So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

Sure no one anywhere does any work if you think a handful of videos are indicative of what they are doing 100% of the time.

Stripe, the payment platform had 8,000 employees before recently announcing 15% reduction. Tech companies might provide a lot of perks in terms of less 'formative' work environments but any stories I've heard in that respect are of them being pretty intensive places to work despite that appearance.

No one goes in and cuts 50% of staff on a Friday and publishes a multitude of job vacancies on a Sunday as Twitter seems to have done.

Even without the job ads being posted, cutting so much so quickly once again looks like someone not knowing what they're trying to do unless it's to specifically shut down teams with specific functions as does seem to have been the case.

Asking people to print 50 pages of code, or whatever it was is another example of someone not knowing what they are at.

A brand that he has kicked the living sh*t out of.

Come on now.

It's very early for the 'Dorsey made a mess of things and if it fails, it will be his fault' excuses.

If what you said is the case, it's still Musk's mistake because he waived option for due diligence. And as already said, the speed at which he is acting does not look like someone who assessed methodically what was being done, by who and then acted but rather someone who had already planned this course of action before he pulled that bizarre stunt of walking in with a sink.

If it goes to the wall, it's on Musk. It will be a case of 'he bought it, he broke it'

So he spent 44B on something that was or is likely to fail?

Rationalize that for us.

Look, this attempted strawman of trying to pretend people should support what Musk is doing so as to avoid the potential of people losing their jobs is ignoring the bigger picture. Musk has made an impulse buy of a product that he doesn't really understand and he has immediately made dramatic and conflicting actions and statements on what is a global interface. And him doing so is very significant, even before we get anywhere close to assessing what the impact of his ownership is fully going to have.

Your inference would be similar to suggesting people appease Putin with respect to Ukraine so as to avoid the likely death of Ukranian defenders (deaths that have occurred and will continue to occur) but it fails to consider the impact of not resisting Putins actions longer term.

I would rather we see Musk's endeavor with respect to Twitter to fail because I feel he has is a volatile influence on the global conversation, he has indicated a tolerance, if not outright support for rhetoric that is extremely dangerous and I have never found him to be a likable character or one who has demonstrated any capacity to consider the greater good of society in his actions. And he is in a position to influence society, that's a fact. That does not mean I want people to lose their jobs, but if it was a choice between a few thousand highly qualified people who would stand a very high likelihood of getting replacement jobs losing theirs, or society moving further towards a place where uber-wealthy people have the power to negatively impact society in general, or other workers in particular, then print those P45's immediately.

It almost as if the detailed, well thought out plan we were told about earlier didn’t actually exist.

So what’s the purpose of his latest clarification about comedy?

You don’t need to twist 240 million to corrupt the election, Look at what Cambridge Analytica did for Trump and Brexit, focusing on a small number of persuadable voters in swing constituencies.