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> However if the point is simply pure destruction — building a chaos machine by removing a source of valuable information from our connected world, where groups
by jazzyjackson 4y ago
> However if the point is simply pure destruction — building a chaos machine by removing a source of valuable information from our connected world, where groups of all stripes could communicate and organize
Do people seriously think Musk is this much of a comic book villain? The article doesn't back up its assertion.
- voldacar 4y agoThinking of Musk as a comic book villain is a political signal now, so members of a certain political tribe are incentivized to one up each other in performing this signal publicly
- braingenious 4y agoI don’t think that many people think of Elon Musk as a comic book villain. From the article: > It almost doesn’t matter if this is deliberate sabotage by Musk or the blundering stupidity of a clueless idiot. The upshot is the same: Twitter is dying. There is a small but fascinating group of Musk superfans that can’t seem to imagine _anyone_ that would question his intelligence. Even when someone writes “stupid clueless idiot” there’s a group that will see those words and somehow read “Genius of untold intellect. The author meant to write ‘Eldritch cerebral phantom wielding unfettered power with the lathe of heaven that he invented’ but made a typo and accidentally posted “dumbass baby man’ instead”
- krapp 4y ago>Do people seriously think Musk is this much of a comic book villain? The article doesn't back up its assertion. Has he proven himself to be that petty, spiteful and juvenile? Yes. Time and time again. I don't think he's sabotaging Twitter just for the lulz, I think he's desperately (and ineptly, while seeing himself as Tony Stark playing 5d chess) trying to recoup his losses from a gamble he was forced to take, and having fun trolling the "woke hivemind."