I remember being on Twitter late at night the day after he bought it, and I saw Kara replying to tens of random accounts insulting Elon with variations of “he’s the cleverest man I ever met, you can’t predict what he’ll do” and “no he’s not a fascist he’s my friend”. Past midnight on the West coast!
Kara Swisher is in a category of parasite all her own: the go-to parasocial media-fixer for Silicon Valley's self-aggrandizing power pigs, and an accessory to their widespread harm of the powerless.
Someday, she'll have a data center named after her, built upon the ruins of her own credibility.
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Someday, she'll have a data center named after her, built upon the ruins of her own credibility.
As Stan Lee (by way of Voltaire) put it, “With great power comes great responsibility.”
It was folly to expect the man who libeled the doctor who saved those kids in the Thai cave to grow into a trustworthy steward.