re: What has Elon Musk done to Twitter employees for them to hate him?

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How was it accomplished?

And how could the American right allow it to happen?

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This is obviously a huge topic we couldn't really scratch the surface of in a short time period, but two things that came to mind -

Academia is trickle down. It's an incubator for bad ideas that for a long time stayed bad ideas because practical people in business and other productive fields looked a them and said "wow, what a bad idea."

BUT, you can only have kids go through the academic motions for so long before eventually it will begin to stick and bear fruit. Same for DEI type stuff - for years this was check the box in board rooms, but after a couple of decades of college indoctrination and being told about privilege at the office, it's not terribly surprising that institutions are finding this stuff more deeply rooted, even in the corporate world. When something is repeated over and over as fact and cannot be questioned, eventually people will accept it as fact that can't be questioned.

Obviously "how did the crazies get a hold of academia" and "how did they get a hold of most media outlets" probably have somewhat similar answers, but it's beyond my ability to try and explain.

Another overarching factor here, IMO, is the absence of genuine strife for the last several decades. A small percent of Americans were directly impacted by 9/11. A small percent went to war. And so on and so forth. We've had the luxury to become soft and ingratiate bad ideas. In the absence of genuine struggle/conflict/disparity we've allowed fabricated struggle to come to the forefront and take root in the collective consciousness.

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News Media, entertainment, and education were done via self selection and peer pressure.

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What does this mean in the context of national media and education markets?

It seems that if one side can take control, why can't the other?

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Tech and Social media attract younger and more radical people. These people think they’re saving the planet and fighting the good fight.

Big Business and to a lesser extent churches talk the talk to stop the other groups from boycotting them.

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Is it just about messaging? The right really has no appealing message to promote?

Why on earth are you even trying to engage in a conversation with this fricking liberal loser?? She has no interest in what you’re trying to explain.. rather, she’s gonna let you type paragraph after paragraph and nitpick the smallest detail and make you go further and further into it until you finally realize that you are no longer talking about the original shite you wanted to talk about


Everyone knows you’re right. Everyone sees this shite play in day in and day out. The left has controlled damn near every single major news outlet and they have been pushing their bullshite narratives for a decade+


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Leave that pussy alone. she has no genuine interest in what you’re saying. This is all just an elaborate attempt at a ‘gotcha’ after you’ve typed out post after post of good info

I don't have any background with him/her/they/xe, so I didn't appreciate they weren't genuine

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What has Elon Musk done to Twitter employees for them to hate him?

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He is alive and breathing.

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This is obviously a huge topic

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When you're talking about one political ideology taking over the entire cultural infrastructure of a society, it's the HUGEST topic conceivable.

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Academia is trickle down. It's an incubator for bad ideas that for a long time stayed bad ideas because practical people in business and other productive fields looked a them and said "wow, what a bad idea."

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I'm not sure I follow. You're implying that "academia" has no good ideas when it is the incubator of most of our ideas - good and bad. Practical people in business and "other productive fields" take good ideas from academia all the time.

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When something is repeated over and over as fact and cannot be questioned, eventually people will accept it as fact that can't be questioned.

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This is how I fell about the statement, "The left has taken over academia."

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Obviously "how did the crazies get a hold of academia" and "how did they get a hold of most media outlets" probably have somewhat similar answers, but it's beyond my ability to try and explain.

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If it is as you say, then it would seem so important to figure out, that we should ALL be working on it.

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In the absence of genuine struggle/conflict/disparity we've allowed fabricated struggle to come to the forefront and take root in the collective consciousness.

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I can get behind this. It seems that we have become complacent, and tend to want to just blame others for our discontent, and really don't want to do what it takes to even out the power structure.

Personally, I think it's more of a corporate takeover of power, and we're simply led to believe that there is this terrific rift in American ideologies so that we fight each other over essentially nothing, while corporate power grows.

He believes in free speech

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What does this mean in the context of national media and education markets?

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It means that more liberal people chose journalism and education as professions while conservatives went elsewhere, probably for more money. Over the years, peer pressure drowned out any remaining conservatives from most institutions to the point today where a conservative in education is actively harassed and fired for saying a word so few even bother going there anymore. Same with journalism. Over the years they just get more and more extreme. Now that they’ve weeded out most conservatives, they’ve moved on to leftist purity tests - how woke can you get.

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It means that more liberal people chose journalism and education as professions while conservatives went elsewhere, probably for more money. Over the years, peer pressure drowned out any remaining conservatives from most institutions to the point today where a conservative in education is actively harassed and fired for saying a word so few even bother going there anymore. Same with journalism. Over the years they just get more and more extreme. Now that they’ve weeded out most conservatives, they’ve moved on to leftist purity tests - how woke can you get.

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This -- and even sports journalism. Look at the Project Veritas ESPN video. All of those people in sports journalism talking about being pressured to toe the line and keep their mouths shut.

I’m not even saying there is some massive conspiracy to take over these places. Most of it just happened over the years simply because people don’t like working somewhere that is openly hostile to your beliefs so anyone with a differing opinion just decided to avoid the hassle in the first place.

So now we have a media that only covers events from one angle, academia that incubates only one type of thought, entertainment that tries to make the abnormal seem common, and a social media population ready and willing to go to war for any offense(including the crime of being silent), which means business has to tow the line or face negative press and boycotts.

But some of this is starting to backfire. Morgan Wallen for instance. Decent music but became so popular because he was unfairly attacked by obvious hacks.