Elon Musk takes over Twitter

George Montbiot weighs in!

 

It's like what I was saying upthread about people who admired Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi when their bullshit fit into those people's ideologies. Musk and Taibbi are the same exact disingenous / dishonest people they were then. The least surprising thing I have ever read is that George Montbiot used to admire Russell Brand. Unfortunately, unless George Montbiot is pure performance art (a possibility I wouldn't completely discount), he is probably clueless about the fact that Russell Brand is the same exact guy he was when Montbiot admired him. Bullshit is bullshit. The arbiter of it being bullshit isn't whether it fits neatly into your ideology.

 

I have less idea about what a libertarian is than what a conservative or a liberal is by the way people use the words. From my understanding of the word traditionally, I have no idea how it applies to what I see as dishonest opportunists who have plenty of ever-changing rhetoric, but no principles. So I'll leave that one to you.

I just know that Matt Taibi would write these things for Rolling Stone that were muddled messes; he'd take disparate things, weave something convoluted from them that didn't really follow logically, and then would conclude with conspiracy theory types of claims. He'd use colorful language like "vampire squid" to label his newly-created villains. And when his villain du jour fit into someone's ideological echo chamber, no amount of me trying to actually dissect what he had written to try to demonstrate how absurd it was, could have any effect. People would try to turn it into ME having an ideological bias because clearly I didn't want to accept the "truth" he was pointing out.

Same thing with Elon Musk. I could give specifics about what a charlatan he was and it didn't matter.

I dunno. To me, they are the same exact people today that they were a decade and a half ago.