Re: Facegram & Instabook
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2022 1:16 pm
Lately I've just checked in on Fanlax's Politics pages for the pure enjoyment of seeing afan eat the troll's lunch. And breakfast. And brunch. And dinner. And snacks.
dislaxxic wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 1:11 pm Elon Musk, Baloney King
"Bullionaire" Good one, right? Like trump, the ersatz bullionaire...You can call Elon Musk a lot of things. Agent of chaos. Savvy investor. Obsessive workaholic. But the tech-industry analyst Benedict Evans has a different suggestion. He calls Musk a “bullshitter who delivers.” I’d go even further: Musk exemplifies a new kind of bullshitter, one we haven’t really seen before. Call it the “bullionaire,” maybe: an unusual purveyor of infantile jackassery, whose unfathomable wealth makes it possible, and even likely, that he’ll carry out even the most ridiculous plan.
trump has brought us the "post-truth era" in American politics...guys like Musk pick that up and RUN with it.The philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote a famous article about nonsense in the 1980s, which became a bestselling 2005 book called On nonsense. Both bullshitters and liars are trying to get away with something. But unlike the liar, who demonstrates an awareness of and concern for the truth in order to evade it, Frankfurt argues that bullshitters just don’t care about truth at all. Instead, a bullshitter strives to achieve their goals, whatever those goals are. For some of them, that amounts to hearing themselves talk. For others, it involves deception or even fraud.
At first blush, the Muskian variety looks very different. He doesn’t seem like a man who is indifferent to the truth so much as one who is passionately devoted to the act of blowing raspberries. He named the models of Tesla S, 3, X, and Y, a leetspeak rendition of sexy. He made a pot joke about taking the company private. He joked (maybe?) about renaming Twitter as “Titter”—you know, like breasts?
But his raspberries serve another function: They fill up a flotilla of trial balloons that, bound together by his wealth, can lift a house into the sky. Money talks, and nonsense floats. That’s how Musk turned a dumb pot gag into a government investigation into a hundred-billion-dollar payday. It’s how he got all of Twitter’s power users to accept that he was their new overlord this morning. Musk is indifferent to the truth because he has dominion over it.
Push back: mandatory.
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Rope a Dope!SCLaxAttack wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 1:16 pm Lately I've just checked in on Fanlax's Politics pages for the pure enjoyment of seeing afan eat the troll's lunch. And breakfast. And brunch. And dinner. And snacks.
Here's an article; could be a nice little knife fight:
Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 3:10 pmHere's an article; could be a nice little knife fight:
https://apnews.com/article/technology-b ... _medium=AP
Hey Pete.....how come you didn't take my wager? Don't feel like blowing all of Dad's money?a fan wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 12:56 pmEasiest thing in the world to disprove. Tell you what, I"m going to head on over to twitter. And for every conservative political post I find, you donate $100 to a charity of my choice.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 12:02 pm What he’s simultaneously bemoaning is the blatant politicization of the Twitter ‘town square’ by the unaccountable uber-lefty ‘safety’ team there, folks you no doubt cheer on, as they purposely suspend conservative political voices SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THEIR POLITICS. Not dangerous, not criminal, not harassing. Just conservative.
a fan wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 4:05 pmHey Pete.....how come you didn't take my wager? Don't feel like blowing all of Dad's money?a fan wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 12:56 pmEasiest thing in the world to disprove. Tell you what, I"m going to head on over to twitter. And for every conservative political post I find, you donate $100 to a charity of my choice.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 12:02 pm What he’s simultaneously bemoaning is the blatant politicization of the Twitter ‘town square’ by the unaccountable uber-lefty ‘safety’ team there, folks you no doubt cheer on, as they purposely suspend conservative political voices SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THEIR POLITICS. Not dangerous, not criminal, not harassing. Just conservative.
DeSantis twitter: Our bill protects unborn babies from abortion after 15 weeks – these are babies with beating hearts, who can move, taste, see and feel pain.
Proud to defend life!
That's strange, Pete. You were just telling us that twitter deletes conservative political speech simply because it's conservative. And yet in .01 seconds, I found this VERY conservative tweet from DeSantis from yesterday.
What gives?
https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/stat ... 9151101959
YOUR claims, not mine, Pete. Next time, don't brag about you Dad giving money to Loyola. Or that you were educated by socialists on the backs of taxpayers like me. Or that you have a "life coach" at your firm....remember that one?Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 4:28 pm I just learned today my dad, who died when I was 17, set me up in life!!! I really got the full benefit of him when i needed him most. Glad a fan is here to tell us things he knows absolutely nothing about!
Also, let me know where that trust fund is; I could have avoided those 20-hour work days!
