We need to stop talking about Elon

Trump and Elon explicitly manipulate the media so that the headlines are all about the most outlandish thing they recently said. It successfully distracts us from looking at the things that are important to all of us as Americans.

If there’s one thing the Luigi event has taught me, it’s how successful our leaders are at directing all of our attention towards partisan bickering and away from the things that are causing Americans the most real life pain. Trump has a lifetime of experience being a media shock jock, and has successfully kept the media focused on and repeating his every casually-dropped outlandish statement for the last decade. Every other headline is “Trump just said this. What if.” Elon is much worse. He is explicitly trolling the world on X to keep the headlines and reactions and intensity around him.

We* can’t let these douche bags define what we pay attention to or how we see our fellow Americans. They are explicitly trying to trigger division, anxiety, and anger, and to keep us focused on them in instead of being focused on solving our problems. Whatever their motivation, it is not in our best interests.

Edit: * I mean “we” collectively, not this specific sub. We all have the option on social media of whether to engage / upvote content that is generated to distract us from important shit.