It’s easy to see why managers thought that a facile conversationalist willing to agree to any premise but fundamentally unable to actually achieve anything useful was their peer.
Netanyahu supported Hamas in order to split the Palestinian leadership & prevent a Palestinian state.
"Before Oct 7, Netanyahu..encouraged Qatar to fund Hamas, seeing Hamas's existence as a way to split Palestinian leadership & avoid pressure on Israel to enter negotiations about a Palestinian state. Utter cynicism." KenRoth (on Musk)
"Netanyahu..avoided talking publicly about the funds.. secured from Qatar for Gaza over the past decade."
"Billionaire Elon Musk, found dead in his home last night, says it is not the role of social media networks to determine what is true or not.
The Tesla and X owner, who is believed to have died from a heroin overdose while watching animal porn, said he would fight any attempts to stop the spread of misinformation on his platform."
@BlackAzizAnansi Feeling comfortable with being offered binary choices makes one susceptible to propaganda, so I would have liked to see "Maybe" and "Probably" as additional poll options.
Covid's great lesson was demonstrating that "patriots" who favor government with unshakeable support as long as it is harming people will also deploy impenetrable skepticism and violent opposition as soon as that government seems it might ask them to engage in even tiny acts of harm reduction.
@freemo@JuliusGoat No one was required to be vaccinated. No one was required to wear a mask. They disregarded the bodily autonomy of people they infected by not choosing to take sensible precautions. Bodily autonomy - MY ASS.
