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Real tweet by Harris (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That's a highly misleading characterization

They only briefly paused after people fainted and then continued and changed the format to a Q&A with a speaker. Only a few questions into the Q&A he said "who wants to listen to questions" and "let's listen to music". He wrapped up making it sound like he was done, but then just stood there for 39 minutes nodding to music

The whole town hall is online, you can watch it yourself. Here’s how he spends the last 40 or so minutes https://youtu.be/bDZgox580B0?t=7447

Edit: also he showed zero respect for the people that fainted. He was insulting their weight and asked if "anyone else wants to faint too"

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Alright. Might have misspoke. I saw clips which I obviously fell for the propaganda

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There were some misleading initial reports about it, to be fair

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah. I could have better researched better before I commented. Also I greatly appreciate you being polite.

I also deleted the comment

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Restore it and add an edit note that you fell for the propaganda so others can learn from you too. Strike out the text if you want to be extra clear.

Own your mistakes and help everyone!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Good idea. I don't know how to strike out sentences, so if you could help me with that? I'll work on restoring the comment

Edit: I actually don't know how to restore the comment

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

For future striking out sentences use ~~ around the text ~~like this~~ to make it look ~~like this~~

Not sure if there's a way to restore comments

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sweet. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I like you and the humility you’ve displayed here. Thanks for being a reasonable person.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

The world is being restored one conversation at a time. You're both upstanding internet anons.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you are using an app I have no idea, but on a browser the three dots underneath switches between Delete and Undelete. The text editor options has one to ~~strike through~~ whatever text you have already highlighted. If the strike through shows squiggles you might need to remove some spaces as they have to be right against the first and last words to work right.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Done

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I applaud you taking one for the team!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I had to do it paragraph-by-paragraph. It is working now

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Sadly this is how it works. Now imagine you're one of the millions of people who absolutely wouldn't care to dive deeper into this and just argue from the rooftops that he's a brilliant person.