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Elon Musk Buying Twitter Won’t Save Us
But this is a ‘mask-off’ moment, showing how many nice Americans are sternly against free speech
I’m consistently surprised how many regular working people view Elon Musk as a hero. The richest man in the world with the wealth to end poverty in a week of earnings does one hell of a job at branding himself a visionary and benevolent oligarch.
This is a man who forced his employees back to work amid COVID, tweeted that we will ‘coup whoever we want’ in reference to Bolivia, and received tens of billions of dollars in government handouts while pretending to be a bootstrapping legend. He’s not a friend of working-class citizens.
That being said, I think he’s clearly clever, and listening to him speculate on if we’re living in a simulation can be pretty entertaining. Like everything and everyone, it isn’t completely black and white. I have a sliver of ideological overlap with the man, vehemently disagree in most areas, think he should pay way way way more in taxes, and don’t think he should be able to accumulate that ridiculous level of wealth but would probably enjoy knocking back a couple of pints and picking his brain.
And now his moves on Twitter have me shaking my head in befuddled entertainment.
