Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Elon Musk Buying Twitter" video.

@demsochimbo5383 Like any organized religion, your extremist idea is easily subvertible. All you need to do is shift the meaning of "Fascist" (Here's a hint, it's already shifted massively from what it originally meant) and boom, you're committing genocide like any good... well, Fascist.
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I think it was either Voltaire or Thomas Paine who said that in order to defend free speech properly, you have to defend people you dislike. It ties back into that other quote about not defending your neighbors when the authoritarian secret police comes for them, and by the time they come for you, there's no one left to speak for you.
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@dadbodenvy4247 That's "tabula rasa" political theory which I am staunchly opposed to. In effect, it's the same sort of thinking that led Mao to burn books. It is extremely arrogant to believe that human nature has changed so vastly in just 200 years that we must completely ignore the lessons of the past. Especially considering that most of the nations in the "first world" are still governed by these lessons. Without them, we are nothing but blind idiots stumbling around in the dark, hoping we find the right way forward by chance. The internet may be fundamentally different but we as people are not.
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@MrConredsX As a guy who has beaten Demon's Souls at least 3 times, what the heck is hard mode?
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@HalendleofLoc "Most people were fine with Twitter?" Really? Well, obviously people who use Twitter are going to say they're fine with it. But what about everyone else? Do you have a reasonable way to survey a sample group as insanely large as "people who don't use Twitter?" No you don't, the idea is absurd on its face, and any news outlet or sociologist claiming they do is lying. Ever since Twitter debuted I saw absolutely no reason to use it as a private citizen. It isn't a discussion platform, it's a broadcasting platform. It's only useful for public figures or companies who want to make a brand for themselves. This is evident from the way the website is designed mechanically. Discussions are not contained by topic at all, but instead like an infinitely branching tree, every single post allows everyone else to offer their hot takes on it as replies. This results in a total mess of exponentially expanding meaningless posts; there's virtually no way to follow a thread of conversation or coherent thought. It encourages people to yell at each other and not much else, because that's the only way anyone will read your posts. Even YouTube comments can carry a better discussion than Twitter.
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@dadbodenvy4247 You do have a point in that the internet has changed how we communicate drastically in ways that Enlightenment-era thinkers likely couldn't have imagined. But the problem is that the argument you put forth is self-defeating. If posts on social media aren't "proper free speech," or in other words important enough to be defended properly, then they aren't important enough to censor either. In that case the position that we should allow every unreasonable idea to circulate freely is just as valid.
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@demsochimbo5383 You're just like every other shouting match participant using Twitter, assuming you know everything about me simply because I've disagreed with you and updooting, as Charlie would say, your own comments. The only mystery to me is why people like you post at all. You don't change any minds, so it must be that you find some sense of self-righteousness by posting. Keep on LARPing the good LARP, maybe some day you'll really kill someone and get to regret it for the rest of your life. Won't that be fun?
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