The Deconstructionist

What you'll see in the next few months and years is the right-wing zealots overplaying their hand, and public opinion will shift away from the people they perceive to be trying to micromanage society. The problem is that the Left, just like the Right, has no concept of moderation.

Cycle ≠ Solution

Are those of us who have a disdain for political ideologues and moral absolutists of any stripe supposed to see "eroding the guardrails of online discourse" as a right-wing only phenomenon? The Left didn't forget how to leverage social media or media in general, they just overplayed their hand...

Meanwhile, X doesn't have a problem with pushing posts and posters who put up nothing but vitriol and hate-filled rants teeming with lies, harassment, and endless conspiracy theories.

Neo-Nazis are acceptable, and Elmo/X even pays some of them.
But sexuality is evil when you're not *giving it away*

It most likely wasn't reported by an actual human. This is all part of Elmo's demented AI crap that is designed to be a gatekeeper and push everyone into a neat little box where they can make you a more malleable consumer. The "someone reported" is just boilerplate moderation speak.

Yes, he did allow for the other side to a small degree then. But he was in no way balanced as you stated. So when he had Eric Dyson(others as well) on to present a pro-Palestinian perspective, didn't he "allow for the other side," even though you claim he's one-sided?

a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face in front of a shelf of envelopes . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face in front of a shelf of envelopes .

I did watch, and NO, he was not balanced. His targets for ridicule were usually conservatives, attacking conservative views. His most heated discussions were with people like Ann Coulter. I still remember him talking about Bush's test scores and getting into Yale. "If you actually watched..."

But you're contradicting yourself yet again. How can you say he's doing it for himself, not his viewing audience, then follow that up by saying he's doing it to get more ratings?

I've seen him attack conservatives and their views for years and years, which probably made up 90%+ of his material. He was in no way "balanced in his coverage of world events" for the majority of his career. Were you whining about it then?

I thought you insisted that his "viewing audience" was shifting because of the media landscape? Again, there's that absolutist mentality that declares any deviation from the path you choose for someone else is done because that person is selfish or greedy or whatever.

Of course, you're not an absolutist who uses selective outrage to attack those not walking down the path you chose for them. Does anyone admit to that? One-sided is good... until it's bad. We need perspective to get a full picture... until we don't need it because you've deemed it "one-sided."

What you've left out is any semblance of an objective, impartial view. Can I find a single post where you're not "one-sided" when it comes to Trump, Republicans, conservatives, Israel, etc.? You can't even tolerate someone who dares to take a different path. You, ironically, call them one-sided.

Remember when I wrote about people(Bill) being sick of those whose only contributions seem to hinge on selective outrage and absolutist rhetoric? Did you intentionally give me that case-in-point example, or is it so ingrained into your psyche that you didn't even notice that you did it?

Just like how you conveniently leave out arguments and points of view when they don't fit the narrative you insist is the only path forward? Is one-sided good or bad today?

So you're fine with one-sided discussions when it comes to attacking Trump and anything else to the right of Leftist rhetoric and propaganda... But you conveniently have a problem with the notion of "one-sided" when it comes to things you don't agree with?

You may be giving Trump too much credit. He probably believes he's performing miracles and making the economy better, because that's what he's told by the dingbats he surrounds himself with. He's just not smart enough to know he's doing the opposite.

Trump spent years hyping an Epstein conspiracy, and now his horrible creation has turned on him. It's like if Elon Musk got run over by a Cybertruck.

He didn’t get scared; he got sick of trying to appease and appeal to people whose only contributions to discourse are selective outrage and absolutist rhetoric. He even said something along those lines. He tried a different approach because your approach is why you’re dealing with Trumpism now.

Challenge accepted.

Just make sure you cancel your subscription because, for some strange reason, all that AI superpower Elmo loves to boast about can't figure out how to suspend or cancel your payments to X at the same time your account is suspended from X. I guess it's their Kryptonite.

It's a blessing in disguise. Elmo has turned what should have been a simple task of expanding the exchange of ideas and civilized discourse into a caustic and chaotic nightmare where the algorithms push wild conspiracy theories and unbridled hatred. Maybe the secret is late-night Ketamine binges.

We should send you some because we have dozens that spend most of their time chasing each other off the feeders. A group of hummingbirds is called a Charm, but nothing is charming about them when there are that many—they should be called a Chaos because they are kind of a-holes to each other.

He sent scripts? Literal scripts, like Act 1, Scene 4, kind of stuff? If that's what you're talking about, you gotta post that somewhere. Was the character development good? Did you have any freedom to do rewrites?

So you're not throttling and burying users and their content in a desperate attempt to keep them shackled and subservient to the platform? And you're not using NoFollow links? That's heresy on a few other platforms. Good job! Seriously, something that simple is refreshing.

I guess donating to renovate a few schools is the going price for possible environmental damage to a community. But they’ve been a dumping ground for decades, so no big deal. How much water does the xAI facility use on a daily basis?

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

Surimi... I thought that was just one of those imitation things that was mainly for the US market, but didn't realize how much they actually use it in Japanese dishes.

There are worse things than being blocked by hundreds of lemmings. Hell, considering the source, I'd see a list like that as more of a possible follow list than a block list.

Typical Karen, convinced she's gonna change the world by being the most opinionated person possible. People who are foolish enough to be led around so easily by mediocre, self-righteous yentas and their "lists" are usually not the kind of people you want to interact with.

I prefer eating seafood. But cooking it is a close second.

There you go again, building up your straw man. You conveniently set the parameters of what someone else believes, acting like it's insightful instead of what it is—AN OPINION. The only ones who believe people like Einstein or Gandhi were "far left" would probably be people on the far Right.