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In reply to the discussion: Do you like the inundation of Musk posts in this forum? [View all]highplainsdem
(53,746 posts)17. You phrased your poll question to attract the people who agree with you and
weed out everyone else. No "don't care either way" option. And the people who are concerned about what Musk is doing aren't likely to waste time voting in a poll designed to get people who agree with you to vent.
You would think everyone that gives him so much attention would have learned from Trump how you treat a narcissist, but I guess not. You don't give them the attention they crave, especially over blatantly stupid "look at me!" stunts.
You would think that after January 6th of last year people would realize how dangerous it is to simply ignore narcissists who already have power and are gathering more.
What Musk is doing with Twitter is malign, and he's targeting Democrats, liberals, journalists who can expose what he's doing, and governments in general if he thinks they're in his way.
If you want to ignore a RWNJ narcissist who's one of the richest people on the planet, and who's building a power base and a cultlike following, go ahead.
But I prefer not to wear blinders.
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It is NOT 95% of DU. It's 95% of the people who bothered to vote in your poll. People who
highplainsdem
Dec 2022
#27
I'll add you and the other one that magically now don't want to vote in polls.
W_HAMILTON
Dec 2022
#31
No, I have better things to do with my time. But if that's the level you want to argue at,
Emrys
Dec 2022
#36
I think you overestimate how much other people are invested in all this compared to you.
Emrys
Dec 2022
#60
I'm not the one being defensive. And I've explained why Musk and Twitter get so much
highplainsdem
Dec 2022
#45
I had that dude on my trash list way back when people couldn't stop talking about his tv show.
Iggo
Dec 2022
#16
I only open a small percentage of all of the post. If a subject doesn't interest me,
Chainfire
Dec 2022
#6
You phrased your poll question to attract the people who agree with you and
highplainsdem
Dec 2022
#17
Attention DU: I do not need to know every time Musk farts on twitter. It is not news
ZonkerHarris
Dec 2022
#19
I honestly could not care any less about what Elon Musk says, does or who he is.
lees1975
Dec 2022
#26
This isn't about Musk. It's about the compromise of a global town hall w fascist influences.
FlyingPiggy
Dec 2022
#28
It's a shit show. And it will continue to be a shit show as long as Musk as the owner.
W_HAMILTON
Dec 2022
#32
No, but neither do I expect someone to extrapolate DU opinion from 63 votes.
brooklynite
Dec 2022
#49
I think we can maybe gauge admin's attitude from something that happened yesterday
Emrys
Dec 2022
#52
Or the pro-Musk crowd whined about since technically it probably would not explicitly violate...
W_HAMILTON
Dec 2022
#53