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Is it? Chaotic, certainly. But if you proposed in 2021 that there was a way to: * make white nationalism acceptable on Twitter * while increasing the US gover
by SpicyLemonZest 11mo ago
Is it? Chaotic, certainly. But if you proposed in 2021 that there was a way to:
* make white nationalism acceptable on Twitter
* while increasing the US government's dependence on it
* at the same time that the US president owns a competing social media app
I think nearly anyone would have told you that's impossible. Strategic chaos in service of a bad goal just looks stupid from a distance.
- spaceman_2020 11mo agoI really think his entire Twitter purchase was a way to get political leverage Musk is thinking far down the line
- meheleventyone 11mo agoHe did try to get out of buying it which everyone seems to have memoryholed. I doubt anything other than way too much ketamine is behind a lot of the chaotic decision making.
- UltraSane 11mo agoI meant the way he fired AND INSULTED all the smart people whore created the Twitter back end
- SpicyLemonZest 10mo agoAgain, though, do you think that there’s some concrete goal he was aiming for which he could have achieved if only he hadn’t fired and insulted them? Or do you just think that it was terribly rude and they didn’t deserve to be treated that way? I wouldn’t call the latter stupidity, especially since he was working against contemporaneous predictions that the site wouldn’t be able to function without those people.
- UltraSane 10mo agoIt is stupid because people are going to want a asshole premium to work at Twitter after seeing how badly Musk treated people.