What parallels you draw between Musk and Jobs?

Both are well known public figures (business men).

The similarity between Musk and Jobs is risk taking and bold product vision - set an impossible goal and work your people into the ground achieving it. Both men share lack of regard for anyone's feelings - huge narcissists, their way or the highway. It achieves the results but Musk has a particularly hard time dealing with failure. He is a giant snowflake who melts down if he is not worshipped.

Jobs was smart enough to stay away from the spotlight and social media. Musk, on the other hand, is extremely addicted to it.

There is something else going on, however. He is known to partake in uppers and downers like Ketamine. Extreme wealth, insecurity, obsession with public opition, and drugs are a really nasty cocktail.

I didn't think it sound unhinged at all. it just sounded like someone that was sick of being pressured telling people to fuck off. That is a fairly common reaction we see in every day life.

Elon is simply making abundantly clear that he doesn't care what advertisers feel. If they want to stay, they can stay, and if they don't they can leave. And he's fine with that. That is a reasonable message to communicate.

Oh is that simply what he is doing? This seems a charitable read given his confused comment about "blackmail"

He looks, sounds, and acts unwell. But even that doesn't really excuse his behavior, just explains it possibly.

IMO you might be overindexing on the usage of that word. It is clearer what Musk means in context. Again, he is simply saying that he won't let advertisers pressure him into changing X. That is clearly all he means by "blackmail" even if the actual usage of the term is incorrect.

He is fine, his values simply don't align with most peoples'. He is acting quite consistently with his stance on how he wants to run X (eg profit is not the primary goal.)

Thank you for clarifying that. I was confused. All hail Musk.

Do you honestly think that he doesn't care about huge drops in advertising revenue?

He has said that he's fine with running the company at-cost, and that profit is not the primary goal. His actions have been internally consistent with this statement.

I would be surprised if that were viable without advertising, but I guess we might just have to wait to find out.