Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.

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    I hate Elon Musk as much as anyone else with a working brain but let’s be honest, the world would be an infinitely better place if Twitter died lol

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    Him showing up to a Valorant tournament is some next level “how do you do fellow kids”. Like, what’s his business being there? I mean, if you told me that he secretly just spends his days playing Valorant and shitposting on twitter, it would make a lot of sense.

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      Like when he got booed at a Dave Chaplle show. The guy thinks he’s loved and adored everywhere he goes because there’s still a few pathetic worshipers on the internet.

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    Fuck Musk. He built an entire automotive platform on the concept of “sustainable transportation” and took those on the right to task for denying climate change. NOW he’s supporting the POS GOP candidate that had the audacity to call climate change a “hoax” repeatedly at the debate. Fuck you Elon!

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      Sued the owners to force them into calling Elon a founder.

      Elon didn’t even found the company. He just sick’d his lawyers on the founders and bought his way into the “founder” title.

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    Haven’t drugs been used as an explanation for his mammoth missteps with Twitter? Because the way this guy is piloting the ship, he’s going to crash it into Prince William Sound at any moment. They’ll be scrubbing stupid posts off the seabirds for months.

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    picture yourself in a pit of swaety gamers chanting ‘bring back twitter’ at a guy wouldnt piss on you if you were on fire.

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    Don’t stop him! He’s making the world a solid! He’s eliminating Twitter ffs.

    Give him new ideas like join with a paid invitation only.

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      The issue is, as others pointed out, that Twitter was extremely powerful for groups in oppressive countries to coordinate their activities. So much so, that some governments had resorted to switching off the internet for the whole country to combat social media; particularly Twitter.

      It’s entirely plausible that the supposed large sums of money that Elon received from Middle Eastern groups to help buy Twitter was for the expressed purpose to destabilize Twitter and destroy the brand. That way once Twitter is gone dissident groups can no longer organize and will be easy to oppress.

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    If Threads had hashtags and trending topics, everybody would abandon X in a heartbeat.

    And I’m honestly quite baffled that Meta haven’t implemented them, since even Mastodon has support for this…

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      Because Meta wasn’t finished and wasn’t expecting Twitter to shit itself so badly over a weekend. They were ready for the slow burn and Musk gunned it when he did his rate limit