(Postscript, yes I know Musk officially denied the recent report about exiting Europe and his mouthpieces say they will comply with the DSA. But I am not a fool and I don’t take anything he says at face value. Others’ credulity may vary.)
To paraphrase the old axiom about journalism; if Elon Musk says the sun will rise in the morning, see if a second source can confirm it.
I would rank Musk just below phone scam artists in the category “People I trust with my money”.
So according to the wackadoodles, is the guy who murdered 18 people in Maine gay or trans?
For the life of me, I can’t tell by looking at him, er or her, whichever, not here to judge.
I used to work for a fintech company whose software handled a good chunk al the world’s electronic payments. One of the products was even developed in South Africa and maintained by a mostly South African workforce. And the amount of effort required to just keep up with local regulations in each region never mind develop new features was staggering. For every developer working on the core teams making new things there where 4 to 5 working support and regional customizations.
Banking and payments in the virtual space is a massively complex and regulated area that X will never get to grips with it in 10 years never mind one.
I predict that by the end of next year “X” will be the universal global financial platform on Mars. There won’t be a single person on Mars who isn’t wholeheartedly devoted to X for all their banking needs on the red planet.
Meanwhile, back here on Earth, CNN reflects on the one-year anniversary of Elmo taking the helm at Twitter. They seem less than impressed. 
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/27/tech/elon-musk-twitter-x-one-year-changes/index.html
How could it not be cute? There were goats!
This is Axios’ take on One Year of Elon Musk’s Twitter.
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/26/elon-musk-twitter-x-bad-bet-private-equity
(It’s pretty consise, but in case TL;DR: by any rational measure, Musk’s ownership has been an unmitigatable disaster. The only person it’s made happy is Elon Musk.)
I doubt Musk is happy. By all appearances he is a chronically unhappy man. Happy people don’t behave like that.
I dunno. There are plenty of white supremacists and would-be fascists who seem to be happy to have a major (semi)legitimate online forum that actively supports them
That’s not happiness, that’s trying to compensate for unhappiness through false validation. The rich folks who are truly happy are the ones you hear about the least.
Elmo is taking a stand for the truly oppressed, downtrodden, and persecuted people of the world, by which I mean (checks notes) the descendants of Robert E. Lee.
I’m slightly confused. When Ron Filipkowski says “ancestors” does he mean “descendants”? When Thad says “literally” does he mean “figuratively”? (The phrase “my kind” seemed odd if he meant he was literally one of the few dozen descendants of Robert E. Lee.)
I assume so. I’ve seen many people make that slip.
What is his kind and who are the “they” seeking his extinction?
“his kind” are bigots are racists, and “they” are people that want him to have actual consequences for hate speech. “extinction” is that he cannot say whatever he wants, consequence free.
Mr. GigaThaad is referencing this:
The Robert E. Lee statue at the center of the Charlottesville neo-Nazi tiki torch procession was just melted down. “They” that want “your extinction” isn’t even a dog whistle. These were literal Nazis chanting “Jews will not replace us.”
Tickle me Elmo! 
Archaeologists have often wondered how the pyramids were constructed. This, my friend, is how pyramids are constructed:
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I recently saw those Civil War statues referred to as “participation trophies,” and I’ll forever think of them that way.