People donât like angry political comments here, they prefer a dispassionate tone. They also generally donât like stuff that sounds like âleft-wing activistâ, even though most people here donât identify as âright-wingâ but as left/âcentre-left/âcentre/âlibertarian. Not to mention that whilst most people here are not pro-Trump, probably a small minority are, and they can strong downvote if they want to, and if you get no upvotes, that means low Karma even if most people arenât bothered by what you said. Also, I think the Musk Nazi salute thing reads as âsilly media bullshitâ even to a lot of people who donât like Trump, because they donât think Musk is a âreal fascistâ*. Musk probably tends to get (too much of) the benefit of the doubt round here, because he shares a lot of preoccupations with the futurist, existential risk wing of EA, and because he is idolized in Silicon Valley as a great man (something that predates his public turn to the far-right.)
*(I think Musk is a real fascist, but I still kind of feel like that, because I donât think he was actually signaling that he secretly loves Hitler, he was just trying to offend for shits and giggles. Very obnoxious, but not necessarily a sign that he is secretly working towards some sort of Nazi-style regime behind the scenes.)
People donât like angry political comments here, they prefer a dispassionate tone. They also generally donât like stuff that sounds like âleft-wing activistâ, even though most people here donât identify as âright-wingâ but as left/âcentre-left/âcentre/âlibertarian. Not to mention that whilst most people here are not pro-Trump, probably a small minority are, and they can strong downvote if they want to, and if you get no upvotes, that means low Karma even if most people arenât bothered by what you said. Also, I think the Musk Nazi salute thing reads as âsilly media bullshitâ even to a lot of people who donât like Trump, because they donât think Musk is a âreal fascistâ*. Musk probably tends to get (too much of) the benefit of the doubt round here, because he shares a lot of preoccupations with the futurist, existential risk wing of EA, and because he is idolized in Silicon Valley as a great man (something that predates his public turn to the far-right.)
*(I think Musk is a real fascist, but I still kind of feel like that, because I donât think he was actually signaling that he secretly loves Hitler, he was just trying to offend for shits and giggles. Very obnoxious, but not necessarily a sign that he is secretly working towards some sort of Nazi-style regime behind the scenes.)