alt account is Adrian Dittman

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    He made a lot of critical errors because he doesn’t understand that for a sock puppet to be effective in the long run, it has to do 3 things:

    1. it has to post regularly

    2. it has to post differently than you do. If it disagrees with you broadly that’s even better.

    3. It can only show up in your defense at critical moments and with almost visible hesitancy e.g. “I am a huge critic of Musk, especially on [issue A], but on this [Issue B] I actually think he makes a salient point.”

    You get the most use out of sock puppets by letting them moderate your position to make it more palatable to the public without actually having to moderate your position.

    Anything less than the 3 above makes it a liability. Especially when you sloppily juggle several.

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      See while I don’t agree with your argument on his critical errors, you make a salient point on the list of things required to pull sock puppeting off.

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        To have that, you need people you actually trust.

        Elon musk trusts no one. His circle is a bunch of yes men who have willingly sold their soul to agree with whatever crazy shit Musk wants.

        Musk is smart enough to know that. While also not smart enough to build a team he fully trusts.

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        More evidence CEOs really don’t do much: He has the time to do this, despite being CEO of how many companies?

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        When you’re a petulant billionaire you think you can do these things effectively.

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        I once tried to have a throwaway “talk crap about my job account” but it got a little boring and didn’t even provide catharsis since nobody engaged with it lol.

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        Ha at least it was two (highly coordinated) people!

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        Honestly I’m surprised he doesn’t have like five minions doing this for him.