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>>etc-ho+(OP)
The number of people trying to defend what is, at best, extremely childish behavior is fascinating to me. Would you really go up to your city counselor in real life and tell them you wish death on them and their family, and pretend it's OK because it's an obscure reference to 90s rap (mind you the rap song WAS an actual death threat)? Do you think you'd be met with laughter? Do you actually consider that socially acceptable behavior?

If you dislike their politics, so be it - donate to campaigns or personally run against them. Write a letter explaining how you'd like them to vote.. But the amount of absolute crass behavior people allow "because it's the internet" is mind boggling.

>>tw04+ka
General rule of thumb -- if you're tempted to say anything that references "Hit Em Up" [0], don't do it on main.

Or, you know, just be drunk off of Twitter?

Elon barely gets away with it, and everyone else isn't that rich.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ugD3_yt756w (goes without saying, but NSFW)

>>ethbr1+gf
Elon getting away with it is the problem. Broken windows theory and all that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

>>actual+vi
Is it though?

Lots of people seem to have poor opinions of Elon specifically because he does this sort of thing.

That seems to be working as intended.

And we're never going to fix the "money buys away consequences" problem. F.ex. I'm not beholden to chefs' opinions of me, if I can throw 100x average salary to get one to work for me.

>>ethbr1+yk
Do these poor opinions really matter? He companies are still the top desired destinations for STEM graduates. Endless supply of people to grind that results in him providing products/services that others can't provide. This results in increased dependance on his companies and him.

>>nebula+ms
I would say his personality absolutely creates headwinds. It reduces sales of vehicles, and public sentiment and visibility drives extra regulatory scrutiny on SpaceX. You have reporters asking the POTUS what he is doing to investigate Musk, and an angry stockholder just got a 50 billion ruling against Musk.

>>s1arti+ux
Lets break this down one by one

>It reduces sales of vehicles

Has it really? His cars achieve supposed ~30% profit margins: some of the best in the industry. They have dropped prices beating inflation while competitors cannot. They also got the best software stack of any EV with additional value add such as Sentry mode. Im in the market for a new car and I am baffled as to why every car hasn't copied all the good things from Tesla yet. Its just software!

>and public sentiment and visibility drives extra regulatory scrutiny on SpaceX

so what? Its not like they can drop SpaceX for some other competitor waiting in the wings? If SpaceX says no to the government, the government is the one to lose out.

>You have reporters asking the POTUS what he is doing to investigate Musk

More performance art just like the SEC's investigations. Who wants to be the one to be blamed for destroying the golden goose? Definitely not the SEC and Biden is just performing like he always does to please his base so Musk gets away with stuff that would land others in prison.

>and an angry stockholder just got a 50 billion ruling against Musk

Yeah that was a nice victory but it remains to be seen if he appeals it and/or it has dire consequences for Delaware. So far Delaware has been a small bright dot in an otherwise hopeless situation as this is not the first time they managed to stick it to Musk.