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When someone talks about his business improving civilization, red flags go up. This guy thinks he can improve civilization. That word selection of "civilization" strikes me grandiose.

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I don't think I've ever heard anything so lame in my life. 🤦🏼‍♀️ He is in way over his head. Wow

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Nov 10, 2022Liked by Jim Stewartson

His halting speech doesn't inspire confidence. Not for me, at least. The blind spot that Elmo is missing is his unfiltered comments as one of the principals of Twitter. He needs to talk less crap and work much harder to convince content producers that Twitter isn't devolving into a cesspool, otherwise there will be a mass exodus. Then advertisers won't have an audience. It seems so simple, yet this "genius" doesn't get it.

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Nov 10, 2022Liked by Jim Stewartson

David Milner called it $8Chan. I thought that was accurate.

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Nov 9, 2022Liked by Jim Stewartson

I bet Yoel regrets how he spent that last hour on twitter, and so do the advertisers. Yoel following feckless and detached Elon around like that little guy from Island of Dr Moreau as the latter throws the former's job security and legacy in the dumpster and flicks the match is actually a good fit.

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"Join Jim Stewartson’s subscriber chat." Substack can pay me to beta test for them next time. My greatest thrill of course, is that Heidi Cuda now has her longform journalism on Substack.

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Nov 9, 2022·edited Nov 9, 2022Liked by Jim Stewartson

Jezuz, they both sound so dumb. This "genius" is the richest Richie Rich in the whole world? YECK, he sounds like a fkn chucklehead on drugs. Buhbye ELMO ya big, dirty ham head 😵‍💫

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Quite the Pavlovian response.

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Nov 9, 2022·edited Nov 9, 2022

And, by all means, congratulations on Joe Flynn. No doubt he loved the book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

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Didn't one of the advertisers tweet and Elmo blocked him?

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Nov 9, 2022·edited Nov 9, 2022Liked by Jim Stewartson

Omg he sounds super out of his depth. Does he have a fixer from space x? He needs a fixer now.

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