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No more ads on Elon’s X, EU Commission tells staff
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Destroying Twitter was Elons plan for the get go. If he just closed the doors a year ago there would be outrage, now people are begging for it to die. Musk is still a moron, but all the Saudi money he got to buy Twitter was used to destroy the biggest platform of their critics.
I really think he’s just that stupid. Everything he’s done at Twitter and at every other company he’s run has been due to the same fundamental error - thinking that he’s smarter than anyone else in the room, including people who are experts in fields he’s never even heard of. He has every indication of clinical narcissism, exactly like Donald Trump. He’s wrong, and when it becomes obvious that he’s wrong, he becomes infuriated and doubles down - exactly like Donald Trump.
I think that Twitter is going to become the canonical example of Hanlon’s Razor. Elon at Twitter is going to be our version of Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra, except it’s going to mean someone not just shitting but having explosive diarrhea in the bed, and then showing it off like it’s something to be proud of. And still having a legion of followers who can’t help but say what a visionary position it is to shit in your own bed.
Shaka when the walls fell
Mirab, with sails unfurled.
Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel
Naw. He's addicted to it. He just got sick of all the lefties (anyone left of Hitler) on it. If Twitter shuts down he's gonna have severe DTs.
It feels a lot like he's trying to destroy it before tge US elections.
What Saudi money? The Saudis already had 5% of Twitter and rejected Musk's offer at 54.20
Wasn't it Saudis who he bought Twitter from?