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Agreed. And his response to Stephen King about “we gotta pay the bills somehow” is best read as “I gotta pay off this moronic purchase I made”. It’s really bothersome that people like Musk and Trump are able to so consistently and effectively over market their successes while turning around their complete failures to be successes in the mind’s eye of their followers.

Musk is a walking contradiction of his yesterday’s self.

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This "great man" fallacy is EXACTLY what lead to the problems of the 1930s. I see a need for regulation. We are allowing young, impressionable men to fall down an illiberal pipeline and it needs to stop.

you don't have to go that far back, Enron

What would you regulate? I'm not sure what exactly can be regulated here

This is whataboutism. Identifying what I would regulate is not necessary to fix this problem, much like answering who would provide for a positive right is not necessary in the wealthiest society in all of history. I'll leave it to the scientists and experts. We'll figure it out.

That's not whataboutism.

This is stochastic terrorism, and linguistic fascism.

Do you have some examples of Musk marketing his successes?

Elon has owned Twitter for less than a week. What are your thoughts around declaring his ownership a complete failure?

Why is it bothersome? I appreciate what Musk is doing with electric car tech and space x. Twitter management became fabulously wealthy from this deal. They certainly don't give a s*.

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