Wednesday, April 24, 2019
The political is @personal
BBC's account of the summit meeting between @Donald and @Jack:
Earlier Mr Trump had accused the platform of being "very discriminatory" towards him. "Twitter is here to serve the entire public conversation, and we intend to make it healthier and more civil," the Twitter CEO wrote. The meeting came just hours after the president posted two tweets repeating his longstanding claim that the platform is politically biased. He said Twitter did not "treat me well as a Republican" and accused it of limiting the number of people who follow him. "Constantly taking people off list. Big complaints from many people," he wrote, claiming the numbers would be higher "if Twitter wasn't playing their political games".Well, bias is not a "claim". Bias is a wildly obvious fact. You can have opinions about the virtue or vice of bias, but you can't have opinions about its existence in all media. But the bias isn't really political. It's personal. @Donald is more honest than @Jack. @Donald is candidly focusing on @Jack's bias against @Donald, not bias against "conservatives", whatever the fuck that means. In fact Twitter's bias is strictly personal. Twitter isn't "communist" or "socialist" or "liberal", whatever the fuck that means. Twitter favors the fashionable satanic orthodoxy of Silicon Valley technoids. Monopoly is good, trillionaires are heroes, tax is evil, global warming is real, AI is necessary, all Deplorables must be slaughtered, SHARE VALUE IS THE UNIVERSE. Twitter favors what @Jack favors and hates what @Jack hates. Twitter is @Jack. So this isn't "conservative" vs "liberal", it's exactly @Donald vs @Jack. (The real Donald agrees with @Jack on all of those issues, which is why he feels unjustly very discriminated against. The political @Donald has to give very fake lip service to the opposite side on global warming and Deplorables, but his pre-political positions on everything were strictly and totally very technoid.) ¶ 12:56 AM
