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by pjc50 47 days ago
A significant part of the brain rot involves full adults. Elon Musk is openly advocating riots in Northern Ireland; several people have been firebombed out of their houses.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/belfast-riot...

Targeting kids is a distraction from making the difficult choice of confronting powerful adults.
1 comments
majorchord 47 days ago
> Musk wrote, “Only by protesting REPEATEDLY and LOUDLY will there be any change!!”

I'm certainly not defending the man, but that comment to me is definitely not plainly seen as "advocating riots"... I'd call that a very disingenuous stretch of the truth.

If we're going to criticize people, I think we need to do it for the right reasons.

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pjc50 47 days ago
> protesting REPEATEDLY and LOUDLY

For what outcome though, hmm?

The exact opposite logic gets applied against supporters of Palestine such as Sally Rooney, who was threatened with a total ban on her (unrelated) work until the High Court ruled in her favor.

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roryirvine 47 days ago
And what the fuck does he think a protest on the lower Newtownards Rd looks like, given the complex history & social context?

He's not thick, he's (at best) reckless.

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ben_w 46 days ago
> He's not thick, he's (at best) reckless.

Reckless definitely.

"Thick" is presently unclear: a lot of money and an existing competent team can hide a lot of damage upstairs; and it's not implausible that he has done that damage, even just because he is known to have sleeping difficulties[0], and sleeping difficulties are known to correlate with IQ impairment, and that's aside any questions about ketamine (between the war on drugs and AI SEO, I have no idea what that stuff really does).

[0] https://futurism.com/elon-musk-tweets-sleep

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