Ever since he bought it and started basically wrecking the place, I've suspected that his goal has been to reduce the usefulness of Twitter to non-conservatives. Obviously he has a incredibly massive stick up his ass regarding politics, and Twitter failing would mean basically nothing to him personally.
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downpunxx@kbin.social 11 months agoon purpose. by design. with intent.
squiblet@kbin.social 11 months ago
aruraios@kbin.social 11 months ago
It just works.
curryandbeans@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For what purpose?
FirmRip@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But what if he’s just a fucking idiot?
FaceDeer@kbin.social 11 months ago
It's possible that Musk is good at some things and not good at others, but his success at those things he's good at have caused him to think he's good at everything.
xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Becoming a billionaire requires winning so many dice rolls that it’s difficult (impossible?) to really understand that you can lose sometimes.
instamat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s the Techius Bromus Effect. They get too much smoke blown up their asses that they eventually believe they’re capable of solving every problem.
I made up the term but the idea is true.
jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Hanlon’s razor is reserved for people without a life long rap sheet of blatant malice.
ellesper@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For what it’s worth, I think Elon is both evil and an idiot.
sol@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
Evil yes, so much that he’s making you believe they are just some idiot
4am@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You don’t think it takes a fucking idiot to be forced into spending 44 billion dollars, some of it other people’s money, to purposely destroy a social media platform because you (and the people who’s money you used) were upset how critical said platform was of you?
BangelaQuirkel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Then it’s unintelligent design.
sol@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
They wouldn’t be the richest men in the world then.