Elon Musk’s X is blocking links to the JD Vance “dossier” containing the Trump campaign’s research on the vice presidential nominee. X also suspended Ken Klippenstein, the journalist who published the dossier that apparently comes from an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign.
At this point he’s just pushing potential users away. I wonder if he’s given up on it and is just holding on to it until the election is completed.
At this point it’s starting to look like he’s intentionally tanking Twitter to remove a major platform where people can organize.
He’s making moves intentionally stupid that destroy the Twitter brand that was built up.
People have been saying this since he was forced into buying the platform. I initially thought that could be true too.
As time has gone on, however, I’m starting to think he’s just that incompetent
Yes, this is what spoilt brats do. There is no masterplan here.
Nah, he is just too incompetent to completely run it into the ground.
He might be doing both, but mostly with a dash of the fact he’s a spoiled self-destructive moron. So if he can’t have it, no one can.
Cool. Do Facebook next.
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Never attribute to malice what can reasonably be attributed to the stupidity, hate, and pig-headedness of an exceptionally fragile billionaire.
Unless tou know they are malicious narccisists, them attributing it to malice is the logical thing to do. Plus hate and pig-headedness are common movitators for malice…
Pissing away 40bn - 15% of your net worth to own the libs by destroying a company you were forced to buy requires an incredible degree of stupidity. Imagine the damage a remotely competent malicious narcissist could do with that kind of money.
For context, the 2016 election cost $6.5bn - for both sides, presidential and congressional elections - that comfortably buys you a quarter century of elections - and if the GOP has power for that long, at this point, there won’t be another election to fund.
Musk clearly has sub-normal IQ - there’s no shame in that, but he has no shortage of other reasons to be ashamed of himself.
It’s 7-D chess. He wants to use x-Twitter as a tax wire-off.
Who even uses Twitter anymore? I stopped browsing it more than a year ago after they borked the public API so it’s not usable any longer. I’m not signing up just to browse tweets, F that.