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remember the real reason he bought Twitter was to influence the 2024 election and stop any kind of leftist organizing on the site
I honestly think he bought twitter accidentally when he was trying to do another pump and dump like he did when he announced he was taking Tesla private at $420/share and like he did over and over with crypto. He bid a meme price ($54.20) that was way overvaluing the stock (as was his TSLA $420 at the time), and they had to go after him legally when he tried to pull out.
Being a malignant narcissist with increasing unhinged tendencies, almost as if he is using again, he decided to make it into a $44B joke, because he can. He wasn’t, and isn’t, taking it seriously. He’s shooting from the hip, announcing major policy shifts via spontaneous tweets rather than talking to his senior staff. He whipsaws between policies, changing or reversing them at a moment’s notice. He does not, in the words of the Joker, look like a guy with a plan to me.
It looks like classic narcissistic rage. There’s a reason why it feels like Trump is in charge of twitter now.
Probably also why his fan boy Huffman is trying to sink Reddit
That’s a bingo!
I never thought it was just a coincidence that he bought it in the middle of the mid-terms, and immediately started trumpeting about how people should vote rep. Every move he has made only confirms that suspicion, and stuff like this article is blatant 'mask-off' behaviour.
He's a partisan piece of shit whose only interest is trying to force society to match his shitty views.
Given that he is close to the likes of David Sacks says it all
lol
By that point, Twitter won't be relevant enough to influence a lemonade stand.
Unfortunately I don't know where else people are organizing in mass.
Catholic churches
that's a good mass joke.
There were places to organize before Twitter. There will be places after. They could use Mastodon Lemmy or any other activity pub client. They could use a BBS or a php powered forum or an email mailing list. The only thing special about Twitter was that so many people were accessible via it. But musk doesn't want them there anymore. He's doing everything he can to tell everyone that. So there's no reason to stay for the sake of the platform.
I think that might be too thoughtful for him. To me at least, he seems like hes insecure talked himself into a corner about buying twitter. All the free speach stuff was probably parioting people without really thinking it through.
Well that's sure infuriating to read today.