Pure astroturfed hypocrisy from the latest right-wing darling trying to use populism to drum up support for fascism. If you look into the guy's background even slightly (look up @TheMagaHulk on turd app), it's pretty easy to see how inorganic the roll out of his song is, not to mention his affinity for fringe, fascist-adjacent conspiracy theories.

He says "I hate the way the internet divides us" while taking money to gin up an entirely inauthentic surge of viral attention on the internet, in order to serve as a propagandist for plutocrats, who stay in power primarily by using culture-war wedge issues that divide populations and brainwash a sizeable portion of the electorate into voting against their own interests, and for the interests of a powerful minority.

Not only do the song lyrics contain dehumanising language that directly seeks to sow division among the working class, the central conceit in the lyrics of the chorus literally emphasises the symbolic importance of the Mason-Dixon line (!) which is the figurative representation of the foundational divisions that plague America: black/white, Republican/Democrat, democracy/oligarchy, etc.

Look, I will say that he is absolutely right that the internet does nothing but divide us, it's just that this guy is the absolute last person on earth to have anything to say on that issue given the way he acquired his platform, the language that he uses, and the ideas that he espouses.

I'm particularly concerned in this case the way Bitcoiners are so terminally online that they just adopt narratives served up to them on a platter, without being critical at all of where they come from or why they are being so heavily promoted, if it aligns even slightly with the thesis that the state is illegitimate and therefore so is the currency that it issues (a thesis I agree with by the way).

I really want to get into the topics of online media literacy, internet usage best practices for individuals, as well as all the philosophical implications of the ideological divisions within populations and their connections with online astroturfing campaigns, or even marketing as a practice more broadly, so that I can better serve this community.

And finally, while I know that I'm shouting into the void, I'm hopeful that I'll find some kind of support or at least feedback here for my new endeavour:

I'm gonna write a book about it. I'll keep you posted, cheers.