Matisyahu's Blog

We’ve all probably heard about Elon Musk and the message he sent to advertisers. Personally I think that Ari Melber is being far to generous as to the motivations behind what Elon said when he was interviewed at the New York Times DealBook Summit. I’m a great believer in Occam’s razor – “the simplest answer is usually the correct one” and in the case of what has taken place we see an overgrown child showing defiance to what perceives are the advertisers punishing him like a parent punishes and unruly child when they get out of line. What is his response to this? he believes they’ll eventually capitulate in the belief that not being on the platform hurts them more than it hurts himself which is the equivalent of a child threatening to hold their breath if they don’t get their own way. It truly is amazing how people put him on a pedestal when he has the maturity of a mushroom and an emotional intelligence of an orange.

If he cannot see the link between a toxic platform and why brands don’t want to be associated with him and his platform’s toxicity then it appears that simply either doesn’t have a clue or he sees himself as a victim (like many conservatives do although he strenuously claims he’s a centrist (which we all know is code for conservative (link))) when the situation moves from the ‘fucking around’ to the ‘finding out’ phase but rather than accept responsibility he claim’s he is a victim of an orchestrated campaign against little ole him. The problem is that in any normal universe he would have fallen face first into a wall but unfortunately he has enablers who keep funding this lunacy but that is quite alright with me because I’m over on Mastodon where such idiocy doesn’t take place.