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Yeah sure, Elon totally intentionally obliterated his own image among progressives and liberals to prevent another Arab spring because he is a very stable 10D chess master who’s always a trillion steps ahead…
Nothing was intentional. He has no clue. He bought Twitter because he’s a pissy little man-baby on adderall who can’t keep his mouth shut.
And he’s ruining everything because he has no idea what he’s doing and he fired the persons who knew.
I definitely believe he got into the situation as an idiot. But he didn’t purchase twitter 100% by himself. I think his financial backers absolutely intended to destroy twitter. Or at least sabotage its ability to spread free speech.
I think you are absolutely right.
I've heard this a lot, but there is one flaw in it. It assumes Elon musk is actually smart. That guy is really fucking dumb.
Or he is a stooge being used by others who want to see Twitter fail
Oh no, it was intentional on the part of the SA and foreign backers. Elon is the scape goat. They bought it for the man-sized rich toddler and let nature take its course. Can you think of someone less reliable to put in charge of Twitter to cause it to crash and burn?
Kanye West and Donald Trump were both too busy.
But if twitter dies something takes it's place, be it threads or the fediverse. What a waste of 44 billion
The fediverse is very fragmented and threads isn't taking off
I don't think many fediverse users want to repeat the same mistakes of X/Twitter.
because of federation, fragmentation isn't a thing
I mean, the shareholders of all of his other companies let him stick around. Are the shareholders of Tesla in on some plan to watch him decimate the value of their investments? At best, they're being held hostage by the impact of him throwing a fit and liquidating his massive personal holdings.
I think the market is just trying to figure out how divorce him knowing how much damage he could do on his way out
The Muskovite purchasing Xitter ("X" being "sh" like in Chinese "xiao") took Xitter private. It's not "the market," it's "a handful of private investors." Not trying to play semantic games but Xitter's investors are not representative of an open market.
Why do we continue to give dictators and billionaires the benefit of the doubt all the time?
He might not be competent, but his high level investors are.
From what I can tell, he has some level of technical competence, more in engineering than in software, and basically not at all with people. I'm not sure if he has a neurodivergence in the area that prevents him from acquiring an understanding of people, or if he basically regards other humans as objects to be shifted around in bulk, and thus not worth considering, but his career demonstrates both him fucking up socially, and him being played by people who want something from him.
He does not have any level of technical competence.
He understands cars or rockets the way a kid who is really into models does: he can tell you dimensions, horsepower, or payload capacity. He can't apply any of that knowledge - they're just memorized stats to him. When you get him talking about what those stats mean, he makes stuff the fuck up based on the reaction of the room. He's getting sued for it right now... Again
He tries to make it sound like he's this flawed genius with a grand plan to save humanity, but he's just a billionaire who loves collecting futuristic looking toys to brag about
Don't be so sure. Now I still don't think he's some 4D chess player. But even stupid people with too many resources can form stupid conspiracies.