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Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by gWPVhyxPHqvk »

1-more wrote: post #57
zht wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yea unfortunately what I've seen on twitter are people saying "well if he's not working why is elon paying him" for these groups of people Elon is tied to their identity and he can do no wrong

I cannot understand the Stan culture for Elon. I get it for the military guys who tell you to lift and make your bed. I get it for Joe Rogan. I get it for the MMA masculinity influencers. I get it for Trump and DeSantis. I do not get it for Elon.

Maybe I'm just a effeminate big-city lefty liberal but it seems like the stan culture for Elon is the same as for Trump, Desantis, Joe Rogan, and all the other guys who peddle easy answers for a difficult world.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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1-more wrote: post #57
zht wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yea unfortunately what I've seen on twitter are people saying "well if he's not working why is elon paying him" for these groups of people Elon is tied to their identity and he can do no wrong

I cannot understand the Stan culture for Elon. I get it for the military guys who tell you to lift and make your bed. I get it for Joe Rogan. I get it for the MMA masculinity influencers. I get it for Trump and DeSantis. I do not get it for Elon.

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Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by marban »

1-more wrote: post #57
zht wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yea unfortunately what I've seen on twitter are people saying "well if he's not working why is elon paying him" for these groups of people Elon is tied to their identity and he can do no wrong

I cannot understand the Stan culture for Elon. I get it for the military guys who tell you to lift and make your bed. I get it for Joe Rogan. I get it for the MMA masculinity influencers. I get it for Trump and DeSantis. I do not get it for Elon.

Surrogate father for 20yo hustle bros.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by nonethewiser »

buggy6257 wrote: post #60
jonahx wrote: post #56

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> and then proceed to be publicly mocked on Twitter for their physical disability Today is my first time hearing about this scandal. Do you have a link to the mocking in question?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633011448459964417 He also had a (now deleted) comment where he called the guy "just the worst": https://twitter.com/JamesClayton5/status/1633155915892527104

What part constitutes mocking his disability?

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

#96

Post by asddubs »

jklinger410 wrote: post #77
pembrook wrote: post #29

It's insane how bad Elon stepped in it with this guy. While I'm sure there were many people at Twitter doing mostly nothing, he happens to publicly pick on a guy who single-handedly built one of the most well-respected branding agencies in the tech industry, and who also has debilitating muscular dystrophy. The optics could not be worse. I mean this guy is literally in a wheel chair. If you were a well-funded tech co…

> I mean this guy is literally in a wheel chair. I didn't know being paralyzed made you immune to criticism.

I chuckled at the weirdly heavy emphasis on that part too, but I think what they're getting at is that elon accused someone who's in a wheelchair of faking their disability. this isn't just carpal tunnel where it's effectively invisible and you just have to take someones word for it (which to be clear, I'm not saying is fair game to just publicly accuse people of faking on a whim)

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by PragmaticPulp »

ryanSrich wrote: post #59
dbreunig wrote: post #40

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Elon did what he's done for the past decade. Can't help but play to a crowd and let the lawyers figure it out later. This is a cocktail of calling a rescue diver a pedophile, mocking all skills that aren't coders, and unnecessary cruelty when laying off workers. If Haraldur intended to bait him, it was a near-flawless execution. I'm sure there are countless labor, disability, and health info privacy lawyers lining up…

> If Haraldur intended to bait him, it was a near-flawless execution. I'm sure there are countless labor, disability, and health info privacy lawyers lining up in Halli's DMs. Considering there were entire articles by news outlets like the BBC just queued up and ready to go. My sense is this was premeditated. Elon is such an easy target.

> Considering there were entire articles by news outlets like the BBC just queued up and ready to go.

Are you implying that journalists conspired with this guy to bait Elon into responding in a terrible manner and they pre-wrote articles about it?

Journalists use Twitter, too. They can write and publish articles quickly. There’s no conspiracy here. News articles appearing several hours after a story unfolds entirely within public Tweets is both common and normal.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by davidw »

1-more wrote: post #57
zht wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yea unfortunately what I've seen on twitter are people saying "well if he's not working why is elon paying him" for these groups of people Elon is tied to their identity and he can do no wrong

I cannot understand the Stan culture for Elon. I get it for the military guys who tell you to lift and make your bed. I get it for Joe Rogan. I get it for the MMA masculinity influencers. I get it for Trump and DeSantis. I do not get it for Elon.

He was involved in companies that built real things like rockets. That's pretty cool! I was willing to cut him some slack in the past... ok, he's quirky, whatever. But now he just looks like a petty, nasty person and I think he threw away the good will people had for him, even if they weren't in the 'adore' category.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by seper8 »

walrus01 wrote: post #47
jack_riminton wrote: post #42

Elon's descent into an asshole Howard Hughes continues at pace. Part of me thinks Elon's doing this just to be the most talked about person on twitter again, which is equally abhorrent

In historical retrospect, Howard Hughes had a pretty good excuse for going off the rails in the 25 years prior to his death. He had screwed up his lower back in plane crashes much earlier and was prescribed an increasingly assorted amount of high powered medications (and self-prescribed) that affected his mental state. The 1950s-early 1970s were not exactly a golden era of non-addictive totally harmless painkillers a…

Are you leaving out that hughes had (neuro)syphilis on purpose?
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