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[-] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 34 points 11 months ago

Musk wants Twitter to fail. He bid on it for a laugh and when his bid was accepted he tried to get out of it.

They made him buy it and he's been butthurt ever since. He wants everyone involved to suffer, because then the decision to hold him accountable was a bad decision.

He doesn't give a fuck about people, or technology, or even the money he sunk on it. So it looks like he's shaving his eyebrows to spite his face. It doesn't hurt, so he doesn't care.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 36 points 11 months ago

4D chess isn't real. Sometimes, rich and powerful people do dumb things. Sometimes they're not very smart and have a visible personality disorder. Searching for an underlying clever motive is an exercise in your intelligence - not theirs.

[-] Jazard23@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 11 months ago

I don't think "they made me buy it so I'm breaking it" is really a 4D move. It's more like a 4th grade move.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago

"So" is the mistake. He's not breaking it on purpose. He's just a fucking idiot. He is exactly as smug and incompetent as he appears.

[-] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

"I'm going to do what I want despite all advice and consequences" doesn't need to be intentional or unintentional to be what it is

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

... and what it is, is completely different from secretly pursuing a complex goal that only looks like an idiot immune to good ideas.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

In light of recent accusations: an idiot off his tits on meth, and immune to good ideas.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 25 points 11 months ago

He's not hurting the people who made him buy it.

If he really wanted to be rid of it he could have instead done nothing. Put someone in charge with the impossible task of "make this profitable in 5 years" and then shut it down after 5 years because "it's not profitable".

Showing his ass to the world and ruining future potential for investment by looking like an incompetent idiot is not a "secretly intelligent move".

[-] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Sure he's not hurting them, but he'll still keep riding the pony into the ground, because he owns it, he'll do what he wants. He's not making intelligent moves, because his choices aren't reasoned they are just whims.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Right, he's an idiot.

[-] paholg@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago

What? The people who made him buy it got paid already. I'm sure they're laughing every time they see it drop in value.

[-] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

They're probably doubly laughing because he fired them for supposed incompetence, yet Elon tanking the price is evidence that they were doing a much better job. You could very well see a suit for wrongful termination in the future.

[-] exocrinous@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

You underestimate his incompetence

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