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Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

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Some kind of "brilliant" billionaire had put his clown shoe down and blocked Twitter's 5th largest, and conveniently predominantly Portuguese speaking population

Elon actually did everything to keep X online in Brazil, even to the point of recommending people to use VPN's after the authoritarian-seeming regime in the country forcibly blocked it, and going as far as to bully SpaceX which is an entirely separate company from X. But of course someone will say "he blocked it" the same way they say he's actually on the side of Russia in the Ukro-Russian war even with his massive o…

Hi Elon!

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I have literally never encountered this. If people (plural) are calling you a creep for what you do in the gym you might want to do some reflection on whether you're actually the one in the wrong

It's this whole weird tiktok meme. The tiktokers are the bad guys. They just go in the gym record themselves posing and to complain about anyone walking in to their shot.

I mean if sschueler wants to chime in to clarify they can. But idk if it's worth taking seriously something that is obviously some social media bait. It sounded to me like they were genuinely aggrieved by getting accused of "looking at" someone but ok.

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That's such a silly take I can't know if you're even serious. Not that many important people block Elon, but even if they did, Elon could just ask the team to adjust his client / account accordingly especially if it doesn't give him any special (non-public) rights

Sure but that’s not how he thinks. He’s missing the ability to think about his own self in context of others. So he thinks that if he’s blocked, that’s a real problem facing everyone, so it must be fixed in the name of free speech.

Even if he did ... which I don't think is true, if and when it produces positive and logical results like this, that's always good. How this worked before made little sense, and this could really as well have been fixed during the Twitter times without seeming any less on point.

I do like tech platforms where the decisionmakers and stakeholders actually know and use the product. Elon candidly streaming Diablo, even for some long sessions, once a while on X is a great thing to see and I hope it is putting pressure on the team to improve streaming there even more, given the latency and layout are still a bit behind the bigger players on that even though improvements like the stream chat have been added.

Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

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Elon actually did everything to keep X online in Brazil, even to the point of recommending people to use VPN's after the authoritarian-seeming regime in the country forcibly blocked it, and going as far as to bully SpaceX which is an entirely separate company from X. But of course someone will say "he blocked it" the same way they say he's actually on the side of Russia in the Ukro-Russian war even with his massive o…

Hi Elon!

How you think that the whole world would be fine just lying through their teeth just because some people don't like the guy for petty reasons, makes me think you really have little respect for the whole world, or little respect for being honest and truthful.

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Hi Elon!

How you think that the whole world would be fine just lying through their teeth just because some people don't like the guy for petty reasons, makes me think you really have little respect for the whole world, or little respect for being honest and truthful.

Lying? Pot meet kettle :)

Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

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I guess all the people that could disagree and downvote just do not see the comment.

i think there should be an option, where you automatically downvote a blocked user's post/comment, even without seeing it. If that user doesn't have many people blocking them, then this will barely affect the votes. If they have tonnes of blockers, then would indicate that they probably deserved it, and the downvotes would make sense anyway. It would prevent echo chambers from forming.

How would that fix the problem ? Echo-Chambers such as Reddit exist because there is a single opinion coming out of it. It's a pool of people aligning with themselves and frying out anybody that is not following their opinion.

This would also create a tool to cast target people to oblivion.

The real question is to ask what is the real problem. I understand that an online places can be gritty because of incivilities, but a dogme is much more scarier to me than an online idiot.

Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

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It might be good idea for the reason that any stalker / harmful actor can already do such "espionage" - and that will more clearly align with what is physically possible to do - hence pushing the users to be more careful about their actions rather than hiding behind the tool that is only able to supposedly hide them.

On the other hand there are options that allow users to force the `follow` to see user's posts. Which would re-allow verification from user's perspective.

Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

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Yet the human trafficking is worse now. The human suffering is worse now for policy and political reasons. AND, there are kids in cages now. AND, that policy started under Obama. Is the adminstration inviting more migration or is it saying "don't come"? It's a disorganized human disaster.

What are you basing your talking point on? Immigration is the lowest it's been since covid when no one wanted to come here. I already explained, protective custody started only when children immigrated unaccompanied . So, every kid was put in a cage in Trump's plan -- ripped from their parents custody regardless, because of the racist premise that immigrants are evil. If you can't acknowledge the difference between a…

I never said anything about Trump. You are obsessed. He's going to LOSE in a legitimate election anyhow, buck up. Harris will get her 81+ million lawful, American citizen votes just like Biden did.

Like I said before, I was frustrated about how things are worse NOW for kids than when the "Kids in Cages" meme was coined. Kids in Cages drove people I know nuts. I couldn't understand what they were experiencing since it wasn't in my feed. I have since been cynical about it, assuming it was an election season media stunt. I marveled at how incredibly animated people got.

