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X said it would give $1M to a user who had previously shared racist posts

15 points by doener 9mo ago

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billy99k 9mo ago
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- clipsy 9mo ago
  > In a November 2024 exchange, @beaverd weighed in after another user commented on photos of then-President-elect Donald Trump meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House. “Weird that he looks so happy while hanging out with literally Hitler,” the other user commented, to which @beaverd replied: “God I wish he was literally Hitler.” Sounds pretty straightforward to me. What do you think he meant?
  - billy99k 9mo ago
    I find that people in the HN community either can't detect sarcasm (on the spectrum) or are intentionally being dishonest. Not camp you fall in, tbh.
    - bigyabai 9mo ago
      It is difficult. Most of your comments are indistinguishable from parody despite you being (ostensibly) honest.
    - clipsy 9mo ago
      If you think it was sarcasm, I'd certainly be willing to hear what you think the actual statement being made was. Please explain: - What the actual intent of the post was - How the text of the post communicated that intent Thanks!
SilverElfin 9mo ago
It’s not at all surprising to see this. It looks a lot like X is just rewarding people who promoted the Articles feature AND align ideologically with Elon or are Elon sycophants. For example, Kaizen Asiedu regularly sucks up to Elon and posts low-tier ‘critical thinking’ type posts that try to polish the absurd things Elon says on Twitter. It’s not surprising to see Nick Shirley there either - this person harasses minority owned daycares to allege fraud, even though there is already a functional auditing program that has convicted people for fraud. And somehow his viral videos have tricked MAGA cultists into caring more about fraud alleged to be in the billions instead of the literal trillions in new national debt that Trump is adding through massive spending increases that are often going to friends and family. As for the person who won - the article mentions several example of his posts, and they sound just like what Elon posts about nearly daily. Promoting white people or white culture above others. Attacking multi culturalism. Supporting deportation. The article even shows that both Elon and this person have shared verbatim slogans like ‘no more white guilt’. It’s obvious what’s happening here.

15 points by doener 9mo ago

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billy99k 9mo ago

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clipsy 9mo ago
> In a November 2024 exchange, @beaverd weighed in after another user commented on photos of then-President-elect Donald Trump meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House. “Weird that he looks so happy while hanging out with literally Hitler,” the other user commented, to which @beaverd replied: “God I wish he was literally Hitler.” Sounds pretty straightforward to me. What do you think he meant?
- billy99k 9mo ago
  I find that people in the HN community either can't detect sarcasm (on the spectrum) or are intentionally being dishonest. Not camp you fall in, tbh.
  - bigyabai 9mo ago
    It is difficult. Most of your comments are indistinguishable from parody despite you being (ostensibly) honest.
  - clipsy 9mo ago
    If you think it was sarcasm, I'd certainly be willing to hear what you think the actual statement being made was. Please explain: - What the actual intent of the post was - How the text of the post communicated that intent Thanks!

SilverElfin 9mo ago

It’s not at all surprising to see this. It looks a lot like X is just rewarding people who promoted the Articles feature AND align ideologically with Elon or are Elon sycophants. For example, Kaizen Asiedu regularly sucks up to Elon and posts low-tier ‘critical thinking’ type posts that try to polish the absurd things Elon says on Twitter. It’s not surprising to see Nick Shirley there either - this person harasses minority owned daycares to allege fraud, even though there is already a functional auditing program that has convicted people for fraud. And somehow his viral videos have tricked MAGA cultists into caring more about fraud alleged to be in the billions instead of the literal trillions in new national debt that Trump is adding through massive spending increases that are often going to friends and family. As for the person who won - the article mentions several example of his posts, and they sound just like what Elon posts about nearly daily. Promoting white people or white culture above others. Attacking multi culturalism. Supporting deportation. The article even shows that both Elon and this person have shared verbatim slogans like ‘no more white guilt’. It’s obvious what’s happening here.