• alienanimals@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.

    Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

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      Counter point: If I didn’t hear how badly he runs his businesses, or how bad his company’s products are. I would have easily bought one or more of his products.

      I have backed out of Tesla pre-orders because of the bad publicity, many reports of bad build quality, and terrible business decisions.

      If this was a puff piece, I honestly wouldn’t have bothered posting it.

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        Most people on the entire planet are aware of how shitty he is at this point. Everyone that would not purchase a product related to him is already not buying said product. There’s no more people to convince. Don’t act like a white knight while degrading the content in this community.

        I swear this specific community is turning more people off to lemmy than any other. These type of posts are why.

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          Last time I mentioned Musk in a casual conversation, this one guy kept going on and on about how he thinks he’s a genius and how Twitter will be so much better now and how he’ll bring us all into space and how people only don’t like him because he’s conservative. He would have kept talking forever if we didn’t change the subject.

          My point is that lots of people don’t know how shitty he is. Some people live in an echo chamber where they don’t ever hear about that stuff because certain people want to sell a narrative where the rich man is competent and the poor people are just jealous. Others just aren’t very attentive.

          Not everyone is you. It’s good that you know he’s shit, but you shouldn’t assume that everyone knows everything you do. It’s important that we dispel the myth that the rich and powerful got that way by being smarter than us. If it takes a hundred articles to do that, then it will all be worth it.

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            I’m convinced he pays an entire meme troll team to create propaganda that boost his internet persona.

            I’ve seen videos on Tiktok with no other purpose than to say how genius Elmo is, and how he worked his way from nothing, that he is essentially superior to everyone else.

            Who in their right mind would create such a video if they weren’t being paid for it?

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        He’s right though. We can’t go a day without some inane bullshit about musk getting posted. This event happened 8 years ago, it’s not even news. It should have “2015” in the title. This is a bad post, and I’m disappointed we always have to have these kinds of posts around.

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          1 year ago

          Lemmy needs muting filters so we can just mute anything mentioning Elon Musk

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              Ya, I think most do. I never use my phone for web browsing though, personally.

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        Doing so would be a valuable contribution to the discussion and morally good so I sure hope so

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      Normally I would agree with you. But some of these comments here are dark humor gold, so I’m conflicted.

      Sorry…

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        Another prime example of how shitposting has ruined the internet. Who gives a shit if someone has a funny comment if the content is literally degrading the quality of this channel, lemmy, and the greater internet.

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          If seeing the words “Elon Musk” really degrades your internet experience that much, maybe the internet isn’t for you. Unfortunately, he’s a billionaire, and he will be in the media until he dies.

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            He’s in social media so much because of the people that are obsessed with him like OP, not the people that are tired of mindless peons inadvertently propping him up.

            There’s a whole list of billionaires that aren’t posted about every hour. There’s absolutely no reason to obsess over this guy.

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              That’s exactly my point: he’s one of the richest and most prominent people on the planet (something that I too dislike). People posting about him are not going anywhere because of his status.

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      It’s not even especially an informative or interesting article. It just picks out one tiny little story from the book and puts a bunch of unnecessary padding around it.

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      Unfortunately, because of him being a billionaire his PR is self sustaining and posts about him aren’t going anywhere.

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      I checked the Business Insider news feed last week. Within 9 hours they posted 8 (!) Musk “news” stories. It’s ridiculous.