r/Music • u/cmaia1503 • 7h ago
Hayley Williams responds to Elon Musk hitting out at her anti-Trump iHeartRadio speech: "What I had to say was important" article
https://www.nme.com/news/music/hayley-williams-responds-to-elon-musk-hitting-out-at-her-anti-trump-iheartradio-speech-what-i-had-to-say-was-important-37965071.6k
u/LeoMarius 7h ago
Why do we have to hear about goddam Musk every day?
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u/zaccus 7h ago
It's never even a business thing anymore. Just a distant murmur from somewhere down in the X hole he dug himself into.
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u/tbcrob 7h ago
It’s like he’s the reality TV star of the business world—always creating headlines for the sake of headlines. So exhausting.
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u/anon-mally 6h ago
Like his overlord he needs attention if not he will be irrelevant
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u/ethanlan 3h ago
Unfortunately with as much money as he has he will always be relevant and I personally think he would be more dangerous if he just acted in the shadows and shut the fuck up.
Atleast now there's no denying that he is the enemy of freedom and democracy loving people of the entire world unless you are also an enemy of those principles or an absolute moron.
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u/Fenastus 7h ago
When you realize he bought Twitter in part just so people would have to listen to his asinine opinions again
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u/axle69 7h ago
The man is in control of like 80% of the world's satellites he sadly is someone we need to keep track of even if he's a fucking psycho.
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u/UsernameApplies 7h ago
More like 50%, but yeah, he's a fucking psycho.
And so god damned weird.
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u/asentientai 6h ago
He’s only in control of Starlink satellites, unfortunately they shit out so many that they outnumber the others.
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u/dangoodspeed 4h ago
I wouldn't even go that far. He owns about 40% of SpaceX, that controls StarLink. To say he "controls" the satellites is a bit of a stretch.
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u/started_from_the_top 7h ago edited 2h ago
I know right Elon Musk makes me feel vaguely queasy, and I'm trying to enjoy my tikka masala & garlic naan & mango chutney over here. Indian food is so good though am I right lol
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u/dj92wa 7h ago
Just slammed a poke bowl that had zucchini “noodles” instead of rice and it was amazing. Your sounds tastier, but I’m cutting carbs, calories, salts, and fats where I can.
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u/LiaM_CS 4h ago
Because morons want to simultaneously criticize him and then go and use his platform to line his pockets and give him more attention
Anybody that frequently uses X and also wants to criticize Elon is just a hypocrite. Want him to have less power and influence? You literally can do just that by simply not using his product.
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u/Opposite_Judgment890 3h ago
It’s mainly just reddit. I miss Apollo App where I could filter out any post mentioning ‘Elon’ or ‘musk’ and reddit was so much more bearable.
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u/UsernameApplies 7h ago
Because people (for reasons which are beyond me) still use xitter.
Stop. Using. Xitter.
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u/csgothrowaway 5h ago
Because you fuckers(not you specifically) refuse to delete Twitter.
Collectively, we could financially gut punch this cocksucker tomorrow if all the people that hated him, stopped using his platform and stopped using his products. But we're not going to do it because people need their dopamine hit.
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u/knowitallz 7h ago
Waiting for someone to accidentally run him over with one of his full self driving machines
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u/AggravatedCold 3h ago
Because he's the richest man on the planet and literally bought an entire social media platform just to make everything about him.
He could just spend every day yachting in the Mediterranean, but he chose this instead.
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u/VaporCarpet 5h ago
Because when you're a thin-skinned narcissistic billionaire, you insert yourself into everything.
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u/sourfillet 7h ago
I'm shocked Elon didn't offer to impregnate her.
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u/Ctka00 7h ago
Yet.
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u/anon-mally 6h ago
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u/crumbumcorvette 7h ago
Just another puppet of the machine unlike me the richest man in the world with like a dozen companies that the government subsidizes and an infinite money borrowing glitch
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u/phukerstoned 7h ago
FUCK MUSK. STOP FEEDING IT ATTENTION.
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u/emoooooa 6h ago
Kill it with indifference!
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u/CBSmith17 4h ago
Williams response started with "whoever you are..." That has to hurt him more than anything else.
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u/DreamedJewel58 2h ago
He is already receiving attention, even if we all try to ignore it. He’s one of the richest people on the planet and has firmly trenched himself into politics and owning an entire website curated for his echo chamber
If everyone stops giving him attention to criticize him, then the only attention he’ll receive is people supporting him unchecked
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u/JT3468 4h ago
Does anyone remember that Merlin TV mini series with Sam Neill playing the lead? I remember a quote from it, “those who are forgotten, cease to exist” if we just ignore this fucker, he’s got nothing.
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u/Cael450 2h ago
He’s got a shit ton of money and contracts with the US government. His meddling with Ukraine’s access to Starlink in Crimea shows that he has far reaching impact beyond just attention. Unfortunately, he is a powerful and dangerous man and his trip down the radicalization hole is going to have effects on a bunch of things.
