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General Discussion => WHATEVER => Topic started by: The real veganshawn on April 25, 2022, 11:56:54 PM
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Thoughts?
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Shittiest platform. Why even bother?
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Shittiest platform. Why even bother?
Makes me wonder if he is up to something
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Elon Musk is the shadiest character.
Have you guys seen the Tesla robots he's building?
He's a megalomaniac with the mind of a child playing with Lego.
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I perused the bodybuilding.com misc section alot as a kid cause I thought it was hilarious. To get that fix now I follow right wing bodybuilding accounts on Twitter. I think this is great news in that aspect.
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I really don't care so long he doesn't let tRump back on the platform. No one needs to hear what he has to say. With how impulsive he is, what he says on twitter has worldwide implications and I am so thankful he is not in office currently. If he gets re-elected and has the ability to shitpost on twitter... I will absolutely be heartbroken.
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He should of just bought trumps dumpster fire
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What does Musk actually do?
Like, Bezos has way way more than he deserves, but at least he is actually smart.
Musk is going to be a key supporter of whatever fascist gov takes control of the US in the next 10 years.
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What does Musk actually do?
Like, Bezos has way way more than he deserves, but at least he is actually smart.
Musk is going to be a key supporter of whatever fascist gov takes control of the US in the next 10 years.
He makes bonehead calls about rescuing kids stuck in caves then when doesn't get his way sooks like a 12 year old and makes some dumb accusations
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it seems elon musk has the wool pulled over most of society's eyes.
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I can see him running for US president in a few years.. twitter sucks.
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What does Musk actually do?
Like, Bezos has way way more than he deserves, but at least he is actually smart.
Musk is going to be a key supporter of whatever fascist gov takes control of the US in the next 10 years.
You don't get as rich as those dudes without being a stone cold psychopath. The only reason they aren't stoned in the street is because most people don't have the proportional mathematical capacity to understand how unfathomably rich they are. There's no defending it.
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trumps twitter was easily the best thing about him he was comin up with bangers left and right
his 2013 run truly captures the cognitive dissonance between his exterior presentation of power and interior dream of being the NY fashion week correspondent for entertainment tonight
my prediction: twitter stays lame, the "free speech" stuff is just smoke and mirrors, doesnt change as much as conservatives would hope
my dream: all the suspended handles from like 2008 get freed up and i can snag one
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Twitter employees having a meltdown haha but I don't see why this buyout is such a huge deal when billionaires do this often. It's no different than Bezos buying the Washington Post, Zuckerberg buying Instagram and WhatsApp, etc..
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When you have end-world-hunger money but you buy a tech company instead because you're butthurt about some teenager tracking your private jet.
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He's a weirdo who embraces his "I'm just a meme" online image because it is disarming and makes him seem less threatening/like a weirdo.
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He’s doing it to control one of the main flows of communication on the internet. The fact that just one man can buy something like this on a whim should be concerning for everybody. I feel like this is a further slide into authoritarian oligarchy and it’s gonna be a problem.
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I don't understand how he's the richest man alive, what does he actually sell? How many Teslas are actually on the road? doesn't he receive tonnes of government grants of investment and gets tonnes of different tax breaks.
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When you have end-world-hunger money but you buy a tech company instead because you're butthurt about some teenager tracking your private jet.
these tech fucks couldn't spare to give one billion to help africa or other poor countries all over the world, it would not inflate their ego enough
disgusting as hell
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If he actually promotes free speech it'll be "good" and also completely moronic(just think about how shit the internet can be). If he doesn't people will complain just like they already do, so it's whatever.
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I can see him running for US president in a few years.. twitter sucks.
Can't.
Rules for running for President: A presidential candidate must be a natural born citizen of the United States, a resident for 14 years, and 35 years of age or older.
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I deactivated my Twitter yesterday, as well as my Facebook account. Tried to delete my LinkedIn account but for some reason it didn't work, they make it really hard. Might leave insta at the end of the year. I don't hate Musk or anything, I'm just slowly getting over social media and excessive phone/computer time in general.
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I can see him running for US president in a few years.. twitter sucks.
Can't.
Rules for running for President: A presidential candidate must be a natural born citizen of the United States, a resident for 14 years, and 35 years of age or older.
John McCain and Ted Cruz weren't born in the US but conservatives will find a way to cheat.
(I'm aware of the technicalities with their birth locations, but if they want to be pedantic crybabies about where Obama was born then I'm holding them to the same standard.)
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I can see him running for US president in a few years.. twitter sucks.
Can't.
Rules for running for President: A presidential candidate must be a natural born citizen of the United States, a resident for 14 years, and 35 years of age or older.
John McCain and Ted Cruz weren't born in the US but conservatives will find a way to cheat.
(I'm aware of the technicalities with their birth locations, but if they want to be pedantic crybabies about where Obama was born then I'm holding them to the same standard.)
Remember when they wanted to change that law so that Arnold Schwarzenegger could run? What is with our obsession over making celebrities the most powerful people in the world?
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Muska buying twitter
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He's a weirdo who embraces his "I'm just a meme" online image because it is disarming and makes him seem less threatening/like a weirdo.
It also makes him 1000% more embarrassing
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Muskatweetz
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Imma go against the grain here and say that Twitter is actually good. It's cool that you can go see verified expert opinions compared to like reddit where the user could be like a random 8th grader.
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Imma go against the grain here and say that Twitter is actually good. It's cool that you can go see verified expert opinions compared to like reddit SLAP where the user could be like a random 8th grader boomer.
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my prediction: twitter stays lame, the "free speech" stuff is just smoke and mirrors, doesnt change as much as conservatives would hope
Agreed, but what will be interesting is to see him run a money-losing company which doesn't rely on massive government handouts to stay afloat. My suspicion with Twitter and Facebook is that they're so useful for the surveillance state that they're both, at this point, effectively "too big to fail".
He’s doing it to control one of the main flows of communication on the internet. The fact that just one man can buy something like this on a whim should be concerning for everybody. I feel like this is a further slide into authoritarian oligarchy and it’s gonna be a problem.
No different than Bezos buying the Washington Post. It's amazing to see people pretend like he's doing this out of some kind of noblesse oblige of a free speech purist, rather than to ban people from posting photos of him with Ghislaine Maxwell and from before he had his hairplugs and plastic surgery. I personally find Musk much more annoying and disgusting than Bezos, because at least Bezos has the courtesy of just being evil, whereas Musk is what would happen if made Reddit sentient and gave it $100b (banal evil).
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Imma go against the grain here and say that Twitter is actually good. It's cool that you can go see verified expert opinions compared to like reddit where the user could be like a random 8th grader.
