Elon Musk finally had his Big Twitter Town Hall where he was answering questions
from Twitter employees about what it would mean were he to take over?
Now, it didn't necessarily go how it was supposed to, at least objectively.
I don't know what his own personal objectives were, but
the entire thing seems to have been a bit of a debacle.
And I love the way that The Daily Beast intros to what happened, saying,
appearing via a crappy cell phone camera feed, he's a tech CEO.
Can someone hook a DSLR up to like a cam link or something for this guy anyway?
So he talked to them,
he has of course argued aggressively in favor of free speech principles, but
he's a right-winger who says the word free speech so you know where this is going.
He only took questions that have been screened in advance.
Which look,
I understand that you're probably not gonna take questions in real time, but
you're the dude who's constantly crowing about your commitment to free speech.
Anyway, during that he still found time to go on bizarre tangents discussing aliens,
noting that he had dubbed himself the techno-king of Tesla, it was pure chaos.
And by the way, like if you're the sort of person that thinks like it's cool, or
funny, or a meme that he's the techno-king.
First of all, you're literally worshiping your character from succession.
Second of all, what the hell is wrong with you?
I don't know what the hell is wrong with him, but why do you think this is cool, or
fun, or interesting, or subversive, or something like that?
It's just, he's a very pathetic person who just happens to have a lot of money,
that's all this is.
Anyway, Twitter employees gave live commentary as well as commentary to news
outlets afterward.
One told Vox he is demonstrating a dangerous lack of knowledge about
technical policy and operational matters.
Don't be surprised to find that out, and that he was both confusing and hilarious.
I don't know if it was intentionally hilarious or
the only normal way that he's ever hilarious, which is inadvertent.
Anyway, finally he signed off of the meeting and that's when it was revealed
according to a source who talked to Reuters that his avatar was two hands
shaped like the number 69 in an apparent joke about the sexual position.
And again, he is very, very funny, he is in tune with pop culture and
he's a very funny guy with his 69 thing.
Which is a very cool thing for
the potential boss to then reveal to thousands of employees.
Anyway, Brett, what do you think?
>> Listen, okay, so if you work there, just if a lady works at freaking Tesla or
Twitter, and he starts working there, just start aggressively
sexually harassing the men who work there in a way that they think is cool.
I do think that having just in general,
I say 69 nice all the time whenever someone says 69, so
I'm not like, I'm not gonna cast stones.
>> Is that the exact same thing?
The comparison you just made?
>> [CROSSTALK] Well, I was just gonna say like in general.
In general, but they haven't, yeah.
Well, yeah, right?
Well, he's also the CEO, and that's why I'm saying like in the same way,
just like do a thought experiment.
What would it be like if you were a lady that works there and
you just start sexually harassing guys in that way?
It's just so stupid, and it's so transparent.
>> That is more than he has done in his entire life,
that experiment that you just postulated.
He has never done even that much like prospective hypothetical
empathizing in his entire existence.
>> I don't know much about the guy other than he's a rich guy, and
I like to boil things down to what's the simplest.
And the simplest way to interpret the fixation on Elon Musk is it's a lot
of people who have come to a point where they prioritize being a jerk over
everything else.
And if you guys listen to my political framework,
it embraces and encourages you to be a jerk
unless it ruins someone's life, that's it.
In a bit, if me saying don't sexually harass people at
work ruins your life, that's a horrible argument.
What seems to be a better explanation of Elon Musk is that he
seems to have galvanized some speculators in the Bitcoin world, and
the Silicon Valley Broiness, he's tried, he's galvanized that.
And political operatives are trying to get people to focus on the, hey,
this weird definition of free speech they've espoused hypocritically.
And in doing so, all they're doing is hilariously saying
we hate Silicon Valley v and our savior is Elon musk,
a Silicon Valley gigillionaire.
>> 100%, yeah.
In the same way that they hate Hollywood.
And yet they're desperate to have the guy who played superman in the 90s on their
show, because that's the best that they can do and
they desperately want celebrities.
>> And the difference is that the left kind of yells at, and
I'm just talking about strategy, I'm just talking about tactics.
The left yells at the Neolib in Silicon Valley about their hypocrisy
rather than getting them to vote with the left based on their dislike for
anti LGBT initiatives and those social issues.
And just leave it at that and keep them on your side.
That's what the right does better than the left, the left yells at people,
they need needlessly.
What the right does is they just put a bunch of honey out for different people,
here's bait to get you if you're at Silicon Valley bro, Elon musk is cool,
I'm moving on.
They don't, I'm just gonna pander to that instinct,
I'm not gonna call anything they do.
>> That's not the only thing that they do.
>> I know, but that's one of,
I've said another move that they do already on the show.
>> Sure, yes. >> They just put out freaking bait to get
people to vote with them.
