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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
Here's a short one minute blurb, should be digestable enough for you.
"Legacy Americans" "The Great Replacement"
These are not dog whistles. They're not subtle. He's just being racist.
You seem like a positively delightful person.
At least I'm not a racist xenophobe.
No, we experience the same reality. You're just a white supremacist apologist, at best, and an actual white supremacist at worst.
Tucker Carlson thinks that immigration is ending the white race. That's a direct quote, go watch the segment.
Uhhh, he magnifies his own beliefs without the help of others.
"The extent of some liberal ideas" is a really soft way of putting "open racist and transphobe" He literally did a segment on the "Great Replacement Theory".
He's a white supremacist. He can get absolutely, thoroughly, and without lube, fucked.
"Most watched cable news show" does not equal "most americans"; let's just clear that up before we move on...
Also, the people who watch his show agree with his speech and probably don't consider it stochastic terrorism because they also want to genocide trans people. It's not a hard concept to grasp. It's a hate-hour for a very specific slice of the population. And that slice is committing more and more acts of violence.
Do I think Tucker is DIRECTLY responsible for the shooting? Maybe not, like you said it's speculative. But do I think there is a casual link between the entire "Trans people are evil" rhetoric crowd and the shooting? Absolutely, I think it'd be difficult to argue the other direction, we have studies and statistics on trans hate crimes already.
And then do I think Tucker Carlson is part of the "Trans people are evil" rhetoric crowd? yes, hard to deny that imo. And you said it yourself, he's the largest voice out there in that crowd. So I think he definitely shoulders some blame.
Also, speculation turns out to be more and more true each time. conservative talk show hosts are cited in conservative domestic terrorists manifestos all the time. This "hour of hate" is absolutely directly contributing to violence.
I don't think it's her job to tell people that. This is her own little slice of the internet and she's allowed to do what she wants. She's not really hurting anyone, she's raising money for charity, the pictures are phenomenal.
People need to relax. She's 24 and getting death threats over what?
I mean worst case is she lied about photoshopping a picture? Yeah, so did Victoria Secret and EVERY SINGLE OTHER MEDIA PUBLICATION IN THE WORLD.
National Geographic did it for christ's sake...
Everyone here jumping down her fucking throat, out for blood. "Actually you lied, myehhh, this is bad and you're a bad person"
Like fuck off, I think she's well within her right to represent her art this way. Just because other publications continue to rip off artists for easy content and do very little research on their own doesn't mean she's doing anything wrong.
I think a disclaimer would remove a lot from the art. ARG's don't provide disclaimers, it adds to it. Especially in the early days of the internet "Is it, or is it not?" Is a fun game to play.
Also, nobody was hurt. This isn't disinformation in the sense you're telling people that jews run the world or that vaccines cause autism. Nobody is getting hurt. They're fun pictures. She told a cute ambiguous story. She has like 1000 followers. Everyone can just relax already.
you don't know employees were disengaged. You only know that they don't like elon musk. Twitter's culture was one of staunch criticism to make sure good products were being built in lieu of ego-driven development. This points to very ENGAGED employees.
Twitter runs impressively quick (or it used to at least) for what it does. Judging a system by something like "Woah 1200 calls, that's a big number" without contextualizing it just telegraphs your naivety.The "tech team" that told him that are literally the group of Tesla Engineers he brought in on week 1. So idk why the twitter team needs to be clowned on. He's been installing his own people the entire time.
Also, his sweeping changes are still causing chaos because they have a whole system in place now to re-hire people that were accidentally fired because Musk is firing people so much. It's been more than a month and people are still having to randomly fly to the office and do unscheduled group code reviews with like 4 hours of notice.
"People did nothing really" shows how disengaged you are from Amazon's criticism and the action people are taking against it. Christian Smalls is still out there working to Unionize Amazon, people are still supporting him and people like him. It's a long boring fight and just because it isn't flashy doesn't mean nothing is happening.
"People have a penchant for talking about recent news, I'm shocked"
They're not mutually exclusive topics. Billionaires exercising unilateral control over people's lives is generally a bad thing, whether that's musk or bezos.
