From my perspective, X experience has improved a lot since Elon's acquisition.

What actually got worse materially? I hear a lot of gesturing 'Orange man bad', 'Elon help orange man, so Elon bad' but I cannot reach any of these conclusions from first principles looking at Trump's policies while he was President... Aside from the Jan 6 incident... But I don't see consensus there between either side so I do have some doubts and questions about the true nature of that incident. The fact is, nobody on Jan 6 had guns besides police officers. How can that possibly be an insurrection? Please correct me if I'm wrong there.

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_DeadFred_ 10 months ago | parent [-]

The confederate flag has only been raised inside our capital buildings once, and that was on Jan 6.

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cryptica 10 months ago | parent [-]

Well, you can't overthrow a government with a piece of cloth. So I still don't see how it could be called an insurrection.

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drivingmenuts 10 months ago | parent [-]

Just because you suck at doing something doesn't change what you're attempting to do. They were there to execute elected officials and attempt to stop required processes in the belief that would invalidate an election they lost.

Sounds like an insurrection to me.

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caekislove 10 months ago | parent [-]

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	▲	drivingmenuts 10 months ago \| parent [-]
		Just because someone on your side gets shot doesn't suddenly put you in the right. While one insurrectionist was killed. The insurrectionists managed to injure 138 officers, capital and metro, 15 of them severely, who were there to defend the Capitol from them. I would argue the insurrectionists got off relatively lightly. One person was killed and the ones jailed all got far lighter sentences than they deserved. Which part of "they were there to execute government officials" are you failing to understand? I don't always agree with the government, but I also don't decide to murder people just because I'm upset, which is what the insurrectionists intended to do.