Why are so many high-profile billionaires intent on sabotaging their careers, trashing their own reputations and running their companies into the ground? Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, and immediately admitted what everyone else already knew: that he had grossly overpaid for the platform. He sacked half the workforce and, a month later, the talk is of Twitter going bust.
Kanye West, now wanting to be known as Ye, appeared on InfoWars, a show hosted by far-right conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones, known for pushing lies around events such as the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012. Ye said: “I see good things about Hitler. Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler”. Even Alex Jones looked uncomfortable. “The Nazis were thugs”, he said. Ye continued “But they did good things too. We gotta stop dissing the Nazis all the time. I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis.” Jones gave Ye an opportunity to back down, but he wouldn’t quit: “There’s a lot of things that I love about Hitler. A lot of things”. Today Ye has been suspended from Twitter - again - after he tweeted an image of a swastika incorporated inside a star of David.
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