Yes, billionaire interests and commoner interests are rarely the same. That being said, they can occasionally and unexpectedly line up pretty closely.
Musk bought out Twitter for chump change in order to protect the rest of his ill-gotten gains from being stripped from him. He witnessed the very public beta testing for the newly minted “hostile takeover by Wokesters” that managed to depose Jack Dorsey from his own company right under his nose. Call it Color Revolution reworked for corporations, rather than nations. Musk identified that Wokester Takeover would end up entailing a technological and ideological suite as impervious to resistance as Color Revolutioning once had. That is, if it were given the chance to work out the obvious bugs and Achilles heels its beta testing had revealed... and Musk was taking copious notes!
Musk had no interest in letting Gene Sharp's potent ideological weapon be recrafted to expel him from Tesla, SpaceX, or whatever other subsidy dumpsters he's riding to riches at the moment. His billionaire interests may have included zero concern for the rest of us, but his endless self-interest managed to dismantle Wokester Takeover before it could be perfected into the unstoppable juggernaut its proponents were counting on. Hence the considerable rending of garments, gnashing of teeth, and licking of wounds going on in Woke safe-spaces of late. As for the ridiculous overvaluation Musk happily paid for the Twitterverse, it was nothing compared to the real value of the vulnerable assets he protected with his strategic intervention.
Of at least equal benefit to us commoners, Musk's great purge of the Woke ideologues from Twitterdom (or is that Twitterdumb?) effectively dismantles “hostile cancellation by Wokesters,” which had managed to take out so many celebrities, journalists, points of view, and entire narratives. Call it Color Revolution reworked for individuals, rather than nations. The uncontrolled dumpster fire raging in all the social media stocks at the moment reflects the late-dawning awareness that, no, they won't ever be able to deliver on the total social control they were so ambitiously forecasting for their investors.
The lack of creativity exhibited by the idiots hoping to win by applying the Color Revolution model to everything, just as its original playbook ceases to be able to deliver up any goodies whatsoever, is one for the history books. There's nothing quite like a senile elite class to make a new age inevitable. Musk will join the ranks of the senilities soon enough, but for the moment he still has some elegantly creative plays left in him. For all its considerable flaws, self-interest remains the cornerstone that capitalism is built upon. When yours happen to line up with some billionaire's, you become the most unlikely of allies, however temporarily.
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Musk bought out Twitter for chump change in order to protect the rest of his ill-gotten gains from being stripped from him. He witnessed the very public beta testing for the newly minted “hostile takeover by Wokesters” that managed to depose Jack Dorsey from his own company right under his nose. Call it Color Revolution reworked for corporations, rather than nations. Musk identified that Wokester Takeover would end up entailing a technological and ideological suite as impervious to resistance as Color Revolutioning once had. That is, if it were given the chance to work out the obvious bugs and Achilles heels its beta testing had revealed... and Musk was taking copious notes!
Musk had no interest in letting Gene Sharp's potent ideological weapon be recrafted to expel him from Tesla, SpaceX, or whatever other subsidy dumpsters he's riding to riches at the moment. His billionaire interests may have included zero concern for the rest of us, but his endless self-interest managed to dismantle Wokester Takeover before it could be perfected into the unstoppable juggernaut its proponents were counting on. Hence the considerable rending of garments, gnashing of teeth, and licking of wounds going on in Woke safe-spaces of late. As for the ridiculous overvaluation Musk happily paid for the Twitterverse, it was nothing compared to the real value of the vulnerable assets he protected with his strategic intervention.
Of at least equal benefit to us commoners, Musk's great purge of the Woke ideologues from Twitterdom (or is that Twitterdumb?) effectively dismantles “hostile cancellation by Wokesters,” which had managed to take out so many celebrities, journalists, points of view, and entire narratives. Call it Color Revolution reworked for individuals, rather than nations. The uncontrolled dumpster fire raging in all the social media stocks at the moment reflects the late-dawning awareness that, no, they won't ever be able to deliver on the total social control they were so ambitiously forecasting for their investors.
The lack of creativity exhibited by the idiots hoping to win by applying the Color Revolution model to everything, just as its original playbook ceases to be able to deliver up any goodies whatsoever, is one for the history books. There's nothing quite like a senile elite class to make a new age inevitable. Musk will join the ranks of the senilities soon enough, but for the moment he still has some elegantly creative plays left in him. For all its considerable flaws, self-interest remains the cornerstone that capitalism is built upon. When yours happen to line up with some billionaire's, you become the most unlikely of allies, however temporarily.
- Christophe