The only real difference between the two: This time out, Musk has attempted to explain why he made the terrible tweet — it was a joke, he said, and it made his friends laugh. It didn't occur to him that other people wouldn't think it was hilarious.
If you've never paid any attention to anything Elon Musk does, you might take him at his word: that the man who owns Twitter, and has renamed it X, is just getting his head around the idea that things you do and say in private aren't necessarily things you want to put on the internet.
But that isn't remotely true. He's been doing this stuff for years, and it's not getting better, and there's no reason to think it will.
"I'd say I'll see you the next time he does the same thing. But we can't do that every time he does the same thing, because it would get exhausting. Still: See you again, soon ," I wrote way back on September 4 — 12 days ago.
At this rate, we may be coming back to this one more time before the month is up.
Also: A reminder that in addition to owning Twitter and using it to tweet terrible things, Elon Musk is the world's richest man and has enormous power. And it's important to remember that he often exercises it in ways that don't involve Twitter.
Austin, where Musk spends a lot of time, is the seat of Travis County. And Musk had previously been vocal about his distaste for José Garza, the incumbent DA there. But the fact that he kept his financial support for Garza's opponent secret means he understands there are some things he doesn't want to say in public, for whatever reason.
Keep that in mind the next time we meet here again.
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