• g0nz0li0@lemmy.world
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    Elon sees himself as a truth teller discovering and interpreting information that is outside the mainstream, using his deep and savvy knowledge of the world to understand what is and isn’t important or relevant and using his platform to promote it. He thinks he’s the only person with the courage to speak the truth.

    In reality he’s just the 2024 equivalent of a boomer forwarding stupid email chains from his inbox without the slightest inclination to confirm what he’s posting or ability to tell the real world from obvious fakery.

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      He changed the algorithm to boost far right trolls, and he gets tricked by it himself, repeatedly sharing obviously fake stories from obscure accounts.

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        “Tricked” implies that he cares if it’s true or not.

        He’s not being tricked any more than Rupert Murdock is tricked by the stories his company promotes.

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      Oh God you just made me realize that he’s not a boomer and a gen x like me. Flying spaghetti monster help our generation.

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      without the slightest inclination to confirm what he’s posting or ability to tell the real world from obvious fakery.

      That’s not fair, they came with blue checkmarks!

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      In reality he’s just the 2024 equivalent of a boomer forwarding stupid email chains from his inbox without the slightest inclination to confirm what he’s posting or ability to tell the real world from obvious fakery.

      Oh. Israel worship mail from my grandma. Actually a bit sad she stopped forwarding me those. I think I’ve commented on some of them without removing the CC, maybe that’s the reason.

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      Is that his daughter? Would have been good information. I hardly follow anything regarding the pos that Elon is.

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    It takes a special kind of moron to accidentally buy a popular social against your will and still get hoodwinked by disinformation trolls on the platform you now own.

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        I don’t know he does it intentionally or not, but he doesn’t seem to care that it happens because of ‘community notes’ as if that magically absolves people of spreading false information and ensures that 100% of people retroactively suddenly know it was false.

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      To be fair, I’m pretty sure he bought it because he was easily hoodwinked by disinformation trolls.

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      Sorry, no, he should go to prison for his many SEC violations, not be murdered.

      Azealia Banks once called him Apartheid Clyde, it’s a great nickname.

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      Here’s a hint: he’s literally always been this way, he just had some layer of PR team insulation that doesn’t work anymore.

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      Always was. People bought into Tesla genius when it was Eberhart and Tarpenning that came up with the whole thing and started it.

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      Musk today is the same as musk from 20 years ago.

      Only difference is his cult of worshipers finally broke down and shattered cause they couldnt keep ignoring his rancid bullshit.

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    Unlawful imprisonment seems to be more South Africa’s specialty. Cough. Cough.