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Because he thought that media censorship on social media had reached a boiling point, that’s unironically why he bought it for so much money
It was never a power statement

And by doing so drove the site even further into hell and turned a huge bit of it into a conservative echo chamber
On principle I refuse to like Elon even a little bit

I don’t even know what qualifies as “conservative echo chamber”
Also you at least have to admit that he significantly contributed in reducing the cost of rockets by a literal hundredfold which is clearly beneficial

I mean, I guess, yeah. But have you f**king seen Twitter? Unless you actively cultivate your feed to stray away from politics, twitters algorithm will aggressively push right wing and conservative content.
Also, I can’t stand the narrative he has orchestrated that he built his wealth from scratch. He was born wealthy as shit, and he never even originally founded PayPal

I mean I guess. I don’t use it personally so I wouldn’t know

But do you want to know how much money he started with? THREE MILLION. Not billion. THREE MILLION. His father, Errol, owned a small stake in an emerald mine in Namibia which he sold for that much money. And of it, he gave literally a fifteenth of it (equivalent to $200,000) to fund his sons’ (Kimbal Musk and Elon Musk) entrepreneurship in Zip2 during its angel funding period, which was eventually purchased by Compaq in 1999. Did you know that when he first started the company with his brother, he literally slept on his office couch at Zip2’s headquarters and had to shower at the YMCA because he literally couldn’t afford an apartment? That doesn’t really sound like “wealthy as shit” to me.