I could sit down and have a great conversation with, say, Mitt Romney or GWB, I bet. I'd learn something about the world and how they view it and their thoughts and ideas.

The white supremacy stuff is just trash though. That's not "tribes", it's unacceptable.

> The white supremacy stuff is just trash though. That's not "tribes", it's unacceptable.

Are you really branding Elon Musk a "white supremacist?" Based on what? Some ill-advised retweet of a crank on Twitter?

The "but that's not the real Musk" game doesn't work anymore. They aren't "ill-advised" retweets. They are who and what he is. Increasingly they are all he is. Musk is the crank on Twitter.

Musk spends all day, every day showing you who and what he is. Believe him.

Here are two exercises for you:

1. Musk is keen on criticizing many governments, both foreign and domestic. Can you find for me a single criticism of the Chinese government from Musk?

2. Musk likes to spread conspiracy theories. Musk says he is a technologist. Musk says he knows a lot about computers. Musk says the last thing he would do is trust a computer program:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/musk-pushes-debunked-...

Can you reconcile Musk's position that he would never trust a computer program with his claim that Tesla has a full-self driving computer program that does full autonomy (this time for sure!) and everyone should trust it (it will save lives!) and buy it and rent it and hail a robotaxi?

1. Why are you singling out China? Are you racist against the Chinese?

2. He was explaining that you cannot trust a computer to authenticate voters, and he's right.

Are those two points really the best evidence you have that Musk is a "white supremacist"?

> 1. Why are you singling out China? Are you racist against the Chinese?

So that's a "no" then. How do you account for that?

> 2. He was explaining that you cannot trust a computer to authenticate voters, and he's right.

No, he was falsely claiming that the 2020 election was rigged by Dominion voting machines. You haven't managed to reconcile the disconnect here.

You failed both exercises. Do you want to try again?

I'll wait.

If you keep breaking the site guidelines like this, we're going to have to ban you. We've already asked you more than once not to.

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Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

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What flamewar. We're getting at the truth.

Getting at the truth is always uncomfortable. It hurts.

Okay, dang, my bad - I should never have replied to the comment in the first place.

You don't have the intellectual honesty to admit to what's true, but you crumble the moment you're threatened.

This is unimpressive.

We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and ignoring multiple requests to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What is true matters more than your threats and your bans.

Indeed it does.