@daringfireball you invoke Barack Obama in your newfound cause. But Barack Obama would never call people “unhinged kooks”. Why do you think that is? What is it that he has that you don’t? Take a hard look at yourself.

Also, I would suggest that a person who becomes furiously angry at someone he percieves as siding with or supporting Elon Musk is deep down in a state of fear.
His reaction towards you may be irrational and really annoying but his fear of Musk is not “kooky”.

@daringfireball Someone saying that you’re posting on a platform owned by a fascist is not the same thing as calling you a fascist. You have misrepresented what people said.

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Unhinged kook here. If reach is one’s only value, then sure, X. Obama’s tweet is worthy, and needed. Dear gentle reader, send a couple of bucks Omar’s way even if you disagree with her.

BHO’s statement (as of this toot) isn’t on barackobama.com, or obama.org (good place to buy skyscraper tix tho), where it should be. Soft proof of DNC & adjacents’ dalliance with Silicon Valley and why, in a way, during his terms no one in DC feared him.

https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/117474021231958357

@daringfireball its at least now clarifying that all your takes seem to stem from an unfortunate compulsion for rancorous engagement

@daringfireball I agree with your points overall but you twisted 3 of the 4 examples. On the whole even banal down the middle posts on Mastodon get really aggressive pushback, to say the least, and certainly original or individual thinking is not well received. The last place I would go to have a convo where I can learn something. I'm likewise thinking it's time to pack up and head out.

@daringfireball how old does one have to be to write a post like this? Childish stuff.

@daringfireball It's not that you're a fascist at all, or any of those other names. It's that by being on that website you're contributing to the fortunes of a sincere, blood-and-soil white nationalist who also happens to be the wealthiest person on earth. It's a personal choice you're making to enrich that website, to not have anyone ever have to go "oh wow, no John Gruber in search results?" You can't get out of it by saying "a former president posts there too" - that's a category mistake.

@daringfireball If you find X useful, good for you. But I suspect many in your audience will think lesser of you for it (which is fine; we're all not perfect). Same reason why I don't eat at Chick-Fil-A -- It's still popular, I just don't want to patronize it. Same difference with X.

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John, you whole heartedly endorsing X in a reaction to what some riled up kooks have written to you here encapsulates what is wrong with America today.
To wheather this storm we all need to keep our heads cool. Living in X is not helping us do that.

@daringfireball False dilemma is false.

@daringfireball How did this go off the rails so damn fast. Folks can disagree with your take without being crazy. I (and many others) said as much without calling you a racist or a bigot. I guess this just seems like a weird hill for you to die on. It’s one thing to use X. It’s another to declare to the world that anyone who refuses to use it on principal is crazy.

@daringfireball When they go low, Gruber goes lower. Sad.

@daringfireball I find X vile, and know it's a dangerous place for many (most?) people. Gruber could almost make a case for it being relevant to him as a blogger, but that's not the case he makes.

The case he makes is that it's great. And like many X users, you can see him getting off on offending people with his proclamations.

That he made this post about a truly horrifying moment in US history into a fun "owning the libs" post is truly embarrassing.

Smugness with nothing to back it up.

@daringfireball yeah, this fella isn’t saying you or Obama are fascist. What a weird, blinkered take.

If you want to support Elon Musk’s businesses you do that. No need to start stretching truths.

@daringfireball President Obama is gravely and soberly sounding the alarm regarding America’s increasingly perilous democracy, and lending his support to Rep. Omar during the culmination of a frightening and harrowing intimidation campaign that MAGA has subjected her to for years.

Way to make it all about you.

@daringfireball only one of those links actually shows someone doing the thing you claim they’re doing in the link. Did you hope no one would click?