You've got a trampoline and 2 year old wearing cement shoes between you and the basket.

  • ObamaHamburger [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Anyone else noticed the almost child-like desperation in his tweets since acquiring twitter? For example, the tweet in OP saying "Extremely messed up!" or trying to barter with Stephen King. I'm still not sure if it's all a bit to make him look desperate and panicking or if he's arguing with twitter celebrities because he genuinely has no idea what to do and is hoping one of them gives him a business idea

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      He's always been like this. His tweets have been pathetic attempts to seem cool for years.

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      He's a dog catching a car and he doesn't know what to do with it. He and Trump have the same "desperately screaming into the void hoping someone will love me in return" relationship to twitter. It's his only real connection to the world outside his immediate bubble of underlings, and all the normal dysfunctional parasocial dynamics that impact normal people on social media impact a narcissistic billionaire even more. Now he owns it, effectively has total power over the discourse and is the ultimate celebrity on the platform, and it doesn't satisfy the pathology that made him buy it. Nobody loves him for it and nobody is flocking to it for his grand vision except Nazis who will destroy its business model.

      Real King Midas energy.

      • D3FNC [any]
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        2 years ago

        Desperately screaming into the void hoping someone will love me in return

        Whoah, are personal attacks allowed on this website, why you gotta come at me like this bro

    • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Frankly I think it's kind of important to make Musk look desperate. He financed a 44 billion acquisition to not submit to a deposition from Twitter execs. It'd be really funny to see him dance before he realizes he took an eraser to a solid quarter of his wealth and fucks off to another dumb venture.

    • PeterTheAverage [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      He is panicking for sure. Twitter was unprofitable before he bought it, and now he has $1 billion/year in debt interest payments that he has to cover. He was forced to buy it so he definitely realizes how bad a deal it was, and if advertisers are fleeing it's looking worse by the day.