Fucking Twitter
I am just so incredibly tired of Twitter, Elon Musk and their fanboys.
The only explanations that make any sense at this point are:
- Musk is actually kind of a moron who has been incredibly lucky up until now.
- He’s a narcissistic ego-maniac who has managed to steer himself into a dead end. A dead end that forces himself to lose extreme amounts of money for nothing at all in return.
His ego won’t ever allow him to accept defeat. Which means that Twitter is dead. It will possibly be a long drawn-out, slow and painful death but it’s done. There’s no path towards paying off one billion dollars per year in loan interest and keep enough talented people working for them. Context matters. Whatever he’s going to do will alienate Twitter’s core users. No matter how it plays out in the end, it will be disastrous for him and the companies he owns.
In all those regards he is kind of the perfect encapsulation of the person we apparently deserve in these unprecedentedly moronic times. He is a less stupid Donald Trump with actual money. He’s an idiot savant with delusions of infallibility. A modern day tech pope that lost his mind.
We’re sitting on a burning planet, there’s a war going on in Europe, untold people world-wide are suffering from hunger and a lone billionaire can burn $44,000,000,000 on stroking his ego and is not immediately being strung up by the next lamp post for doing so.
What a time to be alive.
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