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by bduerst 1525 days ago
Right, it's not limited to being offensive, and even if it were, you can limit exposure.

Also, testing if a billionaire (who has offended many people on Twitter) is lying is not deranged behavior, which is the point you keep avoiding.
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theonething 1525 days ago
Dude, the GP said they'd post "the most grotesque and offensive things." Please note the "AND offensive". And yet, you keep trying to deny that the GP's intent is to post offensive things?

> Right, it's not limited to being offensive, and even if it were, you can limit exposure.

What do you mean by limit exposure? How would the GP limit exposure of their grotesque and offensive tweets? And even if they did, wouldn't that defeat the purpose of their test? They are trying to increase exposure and see if Musk will limit exposure.

The GP is stating they will purposely offend people to test their suspicions of someone. They are willing to hurt (with words) innocent people to do this. You're calling this normal behavior. So if Musk takes over, it's okay to start calling black people the n word on Twitter to test Musk? I think that qualifies as "most offensive." And to call this testing behavior abnormal is deranged itself according to your words?

And some of your justifications are it's okay to do because Musk is the world's wealthiest individual and he's already offended others?

> It's a test of the word and motivation of not just a billionaire, but one of the world's wealthiest individuals - one who has publicly insulted and offended many people already.

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WORMS_EAT_WORMS 1525 days ago
> start posting the most grotesque AND offensive things
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tasty_freeze 1524 days ago
Yes, even offensive things. If you are a free speech absolutist, there are no boundaries.

So far you are railing on imagining the worst possible implementation of my idea. I won't speculate why you are that way.

I also think (a) nobody would notice my twitter account, (b) they'd probably block me, which would make my point, and (c) the people who did read my stream while it was active would clearly understand the context of my statements.

Think of it like The Satanic Temple. It exists not to glorify Satan but to test whether laws really are favoring some religions over others, in contradiction to the constitution.

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