For the record, I'm downvoting specifically because of the way your wording implies that someone can't be pro-democracy and also reference twitter.
But also it's really reductive to act like someone referencing twitter is "ignoring some world issues"
But really the reason you most deserve a downvote is because the article works perfectly fine if you skip the intro paragraph. If you decline to read the article, that's not an anti-twitter stance, it's just foolishness.
Also, my dude, the tweet was posted in 2020 and the article wasn't much later. You're going to retroactively snub the author for that?
However, I stand by what I wrote. Your argument about "wording" is, in my opinion, inappropriate for our situation. We need to be stand up people, to take a position one way or another.
Arguing that the issue of of pro-democracy and Twitter are not related is your stand. You down voting, whether in the guise of talking about "snubbing" or "wording" - is you taking a stand.
I stand against the things that Twitter has now come to represent. You stand in a different place.
I am definitely taking a stand that you can be pro democracy and also reference twitter. Especially in posts that were made five years ago.
Note that I didn't say they're "unrelated". But it's quite a weak relation in this case.
You're reducing things to a extreme level of binary thinking and taint by association. Insisting that people take a position "one way or the other" is too reductive. I also stand against the things Twitter has now come to represent, despite not expressing it the exact same way you do.
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[ 0.26 ms ] story [ 33.7 ms ] threadBut also it's really reductive to act like someone referencing twitter is "ignoring some world issues"
But really the reason you most deserve a downvote is because the article works perfectly fine if you skip the intro paragraph. If you decline to read the article, that's not an anti-twitter stance, it's just foolishness.
Also, my dude, the tweet was posted in 2020 and the article wasn't much later. You're going to retroactively snub the author for that?
However, I stand by what I wrote. Your argument about "wording" is, in my opinion, inappropriate for our situation. We need to be stand up people, to take a position one way or another.
Arguing that the issue of of pro-democracy and Twitter are not related is your stand. You down voting, whether in the guise of talking about "snubbing" or "wording" - is you taking a stand.
I stand against the things that Twitter has now come to represent. You stand in a different place.
Note that I didn't say they're "unrelated". But it's quite a weak relation in this case.
You're reducing things to a extreme level of binary thinking and taint by association. Insisting that people take a position "one way or the other" is too reductive. I also stand against the things Twitter has now come to represent, despite not expressing it the exact same way you do.