Mike Benz
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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but they need to destabilize it because Elon is not playing ball.
They need to existentially threaten its business model.
They need to balkanize the world, and so it loses its place as this world, multinational company.
It gets confined to the tiny island that stretches between California and Florida, whereas all the other platforms are international who play ball, so they lose market share.
And the whole thing goes into crisis
The whole thing goes into bankruptcy.
Elon is a triple digit billionaire, at least for now.
And so he's been able to sustain more vicissitudes than Mark Zuckerberg, who folded as soon as the first $60 billion advertiser boycott hit him.
But they are doing this death by a thousand paper cuts, this same destabilization strategy they do when they want to financially bankrupt a authoritarian government while pumping up the assets that will take its place.
So they want to corporate regime change Musk.
They want to regionalize the conflict by going after Starlink assets in Brazil and potentially going after Tesla assets in Germany.
I would not be surprised if something like that comes next.
Until Elon's will is broken,
or until they can regime change him and put someone else on the platform.
And then just like that, the advertisers will come rushing back.
Brazil will let X back into the country.
The EU will stop sending threatening nasty grams because the back channel will have been reestablished and all is well now in the world of the blob.
Well,
I think that much of this still needs to be articulated.
I have had some reticence about publishing some of this and doing some of the video details with the technical information because