I think it’s because he’s clearly a villain like Trump, and there is clearly a different legal system for him, like Trump.

Nobody who has lived like him and wasn’t a billionaire would get security clearance. People focus on him because he’s out here Saying The Quiet Parts Out Loud, and so he’s a really good one to focus on if you’re trying to make a point about corporations and their love of fascism and hate of actual capitalism and competition.

What can I say? Everyone hates a hypocrite, especially one who uses his power to shove his hypocrite-ass in everyone’s face. Like all hypocrites with power, he does it to show everyone he has power to get away with what you can’t. People do tire of that, and they would like to see this fucking prick strung up by his fucking neck by people who have actually faced real suffering in their lives, who finally got sick of his fat whiny baby bitch ass.

Ignoring him certainly wouldn’t make him go away, and it’s a good thing to have more and more people waking up to the fact that the rich aren’t any smarter or more capable than us, and Musk is a perfect example. They have created a media ecosystem which praises the rich as somehow better than the average person, but the reality is they just had money, power, and connections. They aren’t smart, they aren’t capable, they aren’t brilliant, they are just as shortsighted and stupid as the fucking rest of us, and it’s helpful to be able to point at people who really exemplify that, like Musk.

What can I say, it’s helpful to have a Free Speech Warrior who clearly only cares about his speech. It makes it easier to open people’s eyes to how fucked our entire society is for handing the keys to the kingdom to these fucking idiots to begin with.

Further, almost nobody would say the same thing about people bitching about, say, Rupert Murdoch, but there’s plenty of people who watch Murdoch’s moves as well, because he also owns right-wing media companies that intend to massage the narrative to the right-wing “reality.” I heard the names like Murdoch, Bill O’Reilly, and Tucker Carlson thrown around and complained about for years before Musk became a target because of his shenanigans. Nobody says “people are obsessed with Carlson!”

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Good luck. This stuff infects every technology related group I’ve seen here and on reddit.

I think it would be easier to find where the owner of lemmy.world lives and threaten their family

He might, but that’s the whole point of federation - there’s hundreds of other instances (including the one you’re using) that he can’t buy all at once. If one instance gets taken over, Lemmy as a whole is still strong.

Even if he buys the organization developing Lemmy, I have faith the community will fork it and everyone will stop using Musk’s version.

Then I hop to another instance or create one of my own (running 19 or later so I can block his) and problem solved, lol.

Federation means Musk can buy a single instance, or even a hundred instances, but cannot prevent anyone else from simply opening another somewhere else and making their own portal to the same content he wants to collect behind a paywall (if he even could).

He fired them all or paid them so little they don’t care

PR people? They’re an unnecessary expense.

He literally cut twitter staff by 80%, twitter is on life support and running on fumes, has crazy technical issues and breaking features, and he refuses to invest in it.

Oh thanks! Right, I guess when he fired them and that is when he became unpopular lol

Those kids will grow up in poverty. Watch.

We are all Elon on this blessed day.

I forgot about that. That’s newsworthy.

I thought the Starlink thing mostly took place before he purchased Twitter, no? The harassment case predates his purchase of Twitter as well, but it looks like it’s still an issue presently according to your article. I haven’t heard much about this in a while, it fell off my radar. Thanks.