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The other crazy thing about this is that it shows that Musk and his entourage *THINK THAT WHAT HE DID AT TWITTER ACTUALLY WORKED* and was a good plan. The levels of delusion are fairly stunning.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com

Again, it's all right out of the Twitter playbook, as @kateconger.com and @rmac.bsky.social covered in their book. SAME EXACT THING. Except there he at least had the authority to do this. Here he does not.

A lot of people are yelling at me that "it did work" because it gave Elon more power. And... honestly... that's silly. That is how it ended up but his intent was to build it into a successful business. I'm muting this thread because the "but it worked" people give Musk too much credit.

He lucked into power through having more money than one could possibly need allowing him to do stupid stuff and not fail like a normal person would fail. But Twitter itself is something he destroyed. Saying "it worked" makes it sound like he had a master plan, rather than too much money. /out

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