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I can tell by the upvote/downvote dance on the parent comment - people love their celebrities. They get really mad if you talk bad about Elon Musk lol I find it quite pathetic personally.

I of course disagree - I don't see the "huge service". Everything from defrauding investors, customers, speaking out of school (saying he's a physicist in the early days), hanging out with Ghislaine Maxwell, stealing then tanking Tesla, destroying Twitter, he's a walking disaster to the point I believe it's intentional.

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I'm not sure how you'd see the "dance" but anyway...

I'd hold the "visited decisive politics" hypothesis at a much higher probability over "celebrity parasocial loyalties" for down and up voting in this case.

That said, trying to guess at the motivations of the diverse crowd here is fraught at best.

Really you've never seen a comment of yours bounce around negative and positive on polarizing issues? It's kinda cool to see, makes this platform feel more solid than others.

> celebrity loyalty

You must have missed that meme https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/477/624/072...

It was in response to the insufferable worship happening in comment sections everywhere. I wonder how much he was paying for PR each month back then, and what agency he uses. At any rate, that there was a good meme.

I have seen mine be down voted at times and then later up voted but not in a responsive sense. Have I missed a feature or maybe you're using an outside reader?

Regardless, I've only noticed for my own account. Perhaps you own both accounts?

I completely miss all the memes as a rule, thanks for sharing.

I posted the parent comment. Referring to the parent comment of MisterDizzy's.

I only have 1 account, though I probably should create a burner for certain topics... it seems that just 1 bad take here can destroy a career. Can't wait til this authoritarian phase is over, just want to share opinions again and it not matter that much.

Thanks for clearing up my confusion, sorry for it.

Turning otherwise intelligent people against one another is an old and battle tested control and mitigation strategy but yeah, it feels bad. Turns out nothing inherently keeps us from just doing better.

May have to start a company though.

> people love their celebrities. They get really mad if you talk bad about Elon Musk lol I find it quite pathetic personally.

People have strong opinions about celebrities they don't know, don't have any control over and have zero material stake in; news at eleven. (The last is the only one that isn't sometimes true about Elon.)

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