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You have more personal liberty under dictators than in democracy, just like you had more personal freedom under monarchs. A king is responsible to the people, whereas a democracy – or a publicly held company for that matter – isn’t responsible to anyone other than the oligarchy.
Both democracy and publicly traded companies might have been okay 100 years ago, but they are the most easily exploited things in the world. As an example: Larry Fink, the Jewish head of BlackRock, has serious influence on both American democracy and virtually every publicly traded company, and he is accountable to literally no one.
So, this Irish twat is accidentally correct in his assessment.
Ireland’s leftist president has decried the purchasing of social media companies by billionaires like Elon Musk as a “form of dictatorship” on a TV station owned by the Irish state.
Ireland’s President Michael D Higgins has once again barged into the conversation surrounding the takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk, saying that the ability of billionaires to buy social media giants and control how content is controlled on those platforms represents an “absurd form of dictatorship”.
President Higgins made the comments while on a televised talk show produced and aired by a TV station owned by the Irish state.
During the rather softball interview conducted by the state-funded broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), which covered topics ranging from the commemoration of the Irish Civil War to football, Higgins doubled down on his condemnation of wealthy individuals’ “concentrated ownership” of social media platforms, having previously condemned billionaire acquisitions as “dangerous narcissism“.
While refusing to say that he was discussing the Musk deal specifically, the Irish president said that the “understanding” once had with the likes of newspapers did not exist with social media.
“You had a kind of a code — an understanding — as to what is legitimate comment and so forth, and if that was breached how it could be handled,” he said in response to a question from host Ryan Tubridy.
A better, simpler time
“Then you get the development of social media and so on: why would you say — why would anyone say — that those who can concentrate the greatest ownership should be the people who should be the people who would decide how people should deal with each other in communication?”
“It is such an absurd form of dictatorship in a way,” he continued, adding: “You don’t have to be a mad, left-wing person to believe that, it’s just about democracy.”
However, while the Irish president has been rather vocal on the issue of social media censorship since the news that Elon Musk would acquire Twitter, the issue did not seem to be important enough for him to comment on during the platform’s years-long clampdown on conservative and right-leaning voices, up to and including banning the then-sitting President of the United States, Donald Trump, in tandem with other Big Tech firms such as Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook.
President Higgins has also declined to voice concern over threats from the European Union — a supranational bloc in which Ireland is a member-state, unlike the neighbouring United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland — that if Musk refused to keep the censorship machine going, the Union would kick the platform out of the bloc.
The fact that they are now just openly associating freedom with dictatorship is both fun and hilarious – and very telling.
Again: they’re not wrong.
Also, they’ve started using the term “autocracy” in place of “dictatorship,” and I also like this term much better. The thing about an autocrat is he is just one guy, so the responsibilities are on his shoulders. If Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin screws something up, everyone knows who to blame. If a democracy screws something up, no one has any idea who to blame, and all of the politicians just start blaming each other.
Joe Biden is blaming Trump for the economy. Or he was, before he started blaming Putin and greedy corporations. He’s also probably blaming Republicans. Trump voters can blame Biden, but his own followers will believe him when he blames other people. Under an autocrat, there is no ambiguity – the leader is responsible for what happens.
Harry Truman famously had a sign that said “the buck stops here” on his desk – but that didn’t stop him from blaming everyone else for his screw-ups. He went back and forth between blaming Republicans (who supported his war agenda) and blaming Democrats (who he courted to support his domestic agenda). There was never any stopping of any bucks.
Now, the president is effectively the “blamer-in-chief.” Donald Trump did the same thing as Truman, alternating between blaming Republicans and Democrats. Biden doesn’t really blame Democrats, other than Joe Manchin, and instead focuses on Republicans and spooks.
Although Biden is obviously much worse than Trump, Trump wasn’t even wrong in blaming other people. Trump was pretty incompetent when it came to surrounding himself with competent people, and they convinced him to never go nuclear on the Republicans (except in tweets!). But that’s the point – no specific person in the government is completely responsible for anything. I have argued that the person who really destroyed Trump was William Barr – but Trump appointed him! Of course, he could only appoint people to cabinet positions that the Senate would approve, so you can blame the Senate – 50 separate people – for Barr more than you can blame Trump for him.
Democracy is literally designed to make sure no one can ever take the fall for anything. When someone absolutely has to take the fall, it is Michael Cohen or Michael Sussmann, very minor figures who end up with very minor punishments, which they can then spin into new and profitable careers.
Back to public companies – I believe very strongly that Jack Dorsey never wanted to ban anyone. But he was accountable to a board, which could just fire him. The board was influenced by the ADL, who was threatening to use the media to destroy the company if they didn’t do mass censorship.
Democracy is stupid and no one should care about it. Saying that democracy is somehow good in its own sake is stupid and ridiculous. What matters is outcomes. The outcome of democracy is that you have no freedom and no ability to redress your grievances.
But yeah – these democracy people just coming out and outright stating that “dictatorship gives people too much personal freedom” really makes things a whole lot easier to understand, no?
