Elon Musk has said and done a lot of weird and outrageous things during his tenure as the owner of Twitter (now X), but we may have just seen the weirdest and most outrageous.
His main point is that he’s not the one killing Twitter, it’s advertisers (being ultimately under the control of the governments of the world). They’re killing it because there’s a vested interest in being able to control the narrative, and he’s not folding.
He found a scape-goat for his insanity.
4D chess isn’t real.
Sometimes people do dumb shit. There doesn’t have to be a clever hidden motive. A rich man with a visible personality disorder is not putting on an act or carrying out a strategy. Sometimes, people are just assholes. Sometimes those assholes should know better… but don’t.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Meh, if it dies it dies.
He’s a narcissist surrounded by yes-men, he might genuinely believe that his decisions didn’t burn his $44B investment to ashes because as far as he’s concerned, that would be impossible.