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It's funny how people will argue "never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence" to excuse an institution or individual they like, but here pe
by rodgerd 4y ago
It's funny how people will argue "never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence" to excuse an institution or individual they like, but here people are bending over backwards to justify Musk's behaviour at Twitter as the performance of an evil genius playing a game that we're too subtle to understand, rather than those of a bully fool who is burning his life down thanks, apparently, to a crippling social media addiction and an inability to get over his ex.
- skellington 4y ago
- lovich 4y ago> Or maybe he's just a guy that believes in free speech… Lol, that’s some good comedy. He’s already gone on a ban run of people mocking him. He didn’t even make a month before showing his true colors on this talking point.
- bmitc 4y ago> Or maybe he's just a guy that believes in free speech and wants to change Twitter for the better How many times does this need to debunked? Elon Musk has a long and storied history, with direct evidence, of attacking and taking punitive, perceived or actual, action on anyone that has even mildly disagreed with him. He even tweeted, several times I might add, "Chomsky sucks" just because Chomsky said a few mild things that disagreed with Musk. > which includes making it not hemorrhage money Why does he even care enough about it? Oh yea, Twitter is a source of people disagreeing with him. Further, he overnight added billions of dollars of debt to Twitter.
- heavyset_go 4y agoHe's already literally silencing his critics on Twitter.
- mhoad 4y agoI don’t know how anyone could possibly still believe something like that at this point. The past two weeks have just been one argument after another against every point you just made.
- throwuwu 4y agoMaybe you don’t remember the 80s but this is how pretty much every hostile takeover went down. Leveraged buyout > massive layoffs and restructuring > change in business model and the next thing we’ll likely see is some form of selling off assets or divisions, not sure what those would be in Twitter’s case but it won’t be a surprise if they come up with something.
- Zigurd 4y agoThere were a lot of awful LBOs, but Elon may take the cake. Even the worst LBOs had a business case, even if in terms of asset stripping, outsourcing, channel stuffing, and other aggressive financial engineering. When Elon bought it Twitter had no free cash flow, existing long term debt, no assets to sell, etc. It's an enormous LBO with strange characteristics done by a guy with no LBO experience, advised by Jason Calacanis and David Sacks. This will be a b-school case study classic.
- rchaud 4y agomore like a cult classic. professors will not spend much time on it because there isn't much students can get out of it other than a good laugh.
- PM_me_your_math 4y agoMost of the people judging Musk are unaccomplished 20-somethings with massive inferiority complexes, or mercurial line workers who loved Musk until he publicly rejected the nonsense of their precious political cult, I mean party.
- rodgerd 4y agoYou should probably seek professional help about that projection problem you have.
- PM_me_your_math 4y agoHow original a thought...
- valarauko 4y agoIt's funny how people will argue "never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence" ... ... but here people are bending over backwards to justify Musk's behaviour ... My issue with arguments like these is that these are collective opinions held by different segments of people, not some nebulous singular person whose opinion can be safely discarded because of contradictory statements.