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Gave up Twitter the day of Musk mocked that disabled employee/partner. Didn't delete the account though. I'm still on Reddit. Hope Lemmy would go a long way!!
PS: I still automatically ignore some image posts on Lemmy thinking it's an Ad cause I'm so used to it on Reddit App ๐
I was on the edge, but this event with Halli showed clearly that Elon is not right person to lead Twitter.
Exactly. I had a very high regard for Musk before he opened his mouth during early lock down. His technological initiatives (Specially SpaceX) has being great drivers. (Though he's not the one doing the innovations) But he as a person have the qualities of worst human beings. If he kept his mouth shut, could have gone a long way, still.
It makes me respect billionaires who aren't insanely juvenile attention whores who try to be the coolest edgy meme lord in the world while pushing shitty politics. Take Spez, basically everyone hates him lately, but at least he doesn't have a front page post on reddit every day like, "look at me, I'm cool right!?!!" All Musk had to do was shut up and he'd have mass respect.
I also had a thought that "All Billionaires are not like that". But recently saw a very decent millionaire giving money advice on Facebook Stories saying "Your low amount of money can't do anything. Try to grow it to higher amount and then we can talk about investing". (Paraphrasing here) It's very common. All these people have lost touch with reality.
PS: Check Spez's AMA. He is just the same edge lord.
Oh sure, wealth seems to make people completely loony and incredibly out of touch. Even having a net worth of $5 million is considered pathetic to some people, and the way they waste their money (and society's resources that could have helped hundreds or thousands of people) is insane... and then they're still obsessed with getting more. This is also what fucked over the economy for everyone else.
Splez sucks for sure, I am familiar with how he is a survival prepper and his statement about how he thinks after an apocalypse he would be a 'leader', plus he was such a douche to the Apollo developer. Also his vision for reddit is apparently to make it steadily worse, certainly a slap in the face to everyone who has enjoyed how the site used to be. If anything though I appreciate that Splez isn't out trying to make himself the center of attention the way Musk does, which is really the most objectionable thing about that dude.