Enough Musk Spam
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Stephanie Sterling once said that he could be considered a god with all the power our society lets him have.
He has absolutely no frame of reference of what it is like to be an actual human with bills to pay and chores to do.
Which is what make dunking on him so satisfying. I can't hurt Bill Gates' feelings by making mean memes about him. But Musk reacts to people being mean to him.
But this isn't "dunking on him" it's bullshit designed to give people a false sense of security and a dopamine hit, while he goes on to do whatever the fuck he likes which is already costing millions of lives (via him hoarding hundreds of billions alone, as foes Gates, who is just as dangerous, if not more, because people like you have been convinced that he's benign, never mind the direct results of his operations).
You're being just as childish as him, except he has all the power of the world to fall back on, and you have probably fuck all in the grand scheme of things and are fighting to survive along with the rest of us. Getting him to react to this bullshit achieves nothing, you've been given bread and a circus, and it's working exactly as intended to keep you paying any real attention.
I agree that it doesn't achieve anything... But jeez, let people have their fun. It's not like anybody confuses this shit with actual activism.
I'm afraid people kind of do