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No surprises there. Even more sex bots than there ever were before Musk took over, and on top of that almost everything worth reading for a wide audience (i.e. posts of politicians and journalists) is filled with blue-checked Nazis and Russian troll farm accounts.

Musk is driving Twitter to the ground intentionally, he wants revenge for his daughter coming out as trans - in his mind, the "woke" people on there "turned" her so [1]. Utter and complete horseshit, no one turns anyone into being or not being LGBT or is able to do so (except severe torture), the problem is he has more than enough money to burn on such ludicrous petty revenge fights and on top of that he's deeply in bed with the Saudis who have their own reasons to get rid of Twitter, most especially to prevent another Arab Spring.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/09/01/elon-musk-...

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He’s been trying to name one of his products ‘X’ for the last 20 years? Wow. And some of his comments in this article are word for word what you would hear from raging teenagers who have nothing better to do than be angry. It’s so bizarre that people worship this guy.

> It’s so bizarre that people worship this guy.

It's bizarre now that he's completely gone off the rails and no one to keep him in check, but it's no surprise given that he was the backstory behind kicking the collective arse of the established automotive industry including the battery pioneer Toyota and the established space travel industry.

The "david vs goliath" / "underdog" theme is pretty convincing on its own.

> Musk is driving Twitter to the ground intentionally

I think Hanlon’s Razor applies here. You don’t need to read a conspiracy into it; everything is explicable by leadership which is not only incompetent, but too incompetent to be told it’s incompetent and take advice from competent people.

> I think Hanlon’s Razor applies here. You don’t need to read a conspiracy into it

No one needs to interpret a conspiracy into at least the Musk side of things. It's very clear by what he says (and backed by the utter drivel he posts and reXes all day):

> “Unless the woke mind virus, which is fundamentally anti-science, anti-merit, and anti-human in general, is stopped, civilisation will never become multi-planetary,” Mr Musk told Mr Isaacson.

The only angle that is a bit conspiratorial in nature is the Saudi involvement, but here it's hard to justify any other interpretation - either the Saudis ordered Musk around (which I find hard to believe), Musk conned them (even harder to believe), they underestimated Musk's intentions / the state of Twitter Inc (possible but if it were true it'd raise serious questions about their capacity/ability for due diligence) or they are silently agreeing with what is going on. I mean, they make a lot of money so they can afford to make mistakes, but many billions of dollars are still many billions of dollars.

>no one turns anyone into being or not being LGBT or is able to do so (except severe torture)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_fluidity

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