• @Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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    623 months ago

    Free speech; but only in the context of “You are free to agree with my speech”

    Why does this clown get so much coverage? There’s even sad fanboys who reference him with their username. Smh.

    • @thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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      163 months ago

      He gets this much coverage because for better or worse, he now owns the Internet’s equivalent of the Town Square.

      Every dumb-ass decision, stupid-ass contradiction, and dead-ass brain-fart are exponentially amplified as a result.

      Every one of his fanboys are the true definition of SIMPs; suckers idolising mediocre personalities.

      Maybe once we start calling a spade a spade, will those lemmings perhaps rethink their positions? Or will they continue to barrel head-first off the cliffs of self-respect?

      • @InputZero@lemmy.world
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        73 months ago

        Maybe once we start calling a spade a spade, will those lemmings perhaps rethink their positions? Or will they continue to barrel head-first off the cliffs of self-respect?

        Once we start, my dude, that’s been going strong since 2018 at the latest. At this point any Elon SIMPs left are following him blindly over the cliffs.

    • @Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
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      It may sound odd but this could actually be a sea change moment for a lot of people. Having been stuck around far right coworkers enough a lot of them have hung their hats on the whole “free speech” lynchpin. That’s the thing they condemn leftist spaces for doing, that’s the hill thwy will die on. Their sycophantic love of Musk is bound up in the idea that he’s some kind of champion of free speech. This likely is the rude shock some of them might need to realize that was never true.

      Is it going to get them to revisit their whole worldview? Probably not. But it’s a crack in the facade.

  • @solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    433 months ago

    the party of “why can’t you hire people based on skill rather than because they’re black” doesn’t want anyone to hire people based on their skills

    • @Bronzebeard@lemm.ee
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      573 months ago

      It’s not the skills they’re looking for when they’re hiring h1bs in tech. It’s the ability to underpay due to the threat of deportation without their sponsorship as an employer that they want.

      You can get the skills here. But you have to pay for them. These greedy shits don’t want to do that.

    • @kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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      323 months ago

      He’s been censoring anyone who disagrees with him, regardless of their political affiliation.

  • @Snapz@lemmy.world
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    Realize the new tactic, trump admin will have the day of secondary goons fighting in public over multiple concepts, they’ll wait to see where public sentiment falls, and then trump will jump on the bandwagon and “punish” the face of the “losing” side.

    Realize that old orange bag of loose shit is silent through this “controversy”. And, in the meantime, heritage foundation directed gop will use every second of the distraction to quietly pass bad law.

    Examples:

    • they just quietly defunded the department that tracks and reports on foreign propaganda efforts after musk just attacked it publicly link

    • And they just gutted $20b from the IRS that could be used to audit millionaires and billionaires - the IRS famously brings in more money for every dollar funded into the service link

        • Glad to be of assistance. It’s like arguments amongst multiple ADHD children. The topic is always changing, nothing is truly resolved, and whoever was loudest, most aggressive, and talked the longest usually got their way.

  • modifier
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    213 months ago

    Well who are his accusers? Can we even trust them; do they even have a blue check?

  • @Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
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    203 months ago

    So if the left runs to Bluesky and the right runs back to Truth social, poor old Elon will have a pretty expensive ghost town. I feel for him… Poor guy

  • @WilderSeek@lemmy.world
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    This is all public theater to distract from his actual actions with the government—and the tech industry, too.

    • @orcrist@lemm.ee
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      53 months ago

      No, it’s not. Trump is too shallow for that. This is a legit question of policy with many racist motives from multiple parties.