Good TV show though.
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u/Thomk065 7h ago
I guess only he can have free speech.
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u/Keji70gsm 6h ago
I criticized elon on twitter and am now suspended. No explanation... It's a pretty vanilla acct apart from calling Elon a bad father and an authoritarian anti-free speech grifter. You know, truth things.
I think this is probably pretty common for smaller accts to get suspended/banned because they won't be noticed when gone.
Meanwhile his active user stats
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u/probywan1337 5h ago
Same. Got a 30 day ban so I deleted my profile and uninstalled the app. Fuck him. Fuck that company. And fuck everyone on there. It's all bots, incels, racists, and like .01% normal people with a functioning brain. Not worth the hatred it brings out in me.
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u/650REDHAIR 4h ago
I named my profile to “Elon’s Musk” and replied to a few of his tweets and my account was banned within 24hr of the change.
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u/KintsugiKen 2h ago
I said a special hidden feature on Tesla cars is they randomly lock their doors and incinerate their drivers.
I got permanently banned for that one.
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u/pomod 6h ago
Why is the richest man in the world so fragile? Why is he so desperate for attention? Why doesn’t he ever feel he’s acquired enough but always needs more? I feel like somehow all psychologies are related.
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u/JerrodDRagon 7h ago edited 6h ago
I like how republicans just call you a puppet for making up your own mind
Women just want the last say on what happens to their body
That’s freedom but the right want to take that freedom away and claim it’s to save a baby. Funny once you’re alive they don’t care if you don’t have money to pay rent, or who we kill with our bombs and most are against school lunch being free.
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u/NefariousNeezy 7h ago
Meanwhile republicans: just repeats every fox news talking point
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u/Its_the_other_tj 2h ago
I was recently called a socialist for asking a conservative lady if it wasn't a bit hypocritical to force women to give birth but not cover the cost of said birth, let alone medical costs post birth. I guess she didn't care for the question.
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u/No-Wonder1139 6h ago
Elon calling someone a puppet for the machine is hilarious, the guy IS the machine.
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u/Final_Winter7524 2h ago
Elon now calls everyone who disagrees with him „part of the machine“. Ironic, as he’s trying so hard to be the machine.
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u/MysteriousTrain 3h ago
Because of this tweet, you know Elon was trying to or wanted to sleep with Hayley Williams. Pathetic lol
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u/goranlepuz 2h ago
Following her speech, Elon Musk replied to a clip of William reading her speech aloud, in which the original tweeter alleged that “these people are ALL paid actors for hire”.
“So disappointing”, Musk commented, calling her “just another puppet of the machine” in a separate comment.
Looks like projection to me: I have so much money, of all things, but still can't get people to do what he'd like.
STFU and count your money Elon, you lost the right to discuss the life of actual people. You probably never knew what it is, either.
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u/Bored_Amalgamation 2h ago
What gets me is how these people think the number of people at rallies actually matters. Personally, I don't give a shit if no one went to Harris/Walz rallies. I don't care if they pay for actors to show support. I care about the policies they will enact, and how they plan to use the executive branch. That's what really matters. What they plan to do with the job they want. Not how spectacular the aesthetics of the "job interview" process is.
Would you hire someone who has a resume with lots of colors and nice fonts with a bunch of irrelevant references? Or would you hire the person who sounds like they have a plan for the duties they are going to perform?
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u/NORcoaster 2h ago
He’s mad because even owning Twitter hasn’t made him likable or relevant, and people keep pointing out how weird he is.
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u/Right-Program-9346 21m ago
Musk needs to just fuck of to Mars at this point. Get the fuck out of here and take all the worlds assholes with you.
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u/Background-Willow-67 6h ago
Musk is a moron who was born with a silver spoon up his ass. Who cares what he says.
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u/Jack--Tickleson The Fall of Troy 5h ago
For a group of people that’s supposedly all about “freedom and the 1st amendment”, the right wing certainly hates it when Americans exercise their 1st amendment rights.
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u/ElementsUnknown 5h ago
It was so important she had to read it off a card a guy was holding up for her. She literally just printed out the Democratic Party talking points from their website. Zero points for authenticity or anyone believing she came up with her “opinion” all on her own.
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u/Florflok 6h ago
Nah, it really wasn't that important..just jumping on the hollywood bandwagon before november
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u/NeverNeverSometimes 5h ago
Amazing that Elon can be one of the richest people on the planet and still be a fucking loser.
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u/thorpie88 7h ago
Bands need to start covering "I've never met a nice south African" by spitting image to let Musk know he's a drongo
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u/Illustrious-Mix9904 4h ago
This genius that tries to reinvent a subway system by calling it a boring tunnel has got to shut the fuck up already. Thanks goodness he wasn't born here or we'd have to deal with him running as the next president.
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u/cmaia1503 7h ago