#and I'm not even gonna touch the Lockheed thing because HOLY SHIT

[shinobicyrus]

He’s only officially owned Twitter for 17 days.

#Twitter #Elon Musk #Blue Checkmark #Listen the Ted Cruz and Bush Impersonators were just....comedy gold #but this? #Elon is crashing the stocks of companies HE DOESN'T EVEN OWN #people warned him this exact thing would happen and only conceded #'maybe this is dumb' and then did it anyway #maybe this will finally dispel the ridiculous media image of him as some genius real-life Tony Stark #meanwhile Ely Lilly - having done literally NOTHING - not only lost BILLIONS in stock #because the stock market is all the worst elements of automation and human greed #but now them having to tweet that Insulin is in fact *Not* free #is sparking conversation from people asking 'Yeah but WHY is this extremely cheap to make life-saving drugs SO EXPENSIVE??' #and they deserve all of it #and I'm not even gonna touch the Lockheed thing because HOLY SHIT #I feel sorry for all the small time artists and people whose living depending on the networking and visibility Twitter provided #and of course the huge swaths of Twitter's workforce that were kicked to the curb on a fucking WHIM #but I am also loving the chaos #is making a lot of very rich people and companies very very miserable #Capitalism #Stock Market #Social Media #Billionaires