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it truly is bizarre how many fanboys came here to post irrelevant and incorrect information to defend Musk doing a big 180 on a supposed deeply held principle of his because he got personally upset about someone making him look childish.



Not any more bizarre than how many people have come here just to vent off steam from reading so much Musk-hate online. Neither is providing any value to the discussion.


it truly is bizarre how many haters came here to post irrelevant and incorrect information to attack Musk doing a change in twitter policy because of reasons we don't know.


Dismissing people with a label to invalidate their argument is ad hominem and is an eternally weak counterargument.


> Dismissing people with a label to invalidate their argument is ad hominem and is an eternally weak counterargument.

it is nice to be reminded that I guess this isn't a uniquely low quality site, and that comments like yours were endemic on k5 and slashdot and usenet, too.

I of course wasn't dismissing anyone based on a label, I was dismising them based on their low quality posting:

> it truly is bizarre how many fanboys came here to post irrelevant and incorrect information to defend Musk

you're right I shouldn't discriminate, and I do also have disdain for the non-fanboys posting irrelevant and incorrect information

edit: verbosity




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