The Twitter files..
Uh oh!
Collusion.
Corruption.
Censoring.
Sedition.
Scheming.
Suppression.
Scandal.
Biased journalism.
These nouns are used to describe Twitter’s internal communications surrounding the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story leading up to the 2020 election.
The full detailed thread by Matt Taibbi can be accessed here.
According to Auron MacIntyre,
The Twitter files revealed what almost anyone who had been paying attention suspected: that the social media giant colluded to suppress a legitimate news story to impact the 2020 election. The thread explained that tools that were initially added to Twitter to combat issues like spam and financial fraud eventually became avenues for censorship.
Bias.
More from MacIntyre,
One would think that clear evidence of a conspiracy by a major corporation to suppress journalism in the attempt to influence a democratic election would enrage your average reporter, but of course the response was exactly the opposite. Establishment hacks quickly went to work attempting to assassinate Taibbi’s character, accusing him of doing “PR for the richest man in the world." Far from being shocked by the politically motivated attack on freedom of the press, liberal journalists rushed to voice their support for the censorship and declare the story a “nothingburger." There is no smoking gun, nothing to see here, just the internal communications of a company doing its job to stop the election of Donald Trump.
The left will go to lengths to win.
This approach to politics is a very difficult thing for those on the right to process. Conservatives care more about rules than about victory, which is valuable for building high-trust societies but very bad in our particular moment, when their enemies own every institution that interprets and enforces the rules. Those of a conservative disposition naturally want to believe that the system works and that shared values of honesty and fair play will shame their opponents into correcting their behavior once corruption has been revealed. Unfortunately, this shared moral fabric no longer exists, and journalists are happy to abandon their theoretical duty to objective truth-telling and holding the powerful accountable if it means manufacturing political victory in the short term. Progressives do not see this as a betrayal of shared values, but instead as an appeal to a higher value. The one thing leftists know above all else is that they have the right to rule.
The system does not work. So no matter what Musk releases next will not change anything. Many of us will only lash out on Twitter and substack (like myself).
Victories for the right will not come from sweeping revelations that hold the powerful to account, but by doing what Elon Musk has done: Capturing powerful institutions of the progressive machine, exposing their corruption, and stripping out the bureaucracy that has been allowed to transform these organizations into arms of the Democratic Party.
The right has got major work on its hands.
The battle for free speech is gearing up!
See you tomorrow!
- Ope