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A few things that I (as someone who doesn't follow Twitter) have heard about from anecdotes and from the news about why people dislike him:

- He called some guy who worked for him a pedo for no reason, which he was sued over

- Took over Twitter and promoted right wing tweets to everybody, unbanned far right accounts and sued critics who said he did so

- Started promoting far right ideas, like when he retweeted "Interesting" to some tweet of a 4chan post saying that high-status, high-testosterone males are the only ones who can think freely and should be the only ones who can vote

- Took the side of the right-wing rioters who attacked mosques in the UK, saying civil war is inevitable

- Just seems to insult companies for little reason - advertisers who leave him, and Apple

There has been kind of a slow back and forth. Some people who liked him were miffed about the pedo thing, but they didn't hate him. But he has just kept doing things that some people hate.




> Took the side of the right-wing rioters who attacked mosques in the UK, saying civil war is inevitable

Leave out the part where the riots were started because someone with an immigrant background killed a bunch of kids at a Taylor Swift concert and police were withholding the identity. Along with your other 'anecdotes', can you make your political position any more transparent?


I see I accidentally came off implying that I'm disaffected and take no sides - most of the time, right wing politics seems abhorrent to me. Those are the main things I remember because left-wing spaces tend to hate him, and I dislike him because of those things, but no more than CEOs of companies like Nestle, which has engaged in things like slavery and child trafficking.

> because someone with an immigrant background killed a bunch of kids at a Taylor Swift concert and police were withholding the identity.

It might be somewhat justified if they burnt the house down of the murderer, or those who assisted him. They didn't - they burnt down houses, shops, and mosques, because they wrongly assumed the guy was Muslim and decided that was just cause to target any Muslim. His identity was hidden because he was a minor at the time of the attack.




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