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I agree about the statement of being surrounded by yes-people, but how does getting booed in an SF club (which must be pretty much a badge of honor at this point?) link to the "authoritarian right"? Does that mean that SF is, or Elon at least thinks so, predominantly "authoritarian left"? And how is that any better?

On the whole I think that the language from figures like Elon have indeed become too Infowars-ish, but I dont really see your angle of "not SF equals authoritarian right". At least that's what I got...?

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Did you see the clip at all? Elon looks genuinely flummoxed. He has no idea how disliked he is, because, as I said, he's surrounded by sycophantic goons. Getting repeatedly and viciously booed at a Dave Chappelle show -- regardless of where it is -- is incredibly notable. No one on the far left, even in SF, is attending that show; not since Dave forgot what it was like to be on the bottom.

As far as the authoritarian right, who else do you think the Fauci tweet was aimed at? It was aimed at the only audience that remains to give him the attention he wants.

Now ask yourself: who else attacks journalists? Who else acts capriciously and hypocritically while braying about free speech?

How does getting booed at an SF club equal incredibly and generally disliked? I find your extrapolation from an extremely small sample of ~100-300 people to, what quite obviously sounds like, literally 1-10-100 million or more people, very bizarre. How is that logical?

I'm quite neutral to all this political stuff. Instead, it's this mathematical nonsense of extrapolating from extremely small subsets to make extremely general sweeping statements, like "booed (not even universally) at an SF club" => "lots of people dislike Elon", that really gets to me.

Also, Elon has, many times, expressed that he isn't politcally "right" or "left", so to use a very small number (1? <5?) tweets to say that an individual is "authoritarian right" is, IMHO, just the same nonsense as before.

> getting booed in an SF club (which must be pretty much a badge of honor at this point?)

This comment is about as "(crying wojack face) Im not mad, YOU'RE mad!" as it gets.

I'll bite. As public evidence shows, the vast majority of SF residents are politically left-leaning and vote Democrat. The Twitter Files just surfaced what was already publicly available. e.g. Employee donations to the political left eclipse anything else.

So, as a figure who has A) been critical of the recent political left and B) has been "sympathetic" to the recent political right, of course will get booed.

That's where my "badge of honor" statement comes from.

Honestly, I think two things: A) This is a total nothingburger, because it was obviously going to happen, and B) This is way more of a poor impression of SF residents by being crybabies at what is meant to be entertainment, than Elon, who didn't get much of a word other than "Hi Dave" before a fight broke out.

I don't know. It's all pretty sad TBH.

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