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X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

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Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

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I don't much care. You made two claims I felt worth rebutting: that genocide was in practice always extremely violent, and that decolonization could be genocidal only in fever dreams.

I stand corrected on the first. As usual, people's creativity for doing awful things exceeds my imagination, and, on reflection, I can think of a few other historical programs that indeed should be called genocidal, but one would be hard-pressed to call them violent. The second, "that decolonization could be genocidal only in fever dreams." is not what I said. I can also think of a few instances of decolonization in…

Don't let me sound like I think Elon Musk is coherent. We might not actually disagree about anything here, including Musk. It seems pretty clear what he's referring to when he uses the term "decolonization", but Musk unreasonably flattening a term for his own convenience would be unsurprising.

Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

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phrenology is not real science. neither are the claims that intersex people don't exist, or that homosexuality is some choice that goes against what nature intends. my dad makes a lot of these dumb arguments, and then doesn't believe me when i explain that there are disorders which cause people to have a missing sex chromosome, or body parts that don't match their chromosomes, or try to explain how gender dysphoria w…

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Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

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When was Twitter not a sewer?

Everything is relative. It's not that it wasn't a sewer, it wasn't as much of a sewer.

Which could be true, but not what the article claims. The title says "has become" and the first paragraph says "had devolved". It makes it sound like it wasn't complete garbage before.

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> which you can do in courts that do not have anti-SLAPP rules in place. No, this is incorrect. I believe you're unintentionally conflating two things. Not having an anti-SLAPP law just means that Media Matters won't have the luxury of quickly striking the complaint before having to respond to it. It does not mean that vexatious litigants are free to file a lawsuit without making actual legal claims recognized by the…

I like that you say that they cannot file a suit without making actual legal claims in the sentence before you say that the lawsuit that was filed didn’t even bother to cite the legal elements of the claims.

When I say that they can't file a suit without making actual legal claims, I obviously meant that the suit would be dismissed. Anyone can go down to the court clerk's office and pay the fee to submit a court filing. There is no mechanism to review whether a filing is frivolous before it gets filed with the clerk.

So yes, my statement was correct, you just aren't familiar with how it works.

Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

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> let him polish that turd Not sure that is the right choice of words given how many advertisers and revenue has left the company. Even Musk himself has acknowledged that the company is now worth a fraction of what he paid for it.

To be clear though — Musk acknowledged it was worth a fraction of what he paid for it many months before he paid for it. In his view, the company's value crashed in early 2022 and that more information came to light during the acquisition process which further changed his view of the company's value.

> the company's value crashed in early 2022

This is objectively true, since every other tech company's stock prices dropped dramatically. Twitter's stock price was pinned because Musk made a commitment.

> more information came to light during the acquisition process which further changed his view of the company's value

This is objectively false, he misread Twitter's quarterly statements and didn't understand what mDAU meant, he wasted months and millions of dollars dragging Twitter through court, only to be forced to follow through on his commitment or get a worse judgment from the court.

Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

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Your veiled threat answers that question.

Fyi everyone, this account promotes overtly racist[0] and anti-Semitic[1] content.

[0] https://systemstops.substack.com/p/the-smart-apocalypse

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=systemstops#38439602

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