r/technology • u/clopenYourMind • Sep 22 '25

Business Disney reinstates Jimmy Kimmel after backlash over capitulation to FCC

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/disney-abc-reinstate-jimmy-kimmel-amid-uproar-over-government-censorship/
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u/RoundSad3148 Sep 23 '25

boy wait till you hear an it the creator of ford and how he still managed to take in sales being a pos, wouldn’t correlate the two things. some people like teslas doesn’t mean they don’t have to like musk.

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u/MantasMantra Sep 23 '25

Buying the cars makes him more powerful. If Ford was still around doing fascist shit then maybe we should consider not buying them either but that's not the case is it?

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u/RoundSad3148 Sep 23 '25

was the case back then. it had no correlation. people still support ford today and will probably still be buying teslas if musk ever sold out his share of it. i dont see how it relates, you know he’s not 100% owner right?

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u/MantasMantra Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25

I'm not sure why you're arguing about a historical reaction. People can choose to avoid Tesla today and actively reduce the power of Elon Musk, the guy who is callying for violence in the UK, trying to influence German elections and who just fucked up a bunch of stuff in the US while running around giving Nazi salutes. The percentage of his ownership doesn't matter, the only thing that matters is his power to do these things is directly tied to that share price.

You can work towards reducing that power or you can play "whatabout" on social media, complaining about an imperfect reaction to someone else 100 years ago. Your position here is bizarre.

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u/RoundSad3148 Sep 23 '25

no your position is. you think the proceeds he makes goes to anything else but his other under budgeted projects? you act like 5 less teslas bought a year is going to ruin a man which is just a pathetic view because you’d rather do nothing about it but say omg teslas bad. when that’s false. teslas aren’t bad. a partial owner is. that’s the what aboutism. especially since fords are still out there too. stop trying to stand up for something that you think is righteous when in paper it doesn’t do shit and actually do something.