Mark MacLean

I don’t know what age you get “too old for this”. . . But apparently I haven’t reached it yet! 😜😂

With the U.S. Supreme Court’s disastrous ruling on presidential immunity. . . It is more important than ever before that Americans ONLY elect presidential candidates of good moral character! Of course, the real tragedy is how few seem capable of making this!determination.

@elonmusk Look, as long as you keep sending me emails that say the message is from “X (formerly Twitter)”, I’m going to keep calling it “Twitter”, (and maybe you should consider changing the name back). 😜🤣

#FloridaMan Indicted on 7 counts retaining classified documents, refusing to return them to the government, and repeatedly lying about the whole thing.

@Matt_Dillahunty It depends on you intention? Do you want to focus on the issue/topic, or heap attention derision onto the person via your audience? My suggestion, don’t ask strangers. Reach out the person, let them know that you WILL be creating the video, ask them if they want to be named. ;-)

I'm considering doing a video calling out the toxic weaponizing of Christianity by an individual who decided that a recent cancer diagnosis was the right time to claim God gave that person cancer to draw them back to the fold. I'm fucking furious. Should I name them in vid?

@AGoldmund (Imo) TLDR was your very best. Most of RA was as good. And, if I can’t ask you to get the band back together, then let me at least say huge “Thank You” for some of the best podcasting that ever hit my ear holes. Just “do something” and let us love that TOO!❤️ (Even if ≠ TLDR/RA)

@pennjillette, @PennSunday (& @SweetMattyD) I would love to hear your “good use of time for adults” take on the recent movie “The Banshees of Inisherin”!! I enjoyed it, it has won awards (for good reason)and think you’ll like the adult thinking it’ll provoke! #BansheesMovie

@PlaylistOldies @elonmusk And that is a LOT less bullying from the FPOTUS to average citizens! (And a lot less potential misinformation).

@MarkMacLeanCSOC @elonmusk And I think that banning people on Twitter won’t solve the problem. There will always be bullies. So I think our efforts are better spent on telling the victims that they’re loved and bullies are garbage!

Reinstate former President Trump

@PlaylistOldies @elonmusk You are wrong. Banning some of the worst people from Twitter has had a major impact on the quality of the discourse on the platform. “Before the ban, Trump’s posts had 22.1 million likes and shares; after the ban, 1.3 million likes and shares across Twitter and Facebook.” - NYT

@PlaylistOldies @elonmusk Straw person argument. No one is being kicked off Twitter, or been banned from Twitter for “standing by a victim.” (If you have examples, please share them). 🙄 Oh, and if you can’t defend a victim in a way that doesn’t get you kicked off Twitter, you’re probably an asshole too.

@MarkMacLeanCSOC @elonmusk And I agree with you too! I just don’t think that average folks should have to give up their ability to speak because of other crummy people. I would much rather stand by the victim and tell the assholes they’re assholes, but I can’t do that if IM limited in what I can say.

@PlaylistOldies @elonmusk But again, why would you ever let “the majority” decide when the majority knows nothing (or very little), about what actually makes a good user experience on a social media site, or what makes a good set or rules or regulations? Again. . . Brexit-> Citizens are not economists.

@MarkMacLeanCSOC @elonmusk But if they’re rules, it minimizes subjectivity. Especially if “democracy” decides, because then it’s dictated to based on what the majority of people want! If you took away left/right bs, I fee everyone would agree on more than what we’d think.

@PlaylistOldies @elonmusk The fact that you (personally) don’t like or agree with their banning decisions doesn’t mean that their weren’t rules, and those rules weren’t being enforced. Or that they were being enforced, but in a totally unfair way.

@PlaylistOldies @elonmusk And btw, they do already have these “rules”. They are call the TOS, and they do (generally) try to apply them equally; (even though some amount of it will always be subjective), and even if you (personally) don’t like who has been banned, or agree with these decisions.

@PlaylistOldies @elonmusk Minimizes does not equal “eliminate”, and again, you would not want “the majority” deciding which plane to land next, so why wouldn’t social media experts and data analysts be better positioned than the average (and let’s face it, ignorant), person, to make these decisions.

@PlaylistOldies @elonmusk Also, I’m not (for a second) buying your “they all do it” equivalence argument. Not all people do the same thing, or do it to the same degree. This is a common argumentation strategy to downplay just how egregious one-sides norm violations are compared to the others. Not the same

@MarkMacLeanCSOC @elonmusk All of them! They all attempt to use their authority to silence the other side. Trump did, Biden does. They’re all guilty. That’s why everyone needs a voice. Because everybody should be able to share their viewpoint no matter who’s in charge.

@PlaylistOldies @elonmusk Again, everyone HAS a voice (right now), so that is not the issue. Not everyone has, (or is entitled to) a Twitter presence, especially if someone abuses that privilege by violating the TOS. And people can share their viewpoints, just not on Twitter if they break Twitter’s rules.

@PlaylistOldies @elonmusk And it should be obvious that PLENTY of merely ignorant people are still on the platform. Plus, the recently released internal Twitter records shows that Trump regularly and repeatedly violated the TOS, and yet. . . was given an exemption to banning because he was the POTUS.

@MarkMacLeanCSOC @elonmusk I agree there are a lot of ignorant people. However, I’m sure they’re are people that would call you, or myself “ignorant”, so we can’t just ban someone because we perceive them as ignorant - even if they’re. Instead, we need uniform rules. If you do A, then B.

@PlaylistOldies @elonmusk Stop playing this shell game. People are not being banned from Twitter because we “perceive them as ignorant” (or nexuses they are), (or because some people disagree with them). They have been banned for violating the TOS, (repeatedly). Ignorance alone is not enough. 😜👍

@PlaylistOldies @elonmusk And what about the words that someone is coming to your house to attack and torture your family? Is it good to chose to ignore those? Not give them “power”, even if the threats may be so legitimate, the FBI suggests you move out for your own safety? Is that your position?

@MarkMacLeanCSOC @elonmusk Words have meaning, but at the end of the day they only have the power you give them. You can choose to ignore something hurtful that someone says, you cannot choose to ignore someone if they’re physically assaulting you.

@PlaylistOldies @elonmusk “Brexit” is practically the perfect example (or poster child) of the lay-public getting completely “wrong” what was decision that probably should have never been given to them at all, OR should have been made by economic experts, who knew the disaster it would be (and has become)

@MarkMacLeanCSOC @elonmusk I hear you, but isn’t that precisely how our government is structured? Yet corruption still persists! Anytime you take the power away from the people and bequeath it to a group of representatives, corruption is inevitable.

@PlaylistOldies @elonmusk Even in an wide-open referendum, who makes the case to the public for each side? Someone had to present the evidence for and against right? And is there NO biased or expert opinion to be presented there? No recommendation to be made by well-informed subject matter experts?