Comment by rapsey

4 months ago

Funny when he had a spat with X and Musk, everyone was using it to bash Musk. Now suddenly it is actually Moraes who is the bad guy.

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4ad  4 months ago

Perhaps "everyone" was really just two groups of people all along, one which kept silent in one occasion and the other in the other occasion.

Or perhaps you're right and people really have no moral principles and just say whatever is more convenient at different times. That's a scary thought. I choose to believe in the first alternative. Plenty of people complained about Moraes when he was bashing Musk.

  • rapsey  4 months ago

    Well it is often one side dominating the debate and the other gets down voted to oblivion and called names when it comes to topics involving Musk.

zamadatix  4 months ago

I think there is a tendency to remember on those we spent the time disagreeing with more, or some similar effect, and then thinking "well gee, before the only thing people seemed to care about was disagreeing with me about <divisive subtopic> instead of <topic>". E.g. picking a random post result from an Algolia search https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41275600

Top comment: Discussion on Moraes, not Musk

Second comment: References Elon/Elon's past compliance, some replies bash others support the policy

Third comment: About how companies will have to deal with more international events like this

Fourth comment: Mentions X but not Musk, some replies get into Elon back & forth though

Fifth comment: A pretty plain Musk bash

Overall sentiment of Musk certainly wasn't in overwhelming favor of Musk but the top commend and many other threads were focus on Moraes or things other than Musk. Of those that were, most seemed to mention him to bash but certainly not "everyone" bashing him by any measure of the word.

I think you see a lot more "dunk" on posts when it comes to the general political area around "Rumble" or the like. Personally more dunking on than I think is often fair as well, even though that direction is not my personal leaning. Musk himself is actually much less of a downvote trigger, even though he's got a way of getting mentioned way more often than he should in threads (like how the comments on this article have become largely about him when it's about Brazil and Rumble).