Re:Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow
by johnnyworker on Thursday November 02, 2023 @05:41PM
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> the extreme response from the political left
to wit:
> I don't trust a single thing he says at this point without evidence
That's a very unemotional, and very rational thing to say about anyone, really. Why should you "trust" a random stranger like that?
If you call that "extreme" and launch into a tirade of Musk being on "their" list that's really just something to do with you, and not an argument to blindly trust Musk, or anyone else for that matter.
It's the Donald Trump effect from the left, applied to Musk. It's exactly the same in terms of how they regard him, how they respond to him, how they're triggered by him.
It's an extreme flow of emotion, it is not rational. And if you attempt to get someone that is so triggered by him to explain it, they will be unable to properly connect the extreme reactions to the supposed source cause. That's because it's an emotion-based partisan crowd thing, rather than individually thought out thing.
Guys we're going this way! This is our new target! Go get it! No no no, change direction, we have a new target, everybody pile on. Why? Don't know why, just go! The people above us that set our agenda and targets are telling us to.
Everybody can list dumb shit that Musk has said, or otherwise poor behavior. I've yet to see anything that comes close to otherwise justifying the extreme response from the political left toward him: except, he's now on their list (due to his perceived shift in politics, beliefs, etc).
Who cares if he destroys Twitter. Boo hoo, a social media network crashes and burns. Meaningless. Build another one. Nobody much uses MySpace or Friendster or Flickr or Tumblr these days.
Ooooh he insulted people on the Internet, numerous times. OMG! Comeon. That's every second of every day on Reddit or anywhere online. Nobody cares, except as a poor justifying toward Musk.