If anything, the value Twitter has is in letting you see just what fucking morons the "verified experts opinions" havers are. Every lauded writer, politician, newscaster, etc. - just completely fucking braindead idiots. It lets you truly see just how stupid are the people who run the world, just what a sham "meritocracy" is, how elite institutions are run, and let us watch in real time as these ghouls manufacture consent for whatever happens to be America's next imperial project.
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In all seriousness, I do think Twitter is a great source for information and real time coverage of political events.
I remember in the height of the Black Lives Matter protests a lot of news outlets were straight up lying about what was actually happening out in the streets. There were a lot of people on Twitter able to document it first hand as it was happening.
Yes, there's toxicity and shitty people on there, as there is on literally any internet platform. But Twitter does has its upsides.
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I don't understand how he's the richest man alive, what does he actually sell? How many Teslas are actually on the road? doesn't he receive tonnes of government grants of investment and gets tonnes of different tax breaks.
Bubbles built on top of bubbles on top of other bubbles. *Eventually* the entire thing is gonna pop, but if we have learned anything since the start of Covid, it should be that there is nothing the government won't do and no amount of people they won't let die in order to keep the markets "whole".
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elon and bezos both suck, but at least Jeff can get you a box of diapers to your house in 2 hours without corporate welfare, just a couple huge tax breaks and union busting techniques.
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if you use twitter for arguing with randoms or reading outrageous political takes, you're too deep in the trenches
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social media sucks. Billionaires suck. Politics suck.
Giant asteroid, please land on us and end humanity ASAP.
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he offered hsp $46bil for slap but they were too core
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he offered hsp $46bil for slap but they were too core
Wonder if Berra ever tried to buy SLAP
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I only use Twitter for porn…it crazy to me how much hardcore porn exists on the site
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it’s all fake
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I only use Twitter for porn…it crazy to me how much hardcore porn exists on the site
Knew I wasn't the only one.
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The most bothersome aspect of this is that people across the spectrum (not the least of which is Musk himself, so I guess “on the spectrum” to… hey-o!) keep couching this as a “free speech” issue. This has little to nothing to do with free speech. A billionaire deciding (no matter how permissive he chooses to be) what you can and can’t post on a platform is not free speech. Table scraps. Benevolent oligarchy. To even call it noblesse oblige would be too generous.
The public clamored for regulation of the major social platforms, and rather than submit to government oversight, they promised self-regulation. Huge fucking shock: they didn’t try that hard and it hasn’t gone that well. Large swaths of the country who can’t differentiate between what the federal government controls and what private companies control, claim that these measures are an infringement on their personal rights. For better or worse, corporate personhood, gay wedding cakes, ass-backwards free market propaganda, and politicians and activists fighting with Disney and every other major company have people believing (correctly I guess… fuck me) that this is way things actually function. For Musk, Bezos, Zuck, Kochs, Bloomberg, Buffet, etc… this couldn’t be better. Freedom’s just another word for deregulation.
Freedom of speech is leaving Twitter for Truth, Facebook for Parler, or whatever other nutjob bullshit is out there. You’re owed the chance to say, but not guaranteed to have it published or signal boosted.
Musk owning it or some other asshole or group of assholes is irrelevant. Though him taking it from a publicly traded company to privately held entity likely means less transparency behind whatever permissive scraps he tosses to the users. Love it or hate it, but calling it a battle over free speech is complete nonsense. Nonsense that only benefits corporations and moneyed interests.
Fuck. Sorry. I guess have feelings about it.
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I can see him running for US president in a few years.. twitter sucks.
Can't.
Rules for running for President: A presidential candidate must be a natural born citizen of the United States, a resident for 14 years, and 35 years of age or older.
John McCain and Ted Cruz weren't born in the US but conservatives will find a way to cheat.
(I'm aware of the technicalities with their birth locations, but if they want to be pedantic crybabies about where Obama was born then I'm holding them to the same standard.)
I had to google all of them besides Schwarzenegger (I'm not American by the way). I'd say he'll find away around it. Wasn't someone born in Canada (perhaps a UK royal) and they declared the room part of the UK just so whoever it was was born on UK(?) soil? I'll try to dig around later and find out who it was.
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It was Princess Margriet of the Netherlands. "The maternity ward of the hospital was temporarily declared to be extraterritorial by the Canadian government."
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Breaking news: billionaire nutter wants to control a media of information.
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I’m gonna eventually go live in Patagucci or something if the world keeps becoming an even shittier shitshow lol.
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I like it because it makes anyone who brags about being rich look not rich.
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I fucking love Twitter... I'm an addict.
#skatetwitter is on point, and as a news/political/Louisiana-related stuff junkie, it's the best (imho).
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he offered hsp $46bil for slap but they were too core
As of this writing, he and I are exchanging words, but mine are better.
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Thoughts?
fuck twitter and elon musk
I fucking love Twitter... I'm an addict.
#skatetwitter is on point, and as a news/political/Louisiana-related stuff junkie, it's the best (imho).
fair enough, i could see how it is a good place for activism and also how it can become addictive. after i had so much fb beef with all sorts of people in the early 10s i just can't get back into social media like that. i have a twitter account, but so far i haven't ever used it aside from tweeting at 'skatetwitter about fleas gofundme a while ago, which didn't get any replies or retweets whatsoever(i was a little disappointed actually).
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I only use Twitter for porn…it crazy to me how much hardcore porn exists on the site
Knew I wasn't the only one.
I actually prefer it at times because it doesn't leave any browser history or cookies from actual porno sites.
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I’m getting on Tik Tok out of spite….
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I’m getting on Tik Tok out of spite….
As a cat that has to keep up on different platforms (for others to use for marketing), that fuckin' app makes me feel like a hyper-boomer.
Not even from the dancing young people, but the old farts on there as well.
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I have no strong feelings over it. Twitter is one of the worst things on the internet whenever it’s not the NBA playoffs.
I also get a little annoyed when people freak out over super rich people and massive corporations. Leftist political minds have been warning the public about the outliers of capitalism for decades, a little too late to freak out.
I can see him running for US president in a few years.. twitter sucks.
He wasn’t born in America.
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“what does this meaaannn?!?!”
it means our means of acquiring and disseminating information is hopelessly broken and hamstrung by the forces of capital run amok. if you still choose to value twitter after seeing this for what it is i have nothing to say to you except enjoy whatever brain disorder you develop posting your way to a better world before musks scheme of selling barely functional and completely proprietary cars as a front to sell carbon credits stops working and half the economy collapses
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Matt Christman once described Twitter as "the unmanned customer complaint line of America", and I can't think of a more apt description.
