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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social

It's not normal to see someone flinging around the N-word; four years ago anyone who acted like that was swiftly banned from any major platform. The fact that she now believes putting up with it is part of the normal give-and-take of public discourse shows how thoroughly she let Musk reprogram her.

aug 23, 2025, 2:51 am • 3 0

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mithrandir15.bsky.social @mithrandir15.bsky.social

normal (descriptive) vs normal (prescriptive)

aug 23, 2025, 3:47 am • 0 0 • view
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social

No, the entire point here is that Musk has manipulated them into mistaking his prescriptive vision of normal for a natural descriptive one. Twitter is not real life!

aug 23, 2025, 11:01 am • 3 0 • view
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mithrandir15.bsky.social @mithrandir15.bsky.social

Nowhere does she say that Twitter is real life. Nowhere does she say that Nazis are normal to see outside of Twitter. All she says is that Twitter has a lot of Nazis *and* a lot of other people whom we might want to influence.

aug 23, 2025, 7:51 pm • 0 0 • view