{"id":37755,"date":"2022-11-21T15:23:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T21:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37755"},"modified":"2022-11-21T15:23:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T21:23:22","slug":"reversal-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/11\/21\/reversal-over-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Reversal Over Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must say, it’s been interesting watching progressives speculate that Musk’s apparent mismanagement of his latest acquisition, Twitter<\/strong><\/em>, may not be a matter of gross incompetence, but of direction, such as this, from<\/a> bluedogsd<\/em> on Daily Kos<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m presenting a thesis:\u00a0 \u00a0Elon Musk is breaking Twitter as a\u00a0co-opted asset for\u00a0the Putin Oligarchy with the purpose of disrupting or damaging\u00a0the best information coming out of Ukraine to the public that bolsters support in NATO and the west.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course this thesis can and will never be proven but I want to make what I think is a compelling case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s been a couple of other articles of the sort on Daily Kos<\/strong>, as well as an alternative hypothesis<\/a> of Neoreactionarism<\/em>, or what I’d term a weak-minded belief that a strong man leadership is better than democracy. The association of this juvenile philosophy with libertarianism seems a trifle odd, as most libertarians seem to appreciate the positives of democracy, at least as far as I could tell ten or more years ago.<\/p>\n

That these hypotheses are coming from the left, rather than the right, strikes me as a trifle funny is because I remember accusations of the left being in league with the Soviet Union, which had, at its core, Russia, coming from the right decades ago.<\/p>\n

That now the left can make similar accusations of, essentially, traitorous behavior by Musk and some of his fellow right-wing millionaires and billionaires, and have those theories at least considered, is a fascinating insight into the use of the East as The Other, the eternally menacing shadowy creatures with which we strip adversaries of their honor and even their humanity.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t hurt that accusations against the left from decades ago were partially substantiated when Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt, members of the Cambridge Five<\/a> and known for their left-wing views, were revealed as Soviet spies. Will we eventually see right-wingers being bought and paid for by Russian paymasters?<\/p>\n

And how many of us will be able to appreciate the historical parallel?<\/p>\n

What does it say, not about the East, but about the West?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I must say, it’s been interesting watching progressives speculate that Musk’s apparent mismanagement of his latest acquisition, Twitter, may not be a matter of gross incompetence, but of direction, such as this, from bluedogsd on Daily Kos: I\u2019m presenting a thesis:\u00a0 \u00a0Elon Musk is breaking Twitter as a\u00a0co-opted asset for\u00a0the \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37756,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37755\/revisions\/37756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}