On the competing visions of liberalism at the heart of Twitter X vs ADL war

Morgoth

Sep 5, 2023

There’s an interesting exchange in George RR Martin’s Clash of Kings in which Varys, the scheming eunuch, and Tyrion ruminate over the ethereal nature of Power. The question fundamentally is where Power actually lies:

Then these other swordsmen have the true power. Or do they?” Varys smiled. “Some say knowledge is power. Some tell us that all power comes from the gods. Others say it derives from law. Yet that day on the steps of Baelor’s Sept, our godly High Septon and the lawful Queen Regent and your ever-so-knowledgeable servant were as powerless as any cobbler or cooper in the crowd. Who truly killed Eddard Stark, do you think? Joffrey, who gave the command? Ser Ilyn Payne, who swung the sword? Or… another?”

Tyrion cocked his head sideways. “Did you mean to answer your damned riddle, or only to make my head ache worse?”

Varys smiled. “Here, then. Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.”

“So power is a mummer’s trick?”

“A shadow on the wall,” Varys murmured, “yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.”

To witness an organization such as the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) outright threaten and engage openly in the financial sabotage of Twitter X is to witness a Power exert itself. The ADL is eminently powerful and massively influential. It can, with a few phone calls, torpedo the bank accounts and lucrative revenue streams of the world’s most famous pop stars and instantly ruin the careers and lives of those unlucky enough to catch their ire. The question though, is why?

The same could be said of any NGO operating within the network of the industrial censorship complex but it is the ADL and Elon Musk that adorn the headlines of the newspapers this week. The initial campaign led by Keith Woods to #BanTheADL has metastasized into Musk himself hinting that he may throw the issue to the public in a poll (Vox Populi, Vox Dei) and also threatening a lawsuit for Twitter’s lost earnings due to ADL-led advertising boycotts that have cost the platform a cool $22 Billion dollars. That’s a lot of ad revenue and ADL director Jonathan Greenblatt is on record that Musk’s acquisition of Twitter had put the platform on ‘‘Death watch’’.

Despite this, the ADL is still allowed to operate freely using the platform they’re attempting to destroy. The question raised by this is an obvious one: Why doesn’t Musk #BanTheADL? The answer is rather complex and touches on the peculiar nature of the ADL’s soft power. Elon Musk is powerful because he’s very rich, and the ADL is powerful because people believe them to be. The ADL’s soft fox-like power leverages Jewish exceptionalism against what they call the far right, but in reality, they’re targeting the mores and rights people take for granted within Liberalism.

To reiterate, the ADL is not the only group undermining Liberalism, they’re just the most powerful, oldest, and arguably, the best at it.

The events of World War II resulted in Jews in the West, and America in particular, being granted degrees of social capital that almost no other group anywhere in history could comprehend and via institutions such as the ADL every ounce of that social capital was put to use.

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