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Another perspective would consider that Dime Store Alex Jones probably has a much smaller marketing budget than, say, Disney.
Elon has cultivated a hate-tolerant user base, and has found himself with the kind of advertisers that user base gets you.
Well ya, that's the standard explanation, and probably the most likely to be right.
I like to wonder if there might be other explanations, or even multiple explanations. You've heard I'm sure of the quote like "never attribute to malice which can be adequately explained by stupidity"? I have my own version of that that goes something like this:
Never attribute an act to stupidity when a clear pattern of malice is apparent.
The malice, in this case, is the deliberate cultivation of a hate-tolerant audience. Let's not forget that Elon got into this mess because of a stupid game of chicken he decided to play with Twitter's board in order to convince them to let him say transphobic slurs on the platform (imagine hating your daughter that much?)
Such a pathetic sad hateful stupid person he is.