But how do we hate-follow Elon then? We need our daily dose of outrage after all.

Are you sure? Last time I checked it just gives you a pop-up asking if you’re sure you want to use that word as some people can find it problematic and if you say yes it’ll get posted like a normal tweet.

Well I said black twitter because I’m talking about the Voldemort slur I’m not even allowed to say aloud

To my knowledge, twitter doesn’t block anyone from using slurs to begin with. I’m sure you can find plenty used on daily basis on “black twitter” for example.

That being said I’m going to need a more credible source than a random screenshot

It’s happening on a social media platform none of you has ever heard of before and will never hear of again. Calm down and move on.

I left Instagram when it became almost exclusively videos and now TikTok is allowing pictures. This is a weird world.

I’ll take that bet.

I haven’t made any moral statements about right and wrong. It’s a simple question about why something is the way it is. Simple question you refuse to engage with so no point in going any further with this.

I feel like you’re completely ignoring my original question. Seeing that despite being controversial it has 12 upvotes and zero downvotes then maybe that’s an indication that it’s a valid question and I’m not the only one wondering the same thing.

You’re free to go thru my post history and try to find examples of me calling people hurtful names. You just wont find any because that’s not how I behave and that’s not what my question is about.

My question is pretty simple; why this specific term? It feels so arbitrary. There doesn’t seem to be any logic behind it. I wont get mobbed if I call someone an idiot but for some reason retard is off limits. Why?

I bet there are dozens of people doing this.

Why idiot, imbecille and moron are okay but retard is off-limits? All of these words have been used in a psychological classification system in the past yet retard seems to be the only one people take issue with.

Idiots. —Those so defective that the mental development never exceeds that or a normal child of about two years.

Imbeciles. —Those whose development is higher than that of an idiot, but whose intelligence does not exceed that of a normal child of about seven years.

Morons. —Those whose mental development is above that of an imbecile, but does not exceed that of a normal child of about twelve years.

Edmund Burke Huey, Backward and Feeble-Minded Children, 1912

Yeah, the Raptor has never been exported to other countries

Well ofcourse he’s saying this stuff, it’s not like he can back down now. Sunk cost fallacy and so on… The thing about going to war though is that you need an army for that. Putin may be stubborn but I don’t think he’s stupid. Now is not the time to gamble with NATOs article 5.

For countries like China and Russia the issue is that if you’re planning to go to war you need to do it now because in few decades you wont have enough fighting age men left.

One child policy definitely did not help, but this is a problem on many other places too including virtually every single first world country.

What’s even worse is that if your country needs more 30 year olds it does not help to start making more children now. It needed to be done 30 years ago. It’s either immigration or automation.

Ironically GPT4 fails the turing test for having so wide knowledge about almost everything that you just know it’s not a human you’re talking to.

I’m literally sitting here waiting for the rest of my files to transfer so I can finally update my win7 gaming rig with… Ubuntu.

I don’t think that most of them care. It’s like the Musk and Starlink incident. People rather stick with the original story even when it turns out to be false.

Maybe lemmy.ml will unban me now that they can see I was right all along.

My truck weights 4400lbs. What SUV is 8000?