Bolivia's socialists claim victory as unofficial count shows big win

Re:Bolivia's socialists claim victory as unofficial count sh... by the_only_law on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:07AM (#24825562)

> Their one trick is to always post about how evil America is regardless of context. They are supremely annoying.

This is a bad faith interpretation of that tweet. They were responding to a tweet about unnecessary government expenditure with an example of another expenditure that (allegedly) Musk supported. You can call it a whataboutism or attack it for a number of other things, but this is an irrelevant strawman.

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Re:Bolivia's socialists claim victory as unofficial count sh... by macspoofing on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:10AM (#24825582)

>This is a bad faith interpretation of that tweet

What are you talking about? The tweet Musk trolled is in bad faith. That doofus accused Musk of staging a coup. And yes, it is 'whataboutism'.

>another expenditure that (allegedly) Musk supported

Allegedly? Who alleged this? Where are you getting that from?

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Re:Bolivia's socialists claim victory as unofficial count sh... by the_only_law on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:12AM (#24825600)

Its pretty clear what I'm talking about given the direct quote and subsequent explanation.

> Allegedly? Who alleged this?

Literally the tweet you are attacking. I'm not sure if you are playing dumb on purpose or what.

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Re:Bolivia's socialists claim victory as unofficial count sh... by macspoofing on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:13AM (#24825611)

Oh.. so the only person who 'alleged' this, was this bad faith doofus who accused Musk of supporting (or staging) the coup in Bolivia. Gotcha ... though I still fail to see what is the a good faith interpretation of that tweet.

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Re:Bolivia's socialists claim victory as unofficial count sh... by the_only_law on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:17AM (#24825633)

The good faith (perhaps better faith is more appropriate) way to interpret it would be as I mentioned, and calling it out for its actual issues instead of trying to soapbox by building a strawman.

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Re:Bolivia's socialists claim victory as unofficial count sh... by macspoofing on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:24AM (#24825681)

I'm not sure what it is you expected. If you start with accusing someone of staging or supporting a coup you lost the right to a good faith interpretation of your motives from that individual. But this is par for course from online marxists.

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