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Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



lmfao

https://twitter.com/ziromr/status/1018520513285672960

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Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



musk has a 5050 chance of being right on that though, tbh. already-there expat 40-60 year old highly paid white professionals in thailand are a demographic that, if you were to just flip a coin , how likely are they to just be living there for the buddhist temples and spicy foods

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014



elon seeming a bit more unhinged than usual today

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Frog Act posted:

musk has a 5050 chance of being right on that though, tbh. already-there expat 40-60 year old highly paid white professionals in thailand are a demographic that, if you were to just flip a coin , how likely are they to just be living there for the buddhist temples and spicy foods

yeah why would a professional diver live in thailand and not, uh, london

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy

Holy poo poo this is a real tweet from him :lol:

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

elon seeming a bit more unhinged than usual today

He's realizing dating Grimes doesn't make him cool with leftists

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

Frog Act posted:

musk has a 5050 chance of being right on that though, tbh. already-there expat 40-60 year old highly paid white professionals in thailand are a demographic that, if you were to just flip a coin , how likely are they to just be living there for the buddhist temples and spicy foods

I mean you can say the same thing about California and hey wait a minute, doesn't Elon Musk live in California ???

CoolCab
Apr 17, 2005

glem
this started at what california time, like 930, 1030 in the morning? and he is wide awake making wildly defamatory claims about an international hero

Peanut Butler
Jul 25, 2003




the thread is a fun time


Peanut Butler has issued a correction as of 18:18 on Jul 15, 2018

Peanut Butler
Jul 25, 2003



at this point I'm verging on believing that he's a deep-cover commie ginning up justified hatred for the wealthy

e: or its grimes

Peanut Butler has issued a correction as of 18:22 on Jul 15, 2018

Egg Moron
Jul 21, 2003

the dreams of the delighting void

Peanut Butler posted:

at this point I'm verging on believing that he's a deep-cover commie ginning up justified hatred for the wealthy

"I burned all these VC dollars in an ingeniously engineered dead end R&D bonfire, I'm pawning off death traps on the bourgeoisie AND I was able to attain a recklessly high market cap on my doomed company which will have bad vibe ripple effects throughout the economy!"

Peanut Butler
Jul 25, 2003



yeah well he's also still an idiot in this scenario

e: oh wait lol I immediately read sarcasm into that somehow
thanks sunday weed

Peanut Butler has issued a correction as of 18:31 on Jul 15, 2018

Egg Moron
Jul 21, 2003

the dreams of the delighting void

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

i dont even know what this is trying to say

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool

Larry Parrish posted:

i dont even know what this is trying to say

the offices are so nice that someone would accept a job offer for the quality of the real estate alone

Flunky
Jan 2, 2014

everything named "the ______ at ______" sucks

Bushiz
Sep 21, 2004

The #1 Threat to Ba Sing Se

Grimey Drawer

Heavy_D
Feb 16, 2002

"rararararara" contains the meaning of everything, kept in simple rectangular structures
https://twitter.com/gilbertjasono/status/1019955015824433157

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010
i forget, is this the thread where we make fun of Zuck? because his sister decided to weigh in on his Holocaust denial comments

https://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/status/1020139547345260544https://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/status/1020140841757757440
https://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/status/1020141475634479105

aside from those, she also said that if the US wants Facebook to ban Holocaust denial, they should make Holocaust denial illegal, because social networks have no obligation to remove anything that doesn't directly violate US law

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Main Paineframe posted:

aside from those, she also said that if the US wants Facebook to ban Holocaust denial, they should make Holocaust denial illegal, because social networks have no obligation to remove anything that doesn't directly violate US law

i mean, she's right

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



morals & backbones are for suckers, there's money to be made!!!

Mercrom
Jul 17, 2009
im glad the government who doesnt believe in global warming aka the future holocaust cant just make opinions illegal. they should make facebook illegal though

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Larry Parrish posted:

i mean, she's right

except that FB removes non-illegal stuff all the time, and Holocaust denial is already illegal in many other countries whose laws FB apparently doesn't give a poo poo about

it's just a lovely punt to try to redirect blame onto the government, which has a far higher standard to meet before it can restrict speech

univbee
Jun 3, 2004




Main Paineframe posted:

except that FB removes non-illegal stuff all the time, and Holocaust denial is already illegal in many other countries whose laws FB apparently doesn't give a poo poo about

it's just a lovely punt to try to redirect blame onto the government, which has a far higher standard to meet before it can restrict speech

Yeah this is at the heart of the issue. FB and other social media platforms constantly suppress content which isn't in and of itself illegal, and seems to mostly depend on what kind of rabble-rouser you are. It's not illegal to yell slurs at everyone you pass on the street either but that will still earn you a confrontation with the police who might even escort you elsewhere or worse.