They don't then when they get their shame them for being needed and
I'm only talking strategically.
It is terrible to be a hypocrite, it's a sign of tribalism and disingenuousness.
But strategically just put out traps, get people in their
message in a disciplined manner that doesn't alienate
people that you need as allies, it's called messaging.
It's very basic and people have just gotten away from it because things like
Twitter and social media incentivize you to always be angry and nit pick.
In a way that's similar,
that takes away from important issues that you are trying to draw distinctions in.
>> Sure, on the meeting,
people wanted to know if he was gonna fire people, when he took over.
He wouldn't say he's an incredibly wealthy perspective CEO yes,
he's probably gonna fire a bunch of people, that's definitely the case.
He either pretended to still be mad about bots or is actually weirdly
mad about bots, I don't know, which is more pathetic, I don't know.
People wanted to know if they're going to be forced to come in rather than work
remotely.
He made no guarantees though, he did say that quote exceptional workers would
retain flexibility, so I'm assuming it'll be the same thing as Tesla.
And by the way, these concerns over things like, what does it mean that
he has the 69 avatar, or what about like the free speech thing?
These are like,
he will present in the same way that the Concurrency the Crypto bro did.
This is needless distractions from the core concerns of the company,
but we don't need to just wonder what effect Elon Musk being the CEO could have.
We can take a look at the environments of Tesla and SpaceX.
And we can look at all the allegations of baked in institutional racism that
gets black employees are put on the jobs that
white employees don't wanna do according to them.
People literally using racial slurs is like is papered over, they don't care.
This is not about like millennial employees needlessly bringing up politics
workers are using the n-word and no discipline happens as a result of it.
He is individually sexually harassing people allegedly, and there is a culture
of sexual harassment there that nothing is done about because he doesn't care.
So this is not just a culture war of the gen Z or something,
this has been baked into his previous corporations and
people are worried that Twitter could move in that direction.
So I understand their concerns and on the free speech thing,
like somebody leaked some of the Twitter employees reactions which you can question
whether that's a good thing or not.
But the fact that Elon Musk we jump ahead of this Benny Johnson Tweet,
Elon Musk responds to it.
That is designed to chill potential criticism coming from his employees,
he didn't need to respond to that.
What CEO would it's he doesn't like the criticism and he wants to scare them in
the same way that we're not gonna have time to go over all of this.
But some employees at SpaceX drafted a letter those criticizing Elon Musk and
the culture there.
Which as we've said, has literally led to lawsuits they fired those people were
exercising their free speech.
Again, the attachment to free speech, it's not an ideological thing,
it is not an honest thing.
They like some speech and they don't like other speech, and for
the speech they don't like.
Sometimes he'll merely be offended, sometimes he'll tweet in response,
sometimes you lose your job.
He responds with a full range of potential responses in the way that literally
everyone does.
The difference is that he pretends to have it is very or
a like a concrete attachment to the concept of free speech that never seems
to manifest when the speech is inconvenient to him.
Also he's being sued over does coin, so just bear that in mind,
it's worth basically nothing.
He promoted it probably made tens of billions of dollars, and
then lots of people lost all their money, and that's the thing.
They yell at the left for like saying Elon Musk is a douche bag,
it's like he's proudly a douche bag.
But what I'm talking about is he embodies every ounce of corruption that you say you
hate and other Silicon Valley billionaires.
He's worse, he's like a coin speculate, he knows what he's doing,
he's manipulating markets.
>> Yeah, 100%.
>> Yeah, and when we point out that he is a douche bag,
I'm not saying he's gonna get fired for being a douche bag or whatever.
I just, I want people to be better, I want them to choose better role models better,
like literally people worship him and I think that's incredibly pathetic.
And maybe it's what people say about Trump as a candidate like maybe people
who aren't that intelligent.
Like the idea that their leaders are some of the stupidest people in the world,
because then they feel better about their own state.
Maybe looking up to people whose only characteristic is that they're an a hole
makes them feel like, well, I don't have to be any better.
The richest people in the country, the most successful people in the country
are a holes, why would I ever have to improve?
I don't know what if I told you populists and every man on the right,
and every women, and every everyone on the right?
What if I told you that in your like I agree with your populism generally, why?
Why is it that your leaders that you get to solve the problems of billionaires
being in charge are all billionaire, are all super rich elites?
Like the people in charge of your movement right now are Donald Trump a billionaire.
Elon Musk a billionaire and Tucker Carlson, who I'm surprised he can talk
based on how deep down his throat his silver spoon has been since he was a kid.
Yeah, he is a literal air, Donald Ttrump has a golden toilet,
and Elon Musk was born inside of an Emerald mind or whatever.
Like again, they everything they say it doesn't mean anything.
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