Comment by spaceman_2020
6 hours ago
The idea that he is “stupid” or “naive” while also being the world’s wealthiest man by far needs to die
What he really is is a sociopath who uses the idea of “doing good” to infiltrate systems and setup laws and legal structures that benefit him and his companies
I don’t buy any of the goody-two-shoes “for the sake of humanity” persona and neither should you. But the worst thing you can do is dismiss his sociopathy as naivete or stupidity
His behavior after buying Twitter really is stupid though.
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.
I really think his entire Twitter purchase was a way to get political leverage
Musk is thinking far down the line
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Maybe the point of buying Twitter was to help elect Trump and get his fingers into the administration
His net worth figure certainly seems to indicate that it wasn’t stupid