If you don’t believe in free speech for everyone, including liars,

Nov 19, 2024
9:19:02am

XORCoug All-American

then you don’t believe in free speech. People need to be smart enough to sift through all the information and find the truth.

If they can’t, that’s on them, not the person who allows the lie to be told.

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XORCoug

Previous username: Hass16
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What is your opinion of Elon Musk? Hero? Villain? Something else? What is he?

Borg

7:28am

Very intelligent guy who's trying to do what's right.

XORCoug

7:29am

Outside the box thinker who is sometimes WAY outside the box

BandW

7:33am

Rich dude interested in getting richer and more powerful.

Blueto

7:34am

What an inefficient way of achieving this task.

Shore10

7:57am

ehh, he is going to be having some major power

TheHop

8:27am

Gotta be more specific, you've just described all of DC.

StarMan

8:38am

Brilliant eccentric.

shoganai

7:41am

Yeah, definitely a put not your faith in princes deal. I think he is most notabl

RoboKayne

7:42am

Claims the biggest problem with humanity is declining birth rate. Not smart enough to make life better for the average

sanitarium

7:46am

People are having fewer kids because Elon isn’t smart enough?

cheezedawg

7:48am

Yes, this is the conversation me and my wife had.

JohnnyComeLately

8:51am

Who had a better life than we do? I guess you could use the feudal war or family

dYrtbYkerYder

7:50am

It's a typical lib response to denigrate someone who isn't aligned with their cause

BYUMizzou

8:13am

CB 'moderates' despise him because their echo chamber insists he's despicable

vegas guey

9:40am

Wow, ok, what have you done to make life better for the average human? My goodness Elon has made some major innovations

JohnnyComeLately

8:41am

I agree - he is smart and has done amazing things for science and technology and the USA. But he is fairly criticized

sanitarium

9:08am

Spoken like a true socialist

Jericho

9:50am

You know they choose to work for him, right?

Blue Cougar

10:18am

Yes, I understand that. They should realize that Elon needs them more than they need Elon, unionize, and demand higher

sanitarium

10:23am

OK...or, just go get a job somewhere else where they'll be happy

Blue Cougar

10:28am

How do you know? If they were, they would leave. Obviously something is keeping

Borg

10:30am

Look, all these people who just voted for Trump because of the "economy" and the pain of inflation should agree with me.

sanitarium

10:48am

Socialism vs. Capitalism

Blue Cougar

11:05am

Capitalism all day long.

sanitarium

11:38am

My uneducated opinion on unions. They are in large part outdated. It makes sense

Powerbait DPM

12:54pm

Wages went up under Trump. They did not under Biden.

JohnnyComeLately

12:05pm

If you have data to back that up, then great. I actually don't think the POTUS has as much influence on the economy

sanitarium

12:24pm

...as evidenced by the markets' response immediately following the election

Blue Cougar

12:32pm

Here are some relevant graphs for you.

JohnnyComeLately

12:46pm

Good data. I like it. Now how did pandemic affect all that data?

sanitarium

1:12pm

I can confirm this, best 4 years in my career

Borg

2:39pm

Smart guy who sometimes falls victim to his own hubris.

DwigtA2RM

7:50am

Brilliant guy who has been a huge benefit to humanity. Has helped lead to the

Jay Kay

7:57am

He's insufferable, but it's hard to argue with his results.

NumbersGuy

8:54am

For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things...

icecougar

8:24am

Bright person with Asperger's syndrome and a workaholic with no appreciation

Archaea

8:32am

Is he putting his assets in a blind trust? I can't imagine him doing that. He is

Jay Kay

8:38am

That he is autistic makes me appreciate his successes even more

vegas guey

9:37am

Asperger's is a high functioning level. It means he is disconnected from normal

Archaea

10:19am

Also, pretty much every tech genius is Aspergers... Gates, Google bros, Jobs...

NYC and Japan

2:45pm

Somehow he has moved into a darling of the right.

RC Vikings

8:35am

Crazy what happens when the left goes off the rails, leaving legacy democrats like Elon standing right of center despite

Zach Morris

1:09pm

Has done more to protect free speech than anyone since the founders. For that I

phillycc

8:39am

He has done a lot to preserve free speech, no doubt. But he has also hurt free

Jay Kay

8:45am

I disagree, he has allowed the public to police dis/misinformation w/ community

phillycc

8:51am

You perfectly described free speech. Yes, people can say all kinds of crazy stuff & you figure out if/how crazy.

Soupie

8:57am

My problem is not allowing anything on his platform. Its that he posts lies and

Jay Kay

9:10am

Then call it out when it happens. I trust you have some examples.

Soupie

9:16am

Its very easy to go on his X account and see the propaganda. He has retweeted

Jay Kay

9:24am

And look. The free speech process worked. It was proven false. Lots of crazy stuff gets put out there immediately

Soupie

9:44am

It was proven false, but not because Musk ever acknowledged it was false.

Jay Kay

10:05am

If you don’t believe in free speech for everyone, including liars,

XORCoug

9:19am

What makes you think I don't believe in free speech? I believe liars should be

Jay Kay

9:26am

No, I don’t agree that they should, but I do believe they should be allowed to.

XORCoug

9:43am

Then we are in exactly the same position.

Jay Kay

9:58am

If you believe he's hurt free speech, we're not. But that's fine.

XORCoug

10:27am

Where did I say that?

Jay Kay

10:31am

RE: Where did I say that?

XORCoug

10:34am

I did not make any relative comparisons between the competing issues

Jay Kay

12:28pm

You asked me where you said it, I showed you where you said it,

XORCoug

12:48pm

Fair point. I misread your post. My bad for acting like troll.

Jay Kay

2:40pm

Ah, gotcha. Yeah I can understand that. I think he does rely on the community

phillycc

9:38am

I don't think the marketplace of ideas can efficiently filter truth and lies if

Jay Kay

9:55am

Sorry, I wasn't clear. He might be right with his approach, but I don't think so

phillycc

10:07am

Thanks. I agree with your posts.

Jay Kay

10:22am

Really didn't pay much attention to him till he bought twitter. He absolutely was looking out for free speech in doing

Soupie

8:48am

Paid more taxes than any other American in history

IntelCougar

8:41am

He has a lot in common with Jobs. Brilliant people terrible boss. Results are

maYbe

8:50am

slightly creepy, brilliant mega rich dude who is overall very good for the country

JOPE

8:56am

Basically and literally Hitler.

IceCreamButt

8:59am

He's definitely a hero

Blue Cougar

9:17am

Anyone checked on BlooCoug? 2 hours after an Elon question and he's nowhere

RealSimsShadY

9:28am

Here is my personal observation of my use of X the last few weeks.

sanitarium

9:54am

He’s a modern day genius. He’s the kind of guy that future generations will learn about in history class

KingDave

10:10am

Opportunistic hard worker who thinks critically about situations and does what

Mufasa

10:36am

Absolute hero

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