Remember: the real reason Elon Musk bought Twitter was to influence the 2024 election & stop any kind of leftist organizing on the site
Remember: the real reason Elon Musk bought Twitter was to influence the 2024 election & stop any kind of leftist organizing on the site
This comment hit the nail on the head. I feel like I played right into his hands. But what is a person to do?
remember the real reason he bought Twitter was to influence the 2024 election and stop any kind of leftist organizing on the site
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The reply to that comment is much more likely to be true, though. Elon Musk is not playing 26-D chess. He's not playing 4D chess. He's not playing chess. He's not playing checkers, or even Chutes & Ladders. He's playing Candyland. He's not thinking more than 1/10th of a move ahead, and more often than not, he's thinking 2 moves behind.
His consistency in his behavior with Twitter (in terms of left/right bias) is not down to any kind of planning or forethought, it's just that he behaves in ways that conform to his worldview whenever the opportunity presents itself. It looks like planning because it's consistent and because there's no friction involved in implementing his desires (since he's the final arbiter of what happens at Twitter, and he has no one around him willing to tell him he's making bad decisions).
Elon Musk is an emotionally dysregulated rich man whose college level education did not actually stick. That's all. There's nothing more nefarious or supervillainous about it. He's just a lonely moron with money.
Yes, but I think the nefarious part is that he's surrounded himself with grifters and yes-men. He might not see it if they're not directly grifting money and are just turning him to their own causes.
You don't need to take his money if you can just get him to spend it where you want.
He literally needs a court jester to bring him down to Earth.
I listened to a book recently that has this comment being closest to the actual truth. Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff It is an eye opener
There may be a lot of truth to that.... but I find it hard not to counter such thoughts against his achievements with Tesla and SpaceX. The man gets shit done (and is late for a lot of other stuff too, granted). Still, there are not many other CEOs of recent times with such drive and such vision that have been able to execute on such grand schemes, and actually, for the most part, succeed.
You’re prolly going to get shit on here if you think Tesla is “his” achievement.
I didn’t downvote but a lot of people think he bought clout with his Founder title after investing in the company.
Since, you know… he wasn’t a founder.
Edit: yes, I know the argument of his contributions being in the marketing, and and and…. that still doesn’t make him a Founder.
Not saying I think he did it alone, but he has been the driving force in the ultimate success of both endeavours.
TIL... there are still people around who think Phony Stark has ever "achieved" anything.