• JonathanKington [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    This is just her desperately trying to reconcile her relationship with Elon and her lifestyle with her previous more radical beliefs. Same as when she defended union busting/worker conditions at Tesla. She sounds so out of touch.

    This is the same person who had a Stalin quote in her yearbook and "anti-imperialist" in her twitter bio.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      her previous more radical beliefs

      Meh. She does not strike me as the kind of person who read theory. She strikes me as the kind of person who picked up some jingoisms that made her look edgy and flounced around with them to get attention.

      This is the same person who had a Stalin quote in her yearbook

      Not exactly the most controversial thing Stalin ever said.

      • JonathanKington [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah I don't disagree with any of that, I just don't think she wants to give up on whatever idea she had of herself as a radical, as shallow as it was. I also think a lot of her fanbase are left leaning and she's prob getting a lot of pushback on that front.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          Undoubtedly. But that's the nature of parasocial relationships. Her material conditions incentivize behaviors in contradiction with her personal beliefs. She doesn't really know or care about any of the online hangers-on she interacts with. She just works to maximize the number of interactions that establish her revenue stream.

    • Fartman77 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      What stalin quote did she have? How do you even defend union busting and pretend to be a leftist? She clearly does not understand the buzzwords she is using.

      • FunnyUsername [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        It's more like her class position changed so now her interests align with the bourgeois that she used to hate