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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by gkoberger on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:01PM (#35542907)
Musk (and Trump) are really, really good at vocally saying things everyone agrees with to cover the fact they're doing the exact opposite. They're populist champions to such a degree that their supporters (and even the media / independents) can't fathom they don't actually care at all.

Free speech, no wars, anti-corruption in DC, etc. These are all things most people agree with. If some of the stuff Trump/Elon did secretly leaked, people would be going crazy. But they've mastered the art of publicly being hypocrites, to the degree that the average person just genuinely can't wrap their heads around.

Like, how can Elon publish "The Twitter Files" and then literally just do way worst stuff with way less accountability, and have people still believe he's a champion for free speech?

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by jacquesm on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:04PM (#35542975)
It's an intelligence test of sorts. Unfortunately lots of people fail that test.
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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by mb9000 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:22PM (#35543314)
Maybe the average person just likes one brand of hypocrite over the other brand.

And what sort of secret stuff has Trump or Elon done that hasn't been covered 100x by the media?

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by gkoberger on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:47PM (#35544757)
Like I said, they don't do secret stuff. People associate shame with having done something bad, and their in-the-open shamelessness is what breaks people's mental models of how to evaluate them.

There's a difference. I have a hard time thinking of anyone (other than Bernie) on the left who has followers in the same way as Trump or Elon. It's a very new (yet not new at all) type of cult of personality.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by shagymoe on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:57PM (#35545847)
>If some of the stuff Trump/Elon did secretly leaked, people could be going crazy

Not their supporters, they very, very clearly don't care.

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