Those are both valid points rooted in logic… and yet all his behavior over the last months (at least) has been anything but logical.
Like West, I really wonder if we are seeing a psychological melt-down in active motion…
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i think it’s at least possible. if he were to shut it down directly he might violate some agreements or terms of the loan. but doing everything to “save” it, maybe he’s in the clear
i think underneath that might still be the stunning amounts of debt twitter has acquired. and to me it’s really strange, because he had more than enough money to buy twitter outright, so it wouldn’t be under this debt pressure
i think most likely is he just messed up when he made the deal in the first place, and never intended to actually become responsible for it
two things from those tweets that are just so ugh
They heard nothing from their leaders
they would have to have leaders - such a dumb word to describe middle management - to hear from them, and the managers have already been let go
People inside are stunned
only those who haven’t been paying attention
indeed. and nothing says system stability like adding ( and removing ) key features in real time. good thing they have plenty of operations staff left to keep things running.
oh right. they don’t 
on the other hand, when musk says “soon”, it could be relative to the heat death of the universe. fully autonomous self driving cars will be here any day now, i’m sure
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The concept of “self-driving” cars will be obsoleted when everyone has a fully autonomous Tesla robot to be their chauffeur.
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I wouldn’t be surprised. I think Musk was probably sincere in his belief that Twitter needed to be more accommodating to bigots. Now that he has it, my guess is he’d like it to survive…but it has to be in a way that he’s the hero. He’d rather it burn down for him to try to pin on activists or something than to reverse course on anything.
Add that he has no real ideas to work with except less moderation and more crypto, and no administrative skills except firing and bringing in yes-men, and I don’t think there’s that much mystery here.
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… telling a sitting U.S. senator to go fuck himself is begging for a lot more than a lawsuit 
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I did quite like this clap back though:
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Well, that settles it, Elon’s a genius, his mom said so.
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I’d like to dunk on “Elon’s mom” some more but it looks like she’s actually a more interesting person than he is—maybe he should put her in charge 
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Hmm, but is she verified?
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I mean after hearing from his father (Elon is a disappointment! I impregnated my stepdaughter because people only exist to breed!) this is kind of charmingly normal. 
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Maybe she’s too smart to pay for twitter, she did raise a genius after all.
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This is starting to sound a bit like The Royal Tenenbaums, but with the whimsy somewhat muted.
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Tesla investors worry that Musk, a self-confessed “nanomanager” who has been personally involved in working-level decisions from car styling to supply chain issues, is distracted at a critical time for the world’s largest electric vehicle maker.
Tesla’s shares have halved in value since early April, when he disclosed he had taken a stake in Twitter. His Tesla share sales, including another $4 billion last week to bring his Twitter-related sales to $20 billion, have added to the pressure.
When asked about the complexity of industrial supply chains “decoupling” from China and the risks from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Musk returned to how busy he was.
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He doesn’t have a plan for that either.
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Yes, yes I am.
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That “runs into a wall painted to look like a tunnel” metaphor needs some work, because it implies that he fell for someone else’s obvious trick. In this instance it’s like Musk himself painted the wall, then decided to run into it at full speed to prove all the naysayers wrong who were loudly explaining why it wouldn’t work.
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