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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, we've warned you many times before, and if you keep doing it we're going to have to ban you.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Dan it’s not flamebait. The person tried to falsely paint a single example of behaviour as a common thing.

Unfortunately a lot of people seem to really hate Elon Musk, so “you’re right he only did this once but it was poor behaviour” turns into flagging anyone that points this out and then bringing up unrelated matters as an instance of whataboutism.

We’ve had three or four discussions over the last 16 years, one I’m fairly sure you’d now think you were in the wrong, so I’m not sure why you would say this is common.

Asking someone "Do you understand plurals?" is an insulting way of calling them dumb. Personal insults are certainly flamebait and definitely not allowed here.

OK fair enough. I did genuinely wonder how the parent did not understand that writing something happened multiple times when it happened once was untrue, but I should have used better language here.

Is that seriously your beef, that I said pedophiles instead of pedophile? You are completely avoiding the substance of the point.

Look at his post history and stop wasting your time.

You’re right. I need to do some serious soul searching to try to figure out why I am getting drawn into this head wall banging.

Yes. The fact you don’t think its a big deal to be caught saying something false says a lot.

I'm going to go out on a limb here with the way you've consistently dodged whether you think this is acceptable behavior and say that even if I brought up another example, Yoel Roth, you still would have a way of doing gymnastics around it.

I’ve stuck to the point about you lying rather than bothering with your multiple attempts to change the topic. Try again? Maybe it’ll work.

I have now directly addressed your defense that he has only done it once by bringing up another case.

No you haven't. You've added a story about a Twitter employee that committed harm being abused by people that aren't Elon Musk.

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