I know most of y’all have fully abandoned Twitter, but good lord if he actually does this (which is not guaranteed mind you) a LOT of vulnerable people are going to get hurt.

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      Furthermore at this point, everyone who continues to use and advertise on his platform is complicit in enabling his bullshit.

      If there’s a Nazi at the table with 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you’ve got a table with 11 Nazis.

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    He has to be destroying Twitter on purpose, there’s absolutely no way a person could make this many perfectly idiotic decisions in a row unless it was deliberate.

    What I don’t know is why you’d buy a social media platform for $44b and deliberately speed-run it into oblivion, but I’m sure the reasons are not good.

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      He’s really not clever or competent. From what i understand the only reason tesla and space-x can function is that they’ve developed proceedures for keeping him distracted and steering him away from things he can break, and even that is a constant challenge. With twitter there was no time to learn how to manage him, he just smashed through the wall, shit on the rug, and set the drapes on fire.

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        SpaceX has the added constraints of being a NASA contractor. For example, even though Crew Dragon was designed and built by SpaceX, has to strictly follow NASA safety and reliability specifications. NASA has a huge amount of oversight into their operations even though they’re technically a private company. Which is as it should be.

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        That’s what I was wondering, because he’s obviously not a smart person but things like SpaceX seem to basically function, and if he ran those the same as Twitter it’d literally be headlines like “SpaceX fires all its rockets directly into the ground for no reason” lol

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      He tried to get out of buying it as he admitted he was trolling. The guy’s an idiot, thick as shit. For the past 40 years of his life he’s had people massaging his ego and now it falls apart he’s having a tantrum.

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      In my job, my clients are usually executives or VPs. They do dumb shit like this all the time. A lot of these people get to these levels of leadership for reasons that have very little to do with their competence, and they have big egos and don’t listen to anyone, even when you put lots of evidence in front of them that their ideas are fucking stupid.

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        This right here. Steve Jobs is literally dead because of this. He rode this to the grave. He had a very very treatable form of cancer, but literally believed he could formulate his own cure using fruit juice, until he really started dying and it was too late to cure.

        And he was 100x the CEO musk is. Still an absolute narcissistic and psychopathic monster, and literal crime boss, but y’know,

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      Sure this man, gentle and of noble blood, could not be a fool! Elsewise why would the Lord God Almighty bestow upon him the natural right of rulership?

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      It’s a part of elon’s master plan of losing advertisers, access to the app stores, losing users, etc all to….

      … listen the man’s a genius, who knows whats going on in there

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      This is not going to happen because

      Coinflip if he does it fast enough and angrily enough to push it live before his underlings can beg him to reconsider

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    Twitter’s bread and butter was always that it was a platform that was attractive to celebrities and politicians and have them a direct line of communication to their fans. The celebrity accounts then drew in a large userbase.

    If there’s one thing famous people doesn’t want it is to get an uncensored feed of what people think of them. They want to have the sort of engagements that promotes the kind of personal brand they are building for themselves. If you’re a big pop star you don’t want to have people posting creepy sex stuff at you, if you’re a queer icon you don’t want a deluge of homophobia and if you’re building a brand as a very serious politician you don’t want a feed full of people explaining why your bullshit doesn’t add up. The block function is a core feature to keep Twitter’s most business-critical users on the platform. Removing it will be idiotic from a business perspective.

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    He already appeared in my feed despite being blocked. That’s part of the reason I quit, I could see how he was turning the platform into his own personal soapbox.

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    Considering that my-hero wants DAE LE EPIC X to be a universal platform for everything, imagine everything you did or had to do having a potential swarm of stalkers and harassers all around it with no recourse at all.

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    I had an exwork colleague trying to destroy my reputation. I think it was a pretty good reason to block him after the assault. Elon is a removed.

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    It’s suddenly going to be a lot more important that he decimated the support team.

    Also RIP to Kamiya-San’s account. image.

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      I mean fuck, imagine gamergate but there’s not even a block button. Your only recourse as a target would be deactivate or suspend.

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        Your only recourse as a target would be deactivate or suspend.

        That’s exactly what the freeze-gamer gate fascists wanted all along: they wanted to swarm anyone they didn’t like until they quit or maybe even self-harmed.