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Re: Facebook goes mental

From RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Facebook goes mental
Date 2025-02-03 07:53 +0000
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On 2025-02-02, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-02-01 9:02 p.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2025-02-01, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> On 2025-02-01 12:21 a.m., RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2025-02-01, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-01-31 6:57 p.m., RonB wrote:
>>>>>> On 2025-01-31, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2025-01-30 9:58 p.m., vallor wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 02:44:31 -0000 (UTC), RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote in <vnhdef$37bl1$6@dont-email.me>:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 2025-01-31, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 2025-01-30 9:24 p.m., RonB wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 2025-01-30, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> So they have finally admitted it was all a mistake (as if there was
>>>>>>>>>>>> any doubt)
>>>>>>>>>>>> <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-admits-that-the-linux-topic-crackdown-was-in-error-and-has-been-fixed>.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> So why did it happen? Seems the shift from proper fact-checking of
>>>>>>>>>>>> postings to relying on “community-driven” feedback was a factor.
>>>>>>>>>>>> So-called “freedom of speech absolutism” (as defined by the anti-woke
>>>>>>>>>>>> mob) leads to censorship of ideas that actually promote a free society
>>>>>>>>>>>> -- who knew?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> And speaking of censorship and the Cancel Culture Regime. Apparently Debian
>>>>>>>>>>> finds freedom of speech dangerous to their "core values" and have officially
>>>>>>>>>>> withdrawn from TwitterX. Woke idiots.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> https://micronews.debian.org/
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Unsurprisingly, the people behind Debian are choosing to remain tone
>>>>>>>>>> dead to the winds of change sweeping society right now. Despite it being
>>>>>>>>>> inconvenient to them, the reality is that conservatism not only won, but
>>>>>>>>>> it quickly becoming the default position. Nobody even wants to hear
>>>>>>>>>> about what the "progressive" "liberal" "social democrats" think because
>>>>>>>>>> they have not only completely discredited themselves, it has become
>>>>>>>>>> clear to even the dumbest elements of society that they fabricate
>>>>>>>>>> controversies at will. Apparently, Debian is stubbornly insisting on
>>>>>>>>>> remaining on the fringe because some faggots claim their feelings are hurt.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Maybe it's time for a fork. Hopefully this is just the morons at the top
>>>>>>>>> instead of those who are doing the actual work (and not obsessing over Woke
>>>>>>>>> Culture 24/7). This Woke Culture really is brain-rotting disease.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Oh, piss off, both of you.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ("Tone dead"?  Maybe he means "tone deaf".  Nice English there,
>>>>>>>> Mr. "English Professor")
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And "the winds of change sweeping society" is hard to reconcile with
>>>>>>>> Bottom Sludge winning 1.5% over his opponent.  That is not
>>>>>>>> a "MAGA mandate", as much as Mango Mussolini lies about that.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Why you continue to talk to this avowed bigot, Ron, escapes me.
>>>>>>>> (Most of the time I see that MAGA clown is quoted by you...I might have
>>>>>>>> to adjust my reading habits some more.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fuck off, fatty. Put me back in your grease-stained killfile.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Speaking of a Woke Culture drone, the misnamed "vallor" shows up right on
>>>>>> cue. No, vallor, I'm not a MAGA drone. I guess you assume everyone is a
>>>>>> partisan cultist because you project your own brain-rot, knee-jerk,
>>>>>> cancel-cult behavior on everyone else.
>>>>>
>>>>> Before long, the only person vallor will talk to here is Chris Ahlstrom.
>>>>> Yokoscotty seems to enjoy living in an echo chamber.
>>>>
>>>> That's all they can handle and why they're leaving TwitterX in droves. It's
>>>> no longer simply an echo chamber, where anyone who disagrees with them is
>>>> "canceled." They can't stand someone believing something other than what
>>>> their brain-dead Woke cult "teaches" (or rather brainwashes them into
>>>> believing). No logic is involved. It's all predicated on emotion.
>>>
>>> It's actually funny to me the way that they are migrating to BlueSky
>>> because they've done it before with Mastodon and Threads and both of
>>> them failed. They ignore that without people disagreeing with you, there
>>> is no need for conversation. Preaching to the choir is boring, that's
>>> why X was always the place to go: because there are always lots of
>>> people going there strictly to disagree with you for the sake of
>>> conversation.
>> 
>> Except in the old Twitter if someone made a good point to counter the Woke
>> crap, they would be more than likely be canceled or "de-platformed" or
>> whatever the term is.
>
> Absolute fact and a widely reported one.
>
>> Now that the Woke cultists can't automatically have
>> the last word on TwitterX, their miffed. So now they're going to BlueSky
>> which they hope will become a new "old" Twitter. Unfortunately for them, it
>> will become a completely boring echo chamber with about 100% preaching to
>> the choir (as you say). So yes, it's probably destined to nosedive into
>> oblivion, kind of like CNN and MSNBC.
>
> Much like Reddit bans anyone who shows even a hint of conservatism, 
> BlueSky seems to be doing the same. Those legitimately looking for a 
> conversation will stick to X and will have to swallow their pride if 
> they are bombarding by opposing opinions. However, it's not the opposing 
> opinions that bother them; it's the fact that they no longer have the 
> power to punish anyone for daring to speak them.

