Like, why do you care so much if she’s sleeping with a new guy after just divorcing or her coming out or that rich family buying a new mansion? How does that affect your life?

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    I’ve been wondering the same about Elon Musk. Here seemingly nobody likes him yet there’s a daily feed of articles about him with haters talking shit in the comments. Since I don’t follow celebrity news and I have him blocked on twitter that dude would effectively not exist to me if it wasn’t for Lemmy constantly providing me updates on what he’s up to.

    Why pay attention to something that just makes you angry…

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      That’s easy, because he has a huge range of influence. If a person like that stands opposite of the views that you’re passionate about, you’d just wish for him to shut up lest he pulls more people to the wrong side.

      It probably doesn’t work like that, but it might feel like it.

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        Putin has a lot more influence on the daily life of me and most other people here yet I almost never see him discussed.

        I don’t think that talking shit about Elon on Lemmy has any difference on what he does or says. Here’s virtually no one to even convert. People are preaching to the choir.

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      He bought the biggest platform and forces his weirdo content onto it and that has an effect on the other platforms that use that content because they’re no creative. It’s not that he’s actually popular. We all despise that shit bag fuck.