Judd LegumMusk now considers @[email protected] "the company trying to kill Twitter."
@[email protected] Interesting that Musk sees competition as some kind of violent attack and not a part of a healthy economic system.
VeeDub@juddlegum he doesn’t like capitalism or competition
JL Roberson@juddlegum At his level, he feels that since he's on top, competition has done its work and needs to be removed
Martin Vermeer FCD@juddlegum Also, that not just damaging but 'killing' twitter is actually a thing in his mind.
Virginia S. O'Possum@juddlegum Yeah, especially for such an alleged free-marketeer.
SpicewallaThe narcissistic personality type is so insecure that any perceived challenge to their superiority is seen as potentially catastrophic and thus requires a maximalist defensive response.
Scott Gurvey@juddlegum Musk believe in bare knuckle unconstrained winning is everything except when one of his companies is involved.
Jim 
@juddlegum do as I say, not as I do.
John Eddy@juddlegum honestly makes me wonder what he thinks about other electric car manufacturers and how close are we to him shutting down talk about the Hyundai Ionic 6 or Rivan trucks.
@juddlegum sure the ftc would probably have something to say but when has Elon shown that sort of forethought
Fuck Elon 
i guess it would be great free publicity for both at this point.
@FuckElon @juddlegum Rivian could use it but Ionic seems to be putting out a sizable ad spend
oh, but this kind of publicity money cannot buy.
Lilyshome@juddlegum that’s because Musk doesn’t recognize healthy. Or economics. Or systems. Combined or separately. Musk only sees Musk. And therein lies his downfall.
Dr. Guillermo Power 
@juddlegum he has obsessed over Twitter for years and he has endowed Twitter with fantastical properties, in his mind Twitter is too exceptional to ever fail. He seems to think that somehow Twitter drives humanity’s collective thought… we know better, we know Twitter is basically humanity’s soiled underwear.
madsox@gpowerf @juddlegum "humanity's soiled underwear" I love it - can I steal that? 🤣 🤣 🤣
@madsox @juddlegum go for it. Make it public domain.
Sam Wade@juddlegum Do you mean Substack competing with Twitter, or Substack competing with Musk to kill Twitter, or both?
Odolyte@juddlegum oops btw competition is not an healthy economic system. If you still don't get it, It has ruined our planet. On a planet with finite resources, there's only one way out : cooperation and sharing the resources otherwise one has to die…
Incogg@juddlegum You got that almost right.
He sees competition as a violent attack as long as the competition is with something he owns.
When he competes with someone else it's part of a healthy economic system, of course.