• misteloct@lemmy.world
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    I gave up my top tech career for about that amount, I’m privileged enough to do so. So absolutely yes. Check my post history where I burned bridges with xAI lol.

    This lady is probably being lambasted through the media as a whore, death threats, legal risk, etc. So yes just to meet with the guy and put my life at risk I would abso-fucking-lutely need a shit ton of cash. Musk is one of the most dangerous people alive.

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      Yeah, at the very least she needs security and lawyers. 20K is little enough to endanger her life.

      …On the other hand, she’s an influencer farming attention. And not in a good way. That cuts a lot of my empathy short.

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        ….On the other hand, she’s an influencer farming attention. And not in a good way. That cuts a lot of my empathy short.

        How the hell is exposing weird shit an evil person says and his bribes to give you hush money “farming attention?” You’re victim blaming.

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          Look at her social media posting history. Look at her published book:

          BRAVE Books and Ashley St. Clair partnered to write “Elephants Are Not Birds,” a Christian, Conservative children’s book that tackles the topic of gender identity. In the book, children will learn that boys are not girls, and Elephants Are Not Birds.

          I retract/regret what I said… I didn’t mean to victim blame. This sucks for her and she doesn’t deserve one bit of it, nor does her abuser deserve any sympathy. She deserves empathy.

          But she also appears to have made a living peddling (IMO) hate far and wide. I am struggling to express/process how I feel about that… it’s a tragic irony, I guess? And frustration at that whole ecosystem she was in (which Musk is at the very tippy top of).