I remember being on a hacker camp ca. 2016 and arguing the position that he is not the genius as which he was presented, because some of the stuff he said made no sense at all and ao I checked a little deeper and there was more of that. Back then he still had many convinced. Or at least they accepted thst the guy was supporting the cool companies. That was 7 years ago.

Nowadays that guy is a joke in the same circles because it has become glowingly obvious just how much of his persona was a lie.

The one thing I can give him credit for is that he knew which companies to bet on... and apparently the damage he could do was limited by others there. Now that he is in full control his style of doing things is out there in the daylight.

And quite frankly: I don't even know why it is out in the daylight — Elon could have done the smart thing and let the company do it's thing and give them goals that they should find a route to in the next years. But Elon being Elon he just had to make it about himself and micromanage Twitter into chaos.

So if you have run out of mental energy to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, that is a bit late, but hey, better late then never.