• Basic Glitch
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      7 days ago

      This changes nothing, and really shouldn’t surprise anyone bc most people just assumed he was, based on his constantly bizarre behavior, from doing a fucking Nazi salute on stage to the micro moments like when he looked like he was glitching/buffering during Trump’s inauguration.

      Given that the administration pretty successfully managed to gaslight the entire nation after two nazi salutes, that we all saw, I doubt we would even be seeing so many negative headlines about Musk right now if the narrative wasn’t intentionally being shifted that way by people in the white house. He went from the untouchable dark force who was running the country, to the guy in the cheese hat that annoyed everyone and who gave himself bladder issues by doing too much ketamine.

      Thiel got him to serve as the face of dismantling the federal government, and then pushed him aside once Kratsios was confirmed by the senate. Stealing government data to dump into AI was something they have had planned since Trump’s first administration. They just needed a public scapegoat, and Musk was more than willing to take the bait.

      That said, have people seriously forgotten that in every headline any accusation is always “alleged” even if it’s something like rape or murder?

      • @bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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        07 days ago

        They’ve been slipping on that with Mangionw trial coverage at a definitely-more-than-coincidental rate. Stop giving massive institutions with crystal-clear motives the benefit of the doubt.