If the CEO is taking responsibility upon himself for leading his company in such a poor way he has to fire large swaths of people then he should quit. He's the CHIEF, the buck stops with him. What, is he going to keep his job and then just be a better CEO next time? He gets to make a hundred million dollar mistake and keep his job?
I've seen peers fired for much less.
The real answer is he doesn't take responsibility for anything other than doing his job exactly as expected and prioritizing short term profits for stakeholders.
Either quit, because you're a bad CEO, or do away with this "I'm taking responsibility" facade. Just be upfront with it. "I fired you to make a quick buck." I can at least respect the honesty there.
Sure, and America hasn't become a country of hate speech
Hate speech spewed by the likes of Tucker Carlson caused a mass shooting like a week ago...
What would you like the CEO to do? Quit?
Yep
Is the "Transformers" movie designed to deliberately mislead you about the existence of alien robots?
Agreed. I feel like everyone here just can't process the concept of fiction or having fun.
It's her website. It's her art. She can do what she wants. Maybe some people should take responsibility for being "fooled" by fiction themselves instead of trying to blame some random artist for deception.
This is called Art... Have you never seen an ARG (Augmented Reality Game) website where they tell entire fictional stories as if they are real?
You can suspend your disbelief in the most inane shit for a movie, but this form of art you just can't do it?
Hobbyist sending art to like a thousand people
Billionaire "Techno-King Genius" owning a platform and tweeting transphobic and racist conspiracies to hundreds of millions of people
"These are the same thing" ~ You
You can both be ok with narrative art and be against widespread misinformation campaigns that lead to tangible deaths and hate crimes. These are not conflicting viewpoints.
Actually twitter does it better than anyone else and it's the reason I use it over other apps. The User Experience is unparalleled
And the performance of Twitter isn't exactly good.
Twitter is probably the most performant platform at its scale. The timeline experience is unparalleled. Reddit cant do it. Facebook cant do it. Gmail cant even let me see an email and go back to where I was in my search query half the time.
Also, Elon touts himself as "technoking" who's sole engineering prowess is responsible for Tesla and SpaceX. If someone tells him 1200 server side service calls are making the app slow in one country and not another, he deserves to be clowned on. He's the one making the claim he's some sort of Tony Stark, so he can catch flak for being dumber than the average mid-level web developer.
Oh also
Disengaged employees are a massive drain
Why is it the employees fault for being disengaged but not Elon's for being an absolute clown and bullying/firing everyone via twitter that calls him on his bullshit. He's the one being toxic, but people responding negatively to toxicity are the "drain".
Another corporate simp acting in bad faith. Nobody cares more about twitter devs making 300k not getting lunch more than Amazon abusing warehouse workers. Nobody has said that. Nobody has implied it. The same people who are decrying workplace toxicity in elon's takeover of twitter, ime, are in favor of Amazon Unions and better workplace practices.
However, you know who isn't a fan of unions and workplace happiness? Your boy Elon. It's the same side of the same coin.
If you give a shit about Amazon and it's mistreatment of employees I have literally no idea why you're doing so much work defending Musky boi.
No, but people have taken it upon themselves to make bigotry a political identity so the removal of hate speech feels like political censorship...
How is this the worker owned means of production (communism)?
Musk did not do anything for the advancement of electric vehicles. the Tesla Engineers did that, a company he bought into and was operating without him.
Jesus libertarians drive me up a wall.
lol of course
Are you describing Elon Musk?
So what does it mean?
https://ssti.us/2021/07/27/underreported-crashes-are-a-barri...
You're still not zooming out and showing a large lack of empathy. I beg you to go to any cyclist thread on any platform and look at the lived experiences of cyclists vs drivers. Or just talk to some. Or try riding a bike through a city or suburb yourself to do things like get groceries and follow non-standard bike paths to actually do things. I'm not talking about riding a hidden off the road bike path, I mean commuting.
Car-centric infrastructure is violent and makes it so that the default affordance is towards the driver.
