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Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.
Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.
Counter point: If I didn’t hear how badly he runs his businesses, or how bad his company’s products are. I would have easily bought one or more of his products.
I have backed out of Tesla pre-orders because of the bad publicity, many reports of bad build quality, and terrible business decisions.
If this was a puff piece, I honestly wouldn’t have bothered posting it.
Most people on the entire planet are aware of how shitty he is at this point. Everyone that would not purchase a product related to him is already not buying said product. There’s no more people to convince. Don’t act like a white knight while degrading the content in this community.
I swear this specific community is turning more people off to lemmy than any other. These type of posts are why.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect
And
https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/h45mt3xoby/econTabReport.pdf
Section 49, where 64% of people either liked him or didn't know enough about him to have an opinion.
My we are pompous today
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ten_thousand.png
Do you just go into every single article and spam this comment?
He's right though. We can't go a day without some inane bullshit about musk getting posted. This event happened 8 years ago, it's not even news. It should have "2015" in the title. This is a bad post, and I'm disappointed we always have to have these kinds of posts around.
Lemmy needs muting filters so we can just mute anything mentioning Elon Musk
There is probably a third party app with that functionality
Ya, I think most do. I never use my phone for web browsing though, personally.
Doing so would be a valuable contribution to the discussion and morally good so I sure hope so
Normally I would agree with you. But some of these comments here are dark humor gold, so I'm conflicted.
Sorry...
Another prime example of how shitposting has ruined the internet. Who gives a shit if someone has a funny comment if the content is literally degrading the quality of this channel, lemmy, and the greater internet.
If seeing the words "Elon Musk" really degrades your internet experience that much, maybe the internet isn't for you. Unfortunately, he's a billionaire, and he will be in the media until he dies.
He’s in social media so much because of the people that are obsessed with him like OP, not the people that are tired of mindless peons inadvertently propping him up.
There’s a whole list of billionaires that aren’t posted about every hour. There’s absolutely no reason to obsess over this guy.
That's exactly my point: he's one of the richest and most prominent people on the planet (something that I too dislike). People posting about him are not going anywhere because of his status.
HUMOR ISN'T FUNNY!
It's not even especially an informative or interesting article. It just picks out one tiny little story from the book and puts a bunch of unnecessary padding around it.
Unfortunately, because of him being a billionaire his PR is self sustaining and posts about him aren't going anywhere.
I checked the Business Insider news feed last week. Within 9 hours they posted 8 (!) Musk “news” stories. It’s ridiculous.