A really bad take on Google and the Fediverse
Another really bad take on Google and the Fediverse
+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@mathlover one has to applaud the mind gymnastics to say that something federated is run by a single group (aka nazis), but then, i'm not sure they know the meaning of "federated" ;)
@bonifartius It would not surprise me if they saw the world in very binary terms, perhaps with reasoning like this:
Trump thinks Twitter is bad.
Trump is a liar and a Nazi.
Therefore, Twitter is good.
Since Twitter is good, any critics of Twitter must be bad. Therefore Twitter critics are bad. Since Trump agrees with Twitter critics, it follows that Twitter critics are Nazis, and any platform where Twitter critics hang out is Nazi.
I might be overly uncharitable here, but having seen dysfunctional people use such reasoning before, it would not surprise me in the least if something like that were in the head of that tweet's author.
@bonifartius
And I normally associate that speech style with Trump. I find that ironic, just as I found writing that to be headache-inducing.
@mathlover it's really interesting that this kind of reasoning isn't dependent on education. there are well educated people saying such dumb things, and uneducated people which are quite reasonable. i'm kind of interested how one gets to this point of illogical reasoning.