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Imagine if Trump or Biden bought twitter you have the same blindspots about Musk character as voters have about their candidates…and for the exact same reasons
by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
Imagine if Trump or Biden bought twitter
you have the same blindspots about Musk character as voters have about their candidates…and for the exact same reasons: he made promises to bring relevance to the things you care about such as Mars, EV cars hyperloops and all the other techno-utopian concepts he touts
the general population isnt as fanatically fixated on these things and so they dont have such blindspot.
as much as SiliconValley/tech community prouds itself of being so much smarter than flyover America some things and phenomenons stay the same regardless of a person having an IQ of 50 or 150.
Also Musk is not very good at concealing the issues he has and the many flaws in his character.
So you get a situation in which right wingers are happy until he inevitably clahes with Trump's own business interests represented by the Truth Social, at that point they'd all dump Musk for Trump.
Left wingers are unhappy because of obvious reasons.
Tech enthusiasts, financiers and cryptobros with a blindspots are the only ones being happy long term about this deal because they dream to become billionaires themselves, further they dream to become the peculiar billionaire flavor that Musk represents.
EDIT: When I say tech enthusiasts I mean startuppers. Musk isn't very popular in academia, material science, virology, urban planning or really any field in which he shouted his opinion on the interwebz giving experts in such field an opportunity to look at what's under the hood. (Eg. the "Zero Covid cases by April 2020" tweet)