The migration north to the border through central America and Mexico is itself a humanitarian disaster, right? And so of course the processing of those people at our border is going to be dehumanizing and awful. They don't book the trip for their families and let CBP know they are coming, they just show up.

The whole way the left thinks about the entire immigration subject seems mental. In my opinion, we should WANT to try to detain and separate and discover if kids are being trafficked, do some DNA tests, and not release them if they are being trafficked. Ideally, we could send them to their home country to get reunited with their families if they were taken. (That would be very expensive, I know...) If we screw up and the kids get released to traffickers or a corrupt NGO, those kids are GONE. Maybe used as slaves or chopped up for organs? Who knows? The unaccompanied minors situation is even more tragic. That is orphan train levels of tragic.

Remain in Mexico was perfect as a deterrent and worked well to curb numbers. It was awful for the migrants in-transit, which sucked. But, it was not humane for the Biden regime and NGO's to lure migrants to this country in the first place. The humane thing would be to discourage people from getting trafficked at all and stay in their home countries.

I just want to reiterate what a humanitarian disaster it was that Biden encouraged mass migration in his 2020 debates with Trump and in his campaign. That followed with all kinds of incentives and asylum guarantees once he assumed power. I find that really reprehensible, and I hope you do as well. Our globalist policies create such misery, we truly are the baddies. And the blowback to all this is mass deportation, probably just as tragic if not more so.

You brought up Covid. Covid and public health at the border was crazy. Why were we not force vaccinating migrants against covid before being released into the interior when we were simultaneously mandating vaccines for citizens? And what other diseases were we letting in, like drug-resistant tuberculosis?

Everyone of your peers gives a blank stare when I've confronted them about not vaxxing the migrants. Someone explain how that makes sense! The possible implications of those inconsistent vaxx policies just give me the willies.

So, covid and border crisis narratives don't quite gel. Clown world apparently has many managers who do not talk to one another or read each other's memos.

> Immigration is the lowest it's been since covid when no one wanted to come here.

It's an election year, silly. 1) I look askance at any stats reported in an election year, 2) OF COURSE they're going to try to make their border numbers look stellar, they own that small hell right now!

To quote our sharp-as-a-tack President whose 'gaffes' were so charming in 2019 and not senility, "C'mon man!"

> Trump called his buddies in Congress and killed it so he could run on it instead of fixing it.

Talking points, indeed! That border bill also had a $60 billion dollar poison pill for Ukraine among other turds. The D's win either way. The bill passes: they get $60 billion more death dollars for bombs for their corrupt kickback and land grab war that we're not actually the ones fighting and dying in. The bill fails: we can say the R's are against border security and reforms. The attempt was pathetic, and the outcome didn't move the needle with anyone but the base. You got snookered if you truly bought into that one.

You remind me that the D's are acting unserious and panicky this cycle. Obvious legislative stunts like that border bill. "The Switch" with Biden before the convention and him being soft coup'ed. Constantly repeating hoaxes like the "Fine People" hoax. The rehabilitation of Harris by the media, who they were dumping on a year ago, (and yet she's still somehow less popular than Biden was!) The outrageous Mar a Lago raid and all the lawfare that's backfiring. The sketchy political censorship/big tech bias firing up again. Feels bad, man.

If you're not a bot ... now you HAVE to tell me what or who first triggered you specifically with the "Kids in Cages" meme! Where did you first hear it? I need to sneak behind enemy lines to lurk and learn. Mwahahah! :D

Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

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I'm not talking about bullying, where the person being offended is the only one who suffers from it, but rather things like saying "X is false" which offends believers of X and they retaliate with insults. Yes, people get angry when you offend them or even just disagree with them. If you don't want to cause that, don't offend them. Unfortunately a lot of people are so arrogant about their own beliefs, they feel they…

This just means that the only people who will post on your platform are toxic. Users don't want that. Advertisers don't want that. Instead, we can build tools to make life harder for the toxic users to discourage them and reduce their impact. Again, it's not just bullying. Real world example: * The quarterback (QB) for Miskatonic University throws an interception on the last play of the game. * Internet members (trol…

1. is better because in general because nobody actually knows who's a all-bad troll and who's a worthwhile activist. Least of all the person being criticized. QB himself isn't hurt after he blocks them and can carry on with his life as if it's not happening.

I've heard celebrities say they don't read what anyone says about them on social media. That sounds like a good idea because there's always going to be haters to any popular public figure. Just ignore them and you're fine.

3rd parties being affected? Well stop associating with the widely-hated public figre if you can't handle the heat of celebrities.

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