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Hating on Tesla/Musk companies is one of the biggest trends on the internet right now, so that's going to be like asking people to be reasonable about Palestine. It goes well beyond rational reasons - well into identity/ideology - which on social media is usually an impenetrable wall when seeking nuance.

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Musk has been very influential in making woke virtue signaling online less rewarding.

Of course the biggest virtue signalers are going to leave Twitter and look for other places to virtue signal.

I assume when you say this you just mean leftist woke virtue signaling.

I'll grant that right wing virtue signaling is more likely to be encountered in the physical world (e.g. the ubiquitous flag waving from the back of a pickup truck), but there's not exactly a shortage of it on Twitter either.

I'm not aware of the far right being labeled as woke before. Generally they are called conspiracy theorists, or MAGA. I don't think they are generally virtue signaling either. When they say Trump had the election stolen they seem to actually believe that and would like for Trump to take over the presidency today.

Unlike the left wing virtue signalers who say things like "abolish the police", but in reality do actually want to be able to call the police when someone is trying to break into their house.

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