I have this [flagged] comment from 4 years ago, recounting my own perception of the events, and I stand by it

>pre-2018, he was a journalists' sweetheart. they were singing him praises and they didn't bring up attention to his misdeeds

>at some point around that time, he had pissed them off with the "who owns the media?" tweet, and they did a 180 degree turn. he didn't suddenly become eccentric then, his eccentricity started to get extensive negative attention. there's a plethora of media sweethearts who get away with far worse things without a peep from checkmarked firebrands

>in other words, you've changed your mind on cue, and you never had an independent opinion to begin with

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Valid3840 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The "you're a sheep" rhetoric. Great!

Pre-2018 he had already made some substantial lies, (cf. https://elonmusk.today/)

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		>The "you're a sheep" rhetoric. Great! you mean the same rhetoric I observe whenever the wrong entity wins an election anywhere in the West? have we not accepted for a fact that most people are so uncritical of the media they consume that a thousand Russian Internet Defense Force operatives can topple a Western democracy over Xitter and TikTok? >Pre-2018 he had already made some substantial lies, (cf. https://elonmusk.today/) I never said he was a good man before then, or that he is a good man now.

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notahacker 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

somebody should look into who owns the @elonmusk account that originates these stories...