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A Tesla is the perfect metaphor for this situation: a car that is shaped like a traditional car with a combustion engine even though it doesn't have a combustion engine
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I fucking love Twitter... I'm an addict.
#skatetwitter is on point, and as a news/political/Louisiana-related stuff junkie, it's the best (imho).
Skate twitter is fire AF. Twitter in general is lit for like discussion amongst niche communities. Only bad shit is that it's too good; there be some flat earth mfs and y'all kaeda conspiring and shit. As long they don't hurt nobody we good.
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“what does this meaaannn?!?!”
it means our means of acquiring and disseminating information is hopelessly broken and hamstrung by the forces of capital run amok. if you still choose to value twitter after seeing this for what it is i have nothing to say to you except enjoy whatever brain disorder you develop posting your way to a better world before musks scheme of selling barely functional and completely proprietary cars as a front to sell carbon credits stops working and half the economy collapses
Reading everyone's opinions here just makes me feel like this too. We should just settle as a concept that any form of media you do not own isn't free for you to say anything on, instead this right of free speech would be vaguely protected if you do it old school and talk to people out in real life, as long as you can run away when someone gets annoyed and decides to beat you up. Basically if you got a message just get a megaphone or some shit, anything else is fallible.
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“what does this meaaannn?!?!”
it means our means of acquiring and disseminating information is hopelessly broken and hamstrung by the forces of capital run amok. if you still choose to value twitter after seeing this for what it is i have nothing to say to you except enjoy whatever brain disorder you develop posting your way to a better world before musks scheme of selling barely functional and completely proprietary cars as a front to sell carbon credits stops working and half the economy collapses
I love you, man.
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The tanking stocks of Telsa crack me up.
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Muskatweetz
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Remember when he was gonna end world hunger and then was like "gotcha!" because it was apparently Opposite Day.
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The tanking stocks of Telsa crack me up.
I wouldn't read too much into it, everything is down thanks to Putin and Chinese supply chain concerns since shits still locked down there.
This is a shitty business decision that he's making 100% to wave his wallet around and go "hey everyone look at me, you stopped looking at me for a few seconds so I'm causing drama... Hey.. look at me!" and I honestly feel like he's going to find a reason to back out at the last second. It's the ultimate Karen energy, a butthurt billionaire buying a business because he didn't like the service. If I was a higher up at Twitter I'd be cracking up at how dumb he is.
You'd think the dotcom bubble would have taught people a thing or two about massively overvaluing websites that are already mature and monetized and yet here we are.
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elon musk is an epic ass karen
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The tanking stocks of Telsa crack me up.
I wouldn't read too much into it, everything is down thanks to Putin and Chinese supply chain concerns since shits still locked down there.
This is a shitty business decision that he's making 100% to wave his wallet around and go "hey everyone look at me, you stopped looking at me for a few seconds so I'm causing drama... Hey.. look at me!" and I honestly feel like he's going to find a reason to back out at the last second. It's the ultimate Karen energy, a butthurt billionaire buying a business because he didn't like the service. If I was a higher up at Twitter I'd be cracking up at how dumb he is.
You'd think the dotcom bubble would have taught people a thing or two about massively overvaluing websites that are already mature and monetized and yet here we are.
Just felt like bumping this thread for some reason. Not sure why.
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When you have end-world-hunger money but you buy a tech company instead because you're butthurt about some teenager tracking your private jet.
kinda true but like i feel like the russians knowing where he's at is kinda a security risk. russians want him dead for giving the ukranians free starlink/internet which is super important for ukranian defense. dude should have just coughed up the money and the internship the kid was asking for. buying twitter is sorta scary.
anyone see his comments about chinese workers and 3AM lamp oil? LOL
idk how i feel like about him saying trump shouldn't have been banned. dude was forreal gaslighting his followers to kill his enemies. thats literally a danger to democracy.
unrelated but seeing this on twitter is kinda annoying... i dont even wanna see tabloids at the supermarket. why do they belong on my feed?
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lol Russia doesn't give a shit about Elon Musk, and they don't need a Twitter account (one using publicly available data) to track his plane.
Something I've been wondering lately is if this deal can still go through after the continuing collapse of the crypto market. A lot of his "wealth" is or was tied into the value of an unregulated, speculative security instrument which is currently in free-fall. Musk is a big time pump-and-dumper, so I assume his advisors had him dumping his crypto holdings at the moment when it became clear that the Fed was raising interest rates, but if he's still holding a lot, that could spell trouble.
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lol Russia doesn't give a shit about Elon Musk, and they don't need a Twitter account (one using publicly available data) to track his plane.
Something I've been wondering lately is if this deal can still go through after the continuing collapse of the crypto market. A lot of his "wealth" is or was tied into the value of an unregulated, speculative security instrument which is currently in free-fall. Musk is a big time pump-and-dumper, so I assume his advisors had him dumping his crypto holdings at the moment when it became clear that the Fed was raising interest rates, but if he's still holding a lot, that could spell trouble.
i find it so crazy how these dudes move with money. they're vicious. did you see those texts where bill gates hit up elon about philanthropy meanwhile he was shorting tesla? so crazy. i literally can't imagine doing any of this shit. i just be parking my money in an index fund fr.
https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1517626832241057792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1517626832241057792%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tweaktown.com%2Fnews%2F85797%2Felon-musk-confirms-the-leaked-text-messages-with-bill-gates-are-real%2Findex.html
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Lol he just said the deal is on hold because crypto is taking a bath. Hmm it's almost like this crypto thing is funny money
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Lol he just said the deal is on hold because crypto is taking a bath. Hmm it's almost like this crypto thing is funny money
That's just the most convenient excuse to use at the moment. He's also using "theres a ton of bots on twitter!" as one, like he wouldn't have known all this doing proper due diligence.
My take is still that he's a butthurt Karen ass billionaire who only did this to waive his dick around and be an attention whore. He was never going to do it...im guessing he didn't think twitter would say yes haha.
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Lol he just said the deal is on hold because crypto is taking a bath. Hmm it's almost like this crypto thing is funny money
That's just the most convenient excuse to use at the moment. He's also using "theres a ton of bots on twitter!" as one, like he wouldn't have known all this doing proper due diligence.
My take is still that he's a butthurt Karen ass billionaire who only did this to waive his dick around and be an attention whore. He was never going to do it...im guessing he didn't think twitter would say yes haha.
