Iain McNally
JP"musk bought twitter so he could destroy a vital left/liberal activitist space" - no he didn't. listen to yourself. trump wasn't playing 5-dimensional chess either. malice + overconfidence + incompetence are the only convincing explanation for everything that's happened. the closest to "deliberately ruining the website" he got is clearly wanting to *reclaim* it for white supremacists, incels etc ("owning the libs", etc) and those are distinctly different things.
stop giving these people credit they don't deserve and indirectly contributing to their legend, it makes us look silly and it's not helping anyone fight the very real destruction they're causing.
Chris [list of emoji]Dumb people are still dangerous, though. Maybe more dangerous than smart, evil, people.
@suetanvil absolutely yeah!
gamedev.lgbt/@psilocervine@jplebreton it's honestly embarrassing to watch and I do get it because in doing so they give themselves, knowingly or not, the ability to deny they were outmanoeuvred by absolute clowns
there's an appeal there, something I absolutely know I've fallen into before, and because of that I can sorta empathize with people who try and used the 5D chess excuse
PJ "Vote Green" CoffeyI mean... I'm betting if you know anything at all and you ran into Musk you could spot his BS. The less I heard him speak, the smarter I thought he was and converse.
He didn't just plonk down 44bn of his own accord, he got money chipped over to help him. What price a billion to the House of Saud and Qataris to help neuter and disperse democracy.
Where are the Arabic speaking instances? And that's why.
Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷@Homebrewandhacking @psilocervine @jplebreton The underlying problem is people who do not accept the implications of the Paradox of Tolerance. That inevitably leads to an unstable democracy. We’re currently in a phase where the Right is abusing the First Amendment. In other places, other times it has been the Left doing the abuse. Neither is good. US has to change its understanding of its constitution, to protect itself and its democracy.