I saw a bunch of people on Twitter the other day getting excited about Elon hosting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for a conversation on Twitter Spaces. I’m sure Elon is hoping this one doesn’t flame out like the Ron DeSantis debacle, and for his sake I hope he’s taken that as a learning experience… I mean, he should’ve known there’d be a lot of interest in Ronito announcing his run for the presidency and Twitter should’ve been ready for that, which it catastrophically wasn’t. You fire thousands of staff, you get that sort of thing…
Anyway, I feel like RFK II Electric Boogaloo probably isn’t as big of a draw for the Elon cultists, anyway, cos he’s actually not an evil person. Not in the way Ronito is. Or at least he wasn’t evil, at least not until Covid happened and he made antivax propaganda and Covid denialism his career, which kind of… tainted whatever good he’d done in his life before that. And seeing the enthusiasm for this interview with him made me have a moment of nostalgia for the days when Jack Dorsey was still running the show at Twitter and trying to promote Bob Jr’s sort of shit there would get you blocked from it.
And then I saw this on Mastodon today:
Yeah, it turns out that Beardo’s a fan of RFK 2 as well, and has basically endorsed him for the next US president. I actually didn’t realise he was more or less just the money man for Bluesky, which he started as a Twitter alternative even while he was still at the latter in 2021, someone else is the actual CEO… and so much for it being an alternative to Twitter now?
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