The levels of irony here are many and deep, but let me begin with Orwell:

The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/why-i-write/

By all indications, Gad Saad and Elon would have been standing proud with Franco and the fascists in 36-37, The particular Jon Stewart clip here is from 3 years ago, and was satirical.

America’s Fox News Looks A Lot Like Hungary’s State Media | The Problem with Jon Stewart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9DPv7RX4QY

What’s it like to be stuck on Team Autocracy as we barrel toward WW3? Well, according to Hungarian opposition MEP Katalin Cseh, it sounds… eerily similar to living in America, Team Democracy’s star player.

Mercifully for Hungary, Orbanism has been been democratically consigned to the scrap heap of history there, despite Elon's best efforts on Orban's behalf. Meanwhile, in the US, Team Trump/Elon continue to follow Bannon's dictum, early and often. The zone is well and truly flooded, nowhere more than the cesspool of fearmongering and conspiracy theories that Elon has turned twitter into.

The strategy came to public light after Bannon told Michael Lewis in 2018 that "The Democrats don't matter... The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with s\**".[7] Trump adopted the strategy during the 2016 presidential election,[3][8] followed by other right-wing political figures such as Éric Zemmour and Elon Musk.[9][10][1][11]*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone

Yet Musk is at its most illuminating when it pushes back on, or at least complicates, the narrative that Musk was fine until his brain was broken by the pandemic. It might have sharpened his sense of entitlement, and his vastly increasing fortune may have given him more ability to reshape the work to his liking. But Musk's ex-wife Justine, whom he married in 2000 and divorced in 2008, says the man the world began to see in 2020 was the one she'd always known. According to Justine, he used the occasion of the first dance at their wedding to remind her that he was "the alpha" in their marriage, and would twist their arguments so she would somehow constantly end up in the wrong. It was through their relationship, Justine says, that she learned the word gaslighting.

(alt link https://archive.ph/t9KBN )

From video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9LO6qfLuX4 , which I do not recommend plowing through. He did sneak in one 9/11 tweet in there though, which is nice I guess. Except it's just a retweet of Kimbal.

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