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> if your life is so empty you have to talk about elon you need to re-evaluate your life choices

This post, that you’ve typed up and posted online, for all to see, is about your opinion of Elon Musk


It is not.

Yes it is. If they had written “if you’re posting about hamburgers you need to reevaluate your life” that would be a post expressing their opinion about hamburgers.

No, it would not be. Their opinion about Z and their opinion about people that care too much about Z are different things.

Your post above is a failed attempt at a petty gotcha.


> Your post above is a failed attempt at a petty gotcha.

Aside from the poster I was talking to not appearing to agree with you (they immediately made another Elon post), no, it isn’t. If upon seeing the phrase “I don’t like hamburger” I am swept up with an urge to dunk and say “re evaluate your life choices for talking about hamburger” it is very obvious that I’ve taken my time to tell you that I have strong feelings about hamburger and take issue with the position taken, not the subject matter.

Seeing as they then wrote “elon hate is real” moments after my response, it is doubly clear that the issue isn’t mention of the guy but rather any negative mention of the guy.

If I go out of my way to police any negative mention of something, that is a direct expression of how I value that thing.

(The post has since been edited to “obsession with elon is real”, which, yes, it is. Some folks absolutely cannot scroll past that name without it sparking an urge to dunk)


obsession with elon is real… :)

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