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"The left" has hated Musk for far, far longer than two years. He's been anti-union forever.
by TillE 4y ago
"The left" has hated Musk for far, far longer than two years. He's been anti-union forever.
- gadders 4y agoPossibly, but not at the volume since he said he wanted to make Twitter apolitical.
- drcongo 4y agoYes they have. This is confirmation bias.
- gadders 4y agoI think it's more like cognitive dissonance. Let's solve this like geeks though - someone cleverer than me run some sentiment analysis on all Hacker News comments featuring Elon Musk for the last 5 years or so.
- drcongo 4y agoI actually went back through my own comments to check, my first post mentioning Musk [0] was incredulity at someone claiming the shambolic launch of the Cybertruck might have been deliberately dreadful as some kind of marketing exercise. The Musk worshippers have always been here, but so have the people who can see that not only is the emperor not wearing any clothes, he's also a blithering idiot. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21604570 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21604570
- gadders 4y agoI may disagree with a lot of billionaires politically, but I tend to assume they're usually smarter than me as they're billionaires and I'm not (absent inherited wealth).
- pwinnski 4y agoThere have been an unending stream of Musk worshippers, or general billionaire-worshippers such as yourself, but there have been many people highlighting Musk's many, many, many, many failings for several years. Are you surprised that the more he speaks, the more people shift from one side to the other? Over time, I would assume sentiment would be more and more and more negative, but the negativity has always been there alongside the adulation.
- gadders 4y agoI'm not a billionaire worshipper. There are plenty of billionaires that I think are appalling people - Zuckerberg, Soros, Gates.