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And yet people on HN keep downvoting me for supporting Elon doing this. I don’t get the people here. Remove Elon from equation, imagine it’s your company.
by stonethrowaway 2y ago
And yet people on HN keep downvoting me for supporting Elon doing this. I don’t get the people here. Remove Elon from equation, imagine it’s your company.
- jrflowers 2y agoThis is a good point. Whomst among us would not leverage our massive wealth and platform and torch our businesses to try and influence the politics of another country by supporting a group that attempted a coup? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/world/americas/brazil-politics-elon-musk-republicans.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/world/americas/brazil-pol...
- southernplaces7 2y agoIt seems to me that for the most part they disagree with this through a mix of emotionally reactionary hatred of Musk for not being one of those billionaires who spouts all the usual correct-think platitudes, and out of a nonsensical supportiveness for the current government in Brazil, it being of the left and opposed to Bolsanero, despite the autocratic nature of its court rulings against "disinformation". It's amusing how in other cases, social media companies and tech companies get shit upon for adhering to the rulings of certain autocratic, censoring governments, but then if one actually makes pretty evidently firm stand as in this case, it's suddenly an irresponsible and reckless thing.