• alienanimals@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.

    Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

    • malloc@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Counter point: If I didn’t hear how badly he runs his businesses, or how bad his company’s products are. I would have easily bought one or more of his products.

      I have backed out of Tesla pre-orders because of the bad publicity, many reports of bad build quality, and terrible business decisions.

      If this was a puff piece, I honestly wouldn’t have bothered posting it.

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        1 year ago

        He’s right though. We can’t go a day without some inane bullshit about musk getting posted. This event happened 8 years ago, it’s not even news. It should have “2015” in the title. This is a bad post, and I’m disappointed we always have to have these kinds of posts around.

        • ram@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          Lemmy needs muting filters so we can just mute anything mentioning Elon Musk

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        1 year ago

        Doing so would be a valuable contribution to the discussion and morally good so I sure hope so

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      1 year ago

      It’s not even especially an informative or interesting article. It just picks out one tiny little story from the book and puts a bunch of unnecessary padding around it.

    • tjaden@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Normally I would agree with you. But some of these comments here are dark humor gold, so I’m conflicted.

      Sorry…

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      1 year ago

      I checked the Business Insider news feed last week. Within 9 hours they posted 8 (!) Musk “news” stories. It’s ridiculous.

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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately, because of him being a billionaire his PR is self sustaining and posts about him aren’t going anywhere.