1. Turning right on red is dangerous for cyclists, yet legal for cars. 2. Bike lanes are unprotected and far too dangerous for the average commuter, forcing cyclists onto shitty sidewalks with obscured visibility. 3. Intersections and right of way laws in most states make it so cyclists must remain in a dangerous area (an intersection) for longer than is necessary with safe stop laws. 4. Automobiles have such diversity that many people cant even safely see cyclists if they were to follow the "rules of the road" because their visibility is so severely limited. Source : Me any time some asshole in a lifted truck pulls up next to me at a red light when I'm in the bike lane and his door handle is above my fucking head. 5. Bike paths are often obscured from cars until it's too late. Also drivers aren't checking bike paths when turning or approaching an intersection 6. Ever seen someone pull out of a gas station or parking lot? Zero percent chance they are checking the bike lane. Quick head turn to the left, see no cars, then full speed ahead. This is also caused by shitty infrastructure that puts cyclists in the blind spot.
You wanna license cyclists? Fine. I expect an equal amount of my tax money to go to bike-centric infrastructure then. I want to see new bike lanes being built instead of new 6 lane roads.
but it doesn't matter, all I ever see from people who haven't had to ride a bike or walk to work is the same ol "well ackshually bikes are dangerous too". And it's so fucking tone-deaf; and after a literally uncountable number of incidents where I've almost been killed, or I've been injured, or thrown from my bike, or cut off; I'm tired of pretending I'm not upset about it.
It's my lived experience where I have to either drive, or be in a stress induced hyper-vigilant ride for my fucking life every time I want to go to a store 4-5 miles away. I just can't imagine being wrapped in 2000 pounds of steel with airbag pillow cloud fucking crumple zone impact rated death machine, and pointing to 100 lbs of flesh on a 10lb aluminum frame and being like "No actually that's the problem and I'm so scared of them I need to make sure the entire world conforms to what I'm doing and leaves no room for them to interact with me"
Neither is hate speech and calls to violence. But Musk has made it clear that he is a proponent of that kind of speech under the umbrella of "free" speech.
No, it is their fault because THEY refused to yield. As they do all the time. Like at least once a day I see this. How many drivers do you think yield to me when they turn right on red?
It is FAR less than the law requires of them.
Oh, and since the idaho stop is legal in my state, they refuse to yield then as well. Breaking the law....
Yes, coming to a full stop is statistically more dangerous. There are studies on this, the idaho stop is there for a reason, it saves lives.
Ok except there are laws for Idaho stops, specifically in my state. So it's more about cars not knowing the rules of the road and trying to act like entitled babies.
Depending on your state, not only is coming to a full stop more dangerous, it may actually not even be the law.
It's cute how almost everyone here is bringing up like one or two instances they had an issue with a cyclist. when you could ask any cyclist how many issues they have with cars and the volume of negative interactions is MASSIVELY different.
Oh cool, you met a single bad cyclist. Every time I go out on foot or on bike I meet like 3 bad drivers. Oh, and when I meet a bad driver I am likely to die or be critically injured, when you meet a bad cyclist you're likely to scratch your paint.
It's important to zoom out and have some perspective.
Great, I can wax poetic how I'm nearly hit by cars walking on the sidewalk and crossing intersections as a pedestrian EVERY SINGLE TIME I WALK TO THE STORE. Or I can talk about how cars drive in the bike lane EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Actually, it IS your problem if you hit me when I Idaho Stop a stop-sign, it's entirely legal to do so in my state and it just means you're an irresponsible driver who can't be assed to actually look both ways before crossing an intersection.
Yeah, you are the problem, you precisely. Not your argument in general, it's you, entitled carbrains who think you deserve the road because you're bigger or spent more money on your vehicle. "woe is me, I might have a dent in my car" ~ you talking to a dead teenager that was biking home from school
How about you learn to drive. The entire fucking world is catered to cars. City planning. Road design. Traffic Engineering. Shopping. Live events. etc. All catered to you, and you still want more.
I can't imagine the fucking audacity.
Getting banned was the point, to illustrate Musk's blatant hypocrisy towards his own ideal of free speech.
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