Elon Musk Is Weird

Elon Musk is big dumb face and I’m gonna talk about it.

Twitter is no more and I’m gonna talk about it

I’m gonna talk about several other things as well.

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[SpiralSine]

Musk is the prime example of how we don’t live in a meritocracy

[jebes]

Musk is such a genius he bought a 20 billion dollar company for 44 billion then turned it into a 1 billion dollar company 😅

[stephenshoihet]

I always thought that the best thing a rich person could do for humanity was to buy Twitter and shut it down... I just didn't think this is how it was going to happen 😆

[asher]

i think people who think buying twitter was a drop in the bucket for musk forget the stage of the twitter purchase where musk was basically trying to back out of buying it as hard as possible but wasnt able to lmao

[nathansamuelson]

I found it hilarious during the Twitter verification mess that someone posed as Eli Lilly, tweeted that insulin prices were being dropped, and their stock price had a stroke for the day. Kinda telling where investor priorities are there.

[PennTankerGuy]

What's hilarious about the "X" rebranding is that he tried it with PayPal before he was fired. He got a few focus groups, and they all said the same damn thing.
"It sounds like a porn website."
The damage to his ego has never healed since then.

[litterboxstudios]

Guy’s one “skill” is narcissism, and paired with the luck to be born wealthy, it’s almost impossible to fail in a country where the rich and powerful are almost always mythologized as “success stories”. I’m rooting for him to keep (inadvertently) proving the meritocracy concept is BS.

[saumyacow]

Reminds me of the old joke. How do you make a small fortune? Well, you start with a large fortune and...

[wombat]

Elon Musk is living proof that you don't need intelligence or social acumen to be stupidly, ridiculously wealthy.

[StringsNStrands]

You can say what you want about twitter, but the twitter bird is iconic and "Tweets" have become internet lingo that can found its way into the public consciousness. Changing all of that for an icon that is bland and it would seems more like a pornsite app than a social media one. This man has truly made himself the smartest man in the room by removing everyone with any intelligence from that room, and now that room will be X. He will, by default, become the smartest user of X.

[kakaiyu]

Just want to call out that Twitter actually does play a significant role in the networking and livelihoods of people in creative industries outside of being a tktoker or YouTuber. Many visual artists and animators are losing the followings that create their livelihoods, Elon's stupidity is causing some actual harm to people beyond just trolls and cancel-happy losers.

[alden]

The question of whether or not he's stupid aside, he DEFINITELY doesn't have the social awareness to realize whether he's the butt of the joke, or in on it.

[cockatoo]

Twitter's most valuable asset was its brand. The rebrand ruined that

[casbot]

IMHO Elon *never intended to go through with buying Twitter, * it was just another stock price manipulation attempt, and he got trapped into buying it.

The original owners knew what he was up to because he's done so much price manipulation before (especially with crypto) that he'd become predictable ["Elons gonna Elon" - pentagon official when he kept jacking up the price of Starlink _after_ the Ukrainians became dependant on it].

They set up the contracts _so he couldn't back out of the deal, _ and walked away with $44 Billion.
They played Elon as they could see the angle of his con coming.

[magolord]

The only thing I'm sad about with Twitter dying is for every artists and just creators in general who needs websites like Twitter to easily share their work to a large audience and connect with it who don't really have anywhere else to go as they either are bad to share their work to a large new audience or straight up aren't able to sahe it at all. The only competitor I could see is Bluesky but even then, the waitlist is horrendously long if you aren't well established and don't have connections to people who are already there to share a code to join, and as long as it is on a whitelist only, they are pretty screwed...

[kenshin]

I wonder how many “Elon Musk is a billionaire therefore you can’t criticize him!” comments there are 😂

[phant]

He made the biggest mistake of all: He started believing his own myth. The guy has lost all grasp on reality. And yet he still has the money to have a completely disproportionate effect on people's lives.

[Elrond_Hubbard_]

I think the greatest gift Musk has given us is that he has singlehandedly blown open the myth that the rich and powerful people who control this world are intelligent and skilled.

[eee]

i got banned from twitter for calling elon musk "melon husk" and i am glad i did

[thomas_xsg]

It’s been sooo satisfying to see Musk and Twitter go down the ‘Xitter’ at the same time. I hope we can draw this out as long as possible. 😊