10/2/2023 0 Comments Popehat twitter political cartoonsIt is unfortunate that such systems often succeed in business. I have known about this phenomenon for a long time because my father once worked for such a person, who would never pay their bills because what are you going to do, sue me? Worst case you force me to pay the bill. Once you have the ‘do it anyway’ algorithm running, it does not get a filter for ‘they will sue you and win in this case.’ Sometimes it is very much not a surprise. Sometimes it is a surprise - he thought this person would not sue and they sued anyway. Trump also gets sued all the time and has for decades. People are rightly drawing parallels to Trump’s ‘blatantly violate contracts and no-pay people all the time and dare them to sue you’ except they think that ‘do it to rich people who will obviously sue you’ makes it somehow different. That is not how this type of thinking works. He did not ‘think things through’ when trying to get out of buying Twitter. It also should be clear Musk has zero interest in stopping, before showing zero interest in honoring norms or his contracts or laws, to ask what would happen next, or wonder whether he will inevitably lose the resulting lawsuits. If anyone involved was surprised by these moves, that is on them.īy now, it should be clear that Musk has zero interest in honoring laws or norms or contracts when dealing with people unless he likes them, and that his approach to the law is ‘make me.’ There was talk that by some weird coincidence Musk finished the transaction exactly in time to fire a bunch of Twitter employees right before a bunch of their stock options trigger, but an employee confirms this did not happen. One of Musk’s first actions was to fire a bunch of top Twitter executives ‘for cause’ which if it stuck (which it won’t) would allow him to avoid tens of millions in severance payments. So I decided to gather up the things I’ve seen since Elon bought the place, and my thoughts on them, and try to put them into a semi-coherent format. That tells you how they describe events in these spots, and how you should expect them to in the future. Notice how media sources describe events. While looking at what is happening, one can also usefully look at the coverage of what is happening. Any blame that can be assigned will be, etc. One can assume that everything that happens is being intentionally framed to make it look as bad as possible for Twitter and Musk. While it is true that the details have not exactly covered Musk in glory, it all also seems like the kind of thing those same sources would say no matter what. The response by many news sources and also individuals has been that everything is The Worst and a giant dumpster fire and what he has done will destroy Twitter, and is so much worse than we expected, oh no. His other decisions were less obviously great. One of them was to tweet ‘fresh baked bread and pastries are some of the great joys of life.’ On that I hope we can all agree. At the end of long saga well-covered in hilarious fashion by Matt Levine, Elon Musk has purchased Twitter.
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