meanwhile, on the timeline where Elon Musk decided to fix Flint's water: "lol @ techbros reinventing municipal water" "Flint's Water Is Not Your Vanity Project, Elon Musk" "keep SV robber barons out of our water" "Are Silicon Valley Billionaires Trying To Become Water Gods?"
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Replying to @chaosprime @kylemathews
Here in reality timeline, nobody is laughing at Bill Gates for fixing malaria. You might be extrapolating a bit too far.
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so for sure nobody called Musk a colonialist exploiter when he had Tesla bring solar panels to Puerto Rico after Maria, right
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Replying to @chaosprime @kylemathews
Do you really think those solar panels are the most effective way Musk could have helped in PR? It struck me as an advertising move, not much more helpful than people who send used clothing or teddy bears.
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Replying to @chaosprime @kylemathews
Not demonstrated at all. If Bill Gates got mockery for the ways in which he helps, I'd concede your point. But he doesn't. It is worth thinking about why he gets respect while others don't.
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villain fatigue? Gates was dragged for 25 years before he did his face turn. Elon is still a heel in the narrative.
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If you really think that, cool. It doesn't strike me that way at all.
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I was being partially facetious in order to highlight a very real tendency to make moral judgments based on the "who" rather than the "what".
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If only we could talk people out of that particular tendency, our politics would turn into a model of decency and compromise overnight. :/
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