• Damage@feddit.it
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    29 days ago

    I’m sure that if major stockholders of the other auto brands were in the spotlight as much as Musk is, we’d see that they’re just as terrible

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      29 days ago

      First off, absolutely. None of these CEOs got where they are by acts of kindness. But there in lies the rub. Musk is in the spotlight. In a very real way, with his purchase of Twitter, he has actually become the spotlight itself. And he is vocally championing hateful rhetoric, and he is bankrolling an existential threat to America/democracy/the planet. The icon that is Tesla is inexorably linked to Musk, and lately Musk is shaping up to be America’s Goebbels.