It's like all of his other "great" ideas, like a highway with one lane in a tunnel hundreds of feet below the ground, or a submarine that drowns thai children, or an electric car that spontaneously combusts. He's a fraud of the highest order and he's got a legion of mediocre "epic" bros who will human wave cope post you to death if you lightly criticize him online
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Something I've been wondering lately is if this deal can still go through after the continuing collapse of the crypto market. A lot of his "wealth" is or was tied into the value of an unregulated, speculative security instrument which is currently in free-fall. Musk is a big time pump-and-dumper, so I assume his advisors had him dumping his crypto holdings at the moment when it became clear that the Fed was raising interest rates, but if he's still holding a lot, that could spell trouble.
Lol he just said the deal is on hold because crypto is taking a bath. Hmm it's almost like this crypto thing is funny money
He's throwing a ton of excuses up against the wall to try and see what will stick, but more than anything I think that he overleveraged his Tesla stock to secure the funding and now that Tesla stock is down nearly 35% his creditors could demand more of his options to secure the loan. He's only the "richest man in the world" as long as Tesla stock is flying and as crazy as he might be, he's not crazy enough to lose 1/3rd of his tesla position (or more) to become the owner of twitter. He knows he can't afford to risk his options over his weird twitter vanity crusade.
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Lol he just said the deal is on hold because crypto is taking a bath. Hmm it's almost like this crypto thing is funny money
That's just the most convenient excuse to use at the moment. He's also using "theres a ton of bots on twitter!" as one, like he wouldn't have known all this doing proper due diligence.
My take is still that he's a butthurt Karen ass billionaire who only did this to waive his dick around and be an attention whore. He was never going to do it...im guessing he didn't think twitter would say yes haha.
It's like all of his other "great" ideas, like a highway with one lane in a tunnel hundreds of feet below the ground, or a submarine that drowns thai children, or an electric car that spontaneously combusts. He's a fraud of the highest order and he's got a legion of mediocre "epic" bros who will human wave cope post you to death if you lightly criticize him online
Tbh Tesla and SpaceX are legit. Elon's def a psycho but that's not really surprising considering he almost went bankrupt trying to fund both an electric car and re-usable rocket company simultaneously.
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Muska buying twitter
It'd be a lot cooler if he did
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Lol he just said the deal is on hold because crypto is taking a bath. Hmm it's almost like this crypto thing is funny money
That's just the most convenient excuse to use at the moment. He's also using "theres a ton of bots on twitter!" as one, like he wouldn't have known all this doing proper due diligence.
My take is still that he's a butthurt Karen ass billionaire who only did this to waive his dick around and be an attention whore. He was never going to do it...im guessing he didn't think twitter would say yes haha.
It's like all of his other "great" ideas, like a highway with one lane in a tunnel hundreds of feet below the ground, or a submarine that drowns thai children, or an electric car that spontaneously combusts. He's a fraud of the highest order and he's got a legion of mediocre "epic" bros who will human wave cope post you to death if you lightly criticize him online
I see this as violently similar to 45 running in 2016. Dude didn't think he was going to win, but was rather grifting to gain attention and make $$. Fraud 100%
It's almost too bad EM can't be held to the purchase at this point. It'd ruin him and his status as richest man, he'd possibly lose Tesla too.
So much for contracts and all that.
God. I've always know it was rigged and a joke, later gilded age and oligarchs, but man, its keeps getting more unbelievable
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Lol he just said the deal is on hold because crypto is taking a bath. Hmm it's almost like this crypto thing is funny money
That's just the most convenient excuse to use at the moment. He's also using "theres a ton of bots on twitter!" as one, like he wouldn't have known all this doing proper due diligence.
My take is still that he's a butthurt Karen ass billionaire who only did this to waive his dick around and be an attention whore. He was never going to do it...im guessing he didn't think twitter would say yes haha.
It's like all of his other "great" ideas, like a highway with one lane in a tunnel hundreds of feet below the ground, or a submarine that drowns thai children, or an electric car that spontaneously combusts. He's a fraud of the highest order and he's got a legion of mediocre "epic" bros who will human wave cope post you to death if you lightly criticize him online
I see this as violently similar to 45 running in 2016. Dude didn't think he was going to win, but was rather grifting to gain attention and make $$. Fraud 100%
It's almost too bad EM can't be held to the purchase at this point. It'd ruin him and his status as richest man, he'd possibly lose Tesla too.
So much for contracts and all that.
God. I've always know it was rigged and a joke, later gilded age and oligarchs, but man, its keeps getting more unbelievable
Fortunately his upbringing in apartheid south Africa prevents him from being president
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So did he ever get that submarine working?
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sick im doing the same if jonnie giger wins batb
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sick im doing the same if jonnie giger wins batb
the jonnie giger headquarters are an impenetrable fortress my friend. I wish you luck, godspeed
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I've never "tweeted" in my life. Ain't no bird up in hurr
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Didn't he say he was going to improve Twitter by getting rid of the bots and now he is saying he doesn't want it because of the bots? :o
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Lol he just said the deal is on hold because crypto is taking a bath. Hmm it's almost like this crypto thing is funny money
That's just the most convenient excuse to use at the moment. He's also using "theres a ton of bots on twitter!" as one, like he wouldn't have known all this doing proper due diligence.
My take is still that he's a butthurt Karen ass billionaire who only did this to waive his dick around and be an attention whore. He was never going to do it...im guessing he didn't think twitter would say yes haha.
It's like all of his other "great" ideas, like a highway with one lane in a tunnel hundreds of feet below the ground, or a submarine that drowns thai children, or an electric car that spontaneously combusts. He's a fraud of the highest order and he's got a legion of mediocre "epic" bros who will human wave cope post you to death if you lightly criticize him online
I see this as violently similar to 45 running in 2016. Dude didn't think he was going to win, but was rather grifting to gain attention and make $$. Fraud 100%
It's almost too bad EM can't be held to the purchase at this point. It'd ruin him and his status as richest man, he'd possibly lose Tesla too.
So much for contracts and all that.
God. I've always know it was rigged and a joke, later gilded age and oligarchs, but man, its keeps getting more unbelievable
Fortunately his upbringing in apartheid south Africa prevents him from being president
ya but he's a white dude AND a grifter who was born rich. I'm sure the right would find a way to get him in office
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Seems like it could all be a massive stock manipulation effort. Not like he doesn’t have history of doing shit like that. This quote from Reddit speculates on it
Elon Musk announces he's buying out Twitter, the stock price skyrockets, after he already owned a 9.2% stake in the company. Obviously he bought his shares before announcing his stake, because the price of shares would have shot up before hand.
