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  • Jolan@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    He probably just didn’t know about how shit of a person he was. In 2020 everyone loved musk, me included, mostly just because most people didn’t dig deep into what type of person he was. I want to give Mr beast the benefit of the doubt here because I don’t think he’s an innately bad person like Elon is.

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      5 months ago

      To note, 2020 was a couple years after Musk called the cave diver that saved kids a pedo.

      That was the moment that all rational people figured out he was a complete asshat. Mr. Beast didn’t.

      Just quoting myself here for good measure. *shrugs

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          5 months ago

          Yeah and I’m of the opinion that it was pretty widely covered at the time, and a lot of people figured it out, so I don’t buy that “most” didn’t know it.

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            5 months ago

            That was the time he was the most popular. Everyone’s was in love with him and though he was the real life tony stark at that point. I hadn’t even heard of the fact he called the rescuer a pedo until s couple months ago (way after I realised he was a dick). To be fair, this is all anecdotal, but many people didn’t know and I want to give Mr beast the benefit of the doubt. Not to add this was three years ago before all of the other bad stuff he said.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      In 2020 I had nothing but contempt for Musk, and I had a long list of reasons for it at the time. I’m sorry you were late to the party, but he showed his true colors long before 2020.