• Commiunism@lemmy.wtf
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    10 months ago

    Pretty sure it’s an inevitability at this point and Musk knows it, which is precisely why he’s fueling the flames of the whole ad situation. Since the whole controversy are both about the Jews (as in antisemitism) and advertisers, they can be blamed for the death of the platform instead of business decisions by Musk.

    There’s also the possibility that some right-wing billionaires who really love to spread their propaganda using twitter are going to buy the company or bail it out or whatever, but that remains to be seen

  • Zuberi 👀@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    Elon made deals w/ hedge funds to funnel him money as they shorted the stock (not to mention 100x leverage derivatives against TSLA). Because Twitter is collateralized against his wonder-child.

    Since canceling his PR team, Elon’s entire MO has been to run it into the ground in a manner that seems plausible to the SEC so he doesn’t get out-right sued.

    He just isn’t this stupid, whether you want him to be or not.

    “Fuck you” to his advertisers seems like a fairly on-brand way to telegraph his true intentions. I really look forward to a point where we can forget about his relevance when all 3 companies bite the dust.

  • MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    What is it about him, that makes him look like an asshole? It can’t just be his eyes being too close together, can it?

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      10 months ago

      For me, it just looks like he has a certain coldness in his eyes. It’s not a dead or vacant look, it’s just the way a smile, or any other facial expression for that matter, just doesn’t seem to make it to his eyes. There’s obviously life and intelligence there, but it’s not a friendly intelligence. I pulled up the most lizard-man pictures of Zuckerberg for comparison, and even at his most robotic, his eyes still look human. Like there’s some capacity for empathy in there somewhere. With Musk? His eyes just don’t quite read as human to me in an uncanny valley sort of way.

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        10 months ago

        The eyes of a fucking aristocrat, care for nothing more than power. No ideals, no kin, no kith. Just a hunger for power for powers sake.

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    10 months ago

    I think Murdoch will buy it just as it goes irrelevant for $580m and then it will go bankrupt

  • NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    “I don’t have any theories that make sense,” Paskalis says. “There is a revenue model in his head that eludes me.”

    You don’t need a complex business model for this to make sense. The man has had “fuck you money” his entire life. Things are finally not going his way and he only has one way to respond… by saying “fuck you” to the people he doesn’t like.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah. Most people, especially in the establishment press, don’t know or pretend to not know that this is the first time he’s actually shaping how a company is run rather than pay someone else and then take credit for their work like he’s always done.

      Everything went well when he pretended to be Tony Stark inventing and designing every part of his companies while others did it all much better than he ever could.

      Now that he’s publicly making actually meaningful (as in they have a big impact, not as in them making sense) decisions, he’s showing the world that he’s just an extremely impulsive malignant narcissist 52 year old manchild who desperately craves to be seen as cool and edgy by young people.

  • r3df0x ✡️✝☪️@7.62x54r.ru
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    10 months ago

    If he doesn’t do something about the blatant racism on Twitter, I could see this happening. If he does do this, all the shit stains like Tim Pool will start spouting off about how the platform doesn’t support “free speech.”