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GPUs are massively overpriced right now- thanks crypto environment-destroyers.

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Dude, if you insist on spamming twitter reposts everywhere, without any commentary, can you at least pick ones that cite some sort of source or perhaps add a source of your own? Random dude makes random commentary posts don’t really add a lot of value and perhaps QT3 shouldn’t just become a curated version of your chosen twitter feeds. Some of us avoid twitter for a reason.

I even clicked on your link to see if there was some sort of article cited, but there wasn’t. It’s like “Jason Kander” went through the bother of creating a QT3 account to post his random opinion, except he didn’t.

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That’s Jason Kander, dude.
Uh, he’s not some rando.

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I also took the time to look him up. Still rando level to me, as he seems to hold no current political position. Certainly his own positions aren’t newsworthy (e.g., in contrast to say, Biden or Harris saying something like that), in and of themselves.

It’s still just a comment-less twitter repost of a non-substantive post from some dude. At least source to what Musk said.

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He was a rising star in the Democratic party, but then he started suffering some psychological problems due to PTSD from when he served in the military. That caused him to withdraw from the public eye, but hopefully that’s not permanent.

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I got to be honest, Twitter posting without any explanation has been driving me a little crazy as well. Who are these people? Why do they matter?

In general, anything posted should come with some typed words but the poster.

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Yeah definitely. I don’t mind citing twitter with an accompanying post saying “this is the newsworthy and/or relevant to this topic because X” but I’m not a huge fan of “here’s a thing from twitter, you should just know who this is and why it’s relevant” posts.

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God this. So much of Twitter are these declaratives “This is what you need to know” by someone whose profile pic looks the part of someone who had authority to speak whatever the topic is, but whom you’ve never heard of before and will likely never hear of again.

I get that meritocracy winners float above the ordinary din and speak mainly to each other in the confidence of their competency, but I need more than just “this is the right person” to gaf about a random Twitter comment than taking in good faith that some rando being quoted is that. So much of political Twitter is signaling, projecting and assuming.

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Another voice in support here.

@ShivaX I think you add a lot to P&R, and I appreciate that you submerge yourself in the taint so I don’t have to in order to keep relatively abreast of news, but dude. Please add some context to the Twitter reposts you drop in here.

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I’m not even bothered by any particular post or poster doing it - I totally get the desire to do so and even want to do it myself.

It’s just the broader Twitter quote culture in general that needs to be thwacked.

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I wonder how well many on here would take it if some new user signed up and started randomly reposting tweets from talking heads in the conservative blogosphere. I dislike it, in principle (which is why I commented), but it would grate on my nerves even more if it was the a bunch of rando hard right stuff. To me, substanceless/shallow, echo chamber stuff like political retweets exemplifies the ills of social media and a lot of why we have the republican base that we have today. Having it come from the left doesn’t make it any better—just less nails-on-chalkboard for my personal leanings.

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Pretty sure that person could write multi-page essays to go along with each tweet and they would still be shouted down.

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To be fair conservative points of view come down to few (non exclusive) categories like

  1. post with misleading, false or contested premises
  2. conspiracy theories
  3. reactionary or revaunchist positions (these tend to be like talking to a wall, since their priors are generally going to be very irrationally staid)
  4. The Professional Critic, who floats above silently waiting for liberals to make A Mistake and then floats down to lap up the spilled tears of liberals as he points them out. As soon as the Mistake is over, ascends back into the tax haven, deregulated clouds.

None of these are particularly welcome. Conservative voices that are rejecting basic premises - like there’s no way to fix gun, no way to fix healthcare, no way to fix climate, and no way to fix government, so let’s just lower taxes and deregulate and/or return to biblical morals, just are not welcome sparring debaters. I’m happy to debate the merits of certain policy. I’m uninterested in debating the necessity of having policies at all.

So it kinda doesn’t matter to me if that hypothetical poster is blank posting tweets or posting 100 page screeds. If those are your aims above, jut not interested in that content regardless of the method.

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I’m confused. Elon Musk’s statement on taxes doesn’t belong in the Income Inequality thread? Is that the argument here? Or, we don’t like hearing about it from twitter?

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A drive-by Twitter link of what may be a direct quote, may be a summary, or (being Twitter) may be completely made up but in character with no context to the link or commentary by the poster is the main complaint.

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More the pattern of drive-by Twitter links, particularly in P&R, that many of us find obnoxious.

I personally think that sometimes it’s fine – some obvious mainstream public figure says something relevant on their official Twitter? Sure, drop the link and move on, we all have all the context we need for that to be useful. But Rando Jackass Says Something Dumb Or Outrageous On Twitter is about as dog-bites-man as it gets.

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Personally, I’m fine with an official comment from major figure (eg., Biden, Harris) that is newsworthy itself or a Twitter post that has a link to follow to a reputable source (e.g., NYT reports on tax fraud). Those retweets are just like a poster making us aware of something via their own post, just short handed. It’s the random posts that grate.

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It was just a joke about Elon musk.

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Yes, this. There was no context necessary to get the joke. There was no value added by knowing who the tweeter was. There was no value to be added by explaining the joke. Sometimes a tweet is just a cigar.