Beyond a joke
Sigh. I remember the good old days when I didn’t have to spend any time paying attention to Elon Musk. I took full advantage of the luxury and paid him no mind at all. Those days are over. The guy’s dangerous.
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Sigh. I remember the good old days when I didn’t have to spend any time paying attention to Elon Musk. I took full advantage of the luxury and paid him no mind at all. Those days are over. The guy’s dangerous.
I just want Twitter gone along with all other social media, but whattayagonnado?
I’ll second that.
I was once in this interminable hour with someone telling boring stories and droning on about how no one could understand a word Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen sang (indicating he had never actually listened to either). But in the course of the hour, he did drop one gem:
He said his answer to anyone who told him he needed to use Twitter and Facebook and YouTube was just to say “You TwitFace”. I’ve never forgotten that. I laughed.
@1,2,: Me three.
I’m conflicted about it all. I don’t like how social media has evolved, but the vast majority of what passes for my social life is Facebook, and I’d have a very difficult time if it were to disappear.
Social media is here to stay, it is a force for good. Like any other media, it isn’t perfect, but recent elections in Australia have shown its power to overcome Murdoch’s shilling for Right Wing parties.
Nationally, Labor defeated a 9-year-old LNP government along with a wave of “Teal Independents” (teal was the uniform colour of their campaign).
In South Australia, a Rejuvenated Labor with a young leader defeated a one-term Liberal government.
And now, Victoria, the state that endured probably the longest and harshest Covid lockdown in the world, has seen its Labor government returned with an additional seat.
In every case, and most particularly in Victoria, Murdoch media went out guns blazing to destroy Labor’s hopes, hundreds of metres of newsprint lauding the Liberals and predicting Labor’s demise. And the Liberals believed it all.
Younger voters are not swayed by newspapers or shock jocks, they don’t read or listen to them; their news comes from social media. Labor and the independents leveraged this to their benefit, appealing to voters directly without the filter of the Murdochracy.
I’m a 70 year old curmudgeon who loves the way social media has engaged younger people with the democratic process.
Now, as to other aspects of social media …
Ah, but we know that Musk is a wonderfully intelligent person, he’s made billions so that proves it, and those who complain about him or don’t take him seriously are members of the ‘tofu-eating wokerati’ and are against free speech! So it’s perfectly all right for Musk to have a go at Fauci or to pass on to all his twitterati someone else’s slur about Nancy Pelosi’s husband encounter with a rent-boy. It’s free speech! And Facebook is so much better because of all this free speech! All those Nazis back on it, Trump… what’s not to like?