Play Nice Random Chat Thread VII

[Chadwiko]

 

[Val Keating]

Because (as you can see in the immediate posts before this), Val has a tendency of posting tweets that are straight up lies/misinformation. He falls for fake news constantly.

Do I? I asked the question. I don’t speak Arabic.

Btw, you haven’t answered my question, who claims the lady executed by the current Syrian government official was guilty of running a child sex trafficking ring?

 

[Val Keating]

I don’t expect an answer to that because it’s probably from the same people that execute women for adultery after they r*ped them.

 

[Val Keating]

FWIW, I would not be surprised if Syria descended into an Islamist hell hole. Anyone who says they know what will happen or thinks they have the solutions are full of shit.


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Yeah, wouldn’t be surprised at all considering Syria has been taken over by Jihadists.

 

[ferball]

Yeah, wouldn’t be surprised at all considering Syria has been taken over by Jihadists.

So long as HTS and the Turks stay away from Rojava it will still be a bit of an improvement.

 

[Chadwiko]

Btw, you haven’t answered my question, who claims the lady executed by the current Syrian government official was guilty of running a child sex trafficking ring?

Oh, sorry. Saw several 'fact check' type tweets about it yesterday. They said that her official charge was "corruption and prostitution".

Under the law at the time, the punishment for "just" prostitution was apparently 100 lashes. The fact that she was sentenced to death suggested to people that the crimes were being represented incorrectly as part of the outrage.

Again, not excusing any of this. Just positing that once again, you should be careful about taking the things you see on the internet at face value.

 

[Chadwiko]

I don’t expect an answer to that because it’s probably from the same people that execute women for adultery after they r*ped them.

This comes across as enormously racist...

And it's not the first time.

 

[Chadwiko]

lol

 

[Val Keating]

This comes across as enormously racist...

And it's not the first time.

It’s not racist at all. It happens/happened.

 

[Val Keating]

So long as HTS and the Turks stay away from Rojava it will still be a bit of an improvement.

Imagine that. The Kurds wouldn’t know what to do with themselves.

 

[Val Keating]

Lex Fridmans podcast with Zelenskyy is out for anyone interested. The next one is with Putin.

 

[Val Keating]

 

[Val Keating]

This is what happens with censorship. It eventually ends up being controlled by the opposition

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

This is what happens with censorship. It eventually ends up being controlled by the opposition

No comparison. Twitter was a corporation with no links to government. If conservatives wanted to see hunter bidens dick pics, they can find them.

X is now a political propaganda arm. The owner of the site has bankrolled a presidential campaign and is now part of a quasi governmental agency.

There is no equivalence of what Twitter was to what the current shit is.


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[Chadwiko]

Yeah conservatives complaining about pre-Elon twitter are kinda telling on themselves.

Twitter strived to combat deliberate misinformation, and was very good at blocking legitimate racism/hate speech/toxicity. Conservatives complained that it meant Twitter was censoring them which was just hilarious.

Now? It's 1000 times worse and has led to a huge exodus of users (including me!).

 

[Chadwiko]

Also, the Adrian Dittmann stuff is ****ing hilarious.

His fortnite stream was the most cringe shit I have ever heard. EVER.

 

[Chadwiko]

Tell me again how "big tech" is in bed with the democrats;

 

[Val Keating]

No comparison. Twitter was a corporation with no links to government. If conservatives wanted to see hunter bidens dick pics, they can find them.

X is now a political propaganda arm. The owner of the site has bankrolled a presidential campaign and is now part of a quasi governmental agency.

There is no equivalence of what Twitter was to what the current shit is.


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Oh yeah it’s way worse now, but what’s happening now is exactly what a lot of people were worried would happen, and yeah some of those people that were warning that this would happen are happy about it because it’s their team doing it.

 

[Val Keating]

Tell me again how "big tech" is in bed with the democrats;


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They go whichever way the wind is blowing. They’re smart businessmen.

 

[ferball]

This is what happens with censorship. It eventually ends up being controlled by the opposition

Just out of interest why does this matter?

 

[ferball]

Tell me again how "big tech" is in bed with the democrats;


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Are you sure that's accurate?

 

[ferball]

Also didn't Biden basically cancel his inaugural events or send them online because of the pandemic?

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Oh yeah it’s way worse now, but what’s happening now is exactly what a lot of people were worried would happen, and yeah some of those people that were warning that this would happen are happy about it because it’s their team doing it.

Hang on a sec it’s completely different. Every social media, radio, tv, newspaper platform has editorial standards.

Old Twitter was very much based on ad revenue. They weren’t run by purple haired libs, they were run by corporate as execs. And generally speaking, white power, anti vax nut balls aren’t great for attracting advertisers.

There is a difference between moderation and censorship. Yes that line is a bit blurry. No conservative was banned for promoting lower tax rates.

And think we’d all agree there is a line ‘somewhere’ on what social should allow. And I really don’t think jewhater1488 adds a lot to the discourse and old twitter was right to ban them.

Musk does so a lot of people have left.




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[Scallop Industry Thug]

Also didn't Biden basically cancel his inaugural events or send them online because of the pandemic?

Anything interesting happen with trump around about this time 4 years ago?


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[Val Keating]

Just out of interest why does this matter?

Because Musk claimed he bought Twitter to stop censorship, this proves he didn’t, he bought it for the power it holds and so he can control what gets censored.