Uh oh, Pete's caught lying again. So they aren't as you claimed, deleting posts simply because they espouse conservative political ideas.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 4:28 pm Okay, back to reality here folks. Twitter hasn’t removed EVERY conservative, but they are particularly sensitive to some.
Oh....there they are. Goalposts are now "the libs at Twitter haven't deleted DeSantis tweet (yet).Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 4:28 pm And Desantis hasn’t (yet) triggered their mechanic to silence him.
Whoops, Pete changed his mind again. Back to claiming the libs are silencing conservatives.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 4:28 pm But you’re delusional if you can’t admit what’s plainly obvious to any rational observer: Twitter’s safety team is made up by almost all hardcore far leftists with a Jones to silence conservatives. .
a fan wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 4:45 pmYOUR claims, not mine, Pete. Next time, don't brag about you Dad giving money to Loyola. Or that you were educated by socialists on the backs of taxpayers like me. Or that you have a "life coach" at your firm....remember that one?Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 4:28 pm I just learned today my dad, who died when I was 17, set me up in life!!! I really got the full benefit of him when i needed him most. Glad a fan is here to tell us things he knows absolutely nothing about!
Also, let me know where that trust fund is; I could have avoided those 20-hour work days!
Uh oh, Pete's caught lying again. So they aren't as you claimed, deleting posts simply because they espouse conservative political ideas.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 4:28 pm Okay, back to reality here folks. Twitter hasn’t removed EVERY conservative, but they are particularly sensitive to some.
So where are the goalposts now, Pete, after you're caught with your buffalobagels?
Oh....there they are. Goalposts are now "the libs at Twitter haven't deleted DeSantis tweet (yet).Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 4:28 pm And Desantis hasn’t (yet) triggered their mechanic to silence him.
Neat.
So they do indeed allow conservative political speech just fine. Glad you can admit it, Pete. Well done!
Whoops, Pete changed his mind again. Back to claiming the libs are silencing conservatives.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 4:28 pm But you’re delusional if you can’t admit what’s plainly obvious to any rational observer: Twitter’s safety team is made up by almost all hardcore far leftists with a Jones to silence conservatives. .
So we're back to: why didn't they delete DeSantis abortion tweet?
I know, I know, Pete. Being consistent is hard.
Oh well. I'm sure Elon Musk will save you, and won't delete any posts.....even though he told you just yesterday that, yep, if he's in charge, Twitter will continue to delete posts, and put posters in Time out. But hey, why listen to Elon Musk about what Elon Musk will do, right?
You're trolling, and pretending like you're not. You toned it down for, oh, about a week a couple of months ago. I did the same.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 5:02 pm There’s so much I could address here but don’t have time.
Is it ‘bragging’ or just pride in a man who died when I was young? Why are you such a presumptuous person?
1. yes....I'm sure you can't figure out why
I know. You, like most State University students, think that (snicker) your tuition is what keeps the school running. Nope. State taxpayers, and Federal taxpayers do that.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 5:02 pm Sure, UF is a public university but I’m not sold you paid for anything in Gainesville.
.. nothing has changed except the volume of authoritarian bullsh*t from grifters like you.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 1:24 pmdislaxxic wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 1:11 pm Elon Musk, Baloney King
"Bullionaire" Good one, right? Like trump, the ersatz bullionaire...You can call Elon Musk a lot of things. Agent of chaos. Savvy investor. Obsessive workaholic. But the tech-industry analyst Benedict Evans has a different suggestion. He calls Musk a “bullshitter who delivers.” I’d go even further: Musk exemplifies a new kind of bullshitter, one we haven’t really seen before. Call it the “bullionaire,” maybe: an unusual purveyor of infantile jackassery, whose unfathomable wealth makes it possible, and even likely, that he’ll carry out even the most ridiculous plan.
trump has brought us the "post-truth era" in American politics...guys like Musk pick that up and RUN with it.The philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote a famous article about nonsense in the 1980s, which became a bestselling 2005 book called On nonsense. Both bullshitters and liars are trying to get away with something. But unlike the liar, who demonstrates an awareness of and concern for the truth in order to evade it, Frankfurt argues that bullshitters just don’t care about truth at all. Instead, a bullshitter strives to achieve their goals, whatever those goals are. For some of them, that amounts to hearing themselves talk. For others, it involves deception or even fraud.
At first blush, the Muskian variety looks very different. He doesn’t seem like a man who is indifferent to the truth so much as one who is passionately devoted to the act of blowing raspberries. He named the models of Tesla S, 3, X, and Y, a leetspeak rendition of sexy. He made a pot joke about taking the company private. He joked (maybe?) about renaming Twitter as “Titter”—you know, like breasts?
