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Lillia Gajewski's avatar

The Twitter Files are important for everyone to understand and be upset about, not because Twitter (and Google and Facebook) are politically biased, but because they are biased toward "the Machine," the elite establishment and entrenched bureaucracy that run this country (if not the globe) for their own benefit and always have, to be honest, but are less and less doing people the favor of trying to maintain the illusion that that is not in fact true. In other words, if you want to produce change in this country or leave any semblance of power in the hands of the people, rather than turning them into a serf class, you will understand how all these big tech companies along with your "Maw" attempt to force people to live in a pseudo reality of their own creation, one where everything people physically experience doesn't matter. We're supposed to accept what the "experts" and talking heads tell us is truth rather than our own eyes. That is the lesson of the Twitter files.

And being "right-coded" these days simply means you refuse to buy into that reality or accept that they *should* have the power to create that reality. It has absolutely nothing to do with your principles or politics. And that, my friend, is frightening because in that pseudo-reality, anyone "right-coded" is considered a danger to the "people's," the "democracy's," the "country's" (read: the Machine's) existence and it will turn its mindless drones on you, on Twitter and eventually in the physical world.

That's why you should care.

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KW's avatar

"Once a person finds himself on the wrong side of culture war debates enough times, they will be regarded as a reactionary no matter what their actual beliefs. They fall into the Maw."

Pretty much. Anyone who uses the terms "woke" or "cancel culture" or makes fun of sanctimonious pronoun usage gets immediately put into the Right-wing bucket, even if that person supports things like Medicare for All, gun control, and abortion rights.

This is why I love Substack and I love your newsletter. I'm a long time left-of-center guy who feels about as alienated from contemporary liberalism and its snarling hall monitors as he can possibly be. Thank you again for doing what you do.

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