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Marc Friedman's avatar

I haven’t seen any evidence that unfettered social media changes the views of antisemites who then abandoned their hatred of Jews. Has anyone else seen such evidence?

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Delmarva Peninsula's avatar

It's funny/sad that these tech titans are STILL crowing about how transformational and democratic their dumbass social media sites can be.

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KEITH TAYLOR's avatar

Oh my God. The indecency, the outright obscenity, of that infantile wishful thinking (by a social media mogul) that if there had been electronic social media in the 1930s, the Holocaust wouldn't have happened.

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RSKPDX's avatar

What a pig.

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OrdinaryJoe's avatar

"..., I’m aspirationally Jewish.”

What a putz. Assholely not Jewish.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I was told the phenomenally wealthy were that way because they were so much smarter than the rest of us. Was that incorrect?

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Robert Eckert's avatar

If you're so rich why ain't you smart?

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Spleen Victoria's avatar

Brings to mind the wise words of a great Canadian: if Anne Frank were alive she would be a Belieber.

Justin Bieber

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Permanently Confused@68's avatar

Everything that, like, comes out of that moron's, like, mouth is, like, drivel. Or just plain drivel.

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beb's avatar

Visiting Auschwitz is performative,, not real contrition. If Musk were sincerely he's drop the hammer on the antisemites who infest his platform.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Did he at least not take a pic at the gates for this year's Christmas card?

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Dok.

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AboveTheGrayFog's avatar

If twitter wasn't under Elon Musk, then maybe it might have resolved the Holocaust back then if, in fact it were around then. A long long long LONG shot, but the slight possibility still exists.

But under Elon? Nah he'd open twitter to the Nazis and their propaganda and that's it.

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Caepan's avatar

Elno would have spent his days getting fitted for one of those nice Hugo Boss uniforms.

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Monty Capuletti's avatar

Wow is THIS a lot of food for thought! It is very helpful to read again that the person we keep reading again and again and again and again and again is very bad and mean talked to another guy we all keep reading again and again and again and again and again is another mean and bad man, and they said things that were not true and not nice. That way I won’t forget. Keep writing these helpful articles please! It’s so important to receive this information, feel nothing at all, and force my brain to think nice things so I don’t get mean and not nice too. Maybe I’ll think about when I used to see all the nice tee vee stars on twitter and I could say hi to them like the guy who used to play the Fonz when I was a kid. He was cool. He would say, “Ayyyyyy!” and then all the bad things would be nice again. Maybe we should make HIM president!

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Permanently Confused@68's avatar

Copy that. This is non-news and results only in an affirmation of our anger. I get enough of that out in this America of toxic and rabid materialism, and apathy for everything not materialism.

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

Just read that story about Carl Laemmle. It is indeed moving. And ten thousand curses on the memory of those shits at the counsel's office who kept telling him to restrict his visa-enabling to his own relatives.

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Randy Bender's avatar

The press also gushed over Emperor Mush's new clothes.

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marcus816's avatar

“It’s still not clear whether the imaginary Holocaust-preventing tweets were produced by Musk’s team, or by the hosts of the conference…”

or pulled directly from his rectum by Musk himself.

I’ll go with number three.

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Cajun Kid's avatar

Musk is “aspirationally Jewish?” Uh no. He’s aspirationally intelligent. He mistakes being a CEO of a bunch of tech companies with being their inventor.

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bluePNWcats's avatar

So, is he Jew-ish like George Santos?

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