Also worth noting is that all the social media platforms treat the US as the reference for what should and shouldn't be allowed, regardless of who's on it and where they are.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Twitter flags nazi posts internally (and in their json feed) so they won't show up in France & Germany, so they clearly have some way of identifying them, they just don't want them entirely gone because that would be bad for engagement & ad numbers.

Mercrom
Jul 17, 2009
you have to draw the line somewhere

by just making holocaust denial illegal you are giving legitimacy to all the historical discussion you refuse to disallow

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Krankenstyle posted:

Twitter flags nazi posts internally (and in their json feed) so they won't show up in France & Germany, so they clearly have some way of identifying them, they just don't want them entirely gone because that would be bad for engagement & ad numbers.

also Jack is a Nazi, or at least friends with enough of them that he's not willing to declare them bad people

univbee
Jun 3, 2004




Mercrom posted:

you have to draw the line somewhere

by just making holocaust denial illegal you are giving legitimacy to all the historical discussion you refuse to disallow

I don't think drawing a line works if the other side isn't willing to be convinced they're wrong.

The holocaust, moon landing, earth being round, climate change and vaccination are for all intents and purposes settled matters with absolutely ridiculous amounts of verified and peer-reviewed evidence. The people who contest these things are blatantly not acting in good faith, and are bringing demonstrable harm to society with their bullshit, especially for the latter two.

Mercrom
Jul 17, 2009
the problem is that the holocaust is way less controversial than global warming or vaccines. you can make it illegal because it doesnt actually matter much that you do.

univbee
Jun 3, 2004




Mercrom posted:

you can make it illegal

Germany did. :colbert:

Mercrom
Jul 17, 2009
now try to imagine germany doing the same if they had won the war

silentsnack
Mar 19, 2009

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.

Also: we really really really do not need to allow trump+GOP and their judicial wingnuts deciding what people are allowed to say, especially with the keebler klansman's DOJ arbitrarily enforcing those laws.

univbee
Jun 3, 2004




Mercrom posted:

now try to imagine germany doing the same if they had won the war

I'd think Germany would frown on those who denied their success.

silentsnack posted:

Also: we really really really do not need to allow trump+GOP and their judicial wingnuts deciding what people are allowed to say, especially with the keebler klansman's DOJ arbitrarily enforcing those laws.

It's not as if they need a reason to jackboot those they don't like anyway.

silentsnack
Mar 19, 2009

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.

univbee posted:

It's not as if they need a reason to jackboot those they don't like anyway.

"You said 'society would be better off without nazis in charge' which violates the statute prohibiting speech that might validate the conservative victim/persecution complex. This is considered an act of terrorism so now you have exactly zero human rights, and your friends and family get to join you in gitmo forever."

silentsnack has issued a correction as of 15:00 on Jul 20, 2018

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
you should be allowed to be a public nazi or whatever. my ideal cop free future is basically all street justice, all the time, so you have to prepared to be start a fight when you say some heinous poo poo

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
you make holocaust denial illegal in the usa and itll only be used to go after critics of isreal while actual nazis will continue to do it openly, thats how it works here

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Al! posted:

you make holocaust denial illegal in the usa and itll only be used to go after critics of isreal while actual nazis will continue to do it openly, thats how it works here

Facebook owner quotes made it clear that they're already much more concerned with the former than the latter

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。
the question i have been asking friends lately has been: what's worse? nazis or nazi enablers?

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univbee
Jun 3, 2004




silentsnack posted:

"You said 'society would be better off without nazis in charge' which violates the statute prohibiting speech that might validate the conservative victim/persecution complex. This is considered an act of terrorism so now you have exactly zero human rights, and your friends and family get to join you in gitmo forever."

Again, they're essentially doing that now, with even less reason. No one is stopping them.

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