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Do you even know who the CEO of VW or Mercedes is?
by drexlspivey 4y ago
Do you even know who the CEO of VW or Mercedes is?
- trentgreene 4y agoI mean, I’m a Mercedes fanboy, and I don’t. I don’t need to. I don’t care who’s running the show — the cars deliver on the brands reputation and that’s all I care about.
- terhechte 4y agoThat's the whole point. You shouldn't have to know. They're not out there calling harmless divers pedos, or retweeting far right material. They might have very conservative viewpoints - who knows - but they're not trumpeting them around and trying to influence other people in their political decisionmaking.
- eecc 4y agoThey’re probably significantly influencing other people, politicians with massive, unmatchable donations and behind the doors conversations. You just don’t know
- logifail 4y agoCould it be that some parts of the mainstream media sees Musk as a partial replacement for Trump, a great source of over-done outrage stories, clicks and ads?
- eecc 4y agoPretty much. He’s been that kind of “magnate does strange things” since long, but since he publicly joined the political conversation, he hasn’t done anything to undo that framing. Look, some of his points have some standing but the points have to be more nuanced. I’m also annoyed by PoCo and the power-grab by US identity-identitarian Calvinists, painting anyone that does not defer to their moral authority as fascist monsters. I’m also irritated by the “present your pronouns” because you’re “either an ally or part of the problem.” But indeed, for every time you snap back, there’s a real trans person who’s suffering an identity crisis, victimized and exploited by all sides of the polarized flame-fest that’s smashing any chance for a reasonable debate. I don’t know if Musk is a true reactionary bumpkin of just burnt out, and out of touch. He should really get a public relations specialist to fix his public persona and teach him how to stay out of rhetorical minefields.
- jupp0r 4y agoIs your hypothesis that there are lots of other CEOs out there spreading crackpot conspiracy theories that are doing so unnoticed by the general public because "mainstream media" has unfairly singled out Elon Musk?
- eecc 4y agoA few, just off the top of my head: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Döpfner https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Döpfner Who apparently texted Musk during the Twitter transaction. He’s a media magnate too eh! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barre_Seid https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barre_Seid You should thank this respectable man for the Roe repeal. Good luck avoiding their products.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> Could it be that some parts of the mainstream media sees Musk as a partial replacement for Trump, a great source of over-done outrage stories, clicks and ads? I think a bigger factor is that some parts of social media sees Musk as a partial replacement for Trump. And, particularly, that the part of social media to which Trump was most valuable for several years (before he was finally booted), and which has failed to draw Trump back recently despite very visible efforts, and which Musk now owns, sees him that way.
- mcculley 4y agoNo, I don’t. They must be too focused on their job to be tweeting like a petulant child. Maybe Tesla should hire one of them to run things.
- jacquesm 4y agoI do (and it's not VW or Mercedes but Volkswagen Group AG and Mercedes-Benz Group AG), but only because I follow the industry closely, I don't think their CEOs are household names until something goes wrong. Such as 'Winterkorn'. That's a name that probably rings a bell with many on account of the diesel scandal.
- bamboozled 4y agoIt’s a strength that I don’t know? For a lot of reasons I like Toyota and I’m super happy I don’t really know the CEOs name. If they do something silly I won’t have to feel like I can’t continue driving Toyota When I buy a Toyota