So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX **Threadbans in OP**

Don't think people are attacking him for his previous achievements.

Most are just saying that those achievements do not automatically transfer to him being a success with Twitter.

His other successes have been in creating a market where it didn't really exist with a very technical product - Like Tesla or by pushing the envelope on the technical front for something very "grand" like SpaceX and to a lesser extent Starlink.

He absolutely deserves credit and praise for that.

Twitter is an advertising.marketing company at its core, which leverages its technology to sell advertising.

Musk doesn't understand advertising and is known for thinking it a stupid and pointless thing - None of his other companies do any kind of advertising and he famously fired the PR department for Tesla a few years ago.

His management style potentially works in companies that have a big "Vision" that everyone buys into - "Save the planet with Electric cars" or "Send a person to Mars" or whatever. Staff will put up with a lot of crap if they believe in the vision.

Hard to see staff getting fired up and buying in to working 80hrs a week for Twitter.

It should be noted that whilst Musk has made a lot of money from his companies in terms of the stock price , none of them are actually profitable (Tesla would not be in the black were it not for the Government levies that they receive).

So , it's perfectly reasonable to wonder if he is capable of actually making Twitter profitable especially being as he probably paid about $20B more than it was worth.

Not wanting an arsehole to succeed isn't "political".

I think people don't like him because he is objectively not a likable person and goes out of his way to show it by the way he behaves.

His "politics" are mostly linked to his belief that he knows best and wants to be able to act with impunity in everything that he does.

I don't think he actually has any firmly held political viewpoints beyond that core tenet.

He doesn't like to be challenged or questioned and lashes out when people do either.

See his recent petulant "firing" of a staff member by tweet or his pedophile dig at the diver who told him his "mini-sub" idea to save the kids trapped in the cave was stupid.

It's the "public" bit that's the point here and again his "politics" aren't political they are his persona.

I do not believe that he is right or left wing in particular - He is "my way or the highway" which in the current US environment might make him seem more aligned to the GOP/Right wing viewpoint , but his political leaning is utterly fungible as long as he gets what he wants.

All those other ultra wealthy types could indeed be thundering arseholes in private but we don't necessarily know about it.

Maybe Musk is just more honest about it , but there is little to like about him as a person - You can respect his achievements and still not like him however.