Maybe the booing in person and Dave Chappelle's comment about the booing being pending civil unrest spooked Elon a bit. His right wing shit posting on twitter reaches a lot of people and many dislike him for it.
I've been seeing a lot more people posting about boycotting Tesla and associating ownership with his views. I drive a Tesla and frequently people bring up Elon to me. I usually just tell people I don't like/care about Elon but I like the cars Tesla makes.
Elon says it was mostly cheers, not boos - but that the clip was taken from a moment when the cheers were quiet. I wasn't there, so I can't tell ya, but apparently journalists from every major outlet were, and can (ha).
It was also at a Chappelle show. His Netflix special was controversial. I'd expect the audience would be more supportive of Elon than the general public.
I'll bite. As public evidence shows, the vast majority of SF residents are politically left-leaning and vote Democrat. The Twitter Files just surfaced what was already publicly available. e.g. Employee donations to the political left eclipse anything else.
So, as a figure who has A) been critical of the recent political left and B) has been "sympathetic" to the recent political right, of course will get booed.
That's where my "badge of honor" statement comes from.
Honestly, I think two things: A) This is a total nothingburger, because it was obviously going to happen, and B) This is way more of a poor impression of SF residents by being crybabies at what is meant to be entertainment, than Elon, who didn't get much of a word other than "Hi Dave" before a fight broke out.
Could you give an example of a constructive comment that was killed? While certainly there is a lot of optimism around what Elon is trying to do, I don't think that "I feel like I at a One Direction concert surrounding by a bunch of screaming teenage girls" is a reasonable reaction.
Hard to say I didn't see this coming. Elon has been lucky he's had the world's media on his side for a lot of his career. But he's been too loose with his words for a long time. Getting into arguments and making risky jokes.
If there's anything the media loves more than building a hero up it's tearing that hero down. It was only a matter of time before he started saying things that would get him in trouble.
Did you see the clip at all? Elon looks genuinely flummoxed. He has no idea how disliked he is, because, as I said, he's surrounded by sycophantic goons. Getting repeatedly and viciously booed at a Dave Chappelle show -- regardless of where it is -- is incredibly notable. No one on the far left, even in SF, is attending that show; not since Dave forgot what it was like to be on the bottom.
As far as the authoritarian right, who else do you think the Fauci tweet was aimed at? It was aimed at the only audience that remains to give him the attention he wants.
Now ask yourself: who else attacks journalists? Who else acts capriciously and hypocritically while braying about free speech?
> There are a lot more businessmen doing substantively worse things for the world that don’t catch an ounce of hate
I'm certain nobody likes those vaguely described bad things and would agree those "substantively worse" things are worse. So what? The topic is Elon and thus we see people's reaction to Elon.
One can only hope.
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