Ari Melber Literally Knows Nothing

No doubt you've all seen the remarks of MSNBC chappie Ari Melber on Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.

There is truly nothing funnier than this MSNBC host ranting about what Elon Musk could do to Twitter, and accidentally giving a perfect description of how Twitter has actually operated for the last five years

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— Cabot Phillips (@cabot_phillips) April 26, 2022

Yes, the video is OK, but I'm a text sort of guy. So here is the transcript of Ari Melber's remarks:

You own all of Twitter or Facebook or what have you, you don't have to explain yourself. You don't even have to be transparent. You could secretly ban one party's candidate or all of its candidates, all of its nominees. Or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else. The rest of us might not even find out about it until after the election. Elon Musk says this is all to help people because he is just a free speech, philosophically clear, open-minded helper.

I suppose the important thing to understand is just how easily people persuade themselves that they are the good guys, and that people that disagree with them are the bad guys. That's what all the babble about "hate speech" and "disinformation" and "misinformation" is about. It gives educated people permission to censor the other guys. Because they are peddling conspiracy theories. Because they are racists. Because they hate Muslims. Because they are conspiring with the Russians. 

So, in their own best interests...

But, like I always say. If your ideas are the best, if everyone else is peddling disinformation, then what's to worry about? Their false ideas will fail, and your glorious ideas will win.

Problem is, of course, that none of us are patient enough to let the market or the science decide. We all want to give The Truth a little nudge. And if that means a little bit of censoring, or even de-platfforming, or mostly peaceful protesting, well... But those guys over there are Bad People! Can't you see that?

And when the wrong people are getting elected, and the wrong people are getting on the Supreme Court, and the wrong people are teaching our kids, and totally clueless yahoos  like AOC (or Marjorie Taylor Greene) are getting elected to Congress in the other party...

Well, clearly all good people will agree that we have to Do Something to avoid a complete takeover by the "far-right." Or the "far-left," as the case may be. Just ask Ari Melber.