Now he puts in his offer of buying out the company at $54.20 per share, much higher than he got his 9.2% stake for. This essentially locks the value of the shares at that price, because share holders won't sell for less than that if they know Elon is buying them all out. Essentially as long as you held until the official buyout you were pretty much guaranteed $54.20 a share.
Now Elon can offload his shares at a huge profit. Once the value of the shares starts dropping, buying out the company at $54.20 a share no longer makes sense. Plus general poor market performance drives prices even lower.
Now he can renegotiate the deal because the companies valuation has dropped. But he will mask it by saying some stupid shit like it's on hold because of "fake user account details". Which will drive share prices even lower due to investors realizing the deal might not go through at the agreed price of $54.20 or at all.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61433724.amp
There are a few outcomes to this scenario:
• Elon buys out Twitter way cheaper than the original deal. Or at least tries to, this is the much more likely scenario.
• Elon backs out, and makes profit off his original 9.2% investment. - Least probable.
• He's just looking for an excuse to get the fuck out and minimize damage to Tesla. - Very Probable
He wins no matter what, and likely gets away with it.
Why is he allowed to just freely manipulate markets? Probably pays a tiny fine to the SEC and goes about his day, will never see the inside of a jail cell.
Edit: I've noticed some people pointing out the $1Billion fee Elon would have to pay for cancelling the buyout. Elon Musk is worth $240 Billion, and is literally sitting on 9% of Twitter's shares. I think it wouldn't matter much.
He also sold $8 Billion in Tesla shares at peak values to help fund this fiasco. Making Tesla shareholders front the bill. While also potentially using billions more as collateral for the sale.
Also, He could sell his stake before announcing the buyout isn't happening. He has options.
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The SEC will never catch up with him. After 2008, it became clear that, above a certain level, there was no such thing as a financial crime. None of these people will ever go to jail or face any consequences for their actions - not so long as the US is structured as it currently is.
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If Musk let Trump back on Twitter and Trump wins again in 2024 I am hi-jacking a fucking peanut butter and jelly sandwich, loading that fucker up with so much cheap peanut butter and soaring that sumbitch straight into Chadillac Muskalade's slack-jawed gullet.
Musk is for sure gonna have a big wad of PB stuck to the roof of his mouth for a minute. Extra sticky peanut butter sandwich comin for dat ass, Elon. I'm warning you buddy, I'm not even gonna use enough jam and the ratio is gonna be way off... and it's gonna be on wheat bread. Not a threat, just sayin
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If Musk let Trump back on Twitter and Trump wins again in 2024 I am hi-jacking a fucking peanut butter and jelly sandwich, loading that fucker up with so much cheap peanut butter and soaring that sumbitch straight into Chadillac Muskalade's slack-jawed gullet.
Musk is for sure gonna have a big wad of PB stuck to the roof of his mouth for a minute. Extra sticky peanut butter sandwich comin for dat ass, Elon. I'm warning you buddy, I'm not even gonna use enough jam and the ratio is gonna be way off... and it's gonna be on wheat bread. Not a threat, just sayin
Musk isn't going to "let" anyone do shit because this isn't happening and it probably never was. The dude is clearly a bit of a narcissist and probably thought no one would call his bluff and now he's scrambling for ways to back out.
There were always things about it that didn't make sense, like Musk saying he was going to quadruple revenue and users in the next 5 years despite it being (as I mentioned before) a very mature platform that's already well monetized. I really want it to happen just because its so obviously a terrible deal to be making if you have even a cursory understanding of how they make money. This isn't some massive untapped evolving platform, maybe a decade ago but not now. Twitter and Facebook are going to continue losing users as boomers die out and younger generations that are more socially media savvy slowly move to whatever the next hot new thing is (insta, tiktok etc). If a deal goes through I see twitter having to play the very dangerous game of milking their existing user base for more money without driving them off and I just don't see that as viable at the moment.
P.S. Did my posts earlier in this thread disappear? Was there a thread merge or something? I see people quoting them but I can't find the original.
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Musk is such a twat (do people still say that?)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-16/musk-says-twitter-bots-likely-account-for-at-least-20-of-users?srnd=premium
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Musk is such a twat (do people still say that?)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-16/musk-says-twitter-bots-likely-account-for-at-least-20-of-users?srnd=premium
Absolutely use the word twat, along with bellend, nob, cunt,wanker, Muppet the list goes on and on, unfortunately so does this list of twats, bellends, nobs, cunts, wankers, Muppets ....
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Musk is such a twat (do people still say that?)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-16/musk-says-twitter-bots-likely-account-for-at-least-20-of-users?srnd=premium
Absolutely use the word twat, along with bellend, nob, cunt,wanker, Muppet the list goes on and on, unfortunately so does this list of twats, bellends, nobs, cunts, wankers, Muppets ....
once i even called him "airhead"
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If Musk let Trump back on Twitter and Trump wins again in 2024 I am hi-jacking a fucking peanut butter and jelly sandwich, loading that fucker up with so much cheap peanut butter and soaring that sumbitch straight into Chadillac Muskalade's slack-jawed gullet.
Musk is for sure gonna have a big wad of PB stuck to the roof of his mouth for a minute. Extra sticky peanut butter sandwich comin for dat ass, Elon. I'm warning you buddy, I'm not even gonna use enough jam and the ratio is gonna be way off... and it's gonna be on wheat bread. Not a threat, just sayin
Musk isn't going to "let" anyone do shit because this isn't happening and it probably never was. The dude is clearly a bit of a narcissist and probably thought no one would call his bluff and now he's scrambling for ways to back out.
There were always things about it that didn't make sense, like Musk saying he was going to quadruple revenue and users in the next 5 years despite it being (as I mentioned before) a very mature platform that's already well monetized. I really want it to happen just because its so obviously a terrible deal to be making if you have even a cursory understanding of how they make money. This isn't some massive untapped evolving platform, maybe a decade ago but not now. Twitter and Facebook are going to continue losing users as boomers die out and younger generations that are more socially media savvy slowly move to whatever the next hot new thing is (insta, tiktok etc). If a deal goes through I see twitter having to play the very dangerous game of milking their existing user base for more money without driving them off and I just don't see that as viable at the moment.
P.S. Did my posts earlier in this thread disappear? Was there a thread merge or something? I see people quoting them but I can't find the original.
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Dunno where the post on page one where I said this was all just a Karen-esque vanity crusade, a horrific business decision, and never actually going to happen went but this will have to do.
Yes, he's trying to abandon this deal like one of his kids. I really, really hope that Twitter's lawyers find a way to hold his dumb ass to the contract he signed and the SEC finally does something about this piece of shit.
