Musk Deletes Tweet That Asked Why No One Is Trying to Assassinate Biden, Harris

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-deletes-tweet-that-asked-why-no-one-is-trying-to-assassinate-biden-2000499085

by rntn • 2 years ago

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solardev7• 2 years ago

This guy was so much more respectable when he stuck to futuristic cars and spaceships...

The Twitter sale really broke him, didn't it?

Juliate• 2 years ago

You mean he was more respectable when he didn't talk so much his mind?

solardev7• 2 years ago

Was he really always like that? Or did the fame and megaphone get to him?

Kinda sucks :/ He used to be one of my personal heroes, before he got all weird. I miss Musk 1.0.

rsynnott• 2 years ago

While he does seem to be going progressively downhill, it started a long time before the Twitter thing. Remember the imaginary cave submarine?

solardev7• 2 years ago

That was before Twitter? Wow, it all just kinda blurs together now, one crazy thing after the other...

renegade-otter3• 2 years ago

I mean, he called a diver rescuing children a "pedo", and everyone just shrugged and moved on.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/03/media/elon-musk-testifies/ind...

Apparently, you can win a defamation suit by claiming that "yeah, I made it up and just said it".

I feel like at the time his celebrity carried him. Not sure this would play today.

Zigurd2• 2 years ago

This "The Twitter sale really broke him, didn't it?" is an under-examined angle:

Elon did not want to buy Twitter. He owns it because he was about to lose litigation that would have forced him to buy it or pay what would have to be an enormous settlement - enough to make Twitter's shareholders at least as happy as him buying it. He spent $100M on lawyers before giving up.

He spent what is likely to be his most readily liquid $30Billion. That's gone now. He probably thought he could flip it and come out close to even. But now his most accessible money is gone.

That's got to leave a mark.

solardev7• 2 years ago

Elon did not want to buy Twitter

Maybe not in the end, but he spent significant time, money, and effort in the lead-up to the acquisition. If he never wanted it at all, well, he shouldn't play those games with their board and the public =/

It's that kind of rash (and brash) thoughtlessness that seem to characterize his recent decision-making, in stark contrast to my former hero who built an entire freaking space fleet from scratch... so sad, too bad... power corrupts and all that, I guess.

ianburrell• 2 years ago

Elon was forced to buy Twitter because he made agreement to buy it and then tried to back out. He made the offer freely and signed the agreement. He could have put in clauses that let him back out.

renegade-otter3• 2 years ago

I feel like in general the isolation of COVID, combined with extreme wealth, broke some rich people's brains.

Musk has always been an awful person, but people like him sort of knew where the societal red lines were and kept their worst impulses under wraps.

Ever since we entered the "post-shame world", he is not hiding his awfulness any longer. He is actually proud of it.

Oh, and he is also convinced that he is absolutely hilarious.

openair18• 2 years ago

Good to know how he jokes in person to his group.

brodouevencode3• 2 years ago

This reads more like tin foil hat than a joke.

jprd• 2 years ago

With his platform, influence and money - this is just dangerous.

Forget how morally wrong it is to joke like that in private, to then think that THE ENTIRE WORLD would find it funny and it would not incite additional violence - especially in this climate? This dude also offered to impregnate Taylor Swift a few days ago. We can't keep venerating this guy.

He is either in desperate need of intervention/mental health assistance, or a clear and present danger to democracy - or probably both.

I admire some of his achievements, but he isn't Tony Stark. Stark found his conscience.

xenospn5• 2 years ago

Does he really not get it? really?

coolbreezetft24• 2 years ago

I wonder if it's crossed his mind yet to take a break from the internet or if any people close to him have tried to tell him he needs to stop

krapp3• 2 years ago

People like Elon Musk do not suffer the presence (or continued employment) of people who tell them no.

Musk Deletes Tweet That Asked Why No One Is Trying to Assassinate Biden, Harris

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