Randahl Fink14h ago

Over on the disinformation platform, its owner Elon Musk claims “Hitler was a socialist, therefore all socialists are Hitler”.

This post got 111 million views and apart from his claim being factually incorrect, it also shows that politicians of the remaining free countries should not support his social medium by posting there, because it is not about promoting free and informed dialogue — it is about spreading false myths using an algorithm design by Elon Musk to benefit Elon Musk.

Show threadMarjorieR14h ago

@randahl apart from the claim "Hitler was a socialist" being untrue the sylogism fails anyway.

"A is a B" doesn't imply "all B are A".

"Wolves are Animals" doesn't imply "all Animals are Wolves".

But then Elon (and presumably his followers) were never great at logic.

Show threadRoberto von Archimboldi

@marjolica it is worse than that isn't it? Hitler is a particular, so it is more like:
Wolfy McWolfface is an animal.
So,
All animals are Wolfy McWolfface

The mind boggles

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Show threadMarjorieR7h ago

@RobertoArchimboldi indeed.
Lets try another one, pehaps Elon might get this one:

The Tesla Roadstar in orbit is a car therefore all cars are a Tesla Roadstar in orbit.

https://www.spacelaunchdb.com/en/roadster

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