The ongoing X and Elon Musk Transgressions Thread

[Fuzz]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1596053664338440192

[Rutuu]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Imagine thinking the DNC is remotely left, let alone "hard left."

I have a harder time accepting that tariffs, trade wars and made in America are now right wing ideas.

Left wing and right wing have lost all meaning.

[GordonBlue]

pretty disgusting what Musk is turning Twitter into right now. Between who he is giving a voice to, and who he is banning, his true colors are again being shown.

I read a comment that he is this generations Henry Ford, right down to the ugly side.
Wish there was a billionaire who had the decency to publicly go against him, and help fight back.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

I reported a post a couple days ago with the n-bomb in it, with an 'a' at the end instead of the 'er', but it was still meant as an insult. Got the notification back that the post did not break any rules. So........yeah.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

https://twitter.com/user/status/1596053664338440192

So no checks for journalists. That is a poor choice for the long term of the platform. Twitter as a news distribution source is the base of its value.

[JohnnyB]

Subscription with multi-colored checks differentiated by role and at different price points is a good idea, but just having three tiers seems inadequate. I guess they can add in more tiers as they go and differentiate the pricing later once they have good usage data and stability in the platform so that subscribers know what they're getting. In the end, once pricing is optimized, it could be a much better revenue model.

[PsYcNeT]

If you ban all the journalists anyway then it's a moot point

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by GGG

So no checks for journalists. That is a poor choice for the long term of the platform. Twitter as a news distribution source is the base of its value.

Musk already said Twitter is about citizen journalism, so I doubt he wants to create separate classes of journalist tags.

[#-3]

Originally Posted by Matata

Censorship at twitter was wildly one-sided, the denials of this come 100% from those on the hard left. Twitter and the DNC were very clearly supportive of each other on many occasions notably the squashing of the Hunter Biden laptop.

I often wonder if the people constantly harping about "Hunters laptop" ever look back on Benghazi and feel an once of remorse for wasting so much time and mental energy, for supporting such a huge waste of government resources to chaise an story that was clearly constructed simply to give the GOP the opportunity to deflect from the fact that they have unpopular ideas, no policy platform, a poor performance record and are rife with far worse scales.

Do you feel smarter for credulously believe that a there was some secret email on Clintons phone that proved she ordered the attack of a US embassy, or that a private citizen can't leverage his personal connections into a career? Are you really going to be happy to spend the next two years listening to McCarthys congress harp on these things, rather than the fact that there is a substantial group of openly seditious people who are deluded enough to believe that true patriotism openly attacking the countries institutions physically and rhetorically?

I know it's terrible to give someone a pass, and sure maybe Hunter Biden leveraging his dads connections to get a job he wasn't qualified for isn't right if true, and should perhaps be fourth page news one day. But to be talking about it still 3 years later is to gleefully be a pawn in a game you aren't understanding properly.

[PsYcNeT]

(Long thread)

https://twitter.com/user/status/1596041824573198336

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by #-3

I often wonder if the people constantly harping about "Hunters laptop" ever look back on Benghazi and feel an once of remorse for wasting so much time and mental energy, for supporting such a huge waste of government resources to chaise an story that was clearly constructed simply to give the GOP the opportunity to deflect from the fact that they have unpopular ideas, no policy platform, a poor performance record and are rife with far worse scales.

Do you feel smarter for credulously believe that a there was some secret email on Clintons phone that proved she ordered the attack of a US embassy, or that a private citizen can't leverage his personal connections into a career? Are you really going to be happy to spend the next two years listening to McCarthys congress harp on these things, rather than the fact that there is a substantial group of openly seditious people who are deluded enough to believe that true patriotism openly attacking the countries institutions physically and rhetorically?

I know it's terrible to give someone a pass, and sure maybe Hunter Biden leveraging his dads connections to get a job he wasn't qualified for isn't right if true, and should perhaps be fourth page news one day. But to be talking about it still 3 years later is to gleefully be a pawn in a game you aren't understanding properly.

Meanwhile Jared Kushner walks off with $2 billion from Saudi Arabia, and no one on the right gives a #### what that means.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022...s-saudi-arabia

[Yoho]

Originally Posted by GordonBlue

pretty disgusting what Musk is turning Twitter into right now. Between who he is giving a voice to, and who he is banning, his true colors are again being shown.

I read a comment that he is this generations Henry Ford, right down to the ugly side.
Wish there was a billionaire who had the decency to publicly go against him, and help fight back.

Sucks when things swing so wildly from one side to the other doesn’t it? Sit back relax and appreciate what people you disagree with had to go thru the past three years.

[Wormius]

Ah. Both sides. The far-right nuts think everything that is normal and decent is way at the opposite side of the pendulum from them.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Yoho

Sucks when things swing so wildly from one side to the other doesn’t it? Sit back relax and appreciate what people you disagree with had to go thru the past three years.

Oh okay, so you were never advocating free speech or proper democratic processess with your hundreds of tweets over the years suggesting it meant something to you that the right was supposedly being cancelled and shut down, you just wanted your side to win and silence the other side.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Yoho

Sucks when things swing so wildly from one side to the other doesn’t it? Sit back relax and appreciate what people you disagree with had to go thru the past three years.

LOL. Let me just get out the tiniest ####ing violin in existence.

[Wastedyouth]

I might be in the minority here, because I really do not agree with much of what Yoho has to post or say, but I find the vilification, rhetoric and overall general negativity towards him to be ridiculous.

Some of you are posting some cringeworthy stuff yourselves.

I'm gonna actually applaud his ability to keep coming back to the forum and sticking to his guns, when the overall attitude here is often "If you don't think like us, you are a nut and a whack job and should go away"

That's neither progressive or intelligent. It's ignorant and regressive.

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by wastedyouth

i might be in the minority here, because i really do not agree with much of what yoho has to post or say, but i find the vilification, rhetoric and overall general negativity towards him to be ridiculous.

Some of you are posting some cringeworthy stuff yourselves.

I'm gonna actually applaud his ability to keep coming back to the forum and sticking to his guns, when the overall attitude here is often "if you don't think like us, you are a nut and a whack job and should go away"

that's neither progressive or intelligent. It's ignorant and regressive.

https://twitter.com/user/status/831805955402776576

[Wastedyouth]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

https://twitter.com/user/status/831805955402776576

Thank you for proving my point.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Wastedyouth

I might be in the minority here, because I really do not agree with much of what Yoho has to post or say, but I find the vilification, rhetoric and overall general negativity towards him to be ridiculous.

Some of you are posting some cringeworthy stuff yourselves.

I'm gonna actually applaud his ability to keep coming back to the forum and sticking to his guns, when the overall attitude here is often "If you don't think like us, you are a nut and a whack job and should go away"

That's neither progressive or intelligent. It's ignorant and regressive.

Repeatedly posting misinformation and lies isn't something we should celebrate. People calling him out saves others from seeing his garbage and potentially thinking there may be some truth to it. Not once has he ever acknowledged that "whoops, ya I got that one wrong". So why shouldn't we point out his awfulness? He's welcome to become a good poster, in which case reactions to his posts would change. But that's on him, not us. And by "good poster" I don't mean only posting things we agree with, I mean not posting trash.

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by Wastedyouth

Thank you for proving my point.

You legitimately believe we should offer gravity to literal hate speech, or take disseminators of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric seriously?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance