[coolso]

> jesus christ is he immature

This seems to be the #1 complaint about him. Honestly, so what? Since when is Twitter serious business? To take it a step further... why does life have to always be serious business? There's plenty enough of that as it is.

I think it's telling that people are up in arms and furious that Elon Musk might... bring back a little free speech and equal moderation to Twitter? I mean the threat isn't that the left is going to be censored more, it's that the right will be censored less equivalent to how the left is currently "censored" there. And that's what people are scared of, evidently. Excellent ideas, apparently, require strict censorship and moderation to propagate.

One of the number one complaints about our last President was the same thing: "he's immature". So finally, we got a super mature President who's in office currently. Along with super high inflation, super high gas prices, supply chain issues, and a Putin who evidently thinks he can get away with anything now.

"Immature" isn't always a bad thing.

[cyphar]

> This seems to be the #1 complaint about him. Honestly, so what? Since when is Twitter serious business?

His Twitter account is actually listed as a source of material information in a 2013 10-K Tesla SEC filing -- so his Twitter account in particular is serious business. He paid a $20m fine to the SEC for making a fake announcement in 2018 that he'd take Tesla private at $FUNNY_NUMBER[1] and has been sued by several people (including JP Morgan[2]) due to the associated losses of his fake announcement.

[1]: https://www.sec.gov/divisions/enforce/claims/tesla.htm [2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/15/jpmorgan-sues-tesla-for-162-...

[otterley]

Character matters a lot. Our leaders should be moral as well as financial leaders.

As for the president, you give that position way too much credit (or, inversely, blame). They have no authority or control over gas prices, supply chain issues, or autocrats invading other countries. They’re not God; they’re just doing a job described in Article II of the Constitution. Republican or Democrat; it doesn’t matter.

[coolso]

> They have no authority or control over gas prices, supply chain issues, or autocrats invading other countries.

They may not have direct control... but nobody is arguing the President literally said "supply chain issues, start existing!" or failed to say "gas prices, you better not rise!" while waiving his finger.

Presidents absolutely have indirect control over all of those things though, and more.

[otterley]

Suppose you were President. How would you control those things, and with what authority? And how would you prevent unintended consequences that are worse than the problems you set out to solve?

You don’t have to answer this question, but it’s a really useful thought exercise. Leadership is much harder than people often realize.

[coolso]

I would probably use Trump’s playbook during his administration as a guide since it resulted in low inflation, low gas prices, no supply chain issues, a Putin kept in check, etc. In contrast, the current President definitely appears to be finding leadership harder than he realized despite his 50 year career in politics.

[Ekaros]

> Since when is Twitter serious business?

Since the day of IPO...

We are talking about relatively expensive publicly traded company here. There should be some level of moderation with those people who can actually control and affect such company. Sure if you don't own single share do whatever you want, but once you have certain threshold of ownership, I expect certain level of professionalism.