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Why am I not allowed to argue about those things?


What do you want to argue about exactly? You didn't even explain why you hate Musk or Mastodon.


It wasn't about why I hate Musk or Mastodon. Your claim was that if you argue against Mastodon, you're actually just a Musk lover, or if you argue for Mastodon, you just do it because you hate Musk. I can dislike Musk and think that he's making Twitter worse, and still think that Mastodon is a shitty social network. Those things are not related. But if I dislike both, I'm supposed to not "argue Twitter vs. Mastodon"? It doesn't make any sense.


> Your claim was that if you argue against Mastodon, you're actually just a Musk lover, or if you argue for Mastodon, you just do it because you hate Musk.

No, my claim was specifically about "arguing Twitter vs. Mastodon".

> Those things are not related.

Exactly! That's my point. They are entirely separate issues that are too often conflated.

> But if I dislike both, I'm supposed to not "argue Twitter vs. Mastodon"? It doesn't make any sense.

If you dislike both, then it doesn't make any sense to argue Twitter vs. Mastodon. It's a false dichotomy.


>They are entirely separate issues that are too often conflated.

You're the one that is conflating them.

>If you dislike both, then it doesn't make any sense to argue Twitter vs. Mastodon. It's a false dichotomy.

How?


>It's just an excuse for people to argue

Q.E.D.




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