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Comment by paxys | Hacker News Reader

The hardest thing in the world is to get a stubborn person to admit they were wrong. They will double and triple and quadruple down on their stance even if they themselves are hurting because of it.

This really describes the entire American political climate right now.

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It’s worse. The various cults of the American political landscape seem to almost delight in being stubbornly wrong as long as it angers the other side. The goal is to own the libs, offend the fundies, troll the MAGAts, trigger the boomers, whatever.

People just want to fight. The ideas seem like a side show. Maybe it’s all just a pressure valve for rage over rapid change and socioeconomic uncertainty.

I live in Italy a it’s more or less the same here.

People existing: ...

People mad certain people exist: We will directly violate your rights every chance we get!

People existing: You can't do that, we'll fight back.

People mad certain people exist: Help! We're being oppressed!

Some people want to fight, some people need to defend themselves from those people.

Yes BoTh SiDeS aRe SaMe!

contrary to the implications of your comment, elon musk doesn't seem to be doubling down on his stance favoring free speech

He’s doubling down on not being wrong to buy twitter for somewhat dodgy reasons?

Elon has never had a stance favoring free speech. His behavior has been consistent since the day he took over Twitter – anything he likes will be amplified, anything he does not will be removed.

Musk's behavior and what he claims his stance is are different things. And, in fact, we call this kind of diversion "hypocrisy".

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