Comment by mapontosevenths
5 hours ago
Because a percentage of every dollar you spend on it will go towards pushing political opinions that run contrary to your own best interests?
5 hours ago
Because a percentage of every dollar you spend on it will go towards pushing political opinions that run contrary to your own best interests?
People have different beliefs about whether they will personally benefit from supporting some political cause. Therefore telling people that they shouldn’t support causes that are against their interests is a waste of time. It’s like telling someone “listen to good music”, or “do whatever you think best.”
I think many people targeted by the statement “stop supporting politics against your self interest” either sanctimonious or a meaningless platitude, depending on how they interpret it.
Also, arguably[1] voting based on your self interest is immoral and irrational. So it’s perhaps neither an effective argument, nor a sound one.
1. https://open.substack.com/pub/benthams/p/voting-self-interes...
You seem to think you know other people’s best interests better than they do.
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“Since we can’t stop ALL crime we should give up.”
See how dumb your position sounds?
No. That’s not my position, it’s a ridiculous metaphor here, and even if it weren’t, the logic doesn’t follow. I am not obligated to stop using a product because someone associated with the product did a bad thing once. Literally no product passes that test.
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Per studies in the Lancet, the policy changes which Elon Musk wants us to give him credit for have already resulted in the deaths by slow brutal starvation of 1 million children and it is estimated that 14 million more people will suffer and die in the next four years.
So from that alone he will, based on what he wants us to credit him for, be responsible for one holocaust worth of death.
This is not some random virtue-signalling political correctness nonsense. He is a eugenicist who wants to have power over the entire world, believes he and his are genetically superior, has done as much as as he can to corrupt the institutions of power, and is already on pace for a death count equivalent to the holocaust under what I would consider to be generous and conservative terms since we’re only looking at a tiny piece of what he’s responsible for.
Anyone who works for any of his companies needs to be seen in the same light as wilful Nazi collaborators. If you have a shred of a soul or an ounce of empathy anywhere in your body, you should be sickened by such people and have nothing to do with them.
Am I wrong?
Quit shifting the goal posts. Musk is a Nazi. Or fascist human garbage if you prefer. xAi is low hanging fruit on the “don’t give money to terrible people” tree. The guy is such an easy target for boycotting.
Yes, your rational and not-at-all ridiculously extreme rhetoric is definitely convincing me of your position.
Also, I can’t “shift the goalposts”. I didn’t set them up. Please make a note of it.
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