X apparently added 5-second delay for links to sites Musk doesn’t like
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Celery Man
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He’s not just a megadouche, he’s doing things like personally reinstating the account of someone who posted a CSAM video involving babies. That’s evil, pure and simple, and ignoring evil never goes well.
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Imagine you're one of the people in the EU planning to start enforcing the DSA when it goes live on the 25th. Then Musk surprises you with this to make your job easier.
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It isn't like your comment forwards the discussion either. Musk is a pathetic piece of shit, though.
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If you honestly think that the NYT was promoting "white genocide", you're a complete fucking idiot. I guess that would explain thinking that Musk has a point on anything.
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That thought was dismissed outright because it's dumb and does not fit what's happening.
Every single one on certain sites?
Your comment is downvoted because it's a super handwavy explanation which tries to excuse what Musk is doing, when the simplest answer is that Musk put the delay in.
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just saying something is “dumb” does not make you right.
that‘s not the case. read the full hacker news item and you will find many different results.
prove it. The simplest answer seems to be tech issues rather than making up a conspiracy of sorts because Musk is a sociopath.
reading the original hacker news thread there are many discussions about it being caused by database issues, DNS issues, cookie issues, browser issues, caching issues, networking or carrier issues.
to me it defies comprehension that everybody in the media immediately blames musk even when there is no proof of that and there are many other plausible reasons.
people simply leave out facts or simplify them just te get the result they like the best. Like saying ”of course its musk” or ”it’s exactly the sites he does not like”. Confirmation bias, we call that in science.
this is exactly what right wing, science denying folk would do, (aka Musk people) and it’s a sad thing I get downvoted for trying to be nuanced and doing critical thinking.
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I see that after forcing accounts to unblock him didn't work, Musk has resorted to just removing the block function entirely.
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Literally nothing in your post was critical thinking. It was idiotic excuses that relied on the most amazing of coincidences. Quite frankly, that is the kind of bullshit that right wingers engage in
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For the sake of argument, sure, why not. I missed the part where the NYT supported or even excused that statement, however. Where did that happen?
Note, reporting that this was said is not supporting what was said. If some world leader is supporting genocide, shouldn't "the paper of record" make people aware of that?
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He called them an apologist, not that they were “promoting” genocide.
And that rings true.. the gist of the NYT article is people argue the phrase is not meant to be taken literally. Despite the fact that there have been racially motivated murders of White farmers in SA (Whites are a minority group, BTW).
Can you imagine that phrase being used against any minority group here? I’m sure die Juden sind unser unglück was just a slogan, and nothing bad will ever come of it, right?!
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They excused the statement by making the claim it was not intended to be taken literally.. despite the fact that there have been racially motivated murders of (minority) White farmers.
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Yeah. Five seconds is a looooong time to wait for a link to load.
To anyone who might think it doesn’t sound like that long, imagine clicking on a link and then count to five-Mississippi. To me, it feels like forever. (I’m obviously being hyperbolic, but it seems like way longer than a link should take to load.)
I’ll bet I essentially never wait five seconds without trying something — click reload, go back and try the link again, or whatever. And for a link I might have only been mildly curious about, I’m sure I’ve just abandoned such links if taking more than a second or two to load.
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After reading the article...I don't particularly care for the slogan, but I'm getting a definite "eat the rich" vibe about it, from the discussion of the phrase's history and context.
It also seemed like the NYT was being careful to describe both sides of the argument without taking a strong stance on it.
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That doesn't mean there's a corollation between the two.
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If Elon were still in South Africa I might have more sympathy, but he's in the US, where "white genocide" is widely understood to be code for "we're letting brown people have rights that used to be reserved only for whites."
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"White people in America can't talk about white people oppressed elsewhere because racists stole the concept" probably isn't how we should police discourse imo
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I have no idea what the current state of things is there, but I think think the group Musk has an issue with has a bunch of rhetoric about killing them, right? Going through with that would certainly be oppression... sorry about maybe not quite phrasing my OP correctly to avoid a "gotcha" thoAre white people really oppressed in South Africa?
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If you don't know what the current state of things are in South Africa, why are you making the statement about "white people oppressed elsewhere", with "elsewhere" being South Africa in this case, then?
Considering the rhetoric is explicitly stated to be not taken literally, you're taking it out of context just as poorly as Musk is.
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The alt-right says "we're just trolling bro" all the time... should we believe them?
Why are you so willing to defend violent rhetoric as being "not literal" but to tone police someone who has a problem with it?
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Because Elon is only talking about it in order to score points with alt-right white supremicists. Have you paid any attention to his behavior since taking over Twitter? He's desperate for the approval of those people.
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Don't you think he's talking about it because it's his demographic in his home country?
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No. When else does he talk about South Africa? You don't think it's suspicious that it literally only comes up when he can make a point about racial replacement theory in order to impress catturd2 and friends?
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DeschutesCore
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People love to conflate being in the minority with oppression. Often when they're whining about the struggle of white.Are white people really oppressed in South Africa?
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Because the leader of the South African Economic Freedom Fighters isn't saying "we're just trolling bro". Have there been white/Boer deaths that can be clearly attributed to the South African Economic Freedom Fighters and linked to their rhetoric?
While apartheid de jure is dead, white Boers still have an incredible amount of economic power compared to the Black population and apartheid is in "limited" de facto practice still. Wanting to kill that imbalance of power makes a lot of sense in that light.
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