[ExI] Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

[John Clark]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:


*>>… thanks to Elon Musk's algorithm those rebuttals are going to be buried
>> and difficult to find, especially if they are rebutting something that Musk
>> himself has said.’…*
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> *> Sure.  Difficult but less difficult than it was before. *
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*NO. Thanks to Elon Musk's new "improved" algorithm, such rebuttals are
deliberately made more difficult to find than before. And rebuttals to King
Musk The First's encyclicals are impossible to find on TwitterX. *

*> One doesn’t look on TwitterX for rebuttals to Musk comments however.
> BlueSky is a better place for that sort of thing.*
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*But for millions of people TwitterX is their only news source, so they
believe that Elon Musk must be a demigod who is never wrong.*

*> Where are their retractions on the toxic laptop story?*
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*I don't know. I don't know of any New York Times article about a toxic
laptop, unless you're talking about Hunter Biden's laptop, or Hillary
Clinton's email server. Are you? *


*>>… Every one of the 17 agencies that make up the Intelligence Community
>> concluded that Russia DID interfere in the 2026 election. And so did the
>> bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee Report in 2020. And so did the
>> 2019 Mueller Report, and he found that Russia DID hack Democratic emails
>> and make them public….*
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> *> That email hacking was more likely an inside job. *
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*So insists Elon Musk's algorithm. But do you really believe that the FBI,
the CIA, the NSA, and 14 other US intelligence agencies are wrong, but
TwitterX's algorithm is right?  *


> *>> **Below is what the Canada ad said, vs what Reagan actually said:*
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> *>…It was obviously edited so it would fit into a 60 second
>> commercial because in the unedited version Reagan makes an even stronger
>> case against tariffs then he does in the edited version!  *  *John K
>> Clark*
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> *> JA!  Exactly the point I was making: Reagan was against ALL tariffs.
> No country should have tariffs. *
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*And Reagan was 100% correct about that! So that 60 second commercial
did NOT misrepresent the facts, and He Who Must Not Be Named was full of
shit when he claimed that it did, and using that as an excuse to cut off
trade talks with Canada is ridiculous. If he were alive today TwitterX,
Fox, Newsmax, OAN and of course He Who Must Not Be Named would call Ronald
Reagan a woke radical left wing communist. And that's why I changed my
party affiliation from Republican to Democratic about 10 years before You
Know Who became president, about the time the Republican party started
going crazy. *

> *The current tariff trade war is all about getting US trade partners to
> stop adding tariffs to American imports.*
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*Baloney!  *

*John K Clark*





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