it's very possible for Elon Musk to be a gigantic dipshit who didn't want to buy twitter, for him to be making it worse largely on accident, and for him to also be dismantling a major means of marginalized and leftist communication because he's a Nazi. None of this stuff is contradictory at all - ThreadSky

markpopham.bsky.social • 514 days ago

it's very possible for Elon Musk to be a gigantic dipshit who didn't want to buy twitter, for him to be making it worse largely on accident, and for him to also be dismantling a major means of marginalized and leftist communication because he's a Nazi. None of this stuff is contradictory at all

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shaenon.bsky.social•514 days ago

In real life, evil people are mostly pretty stupid.

eean.dev•514 days ago

He did actively want to buy Twitter for months and then immediately regretted it when he did, afaict.

eean.dev•514 days ago

I mean specifically, he wanted Twitter when he signed the paperwork months before closing.

rmar.bsky.social•513 days ago

If Elon Musk is good at anything it’s manipulating the share price of his companies. I’m still convinced he wastrying to pump twitter like dogecoin or the Tesla “private at $420” tweet and got caught and doubled down until he was forced to buy.

takemetotacos.bsky.social•514 days ago

One fist of iron, the other of ham, steering the shipwreck that used to be the global Town square deeper into the bottomless depths.

markpopham.bsky.social•514 days ago

he thinks the things he has done to twitter has made it better, because he's a dipshit, and he thinks that swatting public libraries is good because he's a shithead. these things work in concert together. why is this angels on the head of a pin shit worth fighting over

markpopham.bsky.social•514 days ago

Evil people also being very stupid isn't a surprise, it's actually the usual state of affairs. They're just able to be extremely effective because a) it's easier to break things than fix them, and b) evil shit is often profitable enough to get a lot of people to ride along with you

theryusui.bsky.social•514 days ago

i think the funniest part is that you could ask him "why?" and depending on who he thinks you are, what day of the week it is, and what he's had for lunch, he would give you any of a dozen different answers with the exact same vehement certainty

theryusui.bsky.social•514 days ago

he's functionally a solipsist; he lacks even a toddler's sense of object permanence, even regarding himself

there are some consistent notes here, like how everything he does is purely to make himself feel like the single most important thing in the hollow shell of a world he inhabits

theryusui.bsky.social•514 days ago

a thing worth underscoring is the fact that none of this makes him unique

there are many people in positions of power and influence who think and act the same as he does; they just aren't addicted to being the center of attention

arguably, this lack of self is the key ingredient to being fascist

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