"CEO said a thing!" journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.

“CEO said a thing!” journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    He’s an idiot whose only skill is using his frankly disgusting access to money and power to steal ideas from actual geniuses and calling them his own.

    “Actual geniuses,” my ass! Musk steals his ideas from decades-old issues of Popular Science. Electric cars? Spaceships? Hyperloops? That’s like the to-do list of every geeky 12-year-old!

    Even your disparagement gives that piece of shit more credit than he deserves. I can’t really blame you, though: it is genuinely difficult to find words emphatic enough to express how unexceptional and unworthy of accolade he really is.