cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/20115017
It is because he is a man-child who has never been told no. All he had to do was shit back and enjoy his money and live his drug fueled life. Bot no. He is just a misirable bastard and and he wants everybody to suffer.
Bezos is probably as big a piece of shit as Musk, but he's mostly kept his mouth shut and head down so there aren't a billion Bezos memes about him putting the KKK in Ketamine.
When he first did it, he was fucking around. Now he’s finding out, so he’s desperate to try and put the brakes on. The genie is out of the bottle. He’ll never be able to go back to business as usual.
He buried his legacy, once and for all.
We can only hope.
Since it's not, aha, rocket science, I would have thought Elon could grasp that the easiest way to not have something end up on social media would be to not do it in public in front of a forest of cameras broadcasting live, but alas: Once again he's failed to meet my rock-bottom expectations.
Guess he just underestimated how many people don't like Nazi signalling.
Who would have known
Still waaayy too many people OK with it.
It's about control.
Remember the scene in '300' where the ambassador tells the Spartans that all Xerxes wants is a token of respect? Or when the blackmailer tells Watson that Watson should scratch the blackmailer's nose for him?
Exactly this.