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I mean, he clearly spends a lot more time airing out his own dirty laundry on social media now. Previously it might have seemed to be a clever guerrilla PR tact
by Apocryphon 4y ago
I mean, he clearly spends a lot more time airing out his own dirty laundry on social media now. Previously it might have seemed to be a clever guerrilla PR tactic, now it often just seems petty and sad.
- rvnx 4y agoWhy publish the "Twitter files"? If it makes the situation more risky for Twitter and more likely to be sued. If Twitter did something wrong or illegal in the past, couldn't it be held accountable today and have to pay a fine or compensation? Sounds like stepping on your own foot.
- Apocryphon 4y agoThe Twitter Files are an interesting play, to jump into culture war discourse and get political and cast himself as a free speech crusader, better than the old order. But that’s not the dirty laundry I meant. I just mean all of the replies to the Twitter peanut gallery and reposting lame memes and looking generally boorish, rude, and unhip. He doesn’t have to do any of that, yet he chooses to.
- danaris 4y agoIt reads to me like he's desperately trying to prove that his acquisition of Twitter was a good thing; that the people in charge before were Bad, and he is Good. The fact that it has turned into such an obvious nothingburger just highlights how out of touch with reality Elon has become, and how badly he needs to feel like people like him.