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Why was it suspended in the first place?
by zeroonetwothree 4y ago
Why was it suspended in the first place?
- concinds 4y agoIt was locked, in a process where they force you to explicitly admit your tweet broke the rules before you can get your account back. There's more context here: https://babylonbee.com/news/twitter-has-shut-down-the-bee https://babylonbee.com/news/twitter-has-shut-down-the-bee
- meltyness 4y ago... but is this response, itself satire?
- lynndotpy 4y agoI would also appreciate a source that is not a satire article created by an involved party.
- meltyness 4y agoI agree. It's not particularly funny, and the "bird and bee" visual is the closest thing to satire I can find here. Adm. Levine stayed in a potentially unhappy marriage for 25 years for sake of their 2 kids, or possibly developed genitourinary cancer and leveraged it to do a public service and lead and include transgendered folks. Not particularly funny. I read it as a tacit admission of guilt.
- memish 4y ago> in a process where they force you to explicitly admit your tweet broke the rules before you can get your account back. What a power move. That sounds like a struggle session. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denunciation_rally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denunciation_rally
- nemo44x 4y agoIt’s exactly what it is. It is designed to humiliate you and to warn others. This has been the progressive playbook the last 10 years. It’s the same playbook the Chinese communists used as well as the Spanish Inquisition and other authoritarian movements.
- Comevius 4y agoThey selected Rachel Levine as their pick for "Man of the Year", although she is a transgender woman. Babylon Bee says that she is a man, and the truth cannot be hate speech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Levine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Levine Honestly I would agree with Babylon Bee if it would be just for satire, like giving a funny award to a transgender woman, I get it, but they are not in it for the jokes, they are in it for the truth as they say, and you can't have it both ways. Christians telling intolerant jokes is joke in itself, but the problem is that they take their jokes seriously.
- tomohawk 4y ago
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- elmerfud 4y agoTruth and satire are intertwined in a special way that makes satire be so powerful. Also Babylon Bee said they were satirizing USA Today as listing her as a top woman of the year.
- treeman79 4y agoMy Twitter feed is full of “There are only two genders. Test” And links to medical papers on myocarditis. Two things that would get you banned quick.
- megaman821 4y agoWhat people and/or topics do you follow to get these things? I follow things related to tech, economics and comics; and the ads seem to stay topical to those things.
- notacoward 4y agoYeah, I'm seeing a big uptick in myocarditis stuff too. That's despite being very selective about who I follow; it's showing up in the replies. The disinfo crowd (not just on that topic) is off to an even quicker start than I expected. Just in time for the midterm elections, too. :(
- purpleblue 4y agoMyocarditis in young men below the age of 18 from the vaccine is real and verified. This was even shown by the CDC during the ACIP meeting for the bivalent booster. It's roughly about 1 in 5000 chance of getting myocarditis, and about 1/3 of the patients are still suffering from it 90 days after diagnosis.
- notacoward 4y agoI'm sure it is real, but that's not the point. A fact can be true but still be amplified far beyond its actual significance relative to other things that are also true, and that seems like what's happening here. I'm seeing a lot of people citing the exact same highly-dubious articles, which takes us further from figuring out the empirical truth on a complex set of issues. Those citations are also often accompanied by other claims on other topics (or even simple abuse), also familiar but unrelated except for ideological affiliation. I'm not saying there's any kind of conspiracy - no coordination is required here - but there definitely seems to be a zeitgeist of people taking out pent-up frustration on their political opponents today. And it's clearly happening right here as well, though FWIW I don't consider your own comment to be part of that. You raised a perfectly valid point; others, not so much.
- somenameforme 4y agoHere's the article: https://babylonbee.com/news/the-babylon-bees-man-of-the-year-is-rachel-levine https://babylonbee.com/news/the-babylon-bees-man-of-the-year... There's also a lot more history as well. Elon has done a [serious] interview with the Babylon Bee before [1] and also propped them on Twitter [2]. When they were banned he contacted the head of the site to confirm they had been suspended, and even mentioned to him that he might have to buy the site to fix their behaviors. [3] That was just before he ran the poll on Twitter, seeing whether people viewed the site as supporting free speech or not. [4] [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvGnw1sHh9M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvGnw1sHh9M [2] - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1331698780073320449 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1331698780073320449 [3] - https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1511325246967660547 https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1511325246967660547 [4] - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507259709224632344 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507259709224632344
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- facedpython 4y agoIt's mean and petty
- the_only_law 4y agoHN tends to have either have edgy teenager level of humor, or unfunny nerd level of humor.
- ReptileMan 4y agoIf you can't take the heat don't become public figure.
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