this sounds like him pivoting to a 'poor me, misunderstood genius/noble pioneer' pout.

So far I just still think the point is there's no point, and this is just an expression of how much harm a narcissist with power can do.

Musk's Twitter takeover was funded by Saudi-Arabia. That is all you need to know. They have a clear interest in destroying a network that made something like the Arab Spring possible. Musk is their useful idiot.

#twitter

And if conservatives may be more interested in buying EVs from Tesla, that's good news.

“Tesla’s net favorability..rose to 26.5% from 20% among self-described Republicans [late last year].”

https://www.kbb.com/car-news/reports-ev-numbers-rising-in-some-conservative-places/ /2

That's like asking if Trump was really trying to expose the corruption in the GOP or if Martin Shkreli was trying to burst the pharma bubble.

The answer is "no". They're all really *that stupid* and we need to stop giving them this benefit of the doubt just because they're rich.

For me it's been hard to understand how people don't see it as deliberate!

No oligarchs want truly free speech. In a corrupt system or world, truly free speech tends to expose corruption, and get folks riled up. Real free speech doesn't curate with carefully chosen journalistic spin or choices to kill yet another story on wage theft or wealth inequity.

The idea of "killer acquisition" at a slightly larger scale applies. All the investors -still- have billions to live on.

It can be two things at once... he is that dumb *and* he is trying to destroy it...

(Or more like his bakers are...)

I think this all the time. Now actual news is way harder to find. Rumours, far-right blogs, and phony news sites abound. My friends that weren't swayed by conspiracy theories before are now sharing their some far-right thoughts.

I think destroying Twitter was the goal.

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But a lot fewer on the left are willing to buy Tesla's because of Elon, so it may cancel out. I really have difficulties justifying owning a Tesla with my family (we bought it in 2019 when it wasn't clear yet what a dolt Elon turned out to be).

And it is a good car. I would still recommend it.

#ev #ElonMusk

I have not been able to reach any other conclusion for the last year.

It seems.. obviously obvious.

He is a saboteur. A wrecking ball. And a red-pilled fascist troll.

For Musk himself? No. He’s a Trump-like sociopathic narcissist who thinks he’s a genius but in actuality couldn’t manage his way out of a paper bag.

For his *financiers* though? $44B to eliminate the most significant obstacle to their own efforts toward consolidating their autocratic rule is a _bargain_.

I'm still operating by Hanlon's razor, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Although at this point I'm willing to accept that he's down to doing deliberately stupid things because he knows there's a >$1B debt bill coming soon, and since the company is not profitable he's going to muck things up before he has to hand his toy over to the debtors.

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Please notice that boy genius normally only makes the PR front man, and does not try to manage "his companies".

That seems to work somewhat, as for whatever reason, he seems to have enough fanbois. (Might be that these are hired by his personal team, who knows?)

BUT, at #dodo he managed to get the controls into his hands, and he seems to have proven rather conclusively that it's better for humanity if he has personal shoelace binders, who tell him how great he binds his shoes.