Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Crowd Erupts When Elon Musk Shares This One Major Change for Twitter | DM Clips | Rubin Report" video.

  1. Most taxes paid by any one person in history.
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  2. Absolutely. The right to be wrong, which on the face of it sounds like a pretty lousy right, is actually the lynchpin and font of all human rights, all liberty. It's also the true signifier and basis of adulthood: without it, you're a mere child—forever; with the government as your strict dad—forever.
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  3.  @markmuller8829  You needed to read it. It's high in anti-oxidants for your commitment to human dignity.
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  4. Actually, Musk left South Africa and his reviled father permanently at age 17, emigrating to Canada alone with his mere $2k in savings, specifically because of disgust at Apartheid and unwillingness to take part in it or benefit from it. MSNBC makes Tass, Pravda, Isvestia, the Global Times and the People's Daily look like great journalism by comparison. It really, really does.
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  5. ​ @ArtyGoat  Plus the capital gains taxes paid by shareholders (if they've cashed in any of their gains, and many have). Plus the taxes paid on its profits by Tesla itself. Musk and the companies he runs are producing a gusher of government revenues. Is there another person who is doing more to make the country wealthier?
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  6. ​ @markmuller8829  That sounds rather like an argument against freedom of expression as dangerous and in need of policing by authorities with the power to decide what is an opinion, what's a fact, what is valid data, which studies are valid, what are 'reputable sources' (!). Chilling. It's half a step or less from 'We need truth police to combat this danger. Your public expression will be evaluated for truth by me and my group or those we appoint. We'll determine whether it constitutes a lie. Freedom is tyranny. Censorship is freedom.' Don't you realize that is simply a return to the pre-democracy era, to the stranglehold of absolute monarchs, to theocracies, to the totalitarian horrors of the 20th century, to the China and North Korea and Iran of today? Who on earth taught you that freedom of expression is a deadly poison? Yes it can cause harm, but only in the same sense that any human faculty can. Far more poisonous and destructive are attempts to restrict it beyond bare necessity, i.e. the prohibition of incitement to crime, libel, slander, revealing of state or military secrets. That's about it. Want to do battle against lies? Your weapon is the truth, not force. If freedom of expression is so bad, how did two centuries of it produce anything so wonderful as you?
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