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by MildlySerious 1217 days ago
He's not exactly being coy about it[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1625368108461613057?s=20

2 comments

It's always been apparent, but the Dave Chappelle debacle was the final proof that he genuinely believes himself to be a universally beloved figure hailed as a genius comedian except for a handful of woke saboteurs. He really does seem baffled why "jokes" like this tweet don't go over.
I hadn't checked his feed in a good while. Scrolling to find the tweet above, and going a little further, it really is just a single stream of memes now. Bad ones, at that. Yet he's somehow shocked enough his views are down to warrant firing the guy who filled him in on it, despite the existence of the public view count that he introduced.
He's been rich a long time. People around him may encourage his 'messageboard moderator from 2002' brand of humour, but it falls horribly flat if he takes one step outside his echo chamber.
It took a little over a minute for that page to load the tweet! Granted, that's only twice what it used to take, but I cannot understand how a "microblogging" platform has that bad of performance. Maybe he should fire more people, that'll surely fix the problem.