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He gives one so much material to work with. Sweet irony that he puts his copious juvenilia on such an easily quotable platform.
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Lol, I can't stand the irony.
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Seriously though Brian you saw the posts people made on here about Trump, not once did you take them to task. Yet when the shoe is on the other foot, you're up in arms.
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I look forward to all your quotes from X tomorrow Brian.
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Please do quote any of the ones from that thread suggesting assassination attempts on Trump would be welcome that I should have condemned.
Free speech does not include incitement to violence. That goes even more so for people with (possibly) the world's largest megaphone at their disposal.
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If it's a joke, i dont get it. Now this is a joke.
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Wait, has he only just discovered this?
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Maybe Musky being a knobend just makes him the Newton of his time. In his dreams.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
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Not narcissistic at all. Well, at least no more than Trump. I suppose to Trump's credit, he didn't spaff $44bn on his social media mirror.
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You still on X Rick? "Yeah"
Are you still going to be quoting X Rick? "Yeah"
Are you still going to be whining and moaning Rick? "Yeah"
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Must admit, focus, I've still not worked out whether your hero-worship is genuine or a character you're playing.
Twitter can go two ways: they way it's going with Musk, it'll die (but its quotability on this forum is still currently better than Threads or BlueSky, hence our continuing use on CS), or Musk goes and a decent small animal vet comes along and resuscitates the blue bird.
Either way, Musk is still a d!ck, I'm afraid.
And to complete the irony, I'll quote a Tweet:
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Look up at that blue sky tomorrow Rick, imagine those six thousand odd StarLink satellites connecting the World. Launched into space by reusable rockets, before the US had to use Russian rocket engines.
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Brian, I distinctly remember you saying it was finished about a year ago, yet your X quotes keep comming.
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imagine all the science disrupted/rendered impossible by the ever increasing electromagnetic pollution of starlink and similar platforms
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What is it about X that triggers people so much ? It's only really a big version of this forum. Nobody is forced to look at it.
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The interesting comparison is that people on here moaned about the lack of regulation on X as a result of it being taken over. Now, remember this place when we had a load of mods? How much trouble do we get now with minimal intervention? Granted there aren't as many members, but we're grown up enough to take in other people's views. I mean, blimey, I disagree with myself most days.
Community Notes also enables X's members to clarify fact from fiction.
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Apart from being larger by a factor of about 100,000,000 and having been an important news source/outlet for the general world population and hundreds of thousands of official bodies, there are some similarities, yes.
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Do you think it can evolve to become an average voice for Humanity?
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Not too left, not too right. It seems things in general are at there best when they are balanced.
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Which, CS or Twitter?
If the latter, only if it doesn't have a partisan narcissist at the helm. Jack Dorsey's version of Twitter was much closer to the "marketplace of ideas" that Musk professed to want. In reality, with all the guardrails taken off that Dorsey had in place, it's turning more and more into a place of division, hate, and cranks. Giving it over to cranks at the extremes for the sake of 'engagement' (in reality, conflict) drowns out any idea of an 'average voice', because 'average voices' tend to be vaguely reasonable, and based in reality, which is why CS tends to be an interesting place to exchange ideas.
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Do you think a politician who read Das Capital and then Mein Kampf would have all they need to formulate a good political philosophy?
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I've only watched Das Boot myself and that wasn't very nice.
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What you view as hate others may think reasonable opinion. I'd rather let people say what they want and I can choose to mute them, unfollow or just not go on X.
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Twitter's problem is that they f*cked with the algorithm that made it so good, and turned it into an overtly political one.
It used to be very good at pushing stuff at me that I would probably like but I missed when I wasn't surgically attached to my phone.
Now it pushes a lot of stuff that I am obviously not interested in; why do I want to read a load of people slating Britain through the prism of "critical race theory" and why is it pushing that stuff at me? There is nothing in who I follow, interact with, or post, that would suggest I would want to read that.
That Musk literally gets his engineers to bump his own tweets says it all. It's no longer just pushing stuff that people who follow and like and interact in a similar way to you also like.
Bluesky is fine but it will become unwieldy when it gets too big, as there is literally no algorithm to push stuff to you if you miss it. If you're not on when a great post is posted, you'll miss it.
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BR is significantly more moderated than X. Which is saying something.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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So do you think that the kind of speech that is outlawed outside of Twitter - incitement to violence against minorities, for instance - should be allowed? You might well be sensible and educated enough to mute those voices, but all the evidence suggests that that is a very dangerous road to go down. It's probably not passed you by that Russia seems to think that social media is a very good way to destabilise Western democracy even further, and invests considerable efforts into doing so. Should they have unfettered access, even if you are clever enough to spot every instance and mute/ignore them?
The danger is that when we can't tell fact from propaganda ("Flooding the zone with shit" has a long history of success), tyrants fill the void of doubt.
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