• latenightnoir@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    How can one person be THIS slimy? The rest of’em are awful, with Musk leading the charge, but this guy’s just disgusting… He reminds me of that one Rick and Morty episode with the Jerry Slug…

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      6 days ago

      It isn’t just one person. That’s kind of how this works. When one extraordinarily slimy shitty person starts grabbing power, it encourages a lot of other people to become worse than they are by giving into their base impulses and desires, fearing no consequence. Being a piece of shit is an infectious disease in a very real sense.

      It reminds me of religious people who asked me, an atheist, if you don’t believe in hell, then what stops you from committing crimes and murdering people? Well, I say to them, I’m just a decent person who understands the difference between right and wrong, and how my actions, especially selfish actions, can negatively affect people around me. I also possess the empathy required to feel bad when people around me are hurt by my actions.

      These people don’t ask those questions, and they were morally dubious in the first place.

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      5 days ago

      I love that people think he is a genius.

      He blew ~$40 billion on a shitty VR project that nobody uses.

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        6 days ago

        Come on. VR may not be mainstream, but there are millions of Meta Quest devices out there and a lot of people do use VR for gaming, exercise or training.