@persagen Elon is a true product of Apartheid South Africa, isn't he? Combine those disgusting values with the sociopathy and fascist-loving tendencies so common to the obscenely wealthy, and you have one hell of a winner. Don't suppose he could take a trip to one of his dad's emerald mines and just ... never come out?
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Tristan (tristan@gaygeek.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 15:47:28 JST Tristan -
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Tristan (tristan@gaygeek.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 15:47:24 JST Tristan @saharafang @LALegault @persagen In part, when people like that practice open bigotry and cruelty, it gives license to those who have been hiding under rocks for fear of what the majority of the community would think of them if they did it. Also, many people worship those with money with the same fervor as religious zealots worship their god. They think that emulation of the obscenely wealthy will somehow grant them a chance to attain similar wealth.
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Tristan (tristan@gaygeek.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 15:47:20 JST Tristan @persagen @saharafang @LALegault I'm currently reading "How to Stand up to a Dictator" by Maria Ressa. She is a Filipino journalist who discovered that algorithmic social media sites were being deliberately used to amplify anger, bigotry and fascism for the purpose of electing hard right political candidates. The Philippines were the test bed, and it then came to us in 2016 and beyond.