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Hopefully he’s doesn’t find out about this place…
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Hopefully the shitty tesla autopilot kills this clown soon. death to billionaires
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Hopefully he’s doesn’t find out about this place…
nah elon reeks of 4-chan 8-kun and reddit
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Hopefully he’s doesn’t find out about this place…
nah elon reeks of 4-chan 8-kun and reddit
Man Elon and the original Q are South African. Who would have thought that country would have such an impact this century
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Can somebody explain to me how he's the richest man in the world but tesla makes up for less than 1% of automotive sales? How teals receives government subsidies that seems to elevate the stock price, but he argues the government shouldn't be helping other private corporations?
Did you know he didn't start TESLA?
oh ya, does anyone know what his dad did for work down in South Africa?
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Can somebody explain to me how he's the richest man in the world but tesla makes up for less than 1% of automotive sales? How teals receives government subsidies that seems to elevate the stock price, but he argues the government shouldn't be helping other private corporations?
Tesla stocks are valued based on “potential growth”, people see Tesla in the news a lot, the news talk about how popular Tesla is and so on and so on which makes line go up. Tesla stocks are completely disconnected from reality obviously and Tesla is simply incapable of growing to match their stock value. Really I recommend you look up dialectical materialism and Marx because it really pulls the wool over your eyes on how fucking stupid capitalism (and the people that run it) is especially these days when new contradictions appear seemingly every week.
Musk is also a massive hypocrite which is why he constantly says subsidies are bad while building his fortune with them.
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Lol
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Is Egon purposefully trying to kill Twitter?
He increased the debt payments from 1/74 of revenue to 1/4 of revenue, his stupid grievance blue check decision alienated big companies, he fired half of his employees based on really stupid data, he alienated advertisers (his real customers), and is just doing one stupid ass thing after another.
What the fuck is Egon doing? Does he need a 44 billion dollar tax write off?
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Is Egon purposefully trying to kill Twitter?
He increased the debt payments from 1/74 of revenue to 1/4 of revenue, his stupid grievance blue check decision alienated big companies, he fired half of his employees based on really stupid data, he alienated advertisers (his real customers), and is just doing one stupid ass thing after another.
What the fuck is Egon doing? Does he need a 44 billion dollar tax write off?
On purpose? Nah. He just doesn't know what he's doing. He paid 44b for a company that has a realistic valuation of maybe half that and has been losing money for years, waived due diligence so he could look like a big dick billionaire badass, and then tried to weasel out of it when it became clear just how bad he'd fucked up. The gov't finally got tired of his shit and said "fuck your buyers remorse" and held him to the deal he signed and now here we are. My bet is he runs it into the ground and tries to frame it as "yeah I didn't like them so I bought it and closed it" to protect his fragile ego. His fanboys who for some reason think they're going to magically get rich if they become sycophants might buy it but no one with wrinkles in their brain will.
Like I said in the initial post back when it broke, anyone who has even the slightest idea of Twitter's business model could see how this would go and that it was mostly driven by his ego. Billionai-ren got pissy because he didn't like the service so he bought the company without having a clue how to run it. That's about all there is to it.
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He's an asshole, but I made some money on it. I don't use twitter much at all and won't miss it if he puts it in the ground.
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Is Egon purposefully trying to kill Twitter?
He increased the debt payments from 1/74 of revenue to 1/4 of revenue, his stupid grievance blue check decision alienated big companies, he fired half of his employees based on really stupid data, he alienated advertisers (his real customers), and is just doing one stupid ass thing after another.
What the fuck is Egon doing? Does he need a 44 billion dollar tax write off?
On purpose? Nah. He just doesn't know what he's doing. He paid 44b for a company that has a realistic valuation of maybe half that and has been losing money for years, waived due diligence so he could look like a big dick billionaire badass, and then tried to weasel out of it when it became clear just how bad he'd fucked up. The gov't finally got tired of his shit and said "fuck your buyers remorse" and held him to the deal he signed and now here we are. My bet is he runs it into the ground and tries to frame it as "yeah I didn't like them so I bought it and closed it" to protect his fragile ego. His fanboys who for some reason think they're going to magically get rich if they become sycophants might buy it but no one with wrinkles in their brain will.
Like I said in the initial post back when it broke, anyone who has even the slightest idea of Twitter's business model could see how this would go and that it was mostly driven by his ego. Billionai-ren got pissy because he didn't like the service so he bought the company without having a clue how to run it. That's about all there is to it.
This is pretty on the nose. It's hilarious to watch. You can almost hear the wheels turning in his head:
"Here's an idea! Oh...I...oh, well...here's another idea! Oh...I...oh, well, um...here's another idea! Oh...it's the same idea. Oh...I...oh, well...Look, we're probably going to go bankrupt."
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hes been having a nightmare last 24 hours after allowing people to buy a verified blue tick
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Is Egon purposefully trying to kill Twitter?
He increased the debt payments from 1/74 of revenue to 1/4 of revenue, his stupid grievance blue check decision alienated big companies, he fired half of his employees based on really stupid data, he alienated advertisers (his real customers), and is just doing one stupid ass thing after another.
What the fuck is Egon doing? Does he need a 44 billion dollar tax write off?
On purpose? Nah. He just doesn't know what he's doing. He paid 44b for a company that has a realistic valuation of maybe half that and has been losing money for years, waived due diligence so he could look like a big dick billionaire badass, and then tried to weasel out of it when it became clear just how bad he'd fucked up. The gov't finally got tired of his shit and said "fuck your buyers remorse" and held him to the deal he signed and now here we are. My bet is he runs it into the ground and tries to frame it as "yeah I didn't like them so I bought it and closed it" to protect his fragile ego. His fanboys who for some reason think they're going to magically get rich if they become sycophants might buy it but no one with wrinkles in their brain will.
Like I said in the initial post back when it broke, anyone who has even the slightest idea of Twitter's business model could see how this would go and that it was mostly driven by his ego. Billionai-ren got pissy because he didn't like the service so he bought the company without having a clue how to run it. That's about all there is to it.
"Here's an idea! Oh...I...oh, well...here's another idea! Oh...I...oh, well, um...here's another idea! Oh...it's the same idea. Oh...I...oh, well...Look, we're probably going to go bankrupt."
Its pretty hilarious for sure. If you get a chance read up on the meeting he had with the employees. What a fucking dildo.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/twitter-could-go-bankrupt-lose-billions-next-year-musk-tells-staff/
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Is Egon purposefully trying to kill Twitter?
He increased the debt payments from 1/74 of revenue to 1/4 of revenue, his stupid grievance blue check decision alienated big companies, he fired half of his employees based on really stupid data, he alienated advertisers (his real customers), and is just doing one stupid ass thing after another.
