this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2024
1116 points (98.9% liked)
Enough Musk Spam
2209 readers
238 users here now
For those that have had enough of the Elon Musk worship online.
No flaming, baiting, etc. This community is intended for those opposed to the influx of Elon Musk-related advertising online. Coming here to defend Musk or his companies will not get you banned, but it likely will result in downvotes. Please use the reporting feature if you see a rule violation.
Opinions from all sides of the political spectrum are welcome here. However, we kindly ask that off-topic political discussion be kept to a minimum, so as to focus on the goal of this sub. This community is minimally moderated, so discussion and the power of upvotes/downvotes are allowed, provided lemmy.world rules are not broken.
Post links to instances of obvious Elon Musk fanboy brigading in default subreddits, lemmy/kbin communities/instances, astroturfing from Tesla/SpaceX/etc., or any articles critical of Musk, his ideas, unrealistic promises and timelines, or the working conditions at his companies.
Tesla-specific discussion can be posted here as well as our sister community /c/RealTesla.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Guys like Musk is why I would prefer to keep low profile. If I am rich, I would not like sycophants bestowing me praises. One of the things I genuinely would not like to happen to me is becoming arrogant and out of touch. I'm no longer religious but I still remember what Christianity taught me. A lot of people don't really take into heart and mind of good teachings where ever they may come from.
Edit: clarity
Due to a guy at work spewing right wing radio into my work space for a few weeks before he was stopped I heard a lot of Musk in interviews... It is the most sycophantic non-sense that they pass off as journalism. The framing of the questions are always overflattering ("So we know your new plans for the widget is AWESOME but what can you tell us about....") and no actual critical questions are even posed.
A lot of it is that his entire company exists on hype. Critical thinking is trained out of his audience by simple lack of exposure. I imagine if an interviewer were to treat him as anything less than the tech messiah he just doesn't give them the opportunity. Provided the novel data problems with AI remain unsolved he may find himself in hot water if his audience ever gets wise.
Maybe the arrogant and out of touch tendencies are part of the mental illness that drives somebody to be like him. Not just the right wing bullshit, but the fact that he has to keep accumulating billions too. He can live anywhere and buy anything (except love, lol) and generally do whatever he wants every day for the rest of his life. But no, he has to have multiple jobs fucking up useful companies and keep himself in the news all the damn time.