• aes@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      Tell me one way drowning in Elon Musk news has made your life better or allowed you to create positive change.

      Elon Musk’s social media app changed some bullshit or other

      Yeah why the fuck do I care? Why the fuck do you? Stop showing me this shit

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        You can care that he’s awful and actively working to worsen our world and still not immerse yourself pointlessly in news about his awful he is

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          2 years ago

          that is literally just billionaire boilerplate. what the fuck makes him so special?

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        do you think that elon musk does not have a large effect on society? why do you not care about things that affect society? shouldn’t you care? shouldn’t you be less selfish? if you only care about yourself, then maybe don’t engage with social media.

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      As far as I can tell, caring about any rich and powerful asshole beyond deciding how to vote once every two years has never once helped my life improve in any measurable way. I’ve already thought Elon was an asshole for over a year now. Like Trump, there’s literally nothing he’s likely to do that will change my mind on him, so I rather not hear about him ever again. With narcissists like them, the best that could happen is that they be ignored in the public arena except for people learning the punishing consequences of their selfish actions.

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    2 years ago

    Right.

    There’s plenty of billionaires fucking our shit up but so many people seem to have a hate boner exclusively for Musk.

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      That’s mostly because he insists on opening his dumb mouth.

      He could have just shut up and focused on spending his effectively unlimited money, and would mostly have flown under the radar like the rest of them. Instead, he’s made himself a lolcow and lightning rod for (justified) hate, burning tens of billions of dollars in the process.

      He’s a walking mockery of the concept of the meritocracy that conservatives love so much.

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        2 years ago

        I don’t know about that, if anything, I think I have more respect for someone that is openly a cunt than for someone that is a cunt behind my back.

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          Musk has no idea who you are - it’d be difficult for him to be a cunt behind your back. This isn’t an interpersonal issue - he’s spent tens of billions to buy twitter to amplify his voice.

          …but all of this misses the point - maybe just don’t be a cunt.

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    2 years ago

    Bet you would have had the same attitude towards Hitler too, buddy.

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        I’m not comparing Musk to Hitler. I’m comparing OP to so-called “centrists” that align far-right when push comes to shove.