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Comment by stainablesteel | Hacker News Reader

what's crystal clear to me is that your specific echo bubble (we all have one), advertises constant negative press about him. it doesn't make it real, twitter is booming and people love him more than ever

i hope you someday find the happiness to stop micro-observing everything about what elon is doing in his day to day life

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> In the seven months since Musk bought the company he singlehandedly fired nearly every employee, accidentally locked the remainder out of the headquarters, turned blue-check validation into a living nightmare for international brands, un-banned some of the most notorious and repugnant users from white nationalists to bigots and racists, mis-branded news outlets as state-sponsored, threatened to open a news agency to impersonation on his platform, cancelled most of the API, and tried to extort the very brands his platform depended on in a cash-for-validation scheme that backfired spectacularly.

Which one of those claims wasn't real?

"Singlehandedly fired nearly every employee" <- false for normal uses of "nearly every", going from 8000 to 1500 but a ton will be voluntary leavers

"turned blue-check validation into a living nightmare for international brands" <- brands now have yellow checks

"mis-branded news outlets as state-sponsored" <- all the ones with that label that I'm aware of have state funding

what isn't real is the disaster you're trying to paint, its the framing

elon's a great guy who does amazing work, and twitter is booming, making more money than ever even

> twitter is booming and people love him more than ever

Booming with cat and dog torture videos?

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/cat-dog-torture-video...

Exactly. The list of talking points are a Mastodon meme. Catastrophizing everything into fascism.

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