Elon Musk is buying Twitter after all and the leftists who considered it their own virtue signalling platform are very predictably exhibiting Petulant Borderline Personality Disorder. It’s a thing, look it up.
For those too lazy to do their own research, PBPD is, according to americanaddictioncenters.org, a condition whose sufferers fluctuate between outbursts of explosive anger and feelings of being unworthy or unloved. They have a STRONG NEED TO MANIPULATE OTHERS (my emphasis added), and they become very possessive, which results in extreme dissatisfaction in their relationships. This leads to issues with substance abuse and other potentially damaging issues.
Curiously, Jeff Bezos is among those exhibiting symptoms. But he’s a clever sufferer. Bezos, Mr. Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, asked an open question whether Musk acquiring Twitter might give the Chinese undue “leverage” due to their dealings with Musk.
Apparently blowback was intense about Bezos and his hypocrisy, considering the fact that Amazon sells so many Chinese products and has blocked all but five-star reviews of a book by the Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and on, and on, and on.
So Bezos quickly added that he would answer his own question and say no, Musk was not likely to be leveraged by the Chinese.
Here Bezos has borrowed from the sleazy tabloid playbook. Ask a ridiculous question on the front page such as “Does hamburger cause cancer?” or “Is John Doe a child molester” with the answer to be found on D 10 or some such page buried in the edition.
Turn to page D 10 and the answer found there is no. But how many people bother to check? And if they do, how many people then immediately discount the initial question instead of leaving it to simmer in the dark recesses of their memories, only to be dredged up down the line as fact because they read it somewhere, sometime?
Maybe Bezos is feeling “leveraged” because Musk has surpassed him as the world’s richest person.
Maybe Twitter twits are feeling leveraged because for so long they had taken for granted they could rant with absolute freedom in that space as long as they were mouthing the far-left progressive platform.
And, should any right-thinking individuals have tried to inject facts and balance into the discussion, they would have been shut down by the radical Twitter censors, sort of like Amazon canceled anything but the most flattering reviews of Xi’s book.
Dare we dream that Musk will inject some balance into the Twitter equation?
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