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Last week's Twitwreck was more than it seemed

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Last week's Twitwreck was more than it seemed

Congratulations to those Yes Men who started dismantling a toxic American myth

Nov 14, 2022
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Thousands of sleeper Yes Men took advantage of Elon Musk's “Twitter Blue” fuck-up last week to highlight pharmaceutical price-gouging, corporate and political warmongering, and all sorts of pious hypocrisy.

While many of these actions were notable in themselves, the overall result of the free-for-all was to poke a hole in America's rich-hero myth, which grants respect and trust to anyone ruthless, psychopathic, or lucky enough to become impossibly wealthy.

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By demonstrating Musk's blatant incompetence, the Twitwreck did for Musk what three failed elections have only just started to do for Trump (at least among his cult followers).

Deflating more schmoguls like Musk and Trump will help make America safe for real democracy. With that in mind, the Yes Men are happy to coach activist groups who’d like to try out online (or "meatspace") trickery themselves—not that it’s rocket science, you know….

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privvcy
Nov 14, 2022

The Yes Men, bursting bubbles since crass commerce became soap opera

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Fidel Hernandez
Nov 14, 2022

Great work, as usual.

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