I’d say you’re delusional. Your hate and resentment can’t build and run anything, let alone an entire society. Hell, your “side” Can’t even create and run an effective social media company. Yes, you can wreck crap. But you can’t create. You can kill off the people on your “side” because you’d rather die than accept facts. But you can’t create healthcare for your people or make their lives better. All hate does is destroy. If your bizarre dystopia actually happened, you’d be at each other’s throats in days. All those people people you think are on your side would turn on you. That’s what movements based on hate do. They’ll always find an enemy to hate — including the members of your own “side.”Hawkeye wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 2:57 amIt was always rule by fiat. It's just that your side no longer gets to make the rules. So find yourselves another home.Res Ipsa wrote: ↑Fri Dec 16, 2022 5:30 pmI think Musk is discovering what Twitter has been like for the average person who becomes the target of malicious trolls. Surprise! He doesn't like it any more than anyone else does. He's experienced the benefits of free speech, but not the consequences of those who use speech as a weapon to harass, disrupt and threaten. It was perfectly fine when this kind of thing was happening to the libs, but it's definitely not fine when it happens to Elon Musk. So, after he proclaimed himself the champion of free speech, invited back the harassers, and fired the people whose job it was prevent harassment and threats, he got to experience exactly what led Twitter to have a code of conduct and a group charged with online safety.
Now he's in the ridiculous position of making up rules on the fly to protect himself from posts he doesn't like. The new rules aren't well thought out. They aren't consistent. And some are crazy on their face. So now it's simply become rule by fiat.
Beyond that, he's incompetent to administer his platform in a coherent way. Yesterday he banned 9 journalists. But he only banned them from posting. He didn't ban them from "spaces," which are live chats. A number of journalists gathered in a space to try and figure out what the hell was going on. Musk logged into the space. But, when confronted by the journalist, he fled the room.
I've tried to stick it out there, as there are several people for whom I have great respect, who have stated that they're not leaving voluntarily. But the vast majority of sources I've followed for information on the pandemic and public health issues, as well as important legal cases, have moved to substack (which allows nice long form articles, but to get all the content you have to purchase a subscription for each author), mastodon (which is not well developed at this point) or Post (which I'm on the waitlist for, but am skeptical of).
Most of my feed currently is posts from a group of docs (mostly toxicologists) that are both knowledgable and good communicators. And their interactions are funny as hell. So, some entertainment. But that's about it.
Do you think Jim Crowe was a segregated society? What If I told you that in under a decade and in addition to separate social media platforms, we'd have separate stores, separate schools, separate restaurants, separate bathrooms, separate hospitals, separate razor companies, separate professional sports leagues, not based upon race but upon political party. We'd have a conservative version of Hollywood in Nashville. I could see it becoming illegal for us to even speak to each other. Perhaps that's better than trying to exterminate each other. But how segregated is that?
You’re living off a hell of your own choosing. And if there were a next life, you’d create your own hell there, too.
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