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Lets not pretend that just because some people happened to be right, that is an indicator of some information that they had. Most of the hate towards Twitter ca

Lets not pretend that just because some people happened to be right, that is an indicator of some information that they had. Most of the hate towards Twitter came from hate towards Musk.

Eisenstein 4y ago
Predicting future actions based on past behavior is not some kind of magic, nor is it guesswork. People didn't throw a chip on black and spin the roulette wheel -- they made a very reasonable assumption and ended up correct. Whether there was hate involved or not is irrelevant.
michael1999 4y ago
People who tell a lot of fibs tend to get a reputation as liars. This isn't magic. There's no fancy latin name for the error of giving known liars the benefit of the doubt, but there should be.
- tstrimple 4y ago
  I think crēdulus fits.
  - michael1999 4y ago
    Hmm. Good word, and close. But (at least in my English understanding) it doesn't include the ignorance of past action. A boy who trades the family cow to a wandering peddler for magic beans is credulous. But a boy who buys the magic beans a 10th time from the the same scamp who is broadly known to also sell sawdust flour and moldy bread is an extra level of foolishness. Extending Musk the benefit of the doubt required that one willfully ignore his history of deceit. That was (and is) an error. Cf. Rumsfeld and Iraq.
- Netisneverfree 4y ago
adrr 4y ago
Conservatives all claim to be about free speech but when we look at any of their social networks like parler, they actively censor views they don’t agree with. On social networks they don’t control, they sue parody accounts to shut them down.
- CoastalCoder 4y ago
  Please don't paint with such a broad brush. It's inaccurate, and unhelpful to the conversation.
  - adrr 4y ago
    Provide counter examples.
    - timeon 4y ago
      In global scale, Conservatism is broader term then what one party of 2-party system represents at this moment.
dkjaudyeqooe 4y ago
After the "pedo guy" incident, Musk made it pretty clear he's thin skinned, petty and vindictive as well as pretty immature. Based on the public evidence it's hard not to predict these outcomes.

Lets not pretend that just because some people happened to be right, that is an indicator of some information that they had. Most of the hate towards Twitter came from hate towards Musk.

Eisenstein 4y ago

Predicting future actions based on past behavior is not some kind of magic, nor is it guesswork. People didn't throw a chip on black and spin the roulette wheel -- they made a very reasonable assumption and ended up correct. Whether there was hate involved or not is irrelevant.

michael1999 4y ago

People who tell a lot of fibs tend to get a reputation as liars. This isn't magic. There's no fancy latin name for the error of giving known liars the benefit of the doubt, but there should be.

tstrimple 4y ago
I think crēdulus fits.
- michael1999 4y ago
  Hmm. Good word, and close. But (at least in my English understanding) it doesn't include the ignorance of past action. A boy who trades the family cow to a wandering peddler for magic beans is credulous. But a boy who buys the magic beans a 10th time from the the same scamp who is broadly known to also sell sawdust flour and moldy bread is an extra level of foolishness. Extending Musk the benefit of the doubt required that one willfully ignore his history of deceit. That was (and is) an error. Cf. Rumsfeld and Iraq.
Netisneverfree 4y ago

adrr 4y ago

Conservatives all claim to be about free speech but when we look at any of their social networks like parler, they actively censor views they don’t agree with. On social networks they don’t control, they sue parody accounts to shut them down.

CoastalCoder 4y ago
Please don't paint with such a broad brush. It's inaccurate, and unhelpful to the conversation.
- adrr 4y ago
  Provide counter examples.
  - timeon 4y ago
    In global scale, Conservatism is broader term then what one party of 2-party system represents at this moment.

dkjaudyeqooe 4y ago

After the "pedo guy" incident, Musk made it pretty clear he's thin skinned, petty and vindictive as well as pretty immature. Based on the public evidence it's hard not to predict these outcomes.