People like him disavow how much influence he has, willfully or not. Musk is the worst at it. He doesn't realize, or refuses to realize, how much his edgy tweets mean.
They wall want power but not the responsibility that comes with it.
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he 100% knows what he's doing, he just doesn't believe words have meaning
"Officer, you're reading too much to the speed I was going. It wasn't even on my mind, I was simply pushing the gas pedal."
He's right, though. Every time I read his tweets, all I see is "stupid nazi".
His posts are short and stupid. There's not much to read into.
Oh wow.
Watch the claims of Autism come back (I believe he’s hinting at this by claiming he was being ‘extremely literal’), he’s tried the clownish ‘but gaiz, I was joking you shouldn’t take me so seriously’ bs we all remember from ‘edgelords’ online.
This is like tech bro’s prayer; it’s the Narcissist’s Prayer but with a ‘no one gets me’ smirk.
"I paid 40 billion as a joke, bro"
ahhh...he pulled a Fox-Carlson and Twitter is just entertainment.
Elon Musk: "Don't take tweets so seriously bro"
Also Elon Musk: Incentivizes blue-check accounts with just enough monetary reward for shares and engagement that literally hundreds of thousands of people in developing countries take on creating and sharing propaganda, rage-bait and inflammatory USA content as full-time careers, leading to our whole country embracing fascism out of fear and confusion and electing a leader who has now killed over a million people not counting the failures of covid.
buys entire social media platform
directs developers to boost his posts
exclusively posts deliberately manipulating and inflammatory content
“Don’t read so much in to it!” 🤡
Musk tries so hard to be clever and debonair in his posts and usually comes off looking like a middle-school goof.
He's JP from Grandma's Boy.
That was my thought exactly, he's not a teenager, he shouldn't be like it's just a prank bro.. come on. What the fuck. Seriously?
How dare people read what I write and attribute motivations and intentions to my publically outspoken opinions and positions
Maybe he shouldn't have forced every single tweet of him to every account on his social media website then. Even the ones who actively blocked him still got his tweets.
At a point where you're still on Twitter... You have some sort of punishment kink.
isn't this about him buying the social media website. so like before he owned it?
It is. People are dumb though and don't read beyond the headline to be aware of what actually going on.
It’s odd how the article describes the richest person on the planet, who is almost worth a trillion dollars, as a multi billionaire.
Also what the fuck who needs a trillion dollars.
I can't think of a reason anyone should be able to have even a billion dollars. Long before you get to that point, you are just playing numbers games to the detriment of everyone else participating in the economy.
How a wealth limit could ever be enacted practically is another matter, but I would support trying to solve it.
So that’s why I haven’t seen any recent photos of him, he looks like a husk now.
A musk husk. Lol
Coming from Mr. Market Manipulation lmao.
Multi-billionaire technology tycoon Elon Musk told a jury in California on Wednesday that stock market investors read too much into his social media posts.
That's because investors expect to take you seriously when you're handling their MONEY. If you're going act like an illiterate douche-canoe, like Poochie from "The Simpsons" then expect investors to be concerned.
Maybe if the shit you say doesn't really matter, don't post it publicly to the world.
Not a great argument.
He has the nuance of the racist uncle you loathe seeing at Thanksgiving.
Surprised a motion wasn’t filed to have the case tried on Mars, ya know…where it would be a jury of his peers — Aliens that wouldn’t be prejudiced towards him (we think…?).
He would provide travel, but needs to get back to work on the flying thing.