I think part of the reason that keeps holding on, is that some people can’t let go of the idea that Musk is really a brilliant person, always 10 steps ahead of the rest of us… but the reality is that he’s just another mediocre (at best) white man who failed up into billions.
It’s people trying to hold onto the idea that we live in a meritocracy, when we do not, never really have, and what gains we’ve made to make it so are sliding down a very slippery and steep slope right now…
I agree. Even for many who despise Musk, there is a kind of reassurance that comes with believing it takes a Machiavellian genius intellect for someone to amass so much wealth, power and influence.
Less terrifying to think that you’re being ruled by Lex Luthor than to realize the fate of the world rests in the hands of petty, ill-behaved children.
Like, I get why someone would rather believe that such a well-established social media site was ruined because of a Macchiavellian Saudi prince than by an idiot edgelord making a 420 joke. But so long as we have billionaires, their whims will move mountains no matter how incomprehensible.
If the Saudi royal family wanted it that badly, then like professional Golf, they could have just bought it themselves.
Endlessly people try to make idiotic dumbasses who fail upwards due to massive wealth and privilege out to be geniuses.
Yep, because then they live in a meritocracy, not a shitty neo-liberal hellscape where the shittiest among us tend to rise to the top…
If we assume there’s nefarious Saudi plot behind this, then having the blame fall on Musk would be in their interests, I guess.
Of course it’s 99.5% likely this is just Musk being Musk, only this time his luck has run out and the consequences are catching up with him.
I think shutting it down would have caused a bigger uproar. His whole sales pitch is the “free speech absolutism” thing. This way he can be the victim of the mean evil left wing cabal that is keeping good guys like him down, AND shut Twitter down both at once. It works out better this way.
I think it’s Schrödinger’s Musk: it can be both at once. And the problem is yet again, billionaires, with that I agree completely. In this case I think it’s collusion.
I think Occam is our friend in this instance.
Musk. Is. Just. Dumb.
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