Essay | The Real Story of Musk’s Twitter Takeover
In an exclusive excerpt from his new biography ‘Elon Musk,’ Walter Isaacson offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most surprising and controversial decisions of the mogul’s career.
That is an enormous amount of words to say, “Elon Musk is a piece of shit.” I suppose the context helps. But as the events unfolded in real time in 2022, it was clear how much of a piece of shit he is, was, and always has been.
I long for the day his money is gone and he’s peddling his bullshit to anyone who will listen at the homeless shelter in which he resides. Wishful thinking, of course, since there are still millions of mindless stooges who think he’s Iron Man.
Remember, he grew up a rich white boy in full apartheid South Africa, and never matured beyond that. He has no ability for self-reflection or introspection. Which means he's never wrong, so someone else must be to blame. So far, that's included religious, racial, and sexual minorities. He's only going to grow more deranged as time goes on.
That is an enormous amount of words to say, “Elon Musk is a piece of shit.”
More like "Elon Musk is a piece of shit and he bought Twitter on a whim, because he's bored, too rich to care, too big to fail."
I think musk should be institutionalized. He obviously shares the unthreatening characteristics of me and some fellow autistic people (obsessive personality, inability to let go, mindblindness and probably adhd) but he is actively harming people around him (which constitutes the need for institutionalization).
There is so much momentum behind every billionaire that they cannot fail, no matter how bad they fuck up. The system and their buddies will prop Elon up even if he becomes a mere millionaire.
Discomfort, he believed, was a good thing.
This is really all you need to know about worthless scum like Elon.
Discomfort can be a good thing; change is often uncomfortable.
But that’s a far cry from being tortured and it sounds like that’s what Musk does to the people around him; using platitudes and words of wisdom as weapons of control and coercion.
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Musk is possibly manic/depressive, bought Twitter on a whim, decided it was too woke, fired everyone at the top, and is really proud of himself for it.
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The summum of human vice exemplified and amplified by money.
When I read a fluff piece like this, which tries to justify the insane and out of touch actions of someone like Elon, I always immediately try to sort out the intent. Was this written by a paid PR person, or passed to a friendly outlet they know will publish for the clicks? Is it click bait by itself, with the author talking out the side if their mouth to intentionally draw arguments? Is this a “notice me senpai” article by someone wanting to get closer to Musk and his team?
If you look at the targeting, this is written for the maga and q-anon crowd (if you read this while nodding and agreeing with everything but insist you’re not like them, I have exciting news). It starts as a praise piece for Musk, but once it gets to the transitioned daughter it tips its hand. Note all the comments about woke culture and how it disgusts Musk. The reader is supposed to keep nodding along with the piece and find glee in him screwing those woke people at the end. It’s not subtle at all, but these people don’t need subtle, they need a clear narrative, a pat on the head, and to know the “other” is the right people being hurt.
A great counter view of this is Robert Evens’ “Behind the Bastards” on Musk, because it contains content from people forced to enact all the cocksure, out of touch policies of Musk and his team.
You've got a good point, but it's still evident from the article that Musk believes in a giant load of nonsense, is rash and impetuous, and has no idea how to take care of a company and its people, even if it was supposed to present his characteristics in a positive light.
What a tool.
This image is much better than he deserves.
It's too funny, I can't stop laughing at it.
Doesn't this community have a Musk megathread for this?
what an incredibly terrible example of a human being.
Stopped reading a third of the way through when I realized this felt like a non-critical piece. Seriously going to repeat Musk’s lie of caring about free speech and then, without any note of criticism, discuss how he wants to get rid of the “woke mind virus.” Like, he shows who he is, and it’s not someone who cares about free speech. And the writer is a crappy biographer if they’re going to let that go unchallenged.
I also found the writing style boring, but that’s more subjective I suppose.
Why is there a picture of Margaret Cho?
I'm most interested in the guy who bought almost an entire Hawaiian island, that shouldn't be possible unless you're a native Hawaiian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison
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