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Do you have, like, evidence of this, or is it just plausible sounding vibes?
I imagine Twitter being pretty left-leaning was one factor, but I think you also have to consider things like Elon simply being the world's biggest egotist and also very stupid, and most banks being able to see that this would be a terrible investment.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/was-elon-musks-strategy-twitter-rcna118490 bits and pieces paint a bigger picture
Fair enough, that's a really interesting (and horrifying) read.
I really do not like this idiot.
Damn, I've been keen to say this mindset is simply giving Elon too much credit, but this article drops some pretty strong bits and pieces indeed.
Definitely feels like Elon is still bumbling through this "plan", but the evidence is pretty damning.
Interested to hear more takes on this article. Thanks for sharing!
The best plans are the ones where you gain an advantage whether it succeeds or fails. For Musk's fascist backers, him buying Twitter was such a plan: if he successfully turns it into a right-wing disinformation platform they win, and if he destroys it utterly they also win.
Hanlon's Razor
None of us will know the full story for a long time, but it seems likely Elon was a useful idiot that his backers knew would be like letting a bull lose in a China shop. Not that Twitter was not problematic in a lot of ways, but its sort of decentralized communication did make things harder for despotic assholes for a bit
People act like twitter is somehow unique and irreplaceable. In reality with the rise of the fediverse breaking the network effect couldblet a genie out of the bottle they can't put back: decentralized communication that isn't beholden to corperate entities easily pressured by governments
I believe you're underestimating him. An idiot, he's not. It all kind of fits with Musk rolling over on Ukraine. He always has some weak excuse for all his actions. Because the US public believes lies, he gets away with it.
He gets away with it because he has money
It's a theory that doesn't make much sense to me. If he wanted to censor protests, blowing up twitter is counterproductive because now people will go elsewhere. Anyone can just make a website for $5/mo
Takes more than $5/mo to make a successful one, though.