[spaceman_2020]

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

[UltraSane]

His behavior after buying Twitter really is stupid though.

[SpicyLemonZest]

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.

[UltraSane]

I meant the way he fired AND INSULTED all the smart people whore created the Twitter back end

[SpicyLemonZest]

Again, though, do you think that there’s some concrete goal he was aiming for which he could have achieved if only he hadn’t fired and insulted them? Or do you just think that it was terribly rude and they didn’t deserve to be treated that way? I wouldn’t call the latter stupidity, especially since he was working against contemporaneous predictions that the site wouldn’t be able to function without those people.

[UltraSane]

It is stupid because people are going to want a asshole premium to work at Twitter after seeing how badly Musk treated people.

[spaceman_2020]

I really think his entire Twitter purchase was a way to get political leverage

Musk is thinking far down the line

[meheleventyone]

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.

[spaceman_2020]

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