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[nenjin]

As wealthy person of influence tweeting at time of USA polarization and becoming more right leaning with time, he is also became very unpopular. Probably roughly half the country's hates him with passion and participating in the usual pejorative circle jerk any time his names come up, unable to see anything beside their politics.

Ironically you could turn this statement around, and say that perhaps his politics have made him inexplicably popular with some crowd who are unable to see anything besides their politics, perhaps blinding them to the point where they think factual inaccuracies like him founding tesla is true?

Such a false dichotomy would work better if we weren't on page 42 of a thread devoted to political inspired mass hysteria about Musk tacking over Twitter, with last two pages people doing their best to nitpick as to why Musk is bad, which pretty much the usual absurd koolaid anytime his name is brought up.

p.s. I certainly love SpaceX but say I like Musk or this is about USA politics for me would be factual inaccuracies.

This last page has been specifically people telling you don't know what you're talking about. No politics required, but maybe stop giving head to Musk for things he didn't actually do. Buying something doesn't make you a founder, it makes you an owner.

[ChairmanPoo]

I dont even particularily like SpaceX. To me its an obvious attempt to privatize what used to be a state business. Same as when in Europe they "outsource" public healthcare to the private sector really. Since in the US there's no such animal they "outsourced" space tech instead.

[EuchreJack]

I am impressed by the monopoly that SpaceX has created. That is money in the bank. Musk deserves credit for giving good blowjobs to Presidents to let them keep it. He should've gotten Trust Busted years ago.

[jipehog]

Pretty wild, you'd think that with 42 pages of mass hysteria to refute you'd wouldn't resort to saying things that aren't true to make your point.

I recommend you double check about that, but even if you believe that to be true, so?

He is the founder of two industry shaping companies, SpaceX and Tesla, which is already more than virtually anyone.

Terrible I know.. lets join the crowd of dear Musk how do I hate thee..

[hector13]

Is it hysterical to say Musk would make Twitter worse when he’s actually made Twitter worse?

I think this was at the end of a page so easy to miss.

Is it hysterical when what people were worried about has manifested itself?

[EuchreJack]

I don't know why anyone cares about DoucheBag Sucks, it's not like he cares about you...

[ChairmanPoo]

FWIW for the use I get from twitter (following scientific threads, esp during congresses) the usefulness has not substantially decreased, and it cant really be replaced by mastodon or other alternatives. I dont know to what extent other people's user experience might have deteriorated though

[MaxTheFox]

Yeah for the non-political parts of it it's still alright I suppose.

[King Zultan]

Where's this mass hysteria that he's talking about I've been here this entire time and I haven't seen a bit of it.

[Cathar]

Elon Musk says he’s found a woman to lead Twitter as new CEO

He did not name her but said she will be starting in about six weeks.

It is hillarious, actually. First thing she did was to announce she'll reinstate strict content moderation so ad corpos could "get excited about investing", among other blurbs about twitter needing representations. Musk fans are setting themselves ablaze.

The ring is about to close on that absolute circus.

[Loud Whispers]

Ah yes. Someone with inherited wealth who used that wealth to buy things other people already did must surely be a genius. I'd rather focus on politics than suck the dicks of the wealthy for their good fortune.

This is probably the thing I hate most about capitalism. It creates a world where the only value a person has is their capacity to own things. Not talent, genius, hard work, love, dignity, courage or any other more worthy virtue. Just... Owning things. It makes for a dreary world

[Strongpoint]

Ah yes. Someone with inherited wealth who used that wealth to buy things other people already did must surely be a genius. I'd rather focus on politics than suck the dicks of the wealthy for their good fortune.

This is probably the thing I hate most about capitalism. It creates a world where the only value a person has is their capacity to own things. Not talent, genius, hard work, love, dignity, courage or any other more worthy virtue. Just... Owning things. It makes for a dreary world

It is implied that owning things is the result of having virtues. The problem is that there are routes like inheritance or criminal, harmful activities that also bring ownership.

But what is an alternative? Society in which having virtues brings no rewards?

[Loud Whispers]

It is implied that owning things is the result of having virtues. The problem is that there are routes like inheritance or criminal, harmful activities that also bring ownership.

But what is an alternative? Society in which having virtues brings no rewards?

Currently society already chooses not to reward virtues, only ownership. Ownership lets you extract profits from worker labour, from rents, from speculation, from access to cheap credit, insurance, reward schemes and if you get big enough, subsidies and bailouts. The alternative would be one simply where capital is awarded efficiently, e.g. the old system where money was loaned to businesses and not just loaned to the already superwealthy

[ChairmanPoo]

Traditional Nahua theocracy is the best form of goverment. It is known.

[Loud Whispers]

Traditional Nahua theocracy is the best form of goverment. It is known.

Agnostic conspiracy is the best form of government. The system of government wherein the people presume the government exists but do not have any evidence to suggest the government exists (though it does exist in secret)