This comment hit the nail on the head. I feel like I played right into his hands. But what is a person to do?
remember the real reason he bought Twitter was to influence the 2024 election and stop any kind of leftist organizing on the site
Remember the real reason
Elon Muskthe Saudis and Russians bought Twitter for Musk was to influence the 2024 election and stop any sort of leftist organizing or media on the site.FTFY
I think people have a very skewed understanding of how much influence Twitter has on elections. Facebook, yes. Google, sure. But Twitter? Twitter is tiny.
Twitter, as of last year, had about 238 million daily active users, or roughly 3% of the total world population.
Facebook had 3 billion. That’s more than 1/3 the population of the planet.
TikTok is roughly 1 billion. Instagram, 500M. Hell, even Snapchat is higher, at around 380-400M.
Doubt many leftists use Twitter/X anymore anyway. Too much fascism and enshittification. Much better alternatives that are decentralized with the fediverse.
But that’s kinda the problem, isn’t it? They lost their platform. Sure, alternatives like Mastodon are cool in their own ways, but we lost a lot of reach. Twitter was utterly massive in terms of reach (and that’s why there’s some people on the left who still haven’t left it yet). At its peak, it had something like 400M monthly users. Mastodon has like 2.5M monthly users and Mastodon has been repeatedly criticized for being difficult to discover people, so who knows how many of those users you can reach even if you manage to get something to go viral.
I don’t believe this post. Musk is a dumbass but he’s on record admitting to voting for Biden. Even Elons not crazy enough to support Trump.
He’s never said anything true, why believe him on Biden? He tried to help Desantis launch his campaign, he’s at least as bad a Trump.
The reply to that comment is much more likely to be true, though. Elon Musk is not playing 26-D chess. He’s not playing 4D chess. He’s not playing chess. He’s not playing checkers, or even Chutes & Ladders. He’s playing Candyland. He’s not thinking more than 1/10th of a move ahead, and more often than not, he’s thinking 2 moves behind.
His consistency in his behavior with Twitter (in terms of left/right bias) is not down to any kind of planning or forethought, it’s just that he behaves in ways that conform to his worldview whenever the opportunity presents itself. It looks like planning because it’s consistent and because there’s no friction involved in implementing his desires (since he’s the final arbiter of what happens at Twitter, and he has no one around him willing to tell him he’s making bad decisions).
Elon Musk is an emotionally dysregulated rich man whose college level education did not actually stick. That’s all. There’s nothing more nefarious or supervillainous about it. He’s just a lonely moron with money.
I don’t know, I think it makes a lot more sense to assume that he’s a dysfunctional fuck-up who’s spending his mid-life crisis taking on a project he clearly can’t handle.
I could see many billionaires doing that. But Musk is the same guy who built high speed one-way underground car tunnel with no room for emergency services instead of a fucking train. He doesn’t have the capacity for such schemes.