What the fuck is Egon doing? Does he need a 44 billion dollar tax write off?
On purpose? Nah. He just doesn't know what he's doing. He paid 44b for a company that has a realistic valuation of maybe half that and has been losing money for years, waived due diligence so he could look like a big dick billionaire badass, and then tried to weasel out of it when it became clear just how bad he'd fucked up. The gov't finally got tired of his shit and said "fuck your buyers remorse" and held him to the deal he signed and now here we are. My bet is he runs it into the ground and tries to frame it as "yeah I didn't like them so I bought it and closed it" to protect his fragile ego. His fanboys who for some reason think they're going to magically get rich if they become sycophants might buy it but no one with wrinkles in their brain will.
Like I said in the initial post back when it broke, anyone who has even the slightest idea of Twitter's business model could see how this would go and that it was mostly driven by his ego. Billionai-ren got pissy because he didn't like the service so he bought the company without having a clue how to run it. That's about all there is to it.
"Here's an idea! Oh...I...oh, well...here's another idea! Oh...I...oh, well, um...here's another idea! Oh...it's the same idea. Oh...I...oh, well...Look, we're probably going to go bankrupt."
Its pretty hilarious for sure. If you get a chance read up on the meeting he had with the employees. What a fucking dildo.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/twitter-could-go-bankrupt-lose-billions-next-year-musk-tells-staff/
His whole thing about gizmos. He's a little dumb boy looking at the back of a popular mechanics magazine
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The only way I see this working is if the US gov bans tiktok (that'll go over well with young people) and Egon brings back Vine.
But none of this makes sense, he burdens the company with a billion dollars in debt payments (up from 50 million) and then starts worrying about the cost of employing people?
This whole thing makes me think of Remmington's fall from grace. It was actually profitable, it was getting government handouts, and because the buyers saddled it with debt, the company was completely fucked. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/01/magazine/remington-guns-jobs-huntsville.html
Also, what a fucking world we live in. I can't believe this fucker was able to buy this company by increasing the company's debt burden by 13 billion rather than increasing his own debt burden.
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But, he made comedy legal again.
We just definitely need to bring in more cash than we spend,” Musk replied. “If we don’t do that and there’s a massive negative cash flow, then bankruptcy is not out of the question."
He said with what I imagine is a straight face. Fascinating insight from genius boy. Reminds me of the time he decided that the wheel wasn't worth reinventing.
In that way, Musk has shown that in his ambition to launch new products, he has overlooked some of the money-making opportunities that already existed on the platform.
But, being the genius that he is, he recognizes he needs to take in more money than he spends. So he decides to fire the people in charge of that, tells whoever is left they need to grow the platform by 1 billion users, and is going to do online banking and it better work or everybody's fired.
I see no problem here
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I strongly dislike Elon Musk.
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Musk is a poor decision maker.
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I like Elon musk. He believes “absolute power, corrupts absolutely” plus too everything he does is like luxury shit twitter/ rocket ships/ electric cars. All Totally irrelevant to me. He doesn’t interfere with me directly and gives me things I want to play with if I ever feel like it. I’m not to sure but his stutter makes me suspect he might be from the future. He also is well read and seems to not be raised by dumb asses. Also has a good sense of humor which is a admirable trait that takes time and wit to develop. He has a baby named X or something that’s funny and cool. What the fuck why would any of these things bother any one. Isn’t he also making it so everyone doesn’t have to depend on big electric with his solar power and battery designs.
I’m just speaking facts feel free to change my opinion.
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You've gotta be fucking kidding me. Musk ain't on SLAP, dude. You need to take that shit to Twitter if you want him to see how much you love him.
Anyway...
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I like Elon musk. He believes “absolute power, corrupts absolutely” plus too everything he does is like luxury shit twitter/ rocket ships/ electric cars. All Totally irrelevant to me. He doesn’t interfere with me directly and gives me things I want to play with if I ever feel like it. I’m not to sure but his stutter makes me suspect he might be from the future. He also is well read and seems to not be raised by dumb asses. Also has a good sense of humor which is a admirable trait that takes time and wit to develop. He has a baby named X or something that’s funny and cool. What the fuck why would any of these things bother any one. Isn’t he also making it so everyone doesn’t have to depend on big electric with his solar power and battery designs.
I’m just speaking facts feel free to change my opinion.
You seem really dim. Back to Twitter with you
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woke up this morning to my Twitter account "permanently suspended". it was an anon burner account that I had to check news, but I commented a lot of left wing/anticapitalist stuff too. i've maybe gotten 2 temp, less than a day, suspensions in the past for random shit, but nothing serious. The message says I "broke twitter rules" but didn't list any rules broken. Tried re-signing up under an alt email, but they must have blocked my IP.
I think Elon is purging left leaning accounts under the guise of deleting "bots", while ramping up the right wing rhetoric considerably. I went pretty hard on some of the comments, but nothing worse than any of the right wing accounts i interacted with. i purposely kept my follower count low, so i did probably look like a bot to some extent, but I wouldn't be surprised if I was put on some kind of blacklist because of my interactions.
Been thinking about deleting anyway; i spend way too much time on there and its super negative and getting worse everyday. I think its clear what Elon intends to do with Twitter: promote a right wing capitalistic agenda and suppress any dissent. I think its going to get a lot more extreme and will amplify misinformation and conspiracy theories, and cause overall chaos. Yet another canary in the coal mine for this ongoing fascist/capitalist attempt to subvert our democracy.
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woke up this morning to my Twitter account "permanently suspended". it was an anon burner account that I had to check news, but I commented a lot of left wing/anticapitalist stuff too. i've maybe gotten 2 temp, less than a day, suspensions in the past for random shit, but nothing serious. The message says I "broke twitter rules" but didn't list any rules broken. Tried re-signing up under an alt email, but they must have blocked my IP.
I think Elon is purging left leaning accounts under the guise of deleting "bots", while ramping up the right wing rhetoric considerably. I went pretty hard on some of the comments, but nothing worse than any of the right wing accounts i interacted with. i purposely kept my follower count low, so i did probably look like a bot to some extent, but I wouldn't be surprised if I was put on some kind of blacklist because of my interactions.
Been thinking about deleting anyway; i spend way too much time on there and its super negative and getting worse everyday. I think its clear what Elon intends to do with Twitter: promote a right wing capitalistic agenda and suppress any dissent. I think its going to get a lot more extreme and will amplify misinformation and conspiracy theories, and cause overall chaos. Yet another canary in the coal mine for this ongoing fascist/capitalist attempt to subvert our democracy.
