• @gerikson
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    1 year ago

    Someday I should go through the 6.5K comments on the threads where the Twitter acquisition was discussed and sum up the sentiment then vs now

    HN has a split view of Xhitter, every thread about it moans about how you have to have an account to view replies, but it’s also the great White anti-woke hope

    also the domain at HN is still twitter.com not x.com, which I feel is dang or PG giving Husk the finger. Fuck they even say “tweets” instead of “posts”

    • @Soyweiser
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      71 year ago

      White anti-woke hope

      Before twitter went down Musk was agreeing with people saying that the left is letting in illegals so they get more left wing votes (illegals can vote or something). So yeah going well.

          • @sc_griffith
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            61 year ago

            conservatives are absolutely convinced that secretly, everyone views outgroups as filthy rats, like they do. there’s a kernel of truth in that a lot more people think that way than will admit it, but conservatives usually aren’t referring to that as an observed tendency. they’re referring to a universal law they’ve made up, that anyone who claims to hold liberal or leftist democratic values is lying

            apologies for overexplaining something you already know. point is I doubt they even considered whether it would actually get people to go to SF. they just wanted to fantasize about Liberals MELTING DOWN upon hearing about the sign (because of course libs secretly think people in El Paso are like rats)