Comment by UltraSane

6 hours ago

His behavior after buying Twitter really is stupid though.

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

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

    • He 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.