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Both of those things can be true. Obviously this is a jab on my part, but banning someone because they won't meet you is bad form, especially if you claim to b

Both of those things can be true. Obviously this is a jab on my part, but banning someone because they won't meet you is bad form, especially if you claim to be a free speech absolutist.

lapcat 3y ago
> Both of those things can be true. Both of what things? It is true, as I said, that both Musk and Galloway are middle aged divorced guys. Other than that, I'm not sure what you mean. > banning someone because they won't meet you is bad form, especially if you claim to be a free speech absolutist. Agreed, but I'm not sure why irrelevant demographic traits had to be brought into the discussion. Being middle aged and divorced didn't cause Musk to do what he does. It's unnecessary defamation of a large and varied group of people. It's essentially no different from ridiculing the physical appearance of someone you don't like.
- nocoiner 3y ago
  Weird how you’re having this whole argument without regarding the one word (“cringey”) that was clearly the crux upon which OP’s entire assessment of certain personality traits was predicated.
  - lapcat 3y ago
    How is that weird? "Cringey" means causing feelings of acute embarrassment or awkwardness, which seems apposite here. The point is that the OP could have said simply, "Every time you think Elon Musk couldn't be more cringey, he does something like this."
    - asdfman123 3y ago
      Sorry, Elon Musk is a very cool guy who does cool things constantly and he's in no way cringe. Hope this clears things up.
      - lapcat 3y ago
        > Hope this clears things up. No, it hasn't. But this is clearly futile, so I'm done here.
      - subsistence234 3y ago
        trolling? the problem isn't that you shit on elon but that you suggested he's bad because he's middle-aged or divorced, especially when this "insult" applies to the other guy as well. You could try making an (extremely tenuous) argument that getting divorce is weakly correlated with certain character traits, but is that really what you're trying to do?

Both of those things can be true. Obviously this is a jab on my part, but banning someone because they won't meet you is bad form, especially if you claim to be a free speech absolutist.

lapcat 3y ago

> Both of those things can be true. Both of what things? It is true, as I said, that both Musk and Galloway are middle aged divorced guys. Other than that, I'm not sure what you mean. > banning someone because they won't meet you is bad form, especially if you claim to be a free speech absolutist. Agreed, but I'm not sure why irrelevant demographic traits had to be brought into the discussion. Being middle aged and divorced didn't cause Musk to do what he does. It's unnecessary defamation of a large and varied group of people. It's essentially no different from ridiculing the physical appearance of someone you don't like.

nocoiner 3y ago
Weird how you’re having this whole argument without regarding the one word (“cringey”) that was clearly the crux upon which OP’s entire assessment of certain personality traits was predicated.
- lapcat 3y ago
  How is that weird? "Cringey" means causing feelings of acute embarrassment or awkwardness, which seems apposite here. The point is that the OP could have said simply, "Every time you think Elon Musk couldn't be more cringey, he does something like this."
  - asdfman123 3y ago
    Sorry, Elon Musk is a very cool guy who does cool things constantly and he's in no way cringe. Hope this clears things up.
    - lapcat 3y ago
      > Hope this clears things up. No, it hasn't. But this is clearly futile, so I'm done here.
    - subsistence234 3y ago
      trolling? the problem isn't that you shit on elon but that you suggested he's bad because he's middle-aged or divorced, especially when this "insult" applies to the other guy as well. You could try making an (extremely tenuous) argument that getting divorce is weakly correlated with certain character traits, but is that really what you're trying to do?