I've never heard about any of this before but the video makes it sound like it's a big deal
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;52562205]I've never heard about any of this before but the video makes it sound like it's a big deal[/QUOTE]
I remember seeing the original article in question, and I also know its not the only article like it. There are a highly concerning and growing number of people that are ironically marching towards (as the OP's vid puts it) puritanical restriction.
I just looked up the article and christ, he made a video on THIS?
[url]https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/30/16061540/elon-musk-model-3-names-joke[/url]
This guy can make at least interesting propaganda videos, but a video based on someone saying "hey. maybe stop doing that joke" is pretty blegh.
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;52562287]I just looked up the article and christ, he made a video on THIS?
[url]https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/30/16061540/elon-musk-model-3-names-joke[/url]
This guy can make at least interesting propaganda videos, but a video based on someone saying "hey. maybe stop doing that joke" is pretty blegh.[/QUOTE]
"character assassination" 🤦
Their cars are s3xy though.
oh hey tudd's back
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This guy seriously spent hours and hours making a 4-minute video essay based exclusively on a Verge shitpiece. Kind of embarrassing to care that much about shitty reporting.
I don't have to be a mind reader to know that article probably won't resonate with FP. For the record, this is all it states in regards to sexual harrassment:
[quote] And not just unnecessary, but inappropriate, considering Tesla’s factory has been [URL="https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/5/15922816/tesla-sexism-harassment-predator-zone-vandermeyden"]labeled a “predator zone” by its female employees.[/URL]
Tesla exists in the middle of a Venn diagram between Silicon Valley and the automobile world — two industries that are plagued by sexism, harassment, and general inequality between men and women. But Tesla’s supposed to be about making the world a better place. At the very least, Elon Musk could live up to that standard by dropping the joke.[/quote]
You might find this disagreeable. You might find it silly. Personally, I think it's a half-assed attempt to pad out a very empty article. But is it really, as the video states, a "Hell of Orwellian proportions?"
This video is more dangerous to free speech than the article. To the writer of this opinion piece, Elon Musk is making a dumb joke. To the YTer who made this video, said opinion piece is straight up authoritarian and should be shunned in a society that values freedom of expression. Why? The writer isn't calling on Musk to step down, or trying to ban sex jokes, only stating their opinion (if badly). What the [B]fuck[/B] happened to "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"?
Pretty funny how people can't think of real reasons to shit on a dude like Elon M., so they go after him for inane bullshit that doesn't matter
[B]Almost as if they have no actual grounds for bitching[/B]
I'd imagine he's used to smear attempts at this point.
Teslas fanbase annoys me
really reminds me of early 2000s era apple
Definitely have nothing negative to say about Musk though, it's really impressive how much he has done regardless of what you may think of Tesla, in regards to SpaceX, Boring, his solar power stuff, and starting up a new car company.
[QUOTE=Araknid;52567011]Teslas fanbase annoys me
really reminds me of early 2000s era apple
Definitely have nothing negative to say about Musk though, it's really impressive how much he has done regardless of what you may think of Tesla, in regards to SpaceX, Boring, his solar power stuff, and starting up a new car company.[/QUOTE]
If people want to say bad things about the dude, I say hey, go ahead if they're valid.
When you don't do as much wrong as similar people in your field, when you do something, people act like its way the fuck worse than it is.
This is like that scientist Matt Taylor who wore the "sexist" shirt during the Rosetta mission. People lost their shit before the truth was revealed that a good friend of his, a female, actually made the shirt for him and he was honoring her by wearing it.
[QUOTE=Smoot;52572011]This is like that scientist Matt Taylor who wore the "sexist" shirt during the Rosetta mission. People lost their shit before the truth was revealed that a good friend of his, a female, actually made the shirt for him and he was honoring her by wearing it.[/QUOTE]
What endlessly amuses me about outrage like that, especially in cases where that truth is revealed and people [b]still[/b] rage over it (and then usually rage over a woman being the author over things like the infamous buzzphrase of "internalized misogyny"), is that a lot of that rage and feeling offended for women is itself built on a sexist ideal.
Namely, the sexist ideal that women are innocent, pure little flowers that could absolutely in no way ever be anything but offended, let alone [i]enjoy[/i] any sort of sexual attention, humor, or content.
I find that reality so humorous because of the great, [b]great[/b] many perverts I know, I can safely say that the top 5 in the list of "biggest perverts I know" is populated by at least 3 women.
I know it's anecdotal, but at least in my experience, women tend to be more reserved when it comes to blatantly smearing their perversion all over the walls. That could be for any number of reasons, but I am confident in saying that this idea that women should be proper and respectable, the very same "delicate little flower" that such outrage is so often built out of, is partly why women tend to keep their perversions to themselves.
But that is far from saying that women can't be perverted, even the aforementioned timid ones. Get them comfortable and show them that there is no judgment being passed, and those "delicate little flowers" might surprise you with just how kinky they can be. :sex101:
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