X really wants you to forget about Twitter.
  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    They had such a huge amount of brand recognition and vocabulary associated with their site and Elon just decided to kill that

    • flipht@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      No one will convince me he isn’t doing this on purpose to tank the brand.

      He and his buddies were mad that they couldn’t compete. So he made the offer in a manic moment, and then was forced to go through with it. Now that he’s got it, he’s going to destroy it, and use the loss to reduce his taxes from all his government contracts.

      And he simultaneously gets to platform fascists and silence people calling out the powerful. Wins all around.

      For a normal person, this looks like failing. I totally get that. But rich people can derive massive benefits from stuff that would ruin us, and every single thing Musk is doing benefits him in some way.

        • flipht@kbin.social
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          11 months ago

          That assumes all things are equal.

          They rely on you repeating this adage to get away with this shit. It’s too consistent. If he were actually stupid, he’d face negative consequences, which is something these folks very rarely have to do.