It’s a valid point, but I do not want a V’ger situation with this guy.
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https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1730235968735650296
ETA - Hank Green’s response, I dunno why it doesn’t preview. Maybe because it’s long?
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or like he’s speaking in (overeager) tweets.
Sorry, posts.
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The way he pretends to talk to the host, and then immediately looks to the audience for approval is disturbing. This performance indicates to me that he’s turned a corner and completely given up on Twitter ever making money. He broke his new toy, and now he’s smashing it on the ground in a tantrum. He doesn’t care about it making money anymore, he’s just using it as a prop as he clowns around for attention.
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Yeah, he certainly comes off as tweaky, so I was wondering idly if that’s basically his normal public-speaking self, or if it’s something chemical.
I also liked the line in one of the clips about how he doesn’t care about being liked, when everything about his behaviour is screaming “oh god - please like me”.
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Has he ever really thought it was going to make money? All of his motions are for extending it’s run, sure, but every single move seemed to kill any chance of real income.
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He REALLY doesn’t cope well with not having the audience on his side.
Shot:
Chaser:
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that was never a possibility. not with all the debt he saddled it with when he bought it. and i think the mass layoffs at the start shows he knew that. he just needed enough people to keep it open, and to maybe rearrange some deck chairs
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I’m shocked the article didn’t mention that she was Quebec’s representative sent to offer condolences after 911. Was a bit of a scandal at the time, as you can imagine.
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I recall that, about a year before he bought Twitter, his ex-wife asked him to buy and destroy it. It would appear that he agreed.
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It’s a cool story to try to make up some explanation, like how Alexander ostensibly torched Persepolis for his mistress, but I would really love to see some citation for it. People keep assuming there must be some plan because Musk can’t possibly be this dumb, but he absolutely can, and sure doesn’t seem to do anything for his “loved ones” let alone exes.
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Sure. Here are a few different ones, although they are all reporting essentially the same thing. 
That said, I should say that it APPEARS he agreed, not apparently. That is a bit confusing.
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If he deliberately did it for his ex-wife, it isn’t exactly a sign of his being a genius.
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I could be wrong, but I always thought he had some desire to make it profitable, but he thought it would be easy because after all, he’s Elon Musk, and he just had to be himself and it would magically work out. Now he’s realizing it doesn’t work that way, and he doesn’t know what to do. Lots of people don’t like him being himself.
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No, but it’s a step up from thinking he could just get rid of moderation for the Nazis and the whole world would love him for it, isn’t it? It implies he understood he was going to destroy it, of which I have not seen the slightest indication.
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I think that his only field of TRUE genius has been in the making of money. Not that he’s an uneducated buffoon or the like, but making money and taking credit for things is truly his gift. He’s a modern day Edison in that regard.
Perhaps he started believing his own hype, or became addicted to the spotlight and now craves it no matter the cost? Who knows, maybe this ends with him in a Vegas suite with a bag of nail clippings and a few “mystery” jars.about.
It will be interesting to see what form the train wreck takes, but the damage he is doing along the way is just awful. I mean, he shot his little red sports car into space, so what is he supposed to do to calm his midlife crisis now?
He’s convinced himself he can turn it into an American version of WeChat, but in the end it’s all a cover (as is the claim that he’s doing it for free speech absolutism). He made his over-priced offer for the platform in a fit of pique because people were mocking him there, was forced to follow through on buying it by the court, had to go into hock with banks and Bonesaws to do it, and has been throwing an expensive temper tantrum ever since (exposing himself as an anti-Semite and fascist sympathiser in the process).
Even that’s giving him too much credit, especially since a lot of people don’t know Edison’s real story (also, unlike Musk, he was a real engineer in addition to his Musk-like credit hogging).
As with many billionaires, Musk just happened to be in the right place at the right time and knew the right people (including his dad, who staked him initially, and Dotcom 1.0 founders who bought him out just to make him go away).
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True. But, you’ve got to admit, in the taking credit for the inventions of other people, they are pretty close to being peers. But, then again, I always thought that Musk had a PhD but, upon checking, it looks like he was accepted into a PhD program and then dropped out so… I think I fall into not knowing all of Musk’s real story…
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No. No he doesn’t, regardless of what the rest of the sentence says.
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