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It was an emotional response driven from frustration. But obviously something highly inappropriate to say outright, and only creates yet another PR disaster. He is his own worst enemy, unable to adequately control himself. It seems verbatim what Dana White said the other day. That said, he did apologize for the remarks and the rest of the interview was rather normal. We'd all be better off not clinging to the constant desire for drama and focusing on meaningful actions over words.

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Telling the Jewish CEO of the company that pulled ads over antisemitic remarks to go fuck himself on live TV is not a gamer moment and it completely negates what was obviously a BS apology.

I don't think you understand where those comments are coming from. I didn't interpret it as malicious but rather venting his frustration. It's obviously (very) inappropriate, but there is a (very) big difference between speaking out of frustration and hate. And the apology was after, not before that remark, to be clear. If you have it out for yourself as a Musk-hatee, for one reason or another, I don't think it's meaningful to argue on the semantics. It's not going to win back advertisers, but that's a problem for X/Twitter to deal with, not me. But IMO, and just my view, he's done what is reasonable in apologizing for his remarks, and sometimes you can't do much more but just move on. Likewise, there is nothing of value to extract from these types of debates, hence my last point on focusing on meaningful actions over drama.

> I don't think you understand where those comments are coming from.

I can't speak for anyone other than myself, but I don't care where those comments are coming from. He's a 50-something year old man, he can grow the fuck up and take responsibility for what he says.

He did apologize for his remarks. I'm not sure what else you expect. Do you want him to prostate himself in front of the world? Self-flagellate, perhaps?

All he saying in this interview is that he simply does not care if his remarks are the reason advertisers want to leave, in essence drawing a boundary between the discourse on Twitter and advertiser presence. He is making a clear statement that Twitter will not change its policies to appease advertisers, even if it means running at a loss.

I think it that is a perfectly reasonable thing to say, even if you don't agree with Musk's politics or X's policies.

Turning Twitter into a niche, subscription-funded platform is a totally acceptable thing to want to do, but he should just come out and clearly say that is the aim. I bet the investors didn't think that was what was going to happen. It's the doublespeak that is a problem here: he appears to be saying both "I'm taking my ball and I don't care about any of you" and "you meanies won't play with me".

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