[chooma]

Staying curious is so important for a realistic worldview.

While it was obvious to everybody Elon, would kill twitter with his actions. Elon's world view is that the advertisers will kill the company.

I've seen this behaviour over and over with leaders. They tend to turn the facts upside down and present it asif it's true without any doubt.

[3cats-in-a-coat]

Unfortunately we fall for the claims of narcissists and psychopaths, and raise them to be our leaders. That’s why this keeps happening. In a bad moment, a narcissist is incapable of accepting blame. And a psychopath is never honest in accepting it. Confidence men and grifters have a very long finger and they’re constantly pointing it at someone, deflecting blame.

[galaxyLogic]

A childish but effective strategy is when someone accuses you of X, you accuse them of the same. A naive listener then can be easily misled. But more importantly if you say X, that gives your followers permission to say X as well. They don't then look crazy to their peers because they say something crazy, because a well-known public figure is also saying the same crazy thing.

[RoyalHenOil]

In this case, at least, Musk leads Twitter only because he bought it, not because people were fooled by him. Everyone knew that it was a really bad idea. Even Musk himself knew: he tried to back out of the purchase at the last minute, but he did not have the legal grounds to do so.

[keithalewis]

Harsh, but true. He was warned by the IDF well ahead of the attack but he allowed it to happen as a pretext to commit genocide. Better Israel than Hamas amiright? Oh, wait. You were frothing at the fingertips about Musk, not Netenyahoo. Carry on. /s