A lot of blowhards, like Mark Cuban, would be deflated quickly if they tried to defend themselves in a take-no-prisoners open forum. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
the cure for ego is a soapbox.
it’s long been sort of an open secret that the russ hanneman (referred to as “the dumbest VC in the valley”) character in “silicon valley” is based on mark cuban right down to getting lucky and selling radio streaming to an unwitting buyer for top dollar in 1999 (cuban sold broadcast.com to yahoo for $5.7bn in april ‘99).
what’s rapidly becoming no secret at all is that mark cuban seems determined to dig himself into an ever deepening DEI discourse hole and simply cannot lay off the pitches that will strike him out. because guys like him never can.
i’m going to use this as a fun example of a larger point:
social media is a seductive, perhaps necessary siren song to those who want to be in “the debate.”
you have to be on twitter to get noticed.
but the other edge of that knife is if you are on social media, you DO get noticed. and it’s an uncontrolled environment. full of lots of people. many of them smart.
so the blade cuts both ways and this fact is what makes the arena the arena.
whatever one thinks about elon (or about how well he has managed to pursue this goal) he nailed this quote: (he also gave me back my twitter account after 2 years of decatforming. this was my first tweet when he did)
Never had a sailfawn or hive borg social media, sounds like I’m not missing anything.
Money can’t buy you love or smarts and may those who seek their rewards on earth enjoy them.
Instead of riding on the DEI please eat me last hybrid crocodile tiger, just say no comment or do a quick subject change.
Maybe say something out of left field or bizarre to baffle them.
Hopefully the CRT/DEI (Frankfurt School) true believers will ask Cuban to put some four or five foot tall people on the Dallas Mavericks just to watch him squirm.