Paul Oswald

@poswald.bsky.social

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Startup CTO in Japan, Angel Investor, part-time startup advisor, HNTokyo founder and MC, Python enthusiast, ex-Sony Music NYC | Tokyo Also at https://mastodon.social/@poswald

A screenshot of a prepper website ad with a woodsy guy with a gray beard in a hat saying "inconvenient for the people who control the narrative"

But most importantly, I think social media rewards extremism and punishes moderation within each party. You can see this dynamic at work in the response to the Young Republicans’ leaked texts. In the old days, when internal party debates mostly happened in private, it was possible to crack down on Nazis and other extremists. Now, thanks to social media, those debates mostly happen in public, where the opposition can see everything and potentially take advantage of any internal divisions. This makes right-wing leaders extremely reluctant to cultivate the appearance of dissension in the ranks, for fear of joining in a “left wing pile on”:

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Elon Musk says DOGE probably won’t find $2 trillion in federal budget cuts

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Ron Filipkowski tweet:
The fact that he is even talking about this today shows how much President
Musk is bothering him.

Acyn tweet:
Trump: [Elon Musk] is not going to be president. That I can tell you. I'm safe. You know why? He can't be. He wasn't born in this country