Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.

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It’s very funny that his single biggest failure is so public. Like if The Boring Company couldn’t find customers, it would just quietly shut down. Newsworthy, but only for like a day.

This is monthly stories about severe incompetence and petulance.

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It’s very funny that his single biggest failure is so public.

biggest failure in public…so far.

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As much as Musk is an idiot these days with his antisemitism and MAGAism, I don’t think the Vegas Loop is a failure. It was never a HYPER-loop, just regular loop (low speed). The city of Vegas likes it enough they are planning on expanding it even more.

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Like if The Boring Company couldn’t find customers, it would just quietly shut down.

If? Besides a few small projects have they ever scored anything significant?

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Ha I didn’t want to put this in my comment to complicate the point but no they’ve only done one actual thing so this could have happened and I don’t know that we’d know.

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it’s public because it is the public it’s twitter

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There are different levels of “public”. Musk doesn’t need to publicly announce he’s telling all the advertisers to fuck off, he could tell it to them on a private call and then the public would most likely only know what advertisers are pulling out. The whole “fuck off” statement never needed to be public, Musk made it public because he can do whatever the fuck he wants. The same goes for a lot of things you see about Twitter. He didn’t need to do his things in public, he simply did.

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that is not what I’m saying. the failure of twitter is a public issue. it affects the public. nobody should give a fuck about the boring company.

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monthly

Lol it’s a bit more frequent than that.

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The Boring Company is a line item expense so Tesla can keep selling cars while stalling rail projects. It was never meant to do anything.

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