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Elon Musk: Twitter Policy, Zuckerberg Fight, and Other Lies

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39 pointsdavidbarker13 comments

I've mentioned this many times before, but to me the pedo one was the one that opened my eyes about this guy. Because the rest of them you could say "hes an optimist, he believes it even if turns out hes wrong". But how do you explain him calling a guy a pedo on twitter, other than he's a person that is perfectly happy with lying as a weapon?

Feels like just the tip of the iceberg. He is a pretty awful human being.

What I'm more surprised by is how much people are willing to look past the things he has done.

But I suppose a large part of that is due to his reputation as "nerdy" and pure (baxk in like 2016).

More and more people aren’t willing to look past the things he has done. However you have to understand he has a network of paid and free sycophants whose job is to act as his apologists, and create a fake atmosphere of “winning” around him and explain all his actions as 5D chess. Modern social media are extremely easy to game. It’s near impossible to get actual good analysis of Elon Musk’s actions on YouTube for example. It’s all complete bullshit, fake news, crypto scams, clickbait, or politically tinted (both ways) and sycophants who post every day about how Tesla will moon.

I'm still waiting for all those Twitter handles to be freed up: https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/08/elon-musk-says-twitter-is-...

Vox had an apt comparison of Musk to Trump in a recent article. They noted that Musk and Trump both overwhelm the public with their flood of scandals and falsehoods so that we can't even keep track of them anymore (I had forgotten about many of the incidents in this article). A celebrity or politician involved in one scandal is always remembered and villainized for that scandal, while public figures who are perpetually in the news for their scandalous behavior get normalized--even idolized by many.

Isn't the difference that where Trump is selling the past, Musk is selling the future? And in some ways, their vehicles are delivering. In the end people can look past a lot of things when they think the perpetrator will help their cause.

Everyone is selling a future. We’re gonna build a big beautiful wall, we’re gonna drain the swamp, we’re gonna make America great again. This is selling the future. Even if it’s tinted by the past. A fake past mostly.

> In the end people can look past a lot of things when they think the perpetrator will help their cause.

A lot of people have principles.

I'm continuously surprised how flexible they are. Even in my case.

In other words, Musk and Trump are both sociopaths.

This just seems like a blatant Elon Musk hitpiece with little substance, but I'll bite: which part of this did other upvoters find interesting or insightful? What new information did you learn? Maybe I need to re-calibrate?

I remembered Twitter users were supposed to vote on all big changes, and learned that CSAM was up on Twitter for days and viewed 3M times, and the poster was unbanned.

The rest i already knew (the 'pedo guy' comment in particular was the trigger that broke the illusions I had about Musk, and my tendancy to forgive his overpromising).

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