Void Abyss @voidabyss@qoto.org

@valoisdubins

> Why do you think it is appropriate to be so deceitful to me?

First of all, lets have a honest and civil conversation, I am not assuming any ill intent or deception from your part, it would be nice to do the same toward me.

> You know perfectly well that the right are busy banning books across America and inciting terrorist attacks against minorities.

I am not too familiar with American politics, can you please pointe me to trust worthy articles or sources that shows that the right is staging terrorist attack against minorities or example of a book banning.

Thank you!

@valoisdubins

I truly want to understand this dichotomy.

```The left claim tolerance and diversity but in the same time they will cut off (ban/deplatform) anyone with a divergent thoughts or opinions.```

@louiscouture hum

> .. though they may have been said to have a ..

This statement can be applied to anything

@toiletpaper It's surely fun to watch, but i think it's mostly a marketing ploy by Elon to drive traffic and engagement to Twitter. Without the bots it's a ghost town over there!

@xabean Those services are for profit, when money get involved, greed outweigh life saving goals. Does any criticism or questioning the practice of those services has ill-intent?

@nassiraelmoaddem Merci à vous pour le sommaire des news, c'est toujours intéressant et informative 👍

@coldacid @lain @kaia @mangeurdenuage come on man, this is brutal!

@DrJackBrown to say what?

@susanbradley
> It's not just a bad joke it's dangerous. We have too many crazy people that act out on that crazy.

I see a lot of people in the #fediverse referring to Elon as fascist/NAZI not only him, but even to people with mild centrist view points, don't you think that using those serious terms loosely is dangerous and incite crazies to act on that crazy?

There is a clear distinction between making stupid jokes and assigning dangerous labels (fascists/NAZI) to people.

> China's zero lock down is on the extreme, conversely think of the number of people that would have died if something wasn't done. The only tool we have is distance from one another. That's it.

Africa had the lowest* deaths rate in the world with a light touch lockdown policy and social distancing, the only tools they had was over the counter Z-Pak, Ivermectin and HQC.

*(Source our World in Data)[https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&facet=none&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&hideControls=false&Metric=Confirmed+deaths&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=IND~USA~GBR~CAN~DEU~FRA~Africa]

> I would rather Musk be focusing on solar and batteries than bad jokes at 3 am. He's to the point that he needs help. Clearly his sleeping habits are not normal and again, being in a leadership position he's not making that other site welcoming to advertisers. He can't $8/$11 his way out of his interest payments.

Elon is billionaire he is going to be fine no matter what happens to Twitter. I don't care that much about what he says and does, that's out of my control, but I find the whole Twitter dumpster fire very entertaining for sure, especially with the recent #TwitterFiles release.

@malwaretech

@susanbradley
>as I can personally vouch for -this is an extremely contagious virus.

Agree, #Covid sucks I got it as well I wasn't vaccinated back then, I got knocked out petty bad for two weeks, but If I got to choose between Covid side effects and Vaccine side effects, I would go with #COVID there are over the counter treatments that work very well. While #mARN vaccine side effects are still misreported and treatments are not widely available.

>I personally wish that remote learning had turned out better.

Me too and I still think in the future a combination of remote and in class learning would be a great solution for education in general.

>Malone’s use of the term mass formation psychosis

It's non rational believes and behavior, people acting on pure group think ideology, us vs them. I.E mask vs antimask, vaxmax vs antivax, prolockdown vs antilockdown ..etc. Whether it's the mainstream media, or social media algorithms feeding us content we like to consume or people choosing to live in echo chambers(banning divergent opinions), that's what drive the mass formation psychosis then we start acting on bias and flawed information and perspective.

There should be a nuance and balanced approach to every topic and situation.

>Elon is just piling on to get traffic.

True, I think it's part gaslighting "the left", shit posting and other part bating bots and troll farms to him to test and implement his counter spam/bot mesures.

For that to work he has to post the most outlandish hot takes to drive engagement and monitor bots/spam behavior to be able to counter them.

>Think it that doesn’t mean you have to post it.

I would rather know what people in power think then not.
Whether I like their thoughts or not.
I see a lot people in the #fediverse getting offended by Fauci pronoun tweet while it is obviously a bad joke.
@malwaretech

@7 Is this a real tweet? I don't trust twitter screenshot anymore and who the F*** takes brides in cash anymore?

@WeissenSocken88 @7 As someone who likes hiking this is extremely funny 😂