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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
It is. A bunch of vocal people having loud opinions online doesn't really matter and that's what he demonstrates perfectly: people are mad, but tesla's are selling like hotcakes, spacex is still successful and his money keeps multiplying. Other people see that and feel no need to maintain appearances. This will only get worse as more and more people catch on.

>>actual+Sl
If the metric by which we gauge society's acceptance of someone is their wealth... Elon isn't the first nor will be the last to be a rich asshole.

Making lots of money, and keeping that money, is independent of goodwill. Especially if you're starting rich enough to bypass needing many random people to help you.

I can't agree that Elon showing his ass on Twitter is fundamentally changing social acceptance of doing so.

>>ethbr1+In
I would argue he's the first to just buy one of the biggest social platforms so that he can show his ass on it. Probably not the last one, that we can agree on.

>>actual+Sr
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_World (1883)

>>ethbr1+nQ
This newspaper didn't even have reach outside US, are you seriously comparing it to fucking twitter?

>>actual+Ft2
Yes. There's a huge portion of humanity who doesn't read Twitter. Newspapers in their heyday were more influential on public discourse.