This is part of the narrative (and by all accounts, definitely what it "looked like" happened) but I'm starting to warm up to the idea Musk was commissioned to eliminate Twitter given its inconvenience to established wealthy and international interests. It would be hella convenient and arguably be worth even a 44 billion price tag (which is almost nothing to a hodgepodge of governments and institutional investors) to get rid of Twitter.
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I don’t know why people find it so hard to confront that the force which drives our destinies is chaos, not order.
There is always a search for “a plan” when things like this happen, but it’s just a bunch of butterfly wings and monkeys typing on keyboards.
Turning chaos into order, for better or worse and if only for a while or just imagined, is what life does.
And why won't something pop up in its place? This is searching for order where there is none.
Time,I'd guess
I don't exactly believe Musk is a patsy, but I could see the purpose served if it decreases organization in the medium term...particularly 2024
It would be hard for a new system to scale properly and uptake to go
Threads may work, but I'd guess it has plenty of polishing to go
Especially since he seems to be at least tangentially involved with the Saudis methinks (based on his prior "Financing to go private secured" stock manipulation scheme he got wrist-slapped for...Who knows who else the guy's in bed with. Being a supervillian is way more fun than a superhero
Something did (Threads), just might not become as ubiquitous.