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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
The point of a conspiracy is to convince you that something that is not real is true. People reach for conspiracy theories to explain things that they can’t understand, or that are beyond their control. And they fall for conspiracies pushed by the powerful — who deploy them not to make sense of things, but to take and keep control.
If people don’t know what to believe, why shouldn’t they believe the person who is telling them what they want to hear?
I thought of this on Monday night listening to Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, conduct an interview on X — formerly Twitter, the social media platform Musk owns — with former President Donald Trump. It was conspiracy central, and it boded ill for Jews.
Trump said more than once that the real threat to the United States is enemies “on the inside.” He did not say who, leaving the listener to guess the identity of these people who walk among us, but remain distinct, apart.
According to these two men, nothing is as it seems and nobody can be believed. Only they, Musk and Trump, would tell you the truth.
We’ve seen this show before. It tends to go badly for Jews. If you’ve ever encountered an antisemitic stereotype in your life, you know who those inside enemies behind the government are supposed to be. On X, some baselessly suggested that Hungarian-born billionaire philanthropist George Soros was behind the cyberattack that delayed the conversation, while others said it was the doing of “globalists” — a word long understood to be antisemitic, even if some who use it deny that connotation — trying to silence Trump and Musk.
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If people don’t know what to believe, why shouldn’t they believe the person who is telling them what they want to hear?
I thought of this on Monday night listening to Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, conduct an interview on X — formerly Twitter, the social media platform Musk owns — with former President Donald Trump. It was conspiracy central, and it boded ill for Jews.
Trump said more than once that the real threat to the United States is enemies “on the inside.” He did not say who, leaving the listener to guess the identity of these people who walk among us, but remain distinct, apart.
According to these two men, nothing is as it seems and nobody can be believed. Only they, Musk and Trump, would tell you the truth.
We’ve seen this show before. It tends to go badly for Jews. If you’ve ever encountered an antisemitic stereotype in your life, you know who those inside enemies behind the government are supposed to be. On X, some baselessly suggested that Hungarian-born billionaire philanthropist George Soros was behind the cyberattack that delayed the conversation, while others said it was the doing of “globalists” — a word long understood to be antisemitic, even if some who use it deny that connotation — trying to silence Trump and Musk.
Elon Musk and Donald Trump want us to live in conspiracy land — you can guess who the scapegoats will be
Elon Musk and former President Donald Trump promoted conspiracy theories throughout a conversation on X — with predictable consequences.
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