Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors

Re:Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors by slibhb on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @12:41PM (#30921267)

Nowhere in my post did I make that argument. If Elon used slave labor to run his factories, I wouldn't defend it. However, "being a troll, exaggerating, and sometimes lying" are not mortal sins.

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Re:Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors by Loughla on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @01:54PM (#30922440)

Again, not sins to you. Your values dictate that being a troll, exaggerating, and lying are okay.

To others, those things are in fact enough to say that Elon Musk is a shithead.

It's as if there are gradients of human behavior, and not everyone is always a cartoony villain or Dudley Do-right all the time.

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Re:Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors by slibhb on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @02:09PM (#30922663)

They are sins to me, they aren't mortal sins. Read slowly and take your time please.

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Re:Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors by Jcowell on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @04:41PM (#30924730)

Reading it slower or faster wouldn’t fix this since colloquial English would allow it to be read either way.

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Re:Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors by slibhb on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @04:56PM (#30924912)

Bullshit. I wrote:

> However, "being a troll, exaggerating, and sometimes lying" are not mortal sins.

Mortal sins are serious sins, venial sins are less serious sins. "Colloquial" doesn't mean you get to delete words you find inconvenient or don't understand.

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