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From Caitlin Johnstone: Every few years the right produces a billionaire with extensive ties to the US deep state who poses as a populist hero who is fighting the deep state. Before it was Trump. Now it's Musk. Later on it'll be someone else. But it's just a show to make it look like someone's fighting.

Both Trump and Musk get the opposite mainstream faction barking and snarling at them in exactly the same way Hillary Clinton drove Republicans insane. And in reality Musk, Trump and Clinton all serve the establishment that's defended by both the Democrat and Republican parties. It's all kayfabe combat staged to make it look like someone's fighting on behalf of the disaffected Americans who are growing angry with their rulers' complete indifference to them. Give them a hero to clap along with and they won't take up the fight for themselves.

Keeping everyone barking at shiny figureheads who represent one mainstream faction keeps people glued to mainstream factions which are framed as for or against those shiny figureheads. This keeps everyone subscribed to mainstream worldviews.

They don't just control the opposition, they control the opposition to the controlled opposition. That's what the AOC/Bernie/TYT progressives are, and it's what the MAGA/Tucker Carlson/Elon Musk faction is as well. They pretend they're fighting the establishment while protecting it.

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Elon’s putting Bari Weiss in charge of the Twitter files is a clue.

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Is he trying to but Substack or is he "open" to buying substack if it is available? Those are two different assumptions.

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nobody offered it to him, he is open to eans there is initiative from him

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