Phony Stark needs to be called out on this. It’s creepy as hell.

😳 🤮

40 points

You know who need to be called out? The idiots who keep upvoting and sharing these useless news. Stop giving them free ads.

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57 points

I’m totally okay with people pointing out the fact that the man is a creepy sexist jerk face. And I’m totally okay with people doing it a lot, because he has too much power, and you can’t just pretend he doesn’t exist and that his actions don’t matter.

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Unless you have something serious on him that could actually undermine his fame all this news does is free ads and outshadow better content.

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13 points

I have only two questions:

  1. Who elected Elon Musk?

  2. What can we do to make him go away?

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29 points
  1. No one elected Musk.

  2. Tax the hell out of him.

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6 points

It’s not really useless news. It provides insight into the type of people who are supporting trp.

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-31 points

This is not news, who gives a shit?

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19 points

One of the richest men in the world publicly threatening to rape one of the biggest music stars in the world sounds kind of like news to me.

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publicly threatening to rape

???

lol

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Yup. Public threat of rape. You see, sex is how babies are made. Elon said he will give Taylor Swift a baby, which means have sex with her. It’s pretty obvious that swift would not like to be impregnated by elon musk. When an adult doesn’t consent to a sexual act, it’s called rape. To tell someone who does not want to fuck you that you “will” give them a baby is a threat of rape. Do you have anymore questions marks?

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He’s doing so without doing so.

He knows what he’s saying, and most people know what he’s saying, but he’s not “legally” saying it.

It’s the equivalent of adding “…in Minecraft” to his threat, except it’s legally stronger given the context.

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I feel like a lot of areas of public discussion were more-dignified before the social media era.

Every major event just winds up with noise from Twitter drama getting attached to it.

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6 points

People always had shitty views, they just didn’t have a megaphone

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1 point

That was merely blissful ignorance.

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Reasons people may give a shit:

  • The US government is shoveling huge amounts of money towards an individual that dismisses and devalues half of the world’s population with an active sexual harassment suit against him.

  • Consumers might want to know if they are supporting if they are supporting a mysogynist by using his privately owned social media service or buying energy products / vehicles from a company he heads up as CEO.

  • Trump has announced an intention to have this man lead a new “Government Efficiency Commission” and this behavior reflects both on Trump for the sort of people he elevates into positions of power and reflects on Musk as a potential public servant.

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He’s also the owner of the company which builds and operates the only current domestic launch vehicle certified to carry humans to the space station.

The only other certified launch vehicle in the world is built and operated by Roscosmos - owned and operated by a dictator who’s currently trying to annex another nation in the first war in Europe in decades

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It’s good to document weird and creepy behaviour.
If things like this don’t make the news cycle, they essentially go un-called-out. Which might make it seem like normal or acceptable behaviour.

Weird behaviour doesn’t live up to scrutiny

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-2 points

Yeah it’s MuskSpam not news.

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Let the other losers on Twitter call it out if they want their cringy drama-fest.

This is not news. Making a random weird comment that is obviously in jest (and is very, VERY obviously not a REAL threat to do anything, as anyone with two brain cells to rub together can figure out) is absolutely NOT worthy of “the news cycle”.

Only people who truly have no life have the desire to spend any time giving a shit about this. This is barely worthy of an eye roll.

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21 points

Yes. He’s abusing his position to harass women. It has to be called out, documented and shown to be problematic behaviour.

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Stop being anti-fanboys and just ignore these two billionaires talking to eachother. He craves the attention and you just give it to him. Why?

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I’d love nothing more than for these two people to be irrelevant, but unfortunately I live in a world where their money causes them to have large amounts of influence.

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17 points

Swift didnt say shit to him. He’s just trying to ride her coattails by being a creepy fuck.

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43 points

This does not deserve a headline. We need to stop paying attention to this tool.

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25 points

No, the richest person in the world publicly threatening rape against the most famous woman at the moment for endorsing the opposite candidate from him should be a headline and should be spoken as such. A threat of rape.

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10 points

Pay attention and call out. Don’t give him any support at all though.

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36 points

People really need to know how creepy and unhinged he is though.

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3 points

I agree, but at some point we’re just feeding into the concept that any exposure is good exposure.

I wish that this guy would just disappear.

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0 points

He probably had a think tank think it up to offset the great news that Swift endorsed Kamala.

So yes, I think you are totally correct. It’s just media and exposure now.

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Why is everyone replying as if Musk said this to a teenager? Swift is in her 30s.

EDIT: Now people are replying saying it was a threat of rape. That is a reach. You guys are delusional.

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27 points

because it’s crass and gross no matter the age. she’s also in a relationship, so it’s just rude and weird.

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14 points

Because his unsolicited overtly sexual advances are extremely disturbing to any person who values their bodily autonomy. It literally sounds like he’s going to kidnap her and put her in a rape dungeon.

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11 points

Oh cool guys. You heard it here first. It’s only bad to threaten to rape teenagers. Adults? Threaten rape all you want!

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5 points

A 53 year old drug addict doing rapey threats on social media towards a young girl who’s in a relationship?

Totally not super gross, right?

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