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[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Expected from someone who responds with the 💩 emoji

I actually didn't find much wrong with that, that was funny. But this here is a completely inappropriate response

[-] divVerent@blob.cat 1 points 1 year ago

@trashhalo @technology I think people here do not want "edgy", they want "ecchi". Musk getting demand wrong as usual ;)

[-] curiosityLynx@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Musk is a proponent of near-absolute free speech

Anything goes, so long as it doesn't hurt his feelings personally

[-] Skyler@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

People are also not allowed to say the word "cisgender” over there

[-] FloatingAlong@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Woah dude, cool it with the c-bombs.

[-] notamichael@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Why is everything to do with this story completely unsurprising.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

Because we've all come to accept that Elon Musk doesn't know how to run a social media site?

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

He knows how to run a social media site into the ground...

Which is probably the whole point. Make it seem like the site is failing because of mismanagement, and not that its failure was intended right from the start with a leveraged buyout saddling the business with an untenable $13bn of debt.

[-] tanglisha@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yup, it's easy to forget that an important use of Twitter used to be finding out what was happening when propaganda was covering it up. It's how we learned about Arab spring.

If my life were at risk from my government, I certainly wouldn't trust Elon to keep me safe from them.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

No, he's just dumb!

[-] Melpomene@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The best anyone can do right now is to migrate off of Twitter entirely. As long as Musk is in charge (or in charge through his puppet CEOs) the site will be a cesspool of toxicity and hate. I'm honestly not sure why reputable people are still using the site... guess the view and media exposure are better than doing the right thing and leaving?

[-] 0xSim@fedia.io 0 points 1 year ago

Yes there's no difference between a picture of a steak and fries on a plate, and a kitten being tortured then burned alive. Absolutely the same thing.

[-] NotAPenguin@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

They're both clearly abuse, the steak used to be a living being who was tortured and killed for profit/taste.

Why are you people downvoting me? Do you think steaks don't come from cows who are killed?

[-] Moira_Mayhem@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Not to vegans, they're clinically insane.

[-] NotAPenguin@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Why is it better to kill a cow for profit/taste?

Both scenarios are needless killing of animals which is obviously terrible abuse.

Is caring about animal abuse insane?

[-] TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Folks, there is important, valid discussion to be had about meat eating both from ethical an environmental perspectives. I'm not sure that !Technology is the place to have that discussion, however.

More importantly, this thread was not the way to discuss these issues, particularly on Beehaw. The behavior in this thread was not nice, and is not the way that these types (or any type) of discussion should be conducted.

[-] NotAPenguin@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I just made a comment about animal cruelty on social media, in a thread about animal cruelty on social media.

Sadly speaking up for the animals provokes angry responses in many people.

[-] TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not saying that you are solely at fault for the thread getting out of hand, but I hope we can agree that when things devolve to the point that we're talking about murdering other users and eating their corpses that the discussion has probably gotten out of hand.

I think there are ways of discussing even controversial topics without the conversation spinning out of control, but I know that this topic in particular touches a nerve with a lot of folks. Just please try to be mindful of whether you're escalating or deescalating the argument in the future.

[-] NotAPenguin@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

It's of course hypothetical, and I think, totally within reason, it's a thread about animal abuse.
It's one of the problems we run into when speaking up against animal abuse, people call us extreme when we are really just being up front about what happens in reality.

I try to keep it civil and respond matter of fact and explain but it can be hard when you get so much toxicity thrown back at you, all because you stand up against animal cruelty.

[-] TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

It’s of course hypothetical, and I think, totally within reason, it’s a thread about animal abuse.

Hypothetical or not, I'm telling you that it's not acceptable for this instance.

[-] NotAPenguin@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I understand you want to keep it civil here and think it's a great goal but what you're saying would keep us from discussing serious subjects.

When there's context which explains why something that sounds extreme is brought up you should look at the context, not just react to what you think is extreme.

I don't think disallowing thought experiments/hypotheticals is positive.

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