> He's what we used to label as classical liberal, middle.

Who is that "we"? That label is long gone for Elon.

His Twitter "social media" service is now toxic waste and I doubt this will change.

It seems to me that the only people who complain about Twitter are those who are nostalgic for the days of political censorship. It’s pretty gross.

Just to be clear we're talking about the same platform that while under Elon's ownership has censored references to outside platforms like Mastodon, censored users globally at the whims of foreign governments and outright banned individuals for their political beliefs.

> The people who hate on him have never done a single important thing in their entire lives.

That’s a bit extreme, isn’t it? For one thing, who gets to decide what’s important? If you want to take a utilitarian perspective, that’s fine; but you can’t legitimately condemn as unimportant the work and lives of others who happen to dislike Musk.

It is indeed resentment. It is also hilarious to see this sentiment in the comment sections in HN, Mastodon, Reddit, etc.

In reality, almost no-one cares and the 220M+ users continue to use the platform.

All the eternal Twitter doomsters are still praying for the downfall that never happened, which is why they are very emotional and angry at Elon Musk and the fact that Twitter did not collapse as they expected either.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Also:

- spreading conspiracy theories about the attack on Paul Pelosi

- spreading conspiracy theories about the Allen, TX shooter

I could go on. I do care about his character, because he's influential and because he's decided he's willing to tweet about whatever pops into his head, shaped by his biases and independent of confirmation or fact checking.