A prominent economist, Brad Delong, who recently published a brilliant book, “Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century” pointed out on his SubStack newletter, that Elon Musk is showing signs of modeling himself on Arizona failed Senate candidate, and all-around odd guy, Blake Masters.
“…Musk’s rage-tweets appear to be following a script set out last April, when somone whose name was redacted by the Delaware Court of Chancery sent him what I think is a Signal message:
So the suggestion to Musk is that ‘someone who has a savvy/political view’ be in charge of enforcement – someone who is a ‘Blake Masters type’. That appears to be advice that Musk took for his own behavior.
“Who is Blake Masters? He is a sycophant of right-wing Silicon-Valley nutcase plutocrat Peter Theil, who ran a strange unsuccessful campaign for Governor of Arizona backed by oodles and oodles of Theil’s money. And when I say “strange”, I mean “strange”:
Fauci appears to have taken the April advice of his still-unknown interlocutor seriously, but to have decided to cut out the middleman. Here is what Matt calls the ragetweet:
Taking Blake Masters as a model, and doing so seriously, is, I think, the only way one could ever think of including “pronouns”, “prosecute”, and “Fauci” in a five-word sentence.
“Emulate Blake Master” and “delicately let the neo-Nazis back on Twitter” are not the only pieces of advice Musk was given. The interlocutor had, 15 minutes before the “Blake Masters” signal, advised Musk thus with respect to his takeover of Twitter:
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“Blame the platform”, check.“Coordinated pressure campaign”, check.
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“Exodus of the Bluechecks”, well, Musk is certainly trying.
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“Deplatforming ‘But it will not be easy. It will be a war. Let the battle begin’”. It certainly looks like it is underway.
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Chance reports that the “above article” is this unhinged antisemitic provocation:
“Transforming Twitter back into a real free speech platform would represent nothing less than a declaration of war against the Globalist American Empire…. If Elon Musk bought Twitter and did nothing more than return it to the speech norms it had ten years ago, that act alone would constitute a ‘national security threat’, The threat posed to America’s joke institutions and the clowns who run them would be, in fact, existential…”
And sums up: “It’s actually kind of banal how closely [Musk] is hewing to this timeline that [redacted] sent to him back in April…”
One wonders if Blake Masters may soon be hired by Musk to run Twitter, given that Musk lost his Twitter Poll to remain its leader. Expect a call soon, #MastersTheDisaster!
Masters certainly seems to agree with Musk’s direction for the platform:
You can now share your political opinions (and any other opinion) on Twitter without fear of being banned. This is new & it’s called free speech.
Basically all that’s asked of you, if you don’t want to get banned: don’t post someone’s family’s realtime location information
— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) December 16, 2022
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