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   Dan Gillmor (dangillmor@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 03:31:15 JST Dan Gillmor

   Musk says he'll spend about $180 million to elect Trump.

   They are the nation's two most powerful enemies of democracy (though Musk has some competition for second place) and, by extension, freedom of expression.

   Everyone who buys a Tesla is supporting them.

   Everyone who uses the deadbird site -- notably the journalists, who all know what they're doing -- is supporting them.

   Don't pretend otherwise.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 03:31:14 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • GhostOnTheHalfShell

     @GhostOnTheHalfShell @dangillmor

     JD Vance went to Ohio State, not Stanford.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Vance?wprov=sfla1

     Elon Musk went to Penn.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk?wprov=sfla1

     Peter Thiel did go to Stanford.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel?wprov=sfla1

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 03:31:15 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     @dangillmor

     Both JD Vance and Musk are affiliated with Peter Thiel.

     In particular, Vance is Thiel's henchman and has been since their Stanford days, where all three went to college.

     Thiel and Musk are naturalized citizens and neither agree with democracy nor market based economies. They seek political and economic tyranny in despotic rule and monopoly, essentially a centralized command and control nation, which has long associated with the USSR.

     Conservatism is a master stroke of lies.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 03:44:23 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • GhostOnTheHalfShell

     @GhostOnTheHalfShell @dangillmor til!

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 03:44:24 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @dangillmor

     Musk

     https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-elon-musk-dropped-stanford-185501512.html

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 05:46:18 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • GhostOnTheHalfShell

     @GhostOnTheHalfShell @dangillmor thanks for this.