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Off topic but I'm always amazed how many of the posts in the Fediverse are about Elon Musk. People are obsessed with this cunt.
Well I mean he's interesting as a case study, his decisions have real world implications and it seems like he's on a path to a meltdown that many people would love to witness in real time
He’s a modern Howard Hughes, and there’s a reason we know that name
It used to be fun to disabuse others of the Tony Stark facade. It's not as rewarding these days, now that everyone knows he'd grab a monkey by the tit
I suspect there’s a disproportionately high number of users on the fediverse because of this decisions with X
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He has certainly figured out how to be everywhere. Those who find him unlikable love talking about him just like his fans.
I'd like to filter him out, but writers can't seem to stop writing "Elon Musks SpaceX" as if we had to be reminded every time who owns the thing. Imagine every time we talk about Apple we put Tim Cook in front of it
A lot of people once upon a time trully believed the guy, so there's a lot who ended up feeling as having been swindled as they figured out more about the man and how most of his promises and his portrayals of the products of his investments were scam-artist bullshit, and that's a pretty strong feeling that transcends mere dislike.
Then there was a stage when only the most rabid fanboys still believed the guy and, man, those are infuriating usefull idiots with a cult-like view and fast and rabid at coming to defense of the guy. Those types along with TSLA small investors desperately pumping their stock like it was some kind of Muskcoin, did a lot more to turn Musk dislike into hate of him and his companies than they did to make people like and trust the man and his businesses.
And then as the cherry on top of the cake, came his coming out of the closet as a far-right nutter.
So it's kinda understandable that many don't just merelly dislike Elon Musk, they detest him, detest his cult members, detest the greed assholes pumping Musk-shit-stocks and thus genuinelly enjoy seeing the cunt directly or indirectly get shafted.
Fediverse is very tech inclined, like Reddit is. So there's a higher proportion of tech Bros compared to places like Tumblr.
There's a higher proportion of Techies here, not Tech Bros.
The so called Tech Bros, i.e. Startup Founders and Early Investors, nowadays are seldom Technical Types and instead are from sales related areas or finance - bullshit meisters all about how to make money using Tech (or, at times, merelly the appearence of Tech) rather than people who actually love Technology.
The era when Startups were led by Techies has been gone for over 2 decades and now it's all about convincing investors to invest, so it's all about salesmanship, wealthy or finance connections, not Tech skills.
You want to find Tech Bros, go look for them in Finance and Investment forums.
There's always at least one "All the Elon haters going to love this" type of cope comment in every post regarding him on the service.