Every so often, a woke journalist pens what they think is a solid hit piece, but in reality winds up largely being a vindication of the actions of the person they are trying to condemn. After reading the article, one could come to the conclusion that Twitter needed some pretty strong tonic, and, while Elon’s bedside manner may not have been the most pleasant, the patient now has a decent chance of recovery.
In its early days, when Twitter was at its most Twittery, circa 2012, ….when the platform was credited for amplifying the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Arab Spring, when it seemed like giving everyone a microphone might actually bring down dictatorships and right the wrongs of neoliberal capitalism.
After pages full of the expected vitriol at the nerve, (the nerve, I tell you!), of Musk for daring to upset the woke apple cart, here’s a belated admission:
In some ways, Musk was vindicated. Twitter was less stable now, but the platform survived and mostly functioned even with the majority of employees gone. He had promised to rightsize a bloated company, and now it operated on minimal head count.
Is anyone noticing the grammatical violence of the article? And the weird wandering tenses?