• Melpomene@kbin.social
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    The best anyone can do right now is to migrate off of Twitter entirely. As long as Musk is in charge (or in charge through his puppet CEOs) the site will be a cesspool of toxicity and hate. I’m honestly not sure why reputable people are still using the site… guess the view and media exposure are better than doing the right thing and leaving?

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    Musk is a proponent of near-absolute free speech

    Anything goes, so long as it doesn’t hurt his feelings personally

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        He knows how to run a social media site into the ground…

        Which is probably the whole point. Make it seem like the site is failing because of mismanagement, and not that its failure was intended right from the start with a leveraged buyout saddling the business with an untenable $13bn of debt.

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    All social media is filled with animal cruelty.
    There’s so many pictures and videos of cut up animal corpses with people going “yum” in the comments…

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      Folks, there is important, valid discussion to be had about meat eating both from ethical an environmental perspectives. I’m not sure that !Technology is the place to have that discussion, however.

      More importantly, this thread was not the way to discuss these issues, particularly on Beehaw. The behavior in this thread was not nice, and is not the way that these types (or any type) of discussion should be conducted.

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        I just made a comment about animal cruelty on social media, in a thread about animal cruelty on social media.

        Sadly speaking up for the animals provokes angry responses in many people.

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          I’m not saying that you are solely at fault for the thread getting out of hand, but I hope we can agree that when things devolve to the point that we’re talking about murdering other users and eating their corpses that the discussion has probably gotten out of hand.

          I think there are ways of discussing even controversial topics without the conversation spinning out of control, but I know that this topic in particular touches a nerve with a lot of folks. Just please try to be mindful of whether you’re escalating or deescalating the argument in the future.

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            It’s of course hypothetical, and I think, totally within reason, it’s a thread about animal abuse.
            It’s one of the problems we run into when speaking up against animal abuse, people call us extreme when we are really just being up front about what happens in reality.

            I try to keep it civil and respond matter of fact and explain but it can be hard when you get so much toxicity thrown back at you, all because you stand up against animal cruelty.

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              It’s of course hypothetical, and I think, totally within reason, it’s a thread about animal abuse.

              Hypothetical or not, I’m telling you that it’s not acceptable for this instance.

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                I understand you want to keep it civil here and think it’s a great goal but what you’re saying would keep us from discussing serious subjects.

                When there’s context which explains why something that sounds extreme is brought up you should look at the context, not just react to what you think is extreme.

                I don’t think disallowing thought experiments/hypotheticals is positive.

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      Yes there’s no difference between a picture of a steak and fries on a plate, and a kitten being tortured then burned alive. Absolutely the same thing.

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        They’re both clearly abuse, the steak used to be a living being who was tortured and killed for profit/taste.

        Why are you people downvoting me? Do you think steaks don’t come from cows who are killed?

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          Why is it better to kill a cow for profit/taste?

          Both scenarios are needless killing of animals which is obviously terrible abuse.

          Is caring about animal abuse insane?