cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14079046

Elon Musk‘s erratic posting on X, formerly Twitter, has come back to haunt him once again as a 22-year-old Jewish man pursues a defamation case over tweets in which the tech mogul baselessly suggested the recent college graduate was an undercover federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi during a street fight between far-right groups. Musk’s excruciating March 27 deposition in the matter, which a judge ordered released to the public over the objections of the CEO’s lawyer, reveals the extent to which he has continually sabotaged both himself and the social media platform he owns.

  • The Assman
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    -57 months ago

    Elon musk is the worst. We should write and talk about him constantly, that will show him.

    • Phoenixz
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      127 months ago

      Exactly, we should. This way, more people will see him for what he is and stop idolizing him

      • @danekrae
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        37 months ago

        Worked well against Trump… Surely it will work again.

        Like the saying goes: “Bad publicity is such a thing”; or something like that…

        • @[email protected]
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          7 months ago

          I get that you’re like 12 or something but he’s had publicity his entire life, and both good and elons reputations only are getting worse

          • The Assman
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            27 months ago

            Their reputations literally make no difference to their means or power. Have you been asleep for the last 20 years? Donald Trump has been getting shit on constantly for decades and people still fork over millions to keep him afloat. Calling people names (no 12 year olds are using lemmy btw) doesn’t change the fact that constantly infecting our eyes and ears with these assholes only helps them.

      • @[email protected]
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        17 months ago

        “Having fixed our faith in a father-figure […] we must keep it fixed until inexcusable fault (what what fault of a father, a mother, a wife, is inexcusable?) crushes it at once and completely. This figure represents our own best selves; it is what we ourselves want to be and, through identification, are. To abandon it for anything less than crushing evidence of inexcusable fault is self-incrimination, and of one’s best, unrealized self.”

        “They Thought They Were Free”, Milton Mayer, 1955.

        https://share.libbyapp.com/title/3746723

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Thought_They_Were_Free

        People haven’t changed much.

    • @stoly
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      27 months ago

      It’s a good idea to allow idiots to make fools of themselves so that other idiots won’t think they are great.

      • The Assman
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        27 months ago

        Counterpoint: Biden is struggling against Trump in the polls

        • @stoly
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          17 months ago

          People say that then they say that it’s not that then they say that it is that again.

          • The Assman
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            7 months ago

            Point is he isn’t a billion points ahead of him, and decades of negative press made Trump no less successful.