[version_five]

I've been lurking a bit on Twitter recently, and I agree it has a larger right wing group on there that appears to be experiencing a bit of a renaissance. I can only see that as a good thing. It's mostly just people with different political views than the establishment, that are in general far less extreme than the lot of the left wing stuff you see. It's brought some natural balance back, which should be a good thing no matter your political view. Twitter's still an echo chamber, and has a lot of pointless outrage, but at least there are more perspectives now.

I don't buy in to the idea that twitter is censorship free, or neutral, there seems to be lots of exceptions. But at least it lets a different group of people talk. For a while it seemed like anything that wasn't ultra left coastal liberal views were socially unacceptable (which this article tries go insinuate) but in reality there are lots of perfectly normal perspectives people have.

[BugsJustFindMe]

I need more information to understand your comment.

> It's mostly just people with different political views than the establishment

Who is "the establishment" in this context?

> that are in general far less extreme than the lot of the left wing stuff you see.

Can you help me with some examples of "less extreme" and "left wing stuff" so I can understand your baseline?

> but in reality there are lots of perfectly normal perspectives

What are the "perfectly normal perspectives" here that we're contrasting against "ultra left coast"?

[version_five]

I find that "expand on what you're saying so I can poke some holes in it" style a really tiring way to participate in an online discussion. If you have a different view why don't you just say it?

[enterprise_cog]

I find the “make vague, sweeping statements about things and when asked to clarify cower away from answering because the thin veneer you used to try to cover your ideology will be stripped away” posting style to be really tiring myself.

[BugsJustFindMe]

> If you have a different view why don't you just say it?

How can I claim to have a different view from you if I don't know what your view is? If you don't have any interest in talking about your ideas, that's good to know, but then why initiate the process of talking about them with your top level comment?

> I find that "expand on what you're saying so I can poke some holes in it" style a really tiring way to participate in an online discussion

How do you feel about people who say vague things and then refuse to explain what they mean?

[anthony_d]

The parent made a few direct statements that seemed pretty clear so I’m not sure what you’re looking for.

It wasn’t me so I _could_ be wrong but I read this: 1. Twitter has more right wing content than it did before Musk. 2. It’s generally not extreme. 3. It’s good to have different views.

Yes, those are generalizations but I would think they’re clear and concrete enough to agree or disagree with. They’re generalizations so specific examples really wouldn’t contribute to the conversation either. I don’t get what sort of clarification you’re looking for. Maybe some sort of formal statistical analysis?

Of course, if you’re just not interested in generalizing about Twitter that’s fine but this whole article isn’t for you then.

[BugsJustFindMe]

> I’m not sure what you’re looking for.

I specifically indicated with quotation marks the exact phrases I had questions about.