But his raspberries serve another function: They fill up a flotilla of trial balloons that, bound together by his wealth, can lift a house into the sky. Money talks, and nonsense floats. That’s how Musk turned a dumb pot gag into a government investigation into a hundred-billion-dollar payday. It’s how he got all of Twitter’s power users to accept that he was their new overlord this morning. Musk is indifferent to the truth because he has dominion over it.
Push back: mandatory.
..
“When liberals actually subscribed to liberalism, they worried about society succumbing to authoritarian instincts from extreme social conservatives who wished to use censorship against speech they disliked.”
Time have changed.
... he is oh so concerned about "freedom of speech". My fat aunt Ida's ass!Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 3:10 pmHere's an article; could be a nice little knife fight:
https://apnews.com/article/technology-b ... _medium=AP
Spoken like a hardcore FLP bullchit artist who understands bullchit when he reads it. Pot meet kettle.jhu72 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 16, 2022 6:17 am.. nothing has changed except the volume of authoritarian bullsh*t from grifters like you.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 1:24 pmdislaxxic wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 1:11 pm Elon Musk, Baloney King
"Bullionaire" Good one, right? Like trump, the ersatz bullionaire...You can call Elon Musk a lot of things. Agent of chaos. Savvy investor. Obsessive workaholic. But the tech-industry analyst Benedict Evans has a different suggestion. He calls Musk a “bullshitter who delivers.” I’d go even further: Musk exemplifies a new kind of bullshitter, one we haven’t really seen before. Call it the “bullionaire,” maybe: an unusual purveyor of infantile jackassery, whose unfathomable wealth makes it possible, and even likely, that he’ll carry out even the most ridiculous plan.
trump has brought us the "post-truth era" in American politics...guys like Musk pick that up and RUN with it.The philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote a famous article about nonsense in the 1980s, which became a bestselling 2005 book called On nonsense. Both bullshitters and liars are trying to get away with something. But unlike the liar, who demonstrates an awareness of and concern for the truth in order to evade it, Frankfurt argues that bullshitters just don’t care about truth at all. Instead, a bullshitter strives to achieve their goals, whatever those goals are. For some of them, that amounts to hearing themselves talk. For others, it involves deception or even fraud.
At first blush, the Muskian variety looks very different. He doesn’t seem like a man who is indifferent to the truth so much as one who is passionately devoted to the act of blowing raspberries. He named the models of Tesla S, 3, X, and Y, a leetspeak rendition of sexy. He made a pot joke about taking the company private. He joked (maybe?) about renaming Twitter as “Titter”—you know, like breasts?
But his raspberries serve another function: They fill up a flotilla of trial balloons that, bound together by his wealth, can lift a house into the sky. Money talks, and nonsense floats. That’s how Musk turned a dumb pot gag into a government investigation into a hundred-billion-dollar payday. It’s how he got all of Twitter’s power users to accept that he was their new overlord this morning. Musk is indifferent to the truth because he has dominion over it.
Push back: mandatory.
..
“When liberals actually subscribed to liberalism, they worried about society succumbing to authoritarian instincts from extreme social conservatives who wished to use censorship against speech they disliked.”
Time have changed.
More like let's increase the stock value so I can make a killing on the 9% stake I already took when I now dump it. Musk is a greedy jerk.jhu72 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 16, 2022 6:40 am... he is oh so concerned about "freedom of speech". My fat aunt Ida's ass!Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 3:10 pmHere's an article; could be a nice little knife fight:
https://apnews.com/article/technology-b ... _medium=AP
... yep. Like Trump, he also loves the limelight.Kismet wrote: ↑Sat Apr 16, 2022 7:29 amMore like let's increase the stock value so I can make a killing on the 9% stake I already took when I now dump it. Musk is a greedy jerk.jhu72 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 16, 2022 6:40 am... he is oh so concerned about "freedom of speech". My fat aunt Ida's ass!Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 3:10 pmHere's an article; could be a nice little knife fight:
https://apnews.com/article/technology-b ... _medium=AP
Kismet wrote: ↑Sat Apr 16, 2022 7:29 amMore like let's increase the stock value so I can make a killing on the 9% stake I already took when I now dump it. Musk is a greedy jerk.jhu72 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 16, 2022 6:40 am... he is oh so concerned about "freedom of speech". My fat aunt Ida's ass!Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 3:10 pmHere's an article; could be a nice little knife fight:
https://apnews.com/article/technology-b ... _medium=AP
youthathletics wrote: ↑Fri Apr 22, 2022 10:37 am Love this....turn up the volume: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ccp3s5Gg ... _copy_link