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It's unwise to assign these outbursts to Musk specificially. Like Trump, many of odd statements reported in the press are actually just them reflecting back od
by ZeroGravitas 3y ago
It's unwise to assign these outbursts to Musk specificially. Like Trump, many of odd statements reported in the press are actually just them reflecting back odd opinions held by the communities they are associated with, rather than something novel they've come up with.
So there's a decades long campaign against Wikipedia from the political right and Musk is just playing to that audience. "What does Wikipedia need money for?" is a classic that comes up all the time on HN and elsewhere.
- tstrimple 3y ago> rather than something novel they've come up with. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1716102436123783175 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1716102436123783175 I don't think anyone is confusing this with novel thought.
- Zigurd 3y agoThe extent to which Musk just picks up trash takes on right wing media shows how easily he is manipulated, and, if predisposed to those views, how lazy he is in expressing it by being so unoriginal.
- ben_w 3y agoIt's one of those irregular adjectives: "I am well-cultured, you speak in clichés, he is a stochastic parrot". You could say these things of him (he also does this with many things from The Culture series), but you can also just say that constant exposure is what turns figures of speech into phrases into clichés into common sense into cultures. But something something mote of dust something something plank of wood, or that other one about everyone can be fooled some of the time and some of us all the time — either way, point is, even if you can see his mistakes clear as day, we're all fallible to this kind of thing.