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> Clearly Elon does otherwise he wouldn’t do it?

People are allowed to express themselves?

Nice attempt to strawman my argument. Clearly he has all the rights in the world to express himself. Conversely I have all the rights to express my displeasure with his actions :)

Unfortunately I don't have $40b to throw around to amplify my speech, but that's what you get by being one of the richest people on the planet.

> Unfortunately I don't have $40b to throw around to amplify my speech

Unfortunately?

> throw around to amplify my speech

Musk was just as effective on twitter before he owned it. Owning it didn't have much to do with his own communication.

Not people whose opinions differ from mine. /s

I see comment threads about the dude and wonder sometimes where all the hate comes from. People's dissatisfaction with society and injustice and scarcity and all bad things? But then why direct it at this person, who is working to electrify transportation, reduce the cost of space by multiples, make communication globally available, why not some oil billionaire or war profiteer or large scale polluter? Certainly they exist. They must not post jokes on social media.

Like I said before, two things can be true at the same time. I haven't shifted the goalposts here.

You bring up an interesting point: why can't you be just as effective - if not more so - by just doing the things rather than doing the things and shitposting non-sequiturs? By sucking all the oxygen out of the room, you're right, the general discourse is focused on distractions and not the real issues. If, for example, he agrees with you that the real issue is oil companies and climate change, why doesn't he focus his public energies pointing that out???

> why can't you be just as effective - if not more so - by just doing the things rather than doing the things and shitposting non-sequiturs?

Medice, cura te ipsum

>why?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

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