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Twitter brings Elon Musk's genius reputation crashing down to earth

16 points by VagueMag 4y ago

inphovore 4y ago
To be fair, you are a fickle crowd who devour your idols. For what ever you have an apatite you eat and crap out. One thing we know about genius, they’re socially awkward, sometimes buffoons. Let us hope our brainiac goes back to space travel and electronic devices. Stop trying to fix humans Elon, you’re one too.
tamaharbor 4y ago
Personalities aside, I would still bet on the (second) richest man in the world.
Zigurd 4y ago
To put it in perspective, Henry Ford accepted a medal from literal Hitler. Re-platforming misogynists, racists, and fascists isn't that big a deal by comparison, is it?
- jqpabc123 4y ago
  In perspective, they look quite similar.
  - Zigurd 4y ago
    Well sure, to you they do. But is that not a failure of empathy? Put yourself in the shoes of a libertarian-ish, slightly fashy techbro. On second thought: Ewwww.
  - yucky 4y ago
    Comparing Elon to Ford is quite a compliment, after all he lifted millions of people out of poverty, including entire swathes of the black southern population who migrated north for the jobs he created.
jqpabc123 4y ago
Power and fame corrupts. At some point, many will actually start accepting their public personna as fact instead of fabrication.
charlieok 4y ago
Since I've been bothered by giant centralized social networks like facebook and twitter ever since they rose to wealth and power in the aughts, and have had an interest in the building blocks of an alternative decentralized world during all the time from then to now, I am thrilled to see people moving to the fediverse (mastodon and other similar software). Absolutely thrilled. Keep going with this Elon. Keep. Going.
- warning26 4y ago
  The one upside! Let’s hope he can completely destroy Twitter!
  - charlieok 4y ago
    In my view, he has already tainted Twitter beyond redemption. Now it's a matter of getting more people to make the switch already. So yeah, that's a lot of people and a lot of inertia keeping them there so it'll take a lot more of this to drive more of them off. So keep going.
metadat 4y ago
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16 points by VagueMag 4y ago

To be fair, you are a fickle crowd who devour your idols. For what ever you have an apatite you eat and crap out. One thing we know about genius, they’re socially awkward, sometimes buffoons. Let us hope our brainiac goes back to space travel and electronic devices. Stop trying to fix humans Elon, you’re one too.

tamaharbor 4y ago

Personalities aside, I would still bet on the (second) richest man in the world.

Zigurd 4y ago

To put it in perspective, Henry Ford accepted a medal from literal Hitler. Re-platforming misogynists, racists, and fascists isn't that big a deal by comparison, is it?

jqpabc123 4y ago
In perspective, they look quite similar.
- Zigurd 4y ago
  Well sure, to you they do. But is that not a failure of empathy? Put yourself in the shoes of a libertarian-ish, slightly fashy techbro. On second thought: Ewwww.
- yucky 4y ago
  Comparing Elon to Ford is quite a compliment, after all he lifted millions of people out of poverty, including entire swathes of the black southern population who migrated north for the jobs he created.

jqpabc123 4y ago

Power and fame corrupts. At some point, many will actually start accepting their public personna as fact instead of fabrication.

charlieok 4y ago

Since I've been bothered by giant centralized social networks like facebook and twitter ever since they rose to wealth and power in the aughts, and have had an interest in the building blocks of an alternative decentralized world during all the time from then to now, I am thrilled to see people moving to the fediverse (mastodon and other similar software). Absolutely thrilled. Keep going with this Elon. Keep. Going.

warning26 4y ago
The one upside! Let’s hope he can completely destroy Twitter!
- charlieok 4y ago
  In my view, he has already tainted Twitter beyond redemption. Now it's a matter of getting more people to make the switch already. So yeah, that's a lot of people and a lot of inertia keeping them there so it'll take a lot more of this to drive more of them off. So keep going.

metadat 4y ago

https://archive.today/AqwnN https://archive.today/AqwnN