Yeah, that was when he was useful enough to outweigh his jackassery.

And hey, maybe if he kills twitter, he'll still be doing humanity a service.

people will just flee to other social media. Twitter dying changes nothing

N social networks with M/N people each are not remotely the same as a single network with M people.

The submarine/rescue situation should've clued many more people into his capricious, reckless nature, but yet many persisted.

This country has a serious problem with platforming and idolizing narcissists and non-violent psychopaths and it needs to stop. Sh*t-shows like this hopefully have a chance of showing everyone that these monsters don't deserve our adulation.

I'd rate orchestrating a coup in Bolivia and tweeting "We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it." an act of violence.

Boring Company and the absurd outcome of the Tesla tunnel in Las Vegas were other clear warning signs.

I hope that was _sarcasm_... This man is singlehandedly causing more polution, social unrest, and fraud than anyone I've seen in my lifetime. Each of his enterprises is bankrupt without government money and very creative accounting. His behavior is reprehensible and criminal. I can't believe he is not in prison.

The comment you're responding to is a prescription: what people ought to do.

Yours is a description: what people in fact do.

Yet, you phrased it in the same way, with the same emphasis. It might be a world view shifting shock to you. But I have always thought Elon was an asshole, from the very beginning of his self image marketing campaign.