there’s no need to make it personal to me, I’m just telling you about a guy I know.
I think its very reasonable in America that one wouldn’t be exposed to specific anti-Musk language if one didn’t engage with social media or news.
I think this is a case of
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You’re telling us about a guy you know who you seem to believe.
It isn’t reasonable to not engage with any news whatsoever while living in America. And crazy to extend that much benefit of the doubt.
He knows.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I mean you’ll have to take my word for it I guess.
I volunteer for an organization that promotes fiction penned by women and minority communities, we have a guy on the board who used to be a software engineer in the 70s–90s before he retired, he doesn’t know the first thing about social media. Struggles to remember the name of Facebook which is the only one he’s used.
My father in law wrote software for both JPL and government oceanography equipment, and is a big fan of Musk’s SpaceX work and vehemently against his political stuff, saying “he needs to dump that political stuff and get back to work!” frequently.
In my experience, people are complicated and immune to a lot of online pigeonholing, no matter how insistent online voices (mine included) are about that - there is a break between online discourse and real life day to day humdrum quotidian lived experience