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Comment by SpicyLemonZest

4 hours 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.

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.