said he'd consider voting for Trump over Warren.
There's right wing nut jobs billionaires with open autocratic desires and there's right wing billionaires who are quiet about their still present autocratic tendencies.
That's it. There's nothing else.
@philip_cardella @dcjohnson Seeing as we’re all main characters, we want to believe we’d be different if we somehow came into billions. So then we imagine at least SOME of the existing billionaires are that way. But no, you’re right, that’s not the real world.
@BetaBoyTV @philip_cardella @dcjohnson yup. You don’t become a billionaire by accident, you do it by exploiting a whole lot of people. It takes a certain kind of person to be comfortable with that.
@iragsdale @BetaBoyTV @philip_cardella @dcjohnson
My parents always taught me exactly this growing up. At a certain point you can't go any higher up without doing something morally wrong.
