Elon Musk loves to have friends in high places — until those friends happen to be embroiled in widespread sex crime scandals.
  • ddplf@szmer.infoEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Elon Musk loves to have friends in high places — until those friends happen to be embroiled in widespread sex crime scandals

    Ah yes, dumping people for them doing vile stuff, how very intolerable

    • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, there are literally thousands of legitimate reasons to hate Musk. Calling out former friends for their behavior… isn’t really one of them.

      Instead hate him because he’s actively promoting discrimination against trans people, or because he’s eroding democracy through illegal lotteries, or because he regularly manipulates the stock market, or pushing the great replacement theory, or…

      • EvilBit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        Blatant, direct hypocrisy and whitewashing of his own history isn’t a legitimate reason to hate someone who’s running a massive disinformation campaign to get a fascist elected? Your standards are weird.

      • ddplf@szmer.infoEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        Thank you for being probably the only person who actually read my comment and understood it

        When you’re not radically anti-Musk to an extent of absurdity, people just assume that you must be his sympathizer

        I wholeheartedly despise this guy and I have much more valid reasons to.

      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        It’s the hypocrisy.

        An example: ex-mormons can criticize current Mormons for their current beliefs. Ex-mormons can’t criticize other ex-mormons for their previous briefs.

        • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I mean, yeah it’s hypocritical, he has several sexual harassment lawsuits open against him IIRC.

          That being said, in your example, it would be Mormons criticizing Mormons for their belief, not ex-Mormons criticizing ex-Mormons.

          It’s never wrong to speak the truth, even if you’re on the wrong side of it.

    • yeahiknow3@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The contention is that Musk did not “dump” those “friends” for doing vile stuff so much as participate, before later distancing himself when it became convenient.