arthwollipot
Limerick Purist Pronouns: He/Him
Yes. Unfortunately he's an arse with a lot of money and a huge platform. That makes him not just an arse, but a problematic arse.
angrysoba
Philosophile
Well, now he has told advertisers to go F themselves on stage, with his CEO looking on. He then went on to say that Twitter will be killed by the advertisers and Earth will be angry or something, because Earth will know who killed Twitter.
Pretty sure that Twitter will indeed die, and his fanboys will also drink the Kool-Aid and agree that it was the advertisers, not Sainted Elon, who is to blame for boosting neo-nazis, anti-semitism and Pizzagate. That's totally normal, and it is "evil" people like Bob Iger of Disney who have killed Twitter. Yes, it sounds insane, but that's what he said.
Pretty sure he is deliberately killing Twitter now. No idea if that was always the plan, but I don't believe he is so stupid to really think that what he is doing would make it successful.
Pretty sure that Twitter will indeed die, and his fanboys will also drink the Kool-Aid and agree that it was the advertisers, not Sainted Elon, who is to blame for boosting neo-nazis, anti-semitism and Pizzagate. That's totally normal, and it is "evil" people like Bob Iger of Disney who have killed Twitter. Yes, it sounds insane, but that's what he said.
Pretty sure he is deliberately killing Twitter now. No idea if that was always the plan, but I don't believe he is so stupid to really think that what he is doing would make it successful.
Wudang
BOFH
And still the advertisers don't come back? How very odd.
Checkmite
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This part of the interview is getting all of the attention; few are reporting the part earlier on when he says, very seriously, that the rioting pro-Palestine supporters are being funded by elite Jews who are too stupid to realize that they are promoting their own destruction.
tyr_13
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It's part of the same 'Great Replacement' theory advanced by Trump and now a mainstream GOP belief that lead to the shootings at the Tree of Life, El Paso's Wal-Mart, and the Buffalo Tops.
Only now it's being hitched to the 'Cancel Culture' complaints. It's not a jump from 'you can't use free speech to get people to not associate with bigots' applied to the general public to, 'you can't use your freedom of association to not pay people platforming bigots'. You'll pay for bigots to have an audience and you'll shut up, otherwise you're against free speech.
EDIT: He really seems to have not liked the dressing down he got in Israel and probably hates even more that it didn't immediately fix his problems.
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angrysoba
Philosophile
This seems to be where he said that.
Link
I think it is time-stamped to around that time where he is admitting it was "foolish" to post the anti-semitic Tweet and explaining that people who are perceived as persecuted get funding then.... that Jewish people are funding Hamas demonstrations....
angrysoba
Philosophile
The thread is about Musk and Twitter. Why not address the points?
As it happens, I have been listening to the whole interview. There are some interesting things he says during the interview. Why not listen as well and why not engage with what is being said?
Thank you I will, I sometimes feel like a stranger on the shore. It is an oddity that this entrepeneur of unprecedented scale might be diminished by tribal cultural affiliations.
angrysoba
Philosophile
I have said before that I like what he has done with SpaceX and Tesla. He diminishes HIMSELF with the tribal nonsense.
The thing is he has loose lips.
In times of yore loose lips were a celebration of the 4th singularity, language, now they are the sword of damocles.
angrysoba
Philosophile
Are you going to extend that charity to literally everyone else on Earth or is it only Elon Musk who gets such flowery and fawning apologetics?
I mean you are literally one step away from praising anti-Semitic tweets that get his advertising yanked with “masterful gambit, sire!”
I regard myself as a simpleton who is impressionable.
Musk impresses me, particularly with his X purchase, vacillating between buyers regret and euphoria at genuinely changing the purpose of the 4th singularity, which is language.
After the big bang self replicating molecules and consciousness.
angrysoba
Philosophile
I have no idea what this means.
Jack by the hedge
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It seems he has observed his advertisers each acting in their own self interest to protect their reputations from association with his conspiracy theory endorsements, and interpreted it as their all conspiring against him. It's ironic but I guess it's consistent.
Exactly what is observed in nature. I thought it obvious.
A singularity is a quantum leap if you follow me
Big bang, all matter created in 15 minutes into a strange place 256 times what we can observe
Self replicating molecules 4 billion years ago.
Conciousness 700 million years ago.
Transfer of abstract notions when LAnguage evolved.
Only human primates.
jeremyp
Philosopher
Except don't make the mistake of sending the telephone sanitisers this time.
dirtywick
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haha could you imagine if it goes big bang, molecules, consciousness, elon musk
musk impresses you for the twitter purchase? why? as an entrepreneur, he completely misunderstood how the platform worked and tanked it almost immediately. oh, didn't he leverage billions of tesla stock against the loans? well, how's that looking to pan out? what a wise investment. i mean, he's got no one else to blame but himself. doesn't mean he won't find somebody.
as a free speech enthusiast, which started immediately with the twitter files where he combed through slack and found anyone who disparaged him and fired them, went into throttling traffic to other similar sites, then interfering in turkish and indian elections, to he's suing a media group because accurate reporting made him look bad. and there's dozens of really important things in between there. most of it incredibly self centered and hypocritical. unless he's changing the 4th singularity to mean lying is now good, this was all a disaster.
he's a liar and a cheat. we probably don't want to talk about his bitcoin scams or his securities fraud if we want to talk about how great of a guy he is. how impressive it is to steal from his most impressionablist simpletonist of his fans. the guys who trust him. do honest people run crypto scams?
and it hasn't worked out too well for the guys who trusted him either. how's matt taibbi doing? he promises the moon, but twitter can't produce the revenue they need to pay the bills and he throttles or blocks his competitors, the ones that are actually paying out. but they've outlived their usefulness at this point anyway. let's be honest, they're barely even people to him. at least they're not trans tho
you know, when you list it out, and i skipped a lot like the most famous of his blunders the pedo diver, or the jussie smollet-esque faked attack against his family, or the way he went after the kid with the jet tracker, or even the simple chapelle show booing lie. want to talk about the "full-self driving" feature, which is more of a branding trick that once in a while kills someone. that's bad right? killing people, well who cares about people? want to talk about the time he cut off starlink to ukraine? want to talk about his tesla "ventilators"? we're here for the money.
bottom line is you can't make a trillion dollars without ripping a lot of people off. you're wrong about him, because he has no integrity. you shouldn't pathetically cling to a guy who doesn't have integrity, because they don't stand for anything and they'll disappoint you every time.