Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?

[tommers]

 

[BigMoaner]

Didn't Zikak praise in ironic way teh sheer power of Coca-cola - how the product itself is untouchable, the brand just stands by itself. No real need to beg and simp, the wars been won with all rivals. He said it's the perfect capitalist archetype.

Musk and Twitter:

All these silicon valley pratts who have warbelled on about "disrupt" in their trendy converses, what happens when you "disrupt" your own company into oblivion, or at least to the out reaches of a far rigth hell scape?

 

[bimble]

To be fair to him, If I blew 44 billion dollars on something i too would want to be able to set fire to it in the most public and stupidest way possible. Do like that he was saying the x should be monochrome & in the style of art deco, the giant helpless shithead.

 

[BigMoaner]

"Local Car Dealer Causes Three Car Pile Up on Freeway After Drunk Drive Rampage After Bankrupcy Filling and Divorce. Blames Sever Stress and Mental Issues"

 

[Throbbing Angel]

 

[hitmouse]

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Can't say I'm wildly enthusiastic about Musk's plan to kill all birds, but at least it'll get rid of the seagulls, so that's something to say for it.

 

[Orang Utan]

I’m reminded of this Big Train sketch:

 

[two sheds]

I suppose somebody already had Q

 

[magneze]

Elon Musk wants to relive his start-up days. He’s repeating the same mistakes.

What PayPal’s history teaches us about Elon Musk’s management of Twitter

www.disconnect.blog

Apparently he's wanted x.com for a while...

 

[Ax^]

hmm world wide brand recognition

fuck that own the libs "x"

hmm just to clarify no brand association

 

[Rob Ray]

It certainly seems to be making everyone cross.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Elon Musk wants to relive his start-up days. He’s repeating the same mistakes.

What PayPal’s history teaches us about Elon Musk’s management of Twitter

www.disconnect.blog

Apparently he's wanted x.com for a while...

I can never play X-Com again without feeling soiled.

Fuck him, fuck him so fucking much.

 

[Ax^]

When you attention seeking stunts have made people look at Zuckerberg in a positive light

maybe the business model is broken

 

[bluescreen]

Tweets will be X tweets

ex-leading social media app.

 

[BigMoaner]

hmm world wide brand recognition

fuck that own the libs "x"

hmm just to clarify no brand association

Oh is there a pathetic Edgelord own the libs angle? Pray tell?

 

[Ax^]

comments he made about buying twitter and since buying twitter

 

[Lord Camomile]

 

[Jeff Robinson]

I’m no corporate branding expert, but this seems like a really shit idea.

 

[BigMoaner]

Now I feel like I'm posting on a strip club's forum. He must have a bet on, like in trading places or something.

There's something in this. That x is associated with a lot of filth. "What if my boss/kids glances, sees it and misinterprets?"

Is he high?

 

[two sheds]

It's subliminal - now every time you press the x to leave a program somewhere you'll think "ooh that's x" and so people will start to associate twitter with ... wanting to leave somewhere and go do something different.

 

[BigMoaner]

I'm still unsure whether this is just all a big wind up on his part. A larp, in his language. The whole Twitter enterprise.

 

[BigMoaner]

To be fair to him, If I blew 44 billion dollars on something i too would want to be able to set fire to it in the most public and stupidest way possible. Do like that he was saying the x should be monochrome & in the style of art deco, the giant helpless shithead.

8.5 out of ten on the abuse scale. Excellent content.

 

[NoXion]

Oh is there a pathetic Edgelord own the libs angle? Pray tell?

I’m no corporate branding expert, but this seems like a really shit idea.

I don't think there's an "owning the libs" angle to Musk's pursuit of the the X brand, I think it's more to do with him having a long-standing obsession with getting it off the ground ever since it lost out to PayPal. His thinking seems to be putting the cart before the horse, as if building an edgy late-90s style image is the key to success, rather than establishing a reputation first. The fact that he's doing this by ripping the skin off a already-established brand and crudely sewing on the skin of one his old failures betrays his lack of awareness that the rest of us can see what he's doing.

 

[krtek a houby]

Feeling betrayed like when Marathon became Snickers

 

[Raheem]

I don't think there's an "owning the libs" angle to Musk's pursuit of the the X brand, I think it's more to do with him having a long-standing obsession with getting it off the ground ever since it lost out to PayPal. His thinking seems to be putting the cart before the horse, as if building an edgy late-90s style image is the key to success, rather than establishing a reputation first. The fact that he's doing this by ripping the skin off a already-established brand and crudely sewing on the skin of one his old failures betrays his lack of awareness that the rest of us can see what he's doing.

Turns out you can make it to being the richest person in the world an still be fixated on a 20 year-old humiliation.

 

[Signal 11]

X Window System - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Humberto]

The thing about the famously rich, they never acknowledge that they came from money. That they steal wealth. I imagine that Musk is grasping at straws. Finding it hard to believe that his plans for twitter are ashes in his mouth because he is such a bellend. I mean let's face it he has ruined Twitter. It's his fault. He's shown his arse. And given his credulous politics and courting of the most harmful aspects of society because they will venerate him in return I hope he meets a sticky end.

He will continue to peel off people to his cause, people you might have relied on. He's a culture 'warrior' in a failing system. Imagining injustices, doling out punishments,

 

[magneze]

x.com is now a GoDaddy parking page.

Going well so far.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

You all laugh now but wait until he launches the tie in range of seedy strip clubs.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Oh god the 'X' logo has just dropped. The website is still called twitter and the tweet button still says 'tweet'. Such a smooth-brain move. So slick. Much coherent.