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Elon Musk booed off stage at a Dave Chappelle show

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Re: Elon Musk booed off stage at a Dave Chappelle show

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Post by kadoban »

strangattractor wrote: post #5
KindAndFriendly wrote: post #3

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Agreed. Also the claim that Tweets and videos about this (allegedly) get removed from Twitter is relevant.

For better or worse Musk is becoming even more of a "cult of personality" rather than a tech icon. Difficult to say whether it will be a bad or good thing. These days it seems no matter what you do %50 of the public will not like it. Trying times for advertisers and celebrities.

> These days it seems no matter what you do %50 of the public will not like it. Trying times for advertisers and celebrities.

This seems like a bad take for Musk specifically.

He's going out of his way to vocally court the MAGA-right, it's not like he's just living his life and suddenly people are mad.

Re: Elon Musk booed off stage at a Dave Chappelle show

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Post by bongoman37 »

beardyw wrote: post #6
quantified wrote: post #4

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People I trust who caucus with Musk fans tell me they really like him because he thinks like they do and acts like they do or would. Isn't acting smarter or more goody than them. Under that theory, being a normal guy would be bad for business in some places (and probably excellent for business in other places). Guess what? This is normal for business, not just tech. For some reason we're past "big business", "conglom…

An interesting take. Politics has become who we like, instead of who will do a good job. I suppose business will follow that. Not sure where it leads.

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Re: Elon Musk booed off stage at a Dave Chappelle show

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Post by theGnuMe »

beardyw wrote: post #6
quantified wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People I trust who caucus with Musk fans tell me they really like him because he thinks like they do and acts like they do or would. Isn't acting smarter or more goody than them. Under that theory, being a normal guy would be bad for business in some places (and probably excellent for business in other places). Guess what? This is normal for business, not just tech. For some reason we're past "big business", "conglom…

An interesting take. Politics has become who we like, instead of who will do a good job. I suppose business will follow that. Not sure where it leads.

This is known as "identity politics". Another concept in politics are "single issue voters". There's a big push to transition single issue voters towards an identity based view.
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