Could the failure of #Twitter have been the point all along?

I'm still quite skeptical, but with each new seemingly poor decision & "mistake," I can't help but wonder...

@Sheril Occam’s Razor: take Saudi money to flood the zone with sh!t because the town square is getting too uppity. Also, #NeverForget.

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@paninid That's... way too complicated to be the razor of the situation. Occam's Razor says Musk is just a flailing idiot running purely on ego.

@paninid I'm not saying it's totally implausible, but his ex-wife urging him to fight woke-ism still doesn't come close to making it the simplest solution.

@LouisIngenthron the simplest solution is to usually follow the money. He only put up a portion of the $44 billion.

A chunk of the rest came from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.

“Khashoggi the uppity public square” makes sense.

@paninid It didn't "come" from Saudi Arabia. They already owned that chunk of Twitter and just rolled it over during the acquisition.

A vast conspiracy to stifle speech is most definitely not the simplest solution. The rich guy being an idiot is a much simpler solution.

@LouisIngenthron I actually don’t think it’s a “vast conspiracy”, I think it’s likely a handful of chats with other rich guys.

Rich guys who fund bot farms to pay attention to another rich guy and give him a terminal case of brainworms.

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