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

I'm sure Cordell was very sad to see people losing their jobs in twitter, since he cares so much about workers losing jobs.

I think most people are just laughing at him. Not hating.

Attacking your target market is kind of comical.

Not many right wingers are buying electric cars.

Did you just make the case that for-profit space exploration is worse for peoples safety? You're a candidate for the red planet after all. Please queue on the... left for blue hair dye and your pressure suit before proceeding to the transport where you will be issued with your first litre of genderfluid. The in-flight entertainment will be Das Kapital (unabridged) as read by Gilbert Gottfried. Welcome aboard comrade!

They're looking for opportunities, we are just laughing at a billionaire making an eejit of himself. People love to see a big ego brought down a peg or two and even Musk's most loyal devotees must recognise that the guy is firmly up his own hole. There's also money to be made when someone else is screwing up. Shorting Tesla stock recently being a prime example.

Fair point, but I still struggle with the idea that people can't see this. I wonder if they can and they just lie to the rest of us because admitting that [insert x celebrity, not just Musk] is being a gobshite undermines their argument that they're a living god. What kind of upbringing creates a belief that some among us are exempt from having human flaws? Celebrity worship is a character flaw in itself IMO.

For those who don't know, Medvedev is Putin's Himmler. If he hasn't made his daily threat to nuke Ukraine/Europe/world it's because he isn't awake yet.

Here's a taste of some of his Twitter "discussion" predictions for the new year which Elon found "epic."

4. Poland and Hungary will occupy western regions of the formerly existing Ukraine

5. The Fourth Reich will be created, encompassing the territory of Germany and its satellites, i.e., Poland, the Baltic states, Czechia, Slovakia, the Kiev Republic, and other outcasts

Season greetings to you all, Anglo-Saxon friends, and their happily oinking piglets!

Maybe because it didn't exist when the above post was posted.

Elon left a nice long gap between his tweets for some reason.

A bit of common sense was all that was required to understand he's not actually supporting that insanity but I suppose bashing him without thinking was more important.

Yes, it was wrong for him to assume people have common sense.

He openly courts the batshiat conspiracy crowd with his anti-Fauci stuff. He had suddenly acquired a host of new MAGA fans for his support of Trump. He had issues with Ukraine with his Starlink tantrum and started posting Russian propaganda. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

I don't have any friend, let alone know a CEO, who is up to their neck in that much twattishness

Perhaps instead of asking why people are pointing this out, you need to be asking yourself why you are bending over backwards to constantly defend and make excuses for this behaviour.

As for this latest episode, I wouldn't be surprised if he did indeed find Medvedev's post to be "epic", but later salvaged it when many of his fans started asking what he was smoking.

Why do you think it took him five hours to come up with the second tweet?

At this point it seems like this topic is about little more than the mind numbing tribalism of modern identity politics and little else.

Whoever changed the pH balance of something like twitter was always going to become the target of all sorts of criticism from whichever side of the partisan political aisle benefitted most from the existing status quo.

To any reasonable person, Musk was compelled into buying twitter after trying to flex his financial muscle to intimidate the previous owners and now he's leaning into winding up the people who were always going to be put out by the changes that are occurring.

On this thread Musk is the embodiment of evil on other platforms he's a saviour.

In reality he's neither and all this waffle is just waffle.