I’ve nothing substantive to add, but I note that the logic gymnastics on display in comments from all perspectives is somehow telling. Of something. Not sure what.
It's just more evidence of the corrosive effect that injecting politics into everywhere has had, especially intersectional politics where unrelated domains are pushed to influence each other for political or ideological reasons in unrelated domains.
It's HN, arguing about semantics is what people do :)
If the half page of arguing by analogies to holidays about what is and isn't a rescue feels like an unwarranted response to a headline, the comments insisting the only reason people could consider labelling accommodating them on the next scheduled return flight a 'rescue mission' overly dramatic is deep love for Boeing or deep hatred for Elon's politics are wild.
HN is leftie programmer sock space but loves tech and there is no denying the SpaceX and Starlink tech is good, but Elon is a trumpie so there is a dissonance where certain people cannot admit this or their whole world-view crashes so it is easier to say "Elon bad!!" or downplay that this is an emergency rescue mission as seen.
> buying a social media platform for the express purpose of influencing elections is most likely not going to win you any favours.
The irony is that was going on before he bought Twitter. Stopping it may have been the reason he bought it.
We know Twitter at the behest of the US gov't censored the Hunter Biden laptop story but allowed speech that wrongly claimed it was "Russian disinformation". That could be considered election interference because it was a major scandal for the Democrats.
Twitter probably over censored the story. Considering all of the crazy demonstrably fake news surrounding this, I can see how handling this was probably difficult to get right.
If the right wing wants to stop getting over censored, maybe they should hold themselves a little more accountable to the mass amounts of fake news they share.
But again. Hunter Biden was not running for president. The right is still pushing fake news (Ohio) as part of their campaigns.
