@Zaknel
I think what he was doing was more committed than the “dude is just trolling” theory. He is used to playing against the market and leveraging what should be chaotic and unsustainable stock arrangements. With the probable recession oncoming though I think he got cold feet. Can he succeed? Eh… Twitter is notoriously smaller and the weakest of the major social networks. It is going to be hard to get much growth from it in a good year. I know he has floated everything from subscriptions to trying to make Twitter into one of those China style everything apps (which might be good for competition but also scares me in what might merely be another big tech monster). If he had waited for a recession to strike and for twitter’s shares to go into free fall I think he would have stood a chance of buying it outright with his own money, probably at a bargain. Now though he is stuck with a lot of debt and possible
years of a downturn. Not impossible I suppose to pull a rabbit out of a hat but it is going to require more than making twitter’s policies more fair and removing bots.
@ponypony221
A lot of them do change. I moderately followed the atheist crowd in the great online religious wars from the late 2000s and early 2010s. They went from being a coherent group on top of the world to be yesterday’s news, bewildered with the political changes that occurred over the decade thought. Some becoming pseudo-right or liberal anti-left figures and others becoming full SJWs. Few tried to hold the line of the normal rationalism and reason (as defined by people who idiotically say science has replaced philosophy while discarding that what they are doing, in their reasoning and morality is
philosophy itself). Though they often seemed in a awkward place when they did so.
@ponypony221
Isn’t he of Dutch origin?
