this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
527 points (95.8% liked)

United States | News & Politics

2528 readers
815 users here now

Welcome to !usa@midwest.social, where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.

If you’re interested in participating, please subscribe.

Rules

Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech.

Post anything related to the United States.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

While Elon indulges in political theater and self-aggrandizing quips, Tesla is experiencing an unprecedented slump in both sales and stock value.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

How does this thread have so many comments and upvotes without a single critique of the source? "TV Fandom Lounge" sounds like some weird AI blog site, and the headline claiming Musk was "close to tears" (in quotation marks, so apparently someone said this...?) has nothing to do with the rest of the text. Nowhere does it clarify who said this about the interview, nor does it even mention crying or tears once outside of the clickbait title. And if you actually bother to watch the interview where he is supposedly "close to tears", he looks completely normal (by his standards). Media literacy is completely dead it seems, people are happy to mindlessly circulate complete garbage as long as it fits whatever political narrative they are trying to push.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago
[–] eureka@aussie.zone 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If I had five cents for every time I've seen a comment talk about 'weird AI' and I've read it as 'Weird Al', I would have ten cents.

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 3 points 17 hours ago

Weird Al always deserves a shoutout!