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were–ralph:

loving this elon drag

What’s been super-fun watching this tire fire (from within the fire, admittedly) is how Elon fundamentally does not understand the very nature of Twitter so everything he thinks will “fix” it is 100% going to make it worse, because Twitter isn’t about code and blue checkmarks, it’s about PEOPLE, and Elon fundamentally doesn’t understand PEOPLE because he isn’t one.

I’m not saying he’s not human. I’m saying he’s so distanced from the usual day-to-day Brownian motion of people being people interacting with other people by such a wide margin that he might as well be his own culture of one. He doesn’t get why people use it, he doesn’t understand the actual point of the verification checkmark (thus his “pay me $20 a month for it wait please Stephen King how about $8 please checkmarks will be the only way to not be effectively shadowbanned” debacle over the last 24 hours). He doesn’t even understand the people he’s lately been courting because they fluff him (bigots), he just knows they give him the praise his daddy never did… completely unaware of just how fleeting and revocable that praise is.

And it WILL be revoked as soon as the LEGAL realities of content moderation of Twitter across multiple nations with their own laws about speech force him to take actions they won’t like.

Elon Musk is an idiot, has always been an idiot, his only skill is further gaming a system already egregiously rigged in his favor, and it’s finally smashing up against Real Life. And if anything good has come out of this, it’s that him being more publicly visible has just cratered his public image and cost him tons and tons of money.