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Musk tells of risk of Twitter bankruptcy as tweeters trash brands

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Musk's true face is revealing itself. A heavily narcissist, egomaniac and empathy-less person. On one end selling himself as the saviour of humanity, while on the other firing swatchs of people and making others work 80-hour weeks.

He's just a hypocrite... and his hypocricy is now visible, in open.

* When did he sell himself as the saviour of humanity? * What makes his takeover of twitter inconsistent with that anyway? * What did he do that's hypocritical?

The article asks the question without saying the obvious answer, which is that half the company is no longer there. There were actual moderators who's job it would have been to police this, and a sizable team is needed due to the size of the site. They still would have done an imperfect job, but when the team has been cut down to a 10th the size, you're gonna have a bad (read: hilarious) time.

Honestly part of this looks to me like deliberate and planned attacks: https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1590899514638229506

Isn’t that the point that everyone is making? That the new verification system will allow for deliberate and planned attacks? Or is your point different?

I mean that when Musk entered they are trying to f*ck him in all ways possible. Exactly that.

Right, but it isn’t personal. (I mean it is, and it isn’t) This _is_ the free speech that so many people want, it’s not to build a better world, it’s to fuck with each other. This is why people told him to move slowly and Twitter had so many employees trying to figure out possible negative consequences of their actions.

Those are good. I especially liked the Chiquita post.

For those who are less than ~60 years old, look here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d'%C3%A9t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company#Reputatio...

Allen Dulles, director of the CIA, was also a board member of United Fruit.

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