> Elon is a crazy shitposter on “X”
Does anyone care beyond internet drama points?
The man's efforts to engineer societal-level technological change toward sustainability seem to matter more in my estimation.
Does anyone care beyond internet drama points?
The man's efforts to engineer societal-level technological change toward sustainability seem to matter more in my estimation.
To me it reeks of a certain lack of self awareness, respect for others and questionable decision making. You can be interesting and edgy without being a total asshole.
I also question his actual interest in sustainability. How exactly does paying $40 billion for Twitter fit into that grand strategy? What about driving a wedge between large groups of people by promoting hate speech helps any positive societal level change? Even if he did, do I want to put that power in one rich man?
People are allowed to express themselves?
Unfortunately I don't have $40b to throw around to amplify my speech, but that's what you get by being one of the richest people on the planet.
Musk was just as effective on twitter before he owned it. Owning it didn't have much to do with his own communication.
Unfortunately?
You bring up an interesting point: why can't you be just as effective - if not more so - by just doing the things rather than doing the things and shitposting non-sequiturs? By sucking all the oxygen out of the room, you're right, the general discourse is focused on distractions and not the real issues. If, for example, he agrees with you that the real issue is oil companies and climate change, why doesn't he focus his public energies pointing that out???
Medice, cura te ipsum
Twitter prior to Musk was full of hate speech too. You just had to be in the target group to understand that.