As I’ve noted before, the press is unwilling to recognize that Musk and Vance are at the very least close to neo-Nazis because to do so would mean acknowledging that the press massively failed in promoting them for years - ThreadSky

beijingpalmer.bsky.social • 1 day ago

As I’ve noted before, the press is unwilling to recognize that Musk and Vance are at the very least close to neo-Nazis because to do so would mean acknowledging that the press massively failed in promoting them for years

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the vice president of the united states is a groyper who spends his online time following nazis and esoteric reactionary influencers is true and yet the press seems completely disinterested in it

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nobutfr.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s because they’re racist eugenicists themselves, and say so as plainly as they can get away with.

bribleck.bsky.social•1 day ago

It is also a fact that is unambiguously negative, and they are not allowed to say such things out loud because of their superior objectivity

shaunc.bsky.social•1 day ago

The press should realize that most of their audience won't even remember where they heard about them a few years ago. People online will chide them for it, but they can and should just blow through that. It would be good for ratings!

zenosanalytic.bsky.social•1 day ago

I would add "because press owners are nazi-friendly, if not openly nazis themselves"

timsull.bsky.social•1 day ago

They’ve failed us so deeply. They should have been crusading.

jacobian.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think it's worse than that: many members of every major editorial board and many news rooms are just straight up nazis too.

augustustrout.bsky.social•1 day ago

Same with Richard Hanania on a smaller level.

fakegreekgrill.bsky.social•1 day ago

And Rufo

flame89.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://bsky.app/profile/flame89.bsky.social/post/3ljaxrw2f7225

vl2024.bsky.social•1 day ago

Don’t forget who’s behind JDV: Peter Thiel.

bvm.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also because the press generally likes reactionaries and wants them to rule America as despots

sregorn.bsky.social•1 day ago

The press: “that’s marvelous”

paralipsis.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is just one of those things where I frequently get caught out when I speak to people and they don't know all the Nazi/groyper stuff, or even the name or mere existence half of the jackals feeding on the corpse of our civilisation.

tmbhmltn.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Even if the guy had mostly normal views the VP following a guy with David Koresh in a MAGA hat for his pfp should be a huge scandal

sk-metaboxx.bsky.social•1 day ago

I saw that Ezra Klein just did an interview with Kara Swisher, one of the most prominent journalists who enabled Musk’s rise, as if she was supposed to provide some insight on his proximity to power and the far right. I almost threw my laptop out the window.

annenotation.bsky.social•1 day ago

They're neonazis.

theultrasecret.bsky.social•1 day ago

Right, a lot of what the press does or doesn't do should be looked through the lens of avoiding self-implication.

haylibop.bsky.social•1 day ago

And also that there’s nothing anyone is willing to do to stop them

davesrants.com•15 hours ago

Don’t worry people like Kara Swisher have developed amnesia

gyro.bsky.social•1 day ago

fucking moldbuggian administration in charge of the united states. It's not going well, folks

carloshasanax.bsky.social•1 day ago

it would also mean admitting that they themselves agree with much of a neo-Nazi platform, when clothed in futurist marketing rhetoric.

Norman Spinrad's point.

xtan.bsky.social•12 hours ago

janusroberts.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also, if you don’t think AG Sulz loves himself some cranium calipers…

tegacaysc.bsky.social•1 day ago

And you know this how?

chickpea7.bsky.social•1 day ago

Same reason they've all but disappeared Russiagate.

leupp.bsky.social•1 day ago

Like most authoritarians and conmen do, they made their potential critics co-conspirators.

devlinburgess.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think something similar happened in 2016 too, where all the CHUDS and fringe wingnuts that we'd been told *didn't* represent conservatism turned out to be the driving force of the movement, and rather than admit they were wrong pundits invented reasons why "actually, it's still about the economy!"

how-are-u.bsky.social•1 day ago

They're paid very well to not see it.

s3rp86.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also all that online nazi stuff seemingly is beneath alot of reporters to even acknowledge for them that it it exists.

holgate.permanent.red•1 day ago

If you are a political journalist why are you even on Twitter if not to deduce which statue avis / nazis / RETVRN slop generators are in his direct line of sight?

s3rp86.bsky.social•1 day ago

So they're just pretending Vance and Musk are not brainpoisoned by all kinds of online nazis.

bobbyom3282.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yup and some of those same people who built up Musk and claim to now dislike everything he's doing still can't help but cover for him by claiming it's all about "Gov info for AI, getting to Mars and being the first trillionaire. Can't admit they missed it or that they have helped him sell the lies.

mconcagh.bsky.social•1 day ago

(They promoted them knowing their views because they either agree with them or don’t find them objectionable)

johnboik.bsky.social•1 day ago

Or, perhaps, the owners of the press (not naming names) are rooting for him, on the same side, with similar goals of domination and plunder.

mike.puterbaugh.net•1 day ago

I mean when have they ever acknowledged their complicity in anything

genepenise.bsky.social•6 hours ago

And... gasp! They'd probably be called "liberals!", which carries such a cognitive stain that most in the press would prefer to allow fascists to dismantle the US government built from 1933 to 2024, than to be called one, slough it off and let their work speak for itself.

theangelofhistory.bsky.social•1 day ago

You mean “failed by promoting them?”

alangrofield.bsky.social•1 day ago

The problem then is that roles up to Dreher, to Douthat, to Bari Weiss, to pretty much the entire right leaning media ecosystem which is one degree away from all these guys

monarchdiaries.bsky.social•1 day ago

“I’m not a Nazi because Nazis wear black uniforms and have German accents, don’t you know anything?”

snootacamund.bsky.social•1 day ago

Vance is a patronage scheme promotion by the press, you don’t have Vance without Amy Chua’s network. Musk was much more cynically transactional ( including rumors of bribes) and much more a fabulist, the car crash story falls apart entirely upon scant research.

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