Poll of the Day > fox news congradulated musk on his big X

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but didnt mention that it pissed off residents right across the street with a huge bright flashing light...

Isn't that pretty obviously WHY they were congratulating him?

"You did something particularly obnoxious in a liberal city? ...good job."

yeah it was stunning and brave to side with musk /s

It was already taken down iirc.

shadowsword87 posted...

It was already taken down iirc.

thankfully for those poor people

I still can't believe anybody ever bought into the idea that Musk is a real life Tony Stark that's going to save the world.

I did buy into the idea that he was at least a smart person. He has done a a great job debunking that.

McSame_as_Bush posted...

I did buy into the idea that he was at least a smart person. He has done a a great job debunking that.

he's "smart" in the sense that he's got the maturity of a 5th grade boy

Maybe his mom told him to remove it? She did tell him that he couldnt fight Zuckerberg.

But seriously, X? Thats what hes rebranding Twitter as? XD

SeahorseCpt89 posted...

Maybe his mom told him to remove it? She did tell him that he couldnt fight Zuckerberg.

But seriously, X? Thats what hes rebranding Twitter as? XD

X is a cool letter

SeahorseCpt89 posted...

Maybe his mom told him to remove it? She did tell him that he couldnt fight Zuckerberg.

But seriously, X? Thats what hes rebranding Twitter as? XD

Seriously it sounds like a porn site.

I can't quite decide. On the one hand it's obvious that he just does whatever he wants without asking anyone in marketing or elsewhere for advice: his ego is huge.

On the other hand it's SO obviously dumb that you have to wonder if he's tanking the company for some reason that isn't clear to us. Obviously he's wanting to make a bunch of MAGA friends, but that's pretty low hanging fruit: you just need to hate a few of the right things. I don't see any need to burn a huge company for them.

wpot posted...

On the other hand it's SO obviously dumb that you have to wonder if he's tanking the company for some reason that isn't clear to us.

I get the vibe that he's just throwing a temper tantrum and being as obnoxious as possible while the company slowly dies. He didn't actually want to buy it in the first place, as evidenced by the fact that he's now trying to sue the lawyers that Twitter hired to force him to honour his commitment to purchasing it, and now that he's made a few bald-faced cash grabs in the form of blue checks and paywalling regular use, he may have decided that he's gotten all the value out of the company he can expect to get and is letting it die in a series of bad business decisions that can maybe be called "legitimate mistakes" so shareholders can't sue him.

wpot posted...

On the other hand it's SO obviously dumb that you have to wonder if he's tanking the company for some reason that isn't clear to us.

Hanlon's razor/Occam's razor. Don't over-complicate things when the answer is simple. Musk is a narcissistic idiot.

McSame_as_Bush posted...

I did buy into the idea that he was at least a smart person. He has done a a great job debunking that.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/8/6/AAeEKDAAEsPa.jpg

He talks about things that are associated with smart people and that makes people assume he's smart. He's like the kind of of person who follows a "lovers of science" Facebook page to share science memes, or the kind of person who brands themselves a history buff because they know the names of a lot of tanks.

adjl posted...

I get the vibe that he's just throwing a temper tantrum and being as obnoxious as possible while the company slowly dies. He didn't actually want to buy it in the first place, as evidenced by the fact that he's now trying to sue the lawyers that Twitter hired to force him to honour his commitment to purchasing it, and now that he's made a few bald-faced cash grabs in the form of blue checks and paywalling regular use, he may have decided that he's gotten all the value out of the company he can expect to get and is letting it die in a series of bad business decisions that can maybe be called "legitimate mistakes" so shareholders can't sue him.

He clearly enjoys annoying/terrorizing his staff and shareholders, so doing dumb things might simply be fun for him...yes. But I can't think someone with an ego that big would want to so visibly crash a major company, and he seems hellbent on putting his stamp on it to please whichever "free speechers" he thinks he's pleasing. Blowing up the company in entirety wouldn't seem to meet that goal.

sveksii posted...

Hanlon's razor/Occam's razor. Don't over-complicate things when the answer is simple. Musk is a narcissistic idiot.

That IS a strong argument. :)

wpot posted...

he seems hellbent on putting his stamp on it to please whichever "free speechers" he thinks he's pleasing. Blowing up the company in entirety wouldn't seem to meet that goal.

It would if said "free speechers" are sufficiently inclined to view tanking Twitter as "owning the libs," given that that makes up pretty much the entirety of their personalities. Exhibit A:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/80517791/975162058

wpot posted...

He clearly enjoys annoying/terrorizing his staff and shareholders, so doing dumb things might simply be fun for him...yes. But I can't think someone with an ego that big would want to so visibly crash a major company, and he seems hellbent on putting his stamp on it to please whichever "free speechers" he thinks he's pleasing. Blowing up the company in entirety wouldn't seem to meet that goal.

That IS a strong argument. :)

Since he took the company private isn't he technically the only shareholder at this point?

sveksii posted...

Hanlon's razor/Occam's razor. Don't over-complicate things when the answer is simple. Musk is a narcissistic idiot.

This is my take on it. Musk got high on his own supply - he fooled himself into thinking he was a genius because he happened to run a couple of very successful companies employing very smart people in cutting edge tech ventures (SpaceX, Tesla, Paypal). Except, from what has come out, each of those companies grew with him and developed their own "Musk Antibodies" - which is to say, people and procedures wholly dedicated to distracting and manipulating Musk into not fucking everything up.

So now he drops himself into an already-established company which has none of those "antibodies" and we see what happens when no one is there to save Musk from himself.

He's not deliberately trying to crash the company, he just has no fucking clue what he's doing and but thinks he does.

paypal is the only one he had anything to do with probably. the others were already established, he purely only bought them

darkknight109 posted...

This is my take on it. Musk got high on his own supply - he fooled himself into thinking he was a genius because he happened to run a couple of very successful companies employing very smart people in cutting edge tech ventures (SpaceX, Tesla, Paypal). Except, from what has come out, each of those companies grew with him and developed their own "Musk Antibodies" - which is to say, people and procedures wholly dedicated to distracting and manipulating Musk into not fucking everything up.

So now he drops himself into an already-established company which has none of those "antibodies" and we see what happens when no one is there to save Musk from himself.

He's not deliberately trying to crash the company, he just has no fucking clue what he's doing and but thinks he does.

I'm not sure where but recently I read about an interview some news website (not sure if CNN or another) had with one of the people who'd worked with Musk on a few projects. His take was that, with the others, Musk had some idea of what he was doing but, to paraphrase what he said, when Musk bought Twitter "he was out of his depth" so to speak in that Musk had no idea what to do with the company or knew anything about social networking itself. It appears that the man was right in that regard.