Agreed. Control freaks freak out when they can't control. They're sometimes 
called "Karens." I don't know how that name got used, but I know what they 
mean when they use it. I've seen these crazy people freaking out.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien

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Facebook goes mental vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-28 18:23 +0000
  Re: Facebook goes mental pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-01-29 00:03 +0000
    Re: Facebook goes mental Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-28 20:06 -0500
      Re: Facebook goes mental -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-28 21:41 -0500
        Re: Facebook goes mental Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-28 22:17 -0500
      Re: Facebook goes mental Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-01-29 10:45 -0500
      Re: Facebook goes mental mummycullen@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (MummyChunk) - 2025-02-01 04:54 +0000
  Re: Facebook goes mental CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-28 20:15 -0500
  Re: Facebook goes mental candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-01-29 20:20 +0000
  Re: Facebook goes mental Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-30 22:43 +0000
    Re: Facebook goes mental RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-31 02:24 +0000
      Re: Facebook goes mental CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-30 21:35 -0500
        Re: Facebook goes mental RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-31 02:44 +0000
          Re: Facebook goes mental vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-31 02:58 +0000
            Re: Facebook goes mental CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-31 09:06 -0500
              Re: Facebook goes mental RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-31 23:57 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-31 19:04 -0500
                Re: Facebook goes mental RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-01 05:21 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-01 07:06 -0500
                Re: Facebook goes mental RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-02 02:02 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-02 07:16 -0500
                Re: Facebook goes mental rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-02-02 20:05 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-02 20:28 -0500
                Re: Facebook goes mental pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-02-03 02:03 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-03 07:57 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-02-03 20:03 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-03 15:34 -0500
                Re: Facebook goes mental pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-02-04 00:42 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-04 05:46 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-04 06:17 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-02-03 16:55 -0500
                Re: Facebook goes mental chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-02-04 06:46 -0600
                Re: Facebook goes mental CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-04 08:55 -0500
                Re: Facebook goes mental RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-04 05:39 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-02-04 05:14 -0500
                Re: Facebook goes mental Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-02-03 08:23 -0500
                Re: Facebook goes mental CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-03 08:47 -0500
                Re: Facebook goes mental Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-02-03 09:01 -0500
                Re: Facebook goes mental CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-03 09:13 -0500
                Re: Facebook goes mental chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-02-03 09:50 -0600
                Re: Facebook goes mental RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-04 05:50 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-04 05:49 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-02-03 04:05 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-03 08:00 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-03 06:21 -0500
                Re: Facebook goes mental RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-03 07:54 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-02-03 20:17 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-02-03 13:22 -0700
                Re: Facebook goes mental rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-02-04 00:57 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-03 20:53 -0500
                Re: Facebook goes mental % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-02-03 19:16 -0700
                Re: Facebook goes mental RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-04 05:36 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-04 08:50 -0500
                Re: Facebook goes mental % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-02-03 19:15 -0700
                Re: Facebook goes mental RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-04 05:34 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-03 07:53 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-03 06:36 -0500
                Re: Facebook goes mental RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-04 05:26 +0000
                Re: Facebook goes mental CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-04 08:48 -0500
                Re: Facebook goes mental vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-02-01 02:22 +0000
            Re: Facebook goes mental DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-02-02 16:05 -0500
          Re: Facebook goes mental CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-31 09:05 -0500
            Re: Facebook goes mental RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-31 23:51 +0000
        Re: Facebook goes mental DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-30 22:41 -0500
      Re: Facebook goes mental DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-30 23:07 -0500

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