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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I responded to you, but you are too thick to get it. Here we go again:
What you're saying is like, A had COVID, A took antimalarial drugs, A got better, therefore antimalarial drugs cure COVID. Correlation is not causation. Or, visually:
Maybe that [Hunter Biden] decision was a mistake. As I've said multiple times, there will be mistakes, for multiple reasons that have nothing to do with ideology. Everyone political views -- which includes you, much as you hate to admit it -- gets to feel aggrieved about those mistakes and takes them as evidence of bias against them, just as you have here. The ideas that Twitter is run by ideologues, or that they are trying to "craft consensus", are just absolutely wrong. Twitter wishes it could stop getting derailed by politics and focus on making more money.
I'm not sure why you think a decision to limit tweets about propaganda is a mistake, but I'm trying to avoid having that conversation about the Hunter Biden thing because, in the context of the conversation we've been having, what I said above is the answer. |
You: The management of platforms are Gen X center/left liberals. But they have to react to ideologues (the woke) who work for them and use their platforms.
Me: So when they do, they’re being led by ideologues. So… Ideologues are using their influence to craft what readers of one of the biggest platforms on earth get to see.
What about that basic fucking algebraic assessment is incorrect?
You seem to be stuck on the point that management would rather not monitor. Which I agreed with many posts ago.
Let me put it this way… If Twitter yanked the laptop story because ideologues among its employees and users pressured it to do so (which is what both of us I think have agreed occurred), how is Twitter not being led around by ideologues? Your argument seems to be if it’s not intentional, merely reactive, or even grudgingly, it’s not the work of ideologues. I say it is. If I’m an ideologue and I force you to act, your action is, although indirectly, bowing to an ideologue. And the result is ultimately caused by an ideologue.
