• Butters@lemmywinks.com
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      1 year ago

      Yeah it wasn’t until he started going on podcasts and sending wacky tweets people realized what an asshole he was.

      Had he just kept quiet he would probably still have fanboys. At least up until this latest Twitter nonsense. But had he not gone ego crazy, he wouldn’t have bought Twitter in the first place.

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        1 year ago

        I think the turning point was calling that diver that saved those kids a pedophile after they rejected his dumbass submarine idea. That’s when I went from thinking he was a force for good to realizing he was just another egomaniac with a temper he couldn’t control. It wouldn’t surprise me if the whole going to Mars thing was part of a manic episode where he thought he could go there and play Emperor but because he’s a billionaire it resulted in him at the helm of a spaceship company whose engineers figured out how to make launches very efficient.

        And I think the Twitter thing was because he wanted to be able to do something about the people bad mouthing him on the platform. I wonder if he offered spez a bunch of money to ruin Reddit for the same reason. And if I’m right, I wonder how he feels about a bunch of those people just finding new platforms to continue disrespecting him on (and, at least in my case, glad to be done with the toxic hell Reddit had become).