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Murdered by Words

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Responses that completely destroy the original argument in a way that leaves little to no room for reply - a targeted, well-placed response to another person, organization, or group of people.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think she’s attaching his chimp comment in her reply as a way of displaying his hypocrisy.

But I’m not sure. I’ve never used Twitter and always find the screenshots stupid to read.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn’t use twitter before Elon bought it, and have stayed much further away since he has. It’s possible I’m misreading due to something like that, but if I am that’s also poor design. It looks like a legitimate reply to hers. If users can manipulate replies in line with their tweets that just makes the site even worse

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not a big Twitter user but how you know this isn’t a reply; firstly the date. The chimp tweet is 7 years old, the block conversation is from 3 days ago. Secondly, you see the white vertical lines between musks first and second tweet? That indicates it’s part of the same thread. The chimp tweet doesn’t have one because the woman has “quote tweeted” something he said in the past. Finally you see how “blocked” is in bold in his last tweet? That happens when you search for a word - it appears in bold in the results. I believe the woman went to musk’s profile and searched all his tweets for “blocked”. Then she quote tweeted it back to him in this conversation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This is correct on all counts, it's a quoted tweet. What we're seeing is the "thumbnail" of the link. Click it and go to the post

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

After looking again I did notice the chimp comment is dated 2018, so I believe I’m correct