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[-] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I feel like 80 percent of the internet revolves around bullying other people while somehow insisting you have the moral high ground.

EDIT:

The responses are proving my point.

He's not calling out Elon. He's calling anyone who likes Elon a massive loser. Dude's an asshole.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think there's a difference between bullying and calling out asshole behaviour.

Elon Musk is fair game because he's a total twat to everyone around him. If he was nice to everyone it would be a different matter.

He could be nice to everyone, it's totally possible, he'd still be rich as hell his asshole behaviour did not make him rich, it isn't an excuse and it isn't a requirement.

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I was going to say maybe he’d be less rich cuz a big problem with asshole behavior is greed and not paying a living wage and hoarding BUT then in not being an asshole he’d also be using up less money irresponsibly to hurt and annoy others.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk -2 points 9 months ago

He was rich anyway though. If he actually gets starship to work (and he will because basically the hard part has been solved it now just needs scaling) he will be the richest human alive he doesn't need to be an asshole to do that.

However I do think that Tesla is a bit of a boondoggle at this point, there are better electric cars out there now. But they change the industry they forced the industry to develop electric vehicles because they otherwise wouldn't have done.

[-] Saltblue@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If he actually gets starship to work

More like:

If his skilled engineers make a breakthrough in...

If someone makes the discovery, Elon buys it, and then claims he invent it.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago

To be fair to him, loads of Elon followers are rather dickish in their behavior, anything to defend Elon. That brings me to point two: anyone who defended an incompetent asshole just because he managed to get rich, is an idiot and an asshole himself.

Elon is incompetent as fuck (he got fired for incompetence, anything good he did is basically other people's ideas or work, Hyperloop anyone, and just the entire Twitter debacle) and he's a huge asshole (mistreats his employees, called the cave rescuers pedophiles because they didn't wanted to use his retarded solution, yaddah yaddah yaddah)

Anyone defending that piece of shit honestly deserves to be called anything.

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Devil doesn’t need an advocate. And victims don’t need to be gaslit.

I’m sure it feels that way from a certain perspective when victims finally get a platform to speak about oppressors who have been the real world bullies without being questioned because they have too much leverage. They should be able to handle it. If not maybe they should change if they don’t like it when crunching people results in getting told how they be.

[-] Torvum@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Yeah, kinda the entire state of discourse and why anyone not terminally online hates talking about anything in proximity of political or controversial. The only people you see blow up in attention are those so derogatory, shameless, and degenerate who are well passed caring about social consideration and manners in debate or conversation. It's literally just about the concept of ratio and "I have more invisible people giving me gratification than you". Social media gave birth to the concept that anyone can be important for long enough to get high on the feeling, and it's fucking dismal for a functional society.

I fear you're going to see gen alpha kids, who are consuming this at a rate far greater than any previous generation, will become just braindead. I've already seen it where a lot of 11-13 year old kids I know still act like they're 6 and parrot memetic shit that has no meaning beyond just being something repeated to them during their parental granted 6 hours of screentime.

[-] greenmarty@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Picking up on weaker or those who won't seriously fight back is these guys characteristic they are proud of.

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