The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

[unwashed potato!]

Maybe they should ban the comedy gang looking at twitter on their phones in the Houses of parliamen

Huh?

 

[jpaul]

Say Huhwhat again -
you don't get tired of the media reporting some MP has posted X on twitter ? watching porn in the HP is the tip of the iceberg.

 

[unwashed potato!]

Say Huhwhat again -
you don't get tired of the media reporting some MP has posted X on twitter ? watching porn in the HP is the tip of the iceberg.

Nope why would i? What media report that? Maybe stop viewing those media sites

 

[jpaul]

UK government has been releasing spoilers on future legislation/policy via twitter - lol.

 

[unwashed potato!]

UK government has been releasing spoilers on future legislation/policy via twitter - lol.

What's that got to do with what you said earlier?

 

[eggcup]

You cannot call a man who identifies himself as a woman, a man. Even for comedy: https://nypost.com/2022/03/21/twitter-suspends-babylon-bee-over-rachel-levine-man-of-the-year-title/

You wan to be able to call transwomen men on twitter? Praise Elon.

 

[Jono8]

In reality both sides would see just how far each has drifted towards the extreme, but instead what we actually get is each side believing that they've not moved and therefore its the others who have shot off into the extremes.

Sadly there's so much disinformation out there thats it's easy for both sides to find news articles from within their own echo chambers that provide the "evidence" that they're the ones who are correct and that any evidence "the others" has is 100% lies.

It's depressing at how angry we've become, allowing ourselves to be driven so far apart over into two snarling rabidly opposed teams because people want to act more like angry poop-flinging toddlers than rational adults any more.

Not at all.

Take the actual politicians from two ends of the spectrum for example:

On the one side America had an objectively ridiculous man elected, calling an election rigged when he lost, and inciting a violent insurrection at the US capitol to try and stay in power.

On the other, you have an old chap from vermont who wants universal healthcare.

You talk about being rational adults, but that term cannot be used if you are then going to talk about someone like Trump (for example). There is no argument worth making in support of him. He's genuinely and objectively a garbage human who should be nowhere near political office.

 

[Diddums]

What's that got to do with what you said earlier?

Don't. You're just asking for a page of incomprehensible drivel with random italics and sentences that will turn your brain to pulp. He's the forum's old-man-rambling-on-a-park-bench. Just nod and move on.

 

[Hagar]

Not at all.

Take the actual politicians from two ends of the spectrum for example:

On the one side America had an objectively ridiculous man elected, calling an election rigged when he lost, and inciting a violent insurrection at the US capitol to try and stay in power.

On the other, you have an old chap from vermont who wants universal healthcare.

You talk about being rational adults, but that term cannot be used if you are then going to talk about someone like Trump (for example). There is no argument worth making in support of him. He's genuinely and objectively a garbage human who should be nowhere near political office.

If the whole world was like the American presidential politics, maybe.

There are other topics in the universe.

 

[unwashed potato!]

If the whole world was like the American presidential politics, maybe.

There are other topics in the universe.

and what is the issue those other topics have that effect the right, but the left are happy and free to say whatever rule breaking posts that they want?

 

[Hagar]

and what is the issue those other topics have that effect the right, but the left are happy and free to say whatever rule breaking posts that they want?

Nothing springs to mind really, I do not even have a twitter account. However I am with Elon that within the bounds of the law a person should be free to express his or her opinion openly and not be threatened.
From an agnostic, liberal, conservative viewpoint.

 

[unwashed potato!]

and not be threatened

you don't entirely agree with elon then.

 

[Hagar]

you don't entirely agree with elon then.

I think I do. Actual threats to carry out violence and harm, trump hurt feelings in this respect

 

[Eurofighter]

I hope he can bring people to a more sensible centre ground by debating. Lets face it far right and far left opinions are the trouble, their opinions are to diverse.

 

[StriderX]

There will be no debate on twitter no matter who runs it.

People don't want to debate, they just want to repeat someone else's opinion ad nauseam until everyone else gives up.

I'm minded to recite Cipolla's five laws of stupidity,

1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

 

[GGizmo]

Well, it was either Elon or bust.

Twitter was going down. Nobody can please everyone. There as to be a compromise. If people won't agree to a compromise then that's on them.

I think it shows how toxic the extremists were in the way they were bullying Jack Dorsey. We can see it with how they are talking about their new boss. They think they have the right to belittle their boss.

Most of them need to be fired. It's not a game.

 

[Tony Edwards]

Well, it was either Elon or bust.

Twitter was going down. Nobody can please everyone. There as to be a compromise. If people won't agree to a compromise then that's on them.

I think it shows how toxic the extremists were in the way they were bullying Jack Dorsey. We can see it with how they are talking about their new boss. They think they have the right to belittle their boss.

Most of them need to be fired. It's not a game.

lol

 

[StriderX]

Well, it was either Elon or bust.

Twitter was going down. Nobody can please everyone. There as to be a compromise. If people won't agree to a compromise then that's on them.

I think it shows how toxic the extremists were in the way they were bullying Jack Dorsey. We can see it with how they are talking about their new boss. They think they have the right to belittle their boss.

Most of them need to be fired. It's not a game.

Twitter deserves to go down. Nothing should be permanent in capitalism.

 

[GGizmo]

Twitter deserves to go down. Nothing should be permanent in capitalism.

Ideologically I agree with your statement.

The sad observation I've made about capitalism is most of the time the company doesn't invest or innovate. So the product is just left in state.

I think Twitter needs to implement the rules the UK government bill is proposing i.e. have the ability to be authenticated and then have the ability to not see those not authenticated.

I think we should all be in a VR world by now.

 

[Sankari]

Hard right fascist-adjacent lunatic Andrew Torba (founder of Gab) is absolutely losing his mind over Musk's acquisition of Twitter. You love to see it!