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Dems Sour Over Elon Musk Buying Twitter
With Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, self-described wokes and liberals in India and around the world are wringing their hands and losing sleep over the social media company’s possible transformation under the leadership of a man who has made no bones about his contempt for wokeness and liberalism.
Left-liberals in India and throughout the world experienced a lengthy breakdown on Twitter Inc. only hours after Tesla CEO Elon Musk purchased the microblogging site for $44 billion.
Anand Giridhardas, an American journalist, claimed that Elon Musk is doing what plutocrats have done for centuries: buying power and using power to protect power, controlling the media to rig the discourse and hedge against resentment, and branding themselves as the solution to the very problem they are.
Khaled Beydoun, a law professor turned Islamist, asked whether the Tesla CEO, as a free speech absolutist, would reinstate separatists’ Twitter accounts in Indian Kashmir.
Elon Musk champions free speech purity. If he buys Twitter, will he move to reinstate the accounts of activists in Kashmir, India and other places where #Twitter has collaborated with authoritarian governments to crack down on dissent?
— Khaled Beydoun (@KhaledBeydoun) April 25, 2022
Khaled Beydoun, a law professor turned Islamist, asked whether the Tesla CEO, as a free speech absolutist, would reinstate separatists’ Twitter accounts in Indian Kashmir.
Amnesty International claimed that Twitter had become poisonous following Elon Musk’s takeover of the network.
Elon Musk's real goal has nothing to do with the freedom of others. His goal is the freedom to wield enormous power without having to be accountable to laws and regulations, shareholders, or market competition—which is why he's dead set on owning Twitter.https://t.co/mS9wYLOrGn
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 25, 2022
Professor Robert Reich of Berkley claims that Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter has nothing to do with other people’s freedom. Musk is dead set on buying Twitter because he claims he wants the ability to wield great power without being held accountable to laws and regulations, shareholders, or market competition.
TikTok’s Libs pointed out how an anti-capitalist propaganda-feeding instructor used his position to mislead students.
Teacher at @CentralHSPvd and candidate for public office taught his students anti-capitalism propaganda about Elon Musk buying Twitter. @EnriqueForRI did you also teach them about other billionaires owning social media platforms and media sites? pic.twitter.com/G06XMyV5Ge
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 26, 2022
“Of course I explained to my kids in all five of my courses today why Elon Musk buying off Twitter is the worst thing that could have occurred,” Enrique Sanchez, a Rhode Island candidate for public office, tweeted. No one, especially the affluent elites, should be allowed the opportunity to buy off social media sites.”
Several Indian propagandists, enraged by Musk’s purchase of Twitter, took advantage of the occasion to carry out political vengeance.
Priyanka Chaturvedi, a Shiv Sena MP, said that Indians are concerned about Musk, despite the country’s supposed high unemployment rate.
Majority of India’s 900 Million Workforce Stop Looking for Jobs
— Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳 (@priyankac19) April 26, 2022
– Labor participation rate dropped from 46% to 40% in five years
– Only 9% of Indian women are employed or looking for jobs
Let this not bother you, Elon Musk buying Twitter is the most important outrage.
Elon Musk, the company’s largest individual stakeholder with 9.2 percent, has previously declared that he had lost trust in the existing management and that Twitter’s ultimate potential could not be realized under their leadership. He wanted to take the firm private so he could have complete control over it and steer it to its greatest potential.