I know most of y'all have fully abandoned Twitter, but good lord if he actually does this (which is not guaranteed mind you) a LOT of vulnerable people are going to get hurt.
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He has to be destroying Twitter on purpose, there's absolutely no way a person could make this many perfectly idiotic decisions in a row unless it was deliberate.
What I don't know is why you'd buy a social media platform for $44b and deliberately speed-run it into oblivion, but I'm sure the reasons are not good.
he's a failchild that's failed upwards his entire life and is surrounded by yes men. he's remarkably stupid.
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He's really not clever or competent. From what i understand the only reason tesla and space-x can function is that they've developed proceedures for keeping him distracted and steering him away from things he can break, and even that is a constant challenge. With twitter there was no time to learn how to manage him, he just smashed through the wall, shit on the rug, and set the drapes on fire.
But then why involve SpaceX in the first place? Unless the point is to just funnel public money into a private corporation?
Yep
Don't forget truckloads of state subsidies as well.
That's what I was wondering, because he's obviously not a smart person but things like SpaceX seem to basically function, and if he ran those the same as Twitter it'd literally be headlines like "SpaceX fires all its rockets directly into the ground for no reason" lol
SpaceX did blow up their own launch pad so badly that they're getting sued.
IIRC that was the direct result of Elon demanding that they ignore certain safety procedures or something. Can't remember the details though but I read it somewhere.
Remember when users on this site were theorising his purchase was a conspiracy spurred on by Peter Thiel in order to deliberately destroy twitter because leftists used the site to organize? I think there is an impulse to want our oppressors to be smart, so when they do dumb shit, it can't actually be dumb
In my job, my clients are usually executives or VPs. They do dumb shit like this all the time. A lot of these people get to these levels of leadership for reasons that have very little to do with their competence, and they have big egos and don't listen to anyone, even when you put lots of evidence in front of them that their ideas are fucking stupid.
This right here. Steve Jobs is literally dead because of this. He rode this to the grave. He had a very very treatable form of cancer, but literally believed he could formulate his own cure using fruit juice, until he really started dying and it was too late to cure.
And he was 100x the CEO musk is. Still an absolute narcissistic and psychopathic monster, and literal crime boss, but y'know,
Anyone who thinks that capitalism is a meritocracy has never interacted directly with a member of the capitalist class.
Sure this man, gentle and of noble blood, could not be a fool! Elsewise why would the Lord God Almighty bestow upon him the natural right of rulership?
Very simple
Communist posters were becoming too powerful. The website had to be destroyed.