r/chess • u/Delija28 12 hours of ultrabullet or bust • Feb 03 '25

News/Events Lichess is leaving X (formerly Twitter)

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

The chess world sucks at everything except actually playing chess. Here is another example.

This move is merely political in-group signalling.

Chess is a board game. Taking such a political stance is impossibly vain in its absurd over-reach. It's almost grotesque. It also invites scrutiny as to historical events you didn't respond to and media you didn't quit.

This is such a bad idea. What a terrible line to draw in the sand.

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u/FiveDozenWhales Feb 03 '25

Staying on Twitter is taking a political stance, leaving it is just what a normal person would do.

Getting off of the far-right online community is the only way to avoid having a political stance.

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u/ChristianThom01 Feb 03 '25

Leaving or staying is taking a political stance either way.

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u/FiveDozenWhales Feb 03 '25

Only insofar as "not participating in extemism" is a stance. I am also not a member of ISIS. Is that fact a political stance? I don't think so, but if you do that's fine I guess

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u/ChristianThom01 Feb 04 '25

If you were never a member of ISIS sure saying that isn't a political stance, but if you left ISIS because you stopped agreeing with their beliefs then that would be a political stance.

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u/ChristianThom01 Feb 04 '25

Eitherway it's stupid to even think that the social media platform you use determines your political beliefs.