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Be honest in your statements here: it happens on both sides of the aisle.

by joemazerino 4y ago

matt_kantor 4y ago
Maybe I missed some nuance, but I don't see where DonHopkins implied otherwise.
- DonHopkins 4y ago
  Just knee-jerk whataboutism from somebody who's confessing that what I said applies to them too. His implication is that the "other side" justifies what he did, even though he admits what he did was wrong. The larger point is that even after he knows the actual cause, he still doesn't stop trying to spread misinformation and exploit and co-opt the death of Bob Lee for his own political agenda and pre-existing narratives. Yet he keep doing it, in spite of how Bob Lee's family feels about it and how agonizing it is for them that he and others like Elon Musk keep co-opting his death to spread misinformation and political propoganda. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/us/bob-lee-cash-app-killing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/us/bob-lee-cash-app-killi... >Mr. Lee’s brother, Oliver Lee, of Palo Alto, Calif., said in an interview on Thursday that the moves to “co-opt” the tragedy had been agonizing for his family. “Bob loved being in San Francisco, and San Francisco loved Bob,” he said, adding that young people would stop his brother on the street there and ask for advice. >He said that his brother, a father of two who had recently relocated to Miami after spending most of his career in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, had left the city for work reasons and had returned there often, both for business and to spend time with his teenage daughters, who continued to live in the Bay Area with his former wife. >Brooke Jenkins, the San Francisco district attorney, said that “the loss of a young, vibrant leader and innovator has rocked our city and even beyond.” But she criticized what she said were “reckless and irresponsible statements” portraying the city as a hotbed of violent crime, pointing to comments by Mr. Musk, the chief executive of Twitter and Tesla, in particular.

Be honest in your statements here: it happens on both sides of the aisle.

matt_kantor 4y ago

Maybe I missed some nuance, but I don't see where DonHopkins implied otherwise.

DonHopkins 4y ago
Just knee-jerk whataboutism from somebody who's confessing that what I said applies to them too. His implication is that the "other side" justifies what he did, even though he admits what he did was wrong. The larger point is that even after he knows the actual cause, he still doesn't stop trying to spread misinformation and exploit and co-opt the death of Bob Lee for his own political agenda and pre-existing narratives. Yet he keep doing it, in spite of how Bob Lee's family feels about it and how agonizing it is for them that he and others like Elon Musk keep co-opting his death to spread misinformation and political propoganda. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/us/bob-lee-cash-app-killing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/us/bob-lee-cash-app-killi... >Mr. Lee’s brother, Oliver Lee, of Palo Alto, Calif., said in an interview on Thursday that the moves to “co-opt” the tragedy had been agonizing for his family. “Bob loved being in San Francisco, and San Francisco loved Bob,” he said, adding that young people would stop his brother on the street there and ask for advice. >He said that his brother, a father of two who had recently relocated to Miami after spending most of his career in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, had left the city for work reasons and had returned there often, both for business and to spend time with his teenage daughters, who continued to live in the Bay Area with his former wife. >Brooke Jenkins, the San Francisco district attorney, said that “the loss of a young, vibrant leader and innovator has rocked our city and even beyond.” But she criticized what she said were “reckless and irresponsible statements” portraying the city as a hotbed of violent crime, pointing to comments by Mr. Musk, the chief executive of Twitter and Tesla, in particular.