I think you're mistaken in believing I am on "tech twitter" as you understand it. I had a serious account under my real name (which I barely used and followed serious tech people) and a fun account under a false name (which I heavily used and followed no tech people at all). I've no idea what "tech twitter" thinks about anything, last I checked on my serious account everyone was just getting on with their normal stuff without engaging in any of this, so it's something different from what you mean.
Also:
>> he turned a consumer choice into an unpopular political statement
> Only a few people on tech twitter and some hard core rightist actually believe that.
No, many legacy blue checks have observed it first-hand and talked about it, it's become a very common talking point - see "this mf paid for twitter". You must have a very sheltered existence on twitter and on the internet at large if you haven't seen this. Frankly I felt a bit cheap re-using that line because it's paraphrasing something that had already been said hundreds of times already.
I guess then we just don't really have the same experience. Hard to believe a account not involved in technology or partisan politics has a huge amount of discussion of these issues.
> see "this mf paid for twitter".
Ok so hardcore anti-Musk people and rightist believe the same thing and it reinforces each other. Great, I don't care.
Neither of these groups are interesting or relevant and such discussions mostly happen under popular posts, not most things I follow.
Also:
>> he turned a consumer choice into an unpopular political statement
> Only a few people on tech twitter and some hard core rightist actually believe that.
No, many legacy blue checks have observed it first-hand and talked about it, it's become a very common talking point - see "this mf paid for twitter". You must have a very sheltered existence on twitter and on the internet at large if you haven't seen this. Frankly I felt a bit cheap re-using that line because it's paraphrasing something that had already been said hundreds of times already.