• FaceDeer
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    -81 year ago

    But this is another opportunity for five minutes of hate against Elon Musk! Can’t let that slip by.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      If you’re referencing 1984, it was a 2-minute hate. And that hate wasn’t directed at anything. It was a visceral trigger to foster an irrational tie with party.

      • FaceDeer
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        51 year ago

        Good catch on the duration, I misremembered that. But it was specifically directed at Emmanuel Goldstein.

        The frustrating thing about the real-world case of Elon Musk is that Elon Musk is indeed a horrible person, as far as I’ve been able to discern. He’s an asshole of colossal proportions and I would never work for him or want to know him. But people jump from that to hating everything that Musk has touched, regardless of that other stuff’s merit or actual facts surrounding it. And since it’s a mob hatred any attempt to point out “wait a minute, this thing was actually good” or “this thing had nothing to do with Musk” or “this actually-not-horrible reason is why Musk did this” gets you lumped right into the same Musk-shaped effigy that everyone’s busy burning. I can’t count how many times I’ve been called a Musk-worshipper or been the target of homophobic slurs for trying to correct basic factual errors.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Good points. I’ve run into similar situations with many topics. Human brains are freaking weird.