• @[email protected]
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    611 month ago

    Free speech; but only in the context of “You are free to agree with my speech”

    Why does this clown get so much coverage? There’s even sad fanboys who reference him with their username. Smh.

    • @[email protected]
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      171 month ago

      He gets this much coverage because for better or worse, he now owns the Internet’s equivalent of the Town Square.

      Every dumb-ass decision, stupid-ass contradiction, and dead-ass brain-fart are exponentially amplified as a result.

      Every one of his fanboys are the true definition of SIMPs; suckers idolising mediocre personalities.

      Maybe once we start calling a spade a spade, will those lemmings perhaps rethink their positions? Or will they continue to barrel head-first off the cliffs of self-respect?

      • @InputZero
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        71 month ago

        Maybe once we start calling a spade a spade, will those lemmings perhaps rethink their positions? Or will they continue to barrel head-first off the cliffs of self-respect?

        Once we start, my dude, that’s been going strong since 2018 at the latest. At this point any Elon SIMPs left are following him blindly over the cliffs.

    • @knightmare1147
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      51 month ago

      “you are free to agree with my speech” his hard

    • @Drivebyhaiku
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      31 month ago

      It may sound odd but this could actually be a sea change moment for a lot of people. Having been stuck around far right coworkers enough a lot of them have hung their hats on the whole “free speech” lynchpin. That’s the thing they condemn leftist spaces for doing, that’s the hill thwy will die on. Their sycophantic love of Musk is bound up in the idea that he’s some kind of champion of free speech. This likely is the rude shock some of them might need to realize that was never true.

      Is it going to get them to revisit their whole worldview? Probably not. But it’s a crack in the facade.

        • @Drivebyhaiku
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          11 month ago

          I recognize that speech is never free when the place it is conducted is owned by shareholders.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 month ago

            Shareholders need profit. Shareholders will chase the biggest profit. They don’t care what you are saying - they only care that their bank balance is rising… until it’s too late.