{"id":199711,"date":"2023-12-13T12:52:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T16:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=199711"},"modified":"2023-12-13T12:52:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T16:52:31","slug":"go-fck-yourself-and-yes-you-had-better-read-this-screed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=199711","title":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8220;GO. F*CK. YOURSELF.&#8221;<\/h1> <h3>(And, YES, you had better read this screed)<\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Musk Wins the Battle of Words Over Twitter<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screen-Shot-2023-12-13-at-11.50.48-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"398\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-199712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screen-Shot-2023-12-13-at-11.50.48-AM.png 552w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screen-Shot-2023-12-13-at-11.50.48-AM-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tom Luongo<br \/>\nGold Goats &#8216;n Guns<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Giving Flying Yeets<\/h3>\n<p>There simply comes a point where you can\u2019t guilt people any further, like when they realize the carbon\u00a0<em>Davos<\/em>\u00a0wants to reduce is them.<\/p>\n<p>This is why Elon Musk telling all the boycotting companies to \u201cGo. Fuck. Yourselves,\u201d wasn\u2019t just hilarious it was a clarion call to those whose voices have been marginalized by fake outrage engendered by fake people funding fake causes to promote fake wisdom maintaining very real power.<\/p>\n<p>He finally just said what all of us have been thinking, \u201cIf someone is going to blackmail me with advertising\u2026 blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re going to silence me with shame and derision because you formed an opinion on something last week? Go fuck yourself.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re going to threaten to burn the world to the ground if you don\u2019t get your way? Go. Fuck. Yourself.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re going to embarrass the FOMC Chair with Climate Change Stunt Protestors at the IMF? Close the Fucking Door.<\/p>\n<p>Musk finally put to bed a lot of lingering doubts about why he not only bought Twitter, but which side of the war he\u2019s actually fighting for, that of humanity itself.<\/p>\n<p>He may have some crackpot ideas of where humanity should go, but it\u2019s obvious it\u2019s not Elon\u2019s bag to mandate those ideas; only allow them the opportunity to find their voice in the miasma of projectile emoting masquerading as public discourse.<\/p>\n<p>He may become the enemy we fight tomorrow, but that\u2019s tomorrow. Too many people are looking too far ahead or, worse, too far behind. That\u2019s noise. Worse, it\u2019s a kind of cope for avoiding the responsibility of doing anything substantive now.<\/p>\n<p>It was a cry for help from him to the users of Twitter\/X to find a business model that puts advertisers on their virtue signaling backfoot, where they fucking belong.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/boycotting-elons-boycotters\">Zerohedge has it mostly right, boycott the boycotters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t disagree with the sentiment and certainly cancel your Disney+ account if you feel the need to do something.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with that, of course, as I\u2019ve discussed before, is that most of the companies who are boycotting Twitter are companies targeted for destruction by\u00a0<em>Davos.<\/em>\u00a0Many of them have snakes in their gardens. They aren\u2019t actually the order-makers, they too, like even evil people like Mitch McConnell and Ursula Von der Leyen are order-takers.<\/p>\n<p>They are targets because they have been in the past pillars of our culture (Disney), economy (IBM), and access to the modern world (Apple). Why do you think they went after Patreon so early in the game? To slow down the growth of alternative funding for the opposition. Do you really think Patreon, for example, has the resources to fight George Soros?<\/p>\n<p>If you do? Go. Fuck. Yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think\u00a0<em>Davos<\/em>\u00a0isn\u2019t cheering every time Disney releases another\u00a0<em>The Marvels<\/em>\u00a0to bomb at the box office?<\/p>\n<p>Did Anheuser-Busch repent after Dylan Mulvaney?<\/p>\n<p>Did Fox News take Tucker Carlson back?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2021\/04\/12\/woke-coke-goes-for-broke-destroying-its-brand\/\">Did Coke really stop<\/a>\u00a0its anti-white internal policies?<\/p>\n<p>Get the hint, this isn\u2019t about Disney or Apple, Bud Light or the NFL\u2026 these are the hallmarks of your middle class lifestyle they want destroyed. So, while boycotting them is perfectly fine, they aren\u2019t the real enemy\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 you are, unless you stop defining yourself by what you\u2019re against.<\/p>\n<p>You have to finally stand up and say you stand\u00a0<em>for something<\/em>\u00a0and are willing to do something other than make another Pepe meme or retweet another brilliant Babylon Bee headline.<\/p>\n<p>And nebulous concepts like \u2018freedom\u2019 and even \u2018sovereignty\u2019 aren\u2019t a good place to start the argument, especially in the war of words with NPC\u2019s. It has to be tangible. Go after them over diddling, stabbing, or clothes-hangering children.<\/p>\n<p>Shame the ever-living fuck out of them!<\/p>\n<p>Advertiser boycotts are a form of regulatory capture, influence peddling. If you want a platform to speak your mind without offending the influence peddling pedos behind the curtain, then complaining about it isn\u2019t a solution.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a global platform to speak your mind you will have to pay for it directly. You have to defend it. And defense costs money and time.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter is becoming a wasteland of repeated feeds and low engagement because Musk doesn\u2019t have the money to churn new information through the Amazon Web Servers. This is what he means by these fuckheads \u201cwill kill the company.\u201d Twitter\/X is a database nightmare of epic proportions. It\u2019s a miracle it even works at all.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s needed now is capital and not capital encumbered by the demands of a bunch of corporatist order-taking assholes. That money needs to come from us. Our voices, our money. Because its our gold one the line. Our goats they are getting. And our guns they want.<\/p>\n<p>Go. Fuck. Yourselves.<\/p>\n<p>My good friend Vince Lanci had a brilliant idea the other day on, of all places, Twitter\/X:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=tfl1728&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1730247356770083092&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Ftomluongo.me%2F2023%2F12%2F02%2Fmusk-wins-the-battle-of-words-over-twitter%2F&amp;partner=tfwp&amp;sessionId=30a2cfa8f44ed4dbc316863b054fab0e5ab705e3&amp;siteScreenName=TFL1728&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1730247356770083092\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Leaving the protection of your rights in the hands of advertisers speaking on your behalf is your problem, not Musk\u2019s or Twitter\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisers holding companies hostage has been a hallmark of media going back to the birth of media itself. They have used it to shape your thoughts, influence your language, program your children, and poison the garden of your mind.<\/p>\n<p>They turned the internet into 1970\u2019s television. When something is free,\u00a0<strong><em>you are the product.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, the question now is what are you willing to do to defend your speech from the gardeners who want to prune you out of the conversation?<\/p>\n<p>Because if your answer is more of the same whining about how the internet should be free, then I agree with Elon. Go. Fuck. Yourself.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2023\/12\/02\/musk-wins-the-battle-of-words-over-twitter\/\">https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2023\/12\/02\/musk-wins-the-battle-of-words-over-twitter\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musk Wins the Battle of Words Over Twitter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}