Post #4055069
2026-07-24 05:27 UTC
If there's going to be any counterpoint to the rubbish "techno-optimism" of Elon Musk and his #tech cronies it's got to come from the mainstream media. But a profoundly craven and sneakfaced thing has happened because of the #Internet. Basically it's this: because the Internet and #socialmedia especially exist in part to maintain a flimsy premise of social equality among all persons, U.S. journalists have gotten to thinking that it's enough for Elon Musk to be hated on the Internet. To them, that's more than enough.
After all, those journalists are also loathed for their cowardly reporting and their obvious corruption, so all those @arstechnica@mastodon.social etc. technology reporters are on Musk's side anyway. They loathe the general public and regard us as inferior beings.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 05:33
There's reasons for the disdain. Decades of exposure to corporate #Internet, not to mention #entertainment designed to normalize bigotry and abusive relationships like #SouthPark and copaganda shows, have destroyed the general U.S. sense for propriety and courtesy. There's ever so many people who think it's a citizen's duty to rain bomb threats and slurs and "kys" on powerless strangers. As I've said, journalists are not broadly liked for U.S. #conservatives in common with the #IDF all want journalists in the hands of firing squads. They're seen as mere wreckers. Do I have to mention that Ayn Rand's favorite villains were poison-pen journalists? (cont'd)