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The more you guys give this man media attention in this context the stronger he will become. The parties will choose sides and it will make him a defacto leader in which ever side he ends up on.
I'm not sure how to handle this, but in the US trump and elon got so big BECAUSE liberals hated them so much. They are like cheer leaders for assholes.
Unfortunately none of us here can control what the media puts out.
Yeah, I understand that and I'm not sure what can be done about it. In the US we gave up on having accountability in news reporting, and that is fucking over international journalism by... contamination or something.
I'm sorry world. I wish we had done more and better.
In Belgium, we used to have this tacid agreement amongst the press that they wouldn't talk about mistresses of ministers and kings. Because it was seen as just a private matter. It doesn't hold true all the time, but it shows that the press could decide to just not talk about folks like Elon unless they really have to. Not sure it would still work these days, now that most journalism has been replaced with copy pasting an article an making the title a bit more click-baity than the previous one...
Please Elon, come to Europe!
We need you so bad here!
See you soon!
Luigi
What does -78% approval rating mean?
If i had to guess, a 22% approval rating but -78 sounds bigger?
Or it is a two-way poll, e.g. how would you rate musk from 100% favorable to 100% unfavorable, and it averages out for 78% unfavorable
It's possible, but doesn't seem like a great way to do a poll like this.
If you're neutral about him it'd be 0% which looks bad but isn't and is an awkward way to answer.
Usually I've only seen that on the
Very dissatisfied, somewhat, neutral, somewhat, very satisfied
Type scales.
+100%: everyone loves him; 0%: nobody cares, or the love and hate are equally balanced; -100%: everyone hates him. It's clearer than a 0-100 scale with nobody cares at 50% because positive-only results imply a level of approval.
Unfortunately, shitheads like him have a way of festering popularity. Strap in Europeans, you'll be seeing more of him, and many spawned mini me's like him
If Trump starts with tariffs, EU can ban X and Tesla as retaliation.
That's a good perspective re: Trump and his lobbying billionaires. More places to hit.
The reason we don't have any of those nice things in the USA is due to multiple factors. But the one that bothers me the most is: conservative voters are willing and happy to let leopards eat their faces as long as the leopards say mean things about "liberals" while doing it.
What is "This will lead to the end of Europe" even supposed to mean? Will every inhabitant die? Will the land mass disintegrate?
It is probably some wink at replacement theory stuff based on the parties he is supporting.
Europe already "ended" and had "replacement" events so many times in the past it's hard to keep track. Yet it's still there.
(Lonnie dumb man voice) “it’s important that, uh, Europe change.”
Shut up, dude.
How do you get a negative “approval rating”? Wouldn’t the lowest be 0% ?
Presumably 0% is neutral, -100% everyone disapproves.
To be fair, I do feel fairly hopeless about my situation in Europe. But I'm happy I'm not in America and I know that any idea of Musk's will make things worse
Brexit was just a hint of the plan. Break Europe up into the same oligarchy that America is.
Are we sure he's not talking about America?
B-B-But look at all those "l-l-likes" from his MAGA flock!!!