Prominent "free-speech absolutist" threatens to sue Jewish anti-hate group because it engaged in free speech he didn't like.
Prominent "free-speech absolutist" threatens to sue Jewish anti-hate group because it engaged in free speech he didn't like.
Prominent "free-speech absolutist" threatens to sue Jewish anti-hate group because it engaged in free speech he didn't like.
"Elon Musk has threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League after accusing the civil rights group that campaigns against antisemitism and bigotry of trying to “kill” his X social media platform.
"The owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, said the ADL was trying to shut down his company by 'falsely accusing it and me of being antisemitic'."
If your list of enemies includes the ADL, then there's a more-than-reasonable chance that you're an anti-semite.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/05/elon-musk-sue-adl-x-twitter
So lemme get this straight. Elon Musk is accusing the Anti Defamation League of Defamation, not because their accusation that hate speech has a platform on twitter is false, since be knows exactly who let the hate speakers onto the platform as the "free speech absolutist", but because they pointed it out?
And then he jumps to "they're calling me an antisemite" which feels like hanging yourself by your own rope by jumping to conclusions.
Yeah dude. Gotta tell ya. If the ADL, ACLU, or Southern Poverty Law Firm say you suck, I'm going to side with them
Edit: spelling mistakes
The thing is this shit works for right wingers. They genuinely believe that the ADL calling someone an antisemite, or even suggesting they might be, is the same as the government kicking your door down and murdering you because you used "free speech"
If there's one characteristic I've found to be widespread among right wingers, it's black-and-white thinking. They don't do "sometimes" or "partially" or "60%". They just do "is" and "is not". Vaccines either work or they don't. Immigration is either bad or it's good. Climate change is either 100% there today or it's not happening, and if not every climate phenomenon is humans' doing then none of it is humanity's fault. Either every government regulation and law is good or government is simply bad. Either everyone gets guns or no one does. They apply this same black-and-white thinking to free speech.
It’s long past the time to stop caring what they think. They’ll make themselves the victim no matter what, there’s no reasoning with them.
Gee I wonder where they would have gotten the idea that the owner of the company that allowed a promoted post featuring the 14 words to be run on their platform would be anti semitic?
I quoted your comment to ChatGPT 3.5 and asked what you were referring to with "the 14 words". I've never seen it take so long to answer, and when it finally did, it was like watching someone else write in a shared Google doc, including watching words getting replaced. Maybe my question triggered a reply by an actual human?
For the love of... stop using generative AI to give you answers to questions! If it doesn't have an answer it just makes it up completely.
It took long because you're on the free tier and you were rate limited. The idea that a human is writing your answer is so laughably absurd I genuinely don't know if you're serious.
Since you also didn't answer what it was and I also didn't know.
Nah - sometimes you just get a server that's overloaded and slow. Hit stop, then regenerate, it'll be fast.
that is a basic rule of white supremacy.
if non-white people do it then the whites get to do it.
but just because the whites get to do something doesn't mean non-white people get to do it.
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Can't run for president if you're not born in the US.
Actually, the Constitution requires that POTUS candidates must be natural-born citizens, which doesn't necessarily mean they have to have been born in the US:
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
The 14th Amendment does say all people born in the US are automatically citizens, but you can also be a natural-born citizen if you were born abroad but at least one of your parents is/was a citizen at the time of your birth. That's how, for instance, Ted Cruz was able to run for POTUS in 2016 even though he was born in Canada.
Oh man, he even points out that it's ironic, but doesn't quite understand why. I'd argue it isn't ironic, since one should expect him to be a gigantic hypocrite.
Elon Musk isn't a free speech absolutionist.
He is a scammer, asshole, and dumbass who got lucky quite a lot. He somehow inspires people, I don't know why honestly, but he then inspires people to go with his retarded ideas that caused so many lost investments... Thank god that hyperloop finally is a bit out of the picture, that swallowed billions that went nowhere, but there is still more than enough bullshit left!
Now he's driving Twitter into the ground, as expected, justfaster than expected and withuch more fireworks.
He only cared and cares about his own free speech. Nothing. More.
If your list of enemies includes the ADL, then there’s a more-than-reasonable chance that you’re an anti-semite.
Likewise if your loudest defenders are, themselves, loud and proud anti-semites.
Why hasn't James Bond snuffed this fool yet?
NIMBY….
Ok, so is musk a natural born citizen of the US?