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 Cursing Elon Muks in public has become a virtue signal in that it's safe to do because he doesn't assassinate those that cross him, everybody's doing it as a (dys)social bonding ritual, and it's an implicit acknowledgement of the influence he has that the cussing teenagers cannot take away - and they can't cancel him because he owns what used to be their "cancellation tool"*.

*) which is why they became so pissed when he bought it; it was THEIR TURF, THEIR tool for making life miserable for others.

#insights



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