I Hope He Fails

Austin

I’m thinking of the four words that the late Rush Limbaugh said about Baraq Obama four days before his first inauguration.

The universe will be doing Elon Musk and all of us a big favor if his bid to buy Twitter falls through.

(1) It’s not just that $43 billion seems to be a waste of resources in light of what he would be getting. But the worse part is the opportunity cost. The $43 billion value in consideration that he would use to buy Twitter would be $43 billion that’s not invested in Tesla and/or SpaceX. Both of which are far more important to the near to mid term future of humanity than the blue bird internet social media ghetto.

(2) In trying to buy Twitter, and actually doing so if he succeeds, he’s only giving network effect validation to an internet business and organization model that should have never happened, and specifically giving it to one of the worst single exemplars of that model. Before Matt Drudge turned flaky, he was a guest on Alex Jones a number of years ago, and predicted spot on what would happen, that, in contrast to the actually free (as in speech) (for the most part) early web before the onset of the affliction of anti-social media, the one that pre-2018 Drudge made his name in and flourished in, it wasn’t a good thing that people were self-crowding into corporate-type digital ghettos. The Youtwitfacegrams of the world.

(3) If he succeeds in the buyout, then it won’t be long until he and everyone else realizes that he just bought himself a digital Vietnam War. Or to make the analogy more recent, he’s going to get bogged down in e-Iraq. He will forever be at war and in a Mexican standoff with what would be his own company’s woke crackpot middle manglers and critical line level employees. Twitter’s deep state, if you will, to Elon’s Trump. Maybe he’d win, but, once again, opportunity cost.

I read it somewhere last year, but lost track of it, and can’t find it. But it was that some real political science experts did some hard boiled analysis, and concluded that, if all of English-speaking American political Twitter was a state in the union, it would be tied for the bluest state, and if the relatively small percentage of people who write most of the tweets in that universe in a Pareto Principle way were its own Congressional district, it would be the second bluest Congressional district, Cook Partisan Voting Index in both cases. And we all know the real reason why the bluest Congressional districts are that way, because they’re the blackest. Which tells you a whole lot about the ideological deviancy of the heavy tweeters in question. I wouldn’t pay $43 to roll around in that mud, much less followed by nine zeroes.

Note: In case you haven’t noticed, I have not tweeted since March 23. Involuntarily so, and unless the blue bird borg blinks, permanently so. Any and every social post I’ve had since then has only been on Gab and Minds.