President Michael D Higgins has described the purchase of Twitter by tech billionaire Elon Musk as a ‘manifestation of an incredible and dangerous narcissism’ | Read more: https://t.co/UcW55R2V7G pic.twitter.com/5b9CZCjL3E
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) May 5, 2022
This afternoon.
Via RTÉ News:
Speaking about the importance of the role of the media in the battle against climate change at a conference in Dublin City University, the president asked is it a great success if a billionaire would now be deciding what is appropriate for people to exchange by way of discourse.
Without mentioning Mr Musk by name, the president said the purchase of Twitter can hardly be described as anything other than the manifestation of an incredible and dangerous narcissism.
He then read out one of his poems before changing into a tailored three-piece tweed suit with matching cane for dinner, where he recited from his epic work, ‘Globalism: Lovelier Than A Tree’.
Musk’s Twitter purchase ‘dangerous narcissism’, says president (RTE)
He’s 100% correct but you can’t help sneering and calling Higgins a narcissist.
Lol tell us more about narcissism, “Johnny Hansom”
Named ironically, I understand, much good it did him.
Micheal D – our gift to the world
Well he is a different type of narcissist
I have perchance just submitted to broadsheet a piece on this on musk and the Overton window
The thing that gets me is if twitter is so important to survive for us all to think to reason to effect our lives relationships I think we really are in a bad place one step away from humanities existence in the cartoon called walle or even the matrix where humans live in an alternative reality
says the bloke with several usernames who posts at least twenty times a day on an anonymous comments section.
Jesus scottser
One thing I do not do is social media
I really bend your nose out of shape at times
I just blog on a media comments section
It’s a free world and at least my posts aren’t as bad as the torpedo and the tsunami and war exercises invading Donegal
An odious little twerp.
Trump is more your kinda pres.
You can wipe your bum with The Sun but you can’t wipe your bum with Twitter … Thus Spake Zarathustra…
no truer was spoke but I find that the indepndent newspaper provides a better surface
You could always use one of your successful briefs.
Sparingly, obviously …
Wahaay !
Can’t beat the gloss of a Sindo Supplement…
You’re more of a Kant when it comes to reason – worth bearing in mind.
Do you not mean thus spake muskathustra
I can see him now like the scene off apocalypse now riding in his electric chopper speakers full power over Moscow
What a whiney jackass.
The perfect president for Ireland.
If he gets any more rotund after a lifetime of trough-snouting you’ll be able to spot him on Google Earth.
says the fan of plump willy boris..
Twitter is the New Bebo.
i herby swear and promise to serve only one term,if elected,you have my word……as a gentleman and a scholar…my word is my bond….i am a man of honor…said absolutely no one ever about el president for life.
“He then read out one of his poems before changing into a tailored three-piece tweed suit with matching cane for dinner, where he recited from his epic work, ‘Globalism: Lovelier Than A Tree’.”
Nail meets head – so satisfying.
In fairness, we were spared a poem about Roe V Wade (for at least a week).
Not sure about narcissism, but Musk does believe that everything has a technical solution. That may be true for rockets or cars, but the whole Twitter project of his could end up being a monumental failure. People aren’t always rational and don’t behave in predictable ways.