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Either way, he decided, “You gotta commend Elon for doing everything in his power to wipe this nuisance website off the face of the earth.” You do not, under a
by pohl 3y ago
Either way, he decided, “You gotta commend Elon for doing everything in his power to wipe this nuisance website off the face of the earth.”
You do not, under any circumstances, gotta commend Elon.
- dlbucci 3y agoI think you might be missing the clear sarcasm in that tweet... Edit: Or I have missed the reference in your comment, it seems!
- jph00 3y agoI think you might be missing the clear sarcasm in that HN comment...
- duskwuff 3y agopohl is riffing on a classic dril tweet: > issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them" https://twitter.com/dril/status/831805955402776576 https://twitter.com/dril/status/831805955402776576
- dlbucci 3y agoAh, that explains it :)
- rsynnott 3y agoBeyond the joke already mentioned, there's potentially another one, in dril's original comment; there was always a bit of a running joke, with some element of truth, amongst Twitter users that Twitter was terrible and needed to be destroyed. There's a reason it was affectionately known as the Hellsite; Twitter aficionados had a very love-hate relationship with it.
- epakai 3y agoAs much as we all like to shit on social media, it's also been a force for large and fast public backlash in many spheres of interest. I tend to view Musk's actions as focused on achieving that outcome rather than destroying Twitter, and it's one aspect that's hard to replace even if we don't always like the outcome.
- pohl 3y agoIt’s not clear what outcome you’re referring to. You say it’s “been a force for…backlash…” So is the outcome you think he’s focused on is to stop that? Or to redirect it to his own interests? Are either of those good outcomes?
- epakai 3y agoI think Musk doesn't like activists of a certain bent, and he's made moves that are damaging Twitter to disenfranchise those groups in particular. Maybe the net outcome is good, maybe not. I think it's hard to achieve that type of outrage (both good and bad) without these massive social media sites. So we might get less toxic social media, but reduce our ability to effect change through social justice.
- xyzzy_plugh 3y agoBuddy have you ever been on Twitter lately? It's literal peak toxicity.
- RuggedPineapple 3y agoMusk literally just started bribing right wing activist accounts with Twitter cash. He is absolutely not wanting to disenfranchise activists, he's wanting to target them at people he doesn't like.
- MrPatan 3y agoHow is ad revenue share open to everybody "bribing right wing activist accounts with Twitter cash"?
- Georgelemental 3y agoThere are two things I commend him for: 1. SpaceX. 2. Ending peravasive political censorship on Twitter, resulting in significant, positive (IMO) real-world political shifts. He has made many bad and questionable things, but those two achievements make up for all the rest, from my perspective.
- denlekke 3y agocan you expand on the results part of 2 ? who/where/what are the shifts
- Georgelemental 3y agoConservative boycotts in the US work now, for one: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/10/conservative-boycotts-twitter-social-media-progressives/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/10/conservat...