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And what is this author’s motivation for writing an entire series of vitriolic articles about bad man Elon Musk? I’ve noticed lately that such articles get upvo
by LanceJones 3y ago
And what is this author’s motivation for writing an entire series of vitriolic articles about bad man Elon Musk? I’ve noticed lately that such articles get upvoted a lot on HN.
- Kapura 3y agoHe's done a lot of bad things? Things that are bad for the public? In a very public way? Feels like the sort of thing that a series of articles was invented exactly to address.
- creaturemachine 3y agoLook, Elon had a good run but he's no messiah.
- HumblyTossed 3y agoMaybe people are tiring of all the billionaire worshiping. Especially when our current crop are just not great people.
- RetpolineDrama 3y agoI don't see anyone "worshiping", I see neutrals and haters. Haters spend a lot of time talking about these supposed worshipers, but I don't see them in comment sections.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoThey exist. Have had a few in my circles here in the Midwest, especially since he went hard right. You can find them on YouTube and Reddit and FB.
- snovv_crash 3y agoDid he go hard right? Can you give some examples?
- paulryanrogers 3y agoCalling Democrats the party of "division and hate" (not suggesting they are perfect), encouraging people to vote Republican, moving out of state to dodge regulations, defending Scott Adams, opposing unions (sometimes using illegal tactics), allowing Alex Jones to return to Twitter, agreeing with antisemitisic tweets, advocating for absolute free speech (except where people criticize him / his interests).
- snovv_crash 3y agoSo you're saying he doesn't have a PR firm and besides that acts like any other billionaire.
- notnaut 3y agoI spend a lot more time with salt of the earth people than the big head engineers everyone else here seems to be around all day. There are bountiful fanboys. The same folks that would flog themselves 5 times if it meant the libs get hit once.
- footy 3y agothe author's motivation is likely to expose bad man Elon Musk I remember like six or seven? years ago when I used to be active on reddit I was on a sub called r/enoughMuskSpam. At the time this was kind of a fringe view. It is less so now, partially due to work like this (and partially due to Musk's own, very public stunts) I don't understand the point of this question in that you could ask it of almost anything.
- snovv_crash 3y agoWell, he did remove the current administration's tight collaboration with Twitter's censorship system. He also fired the majority of Twitter's engineers. Between these I can imagine a lot of people in the San Francisco don't particularly like him, regardless of anything else.