Yesterday evening, Taylor Swift shared her endorsement for Kamala Harris in the US presidential campaign.

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

😳 🤮

  • vaxhax@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    How is this okay with anyone? Why aren’t people around him (employees, etc) not swarming him and basically hanging him out to dry?

    I have practically zero useful social media influence, nobody would ever see it, but somehow if I posted something like this somehow I feel like I’d get a ton of attention AND be cancelled and or arrested.

  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    There is a context to what was said that is not fairly put in the title of the article, but this is still fucking creepy, misogynistic, ultimately unacceptable behavior.

    • FutileRecipe@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      There is a context to what was said that is not fairly put in the title of the article…

      What’s the context? The only context I know is she endorsed Kamala and signed her name as Childless Cat Lady. Musk didn’t like that and said this line. Did I miss anything?

      If not (and even if I did), as a male talking to a female, saying you’re going to “give you a child” pretty much only means “I’m going to impregnate you.”

      • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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        5 days ago

        Yes, that exactly. The way she signed the endorsement and its relation to the Republican candidate. Still, the things he said are very disturbing and menacing, coming from the richest person in the world.

        • FutileRecipe@lemmy.world
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          5 days ago

          So there’s no meaningful missing context. With or without the context, it is widely understood to mean “I’ll impregnate you.” I don’t see how that “missing context” makes the headline “unfair,” as you put it.

          • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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            5 days ago

            I find the title unnecessarily “clickbaity”, and this is what I think is unfair for readers and for the very same news reported.

            EDIT: For example, I would prefer that instead of including “Elon Musk sets his sights on Taylor Swift”, they would have put something like “after Taylor endorsed Harris as a Childless Cat Owner”.

            • FutileRecipe@lemmy.world
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              5 days ago

              Clickbaity, sure. But this is one of the justifiable clickbaity times. They said the meat of the article, while clickbait, that was the essence of the problem. “I’ll give you a child.” That’s the issue. It doesn’t really matter if he’s randomly setting his sights on her, or if she said she was childless. That part does not matter. They could’ve left everything out but the quote. The part that does matter, is he said he’ll give her a child without being asked.

              You agree it’s a terrible thing for him to say. Is it less terrible for him to say it because she signed as childless? No? Then context does not matter. Yes, it’s less terrible because she said it? Well, then there’s the hiccup as we disagree on that part and we’ll disagree on the context, too.

              • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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                5 days ago

                Not for me. I think it has to do with the type of journalism I am accustomed to read, maybe. Then there is the issue of the website where this comes from, I don’t know who they aim to as their readers. It’s possible that it is focused on reporting about famous people or “stars” as they call them, and in this case, it’s totally fine. I appreciate your point of view, though.

                Oh, and yes, I agree the guy said horrible things to Swift. That’s not a discussion for me. Where those words came from is important for me to know, and that bit of information would have been appreciated.

      • phx@lemmy.ca
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        6 days ago

        Pretty much, unless he was planning to donate one of his existing illegitimate children to her.

        “Hey, I’ve got a bunch extra of these and nobody’s answered my sale ad on X, you should take one”

        • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
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          5 days ago

          Pretty much, unless he was planning to donate one of his existing illegitimate children to her.

          I imagine that would be hard as many of them either actively loathe Elon or he’s totally forgotten about them.

  • Yeller_king@reddthat.com
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    6 days ago

    Is he being a weirdness shield for the GOP? Like every time we make fun of Trump or Vance he has to do something like this to distract people?

  • index@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

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

    • orcrist@lemm.ee
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      6 days ago

      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.

      • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 days ago

        I have only two questions:

        1. Who elected Elon Musk?

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

      • index@sh.itjust.works
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        6 days ago

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