In positive news did you see the booing that Elon sustained at a Chapelle show?
https://youtu.be/BdBga225HBk
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I frankly couldn't care less if Twitter goes under. In the early 2010's it seemed like an actual powerful networking platform for grassroots political movements in other countries which cancelled out the Western echo chamber/ad targeting angle. Now it's just this weird place where politicians go to be mean to each other and people share bogus "news". What concerns me lately is that Elon has become an almost alt right hack in a lot of respects in the sake of "freedom of speech", but he seems to fail to understand that there is actual social and legal precedents for what is and is not considered inflammatory dialogue and all he does is inflame. His recent attempts at "diplomacy" in international affairs he has no business butting his head into makes it clear that he thinks he and he alone are above all laws and norms but it's OK because he has the way. Pure messiah complex.
I know a lot of people at Twitter that were laid off or quit. There is no way he is going to fill those job vacancies at least with American hires. While the tech labor market is contracting there are tons of companies people with that level of skill and experience would rather go. It seems Economists and Elon forget that many people making $250k/year plus stock options can take significant time to find other work and don't have to settle for companies run by megalomania.
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woke up this morning to my Twitter account "permanently suspended". it was an anon burner account that I had to check news, but I commented a lot of left wing/anticapitalist stuff too. i've maybe gotten 2 temp, less than a day, suspensions in the past for random shit, but nothing serious. The message says I "broke twitter rules" but didn't list any rules broken. Tried re-signing up under an alt email, but they must have blocked my IP.
I think Elon is purging left leaning accounts under the guise of deleting "bots", while ramping up the right wing rhetoric considerably. I went pretty hard on some of the comments, but nothing worse than any of the right wing accounts i interacted with. i purposely kept my follower count low, so i did probably look like a bot to some extent, but I wouldn't be surprised if I was put on some kind of blacklist because of my interactions.
Been thinking about deleting anyway; i spend way too much time on there and its super negative and getting worse everyday. I think its clear what Elon intends to do with Twitter: promote a right wing capitalistic agenda and suppress any dissent. I think its going to get a lot more extreme and will amplify misinformation and conspiracy theories, and cause overall chaos. Yet another canary in the coal mine for this ongoing fascist/capitalist attempt to subvert our democracy.
In positive news did you see the booing that Elon sustained at a Chapelle show?
https://youtu.be/BdBga225HBk
some guy called into the majority report this AM who was at the show...said the ticket priced were ridiculously expensive and chappelle kind of sucked and Chris rock killed
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woke up this morning to my Twitter account "permanently suspended". it was an anon burner account that I had to check news, but I commented a lot of left wing/anticapitalist stuff too. i've maybe gotten 2 temp, less than a day, suspensions in the past for random shit, but nothing serious. The message says I "broke twitter rules" but didn't list any rules broken. Tried re-signing up under an alt email, but they must have blocked my IP.
I think Elon is purging left leaning accounts under the guise of deleting "bots", while ramping up the right wing rhetoric considerably. I went pretty hard on some of the comments, but nothing worse than any of the right wing accounts i interacted with. i purposely kept my follower count low, so i did probably look like a bot to some extent, but I wouldn't be surprised if I was put on some kind of blacklist because of my interactions.
Been thinking about deleting anyway; i spend way too much time on there and its super negative and getting worse everyday. I think its clear what Elon intends to do with Twitter: promote a right wing capitalistic agenda and suppress any dissent. I think its going to get a lot more extreme and will amplify misinformation and conspiracy theories, and cause overall chaos. Yet another canary in the coal mine for this ongoing fascist/capitalist attempt to subvert our democracy.
In positive news did you see the booing that Elon sustained at a Chapelle show?
https://youtu.be/BdBga225HBk
some guy called into the majority report this AM who was at the show...said the ticket priced were ridiculously expensive and chappelle kind of sucked and Chris rock killed
Well, that's not surprising seeing as DC absolutely fucking sucks these days.
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woke up this morning to my Twitter account "permanently suspended". it was an anon burner account that I had to check news, but I commented a lot of left wing/anticapitalist stuff too. i've maybe gotten 2 temp, less than a day, suspensions in the past for random shit, but nothing serious. The message says I "broke twitter rules" but didn't list any rules broken. Tried re-signing up under an alt email, but they must have blocked my IP.
I think Elon is purging left leaning accounts under the guise of deleting "bots", while ramping up the right wing rhetoric considerably. I went pretty hard on some of the comments, but nothing worse than any of the right wing accounts i interacted with. i purposely kept my follower count low, so i did probably look like a bot to some extent, but I wouldn't be surprised if I was put on some kind of blacklist because of my interactions.
Been thinking about deleting anyway; i spend way too much time on there and its super negative and getting worse everyday. I think its clear what Elon intends to do with Twitter: promote a right wing capitalistic agenda and suppress any dissent. I think its going to get a lot more extreme and will amplify misinformation and conspiracy theories, and cause overall chaos. Yet another canary in the coal mine for this ongoing fascist/capitalist attempt to subvert our democracy.
In positive news did you see the booing that Elon sustained at a Chapelle show?
https://youtu.be/BdBga225HBk
some guy called into the majority report this AM who was at the show...said the ticket priced were ridiculously expensive and chappelle kind of sucked and Chris rock killed
Well, that's not surprising seeing as DC absolutely fucking sucks these days.
His material it's garbage now. Even his thing about "who wants to see titties in space?" bit was like 13 year old hack shit. Embarrassing stuff
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woke up this morning to my Twitter account "permanently suspended". it was an anon burner account that I had to check news, but I commented a lot of left wing/anticapitalist stuff too. i've maybe gotten 2 temp, less than a day, suspensions in the past for random shit, but nothing serious. The message says I "broke twitter rules" but didn't list any rules broken. Tried re-signing up under an alt email, but they must have blocked my IP.
I think Elon is purging left leaning accounts under the guise of deleting "bots", while ramping up the right wing rhetoric considerably. I went pretty hard on some of the comments, but nothing worse than any of the right wing accounts i interacted with. i purposely kept my follower count low, so i did probably look like a bot to some extent, but I wouldn't be surprised if I was put on some kind of blacklist because of my interactions.
Been thinking about deleting anyway; i spend way too much time on there and its super negative and getting worse everyday. I think its clear what Elon intends to do with Twitter: promote a right wing capitalistic agenda and suppress any dissent. I think its going to get a lot more extreme and will amplify misinformation and conspiracy theories, and cause overall chaos. Yet another canary in the coal mine for this ongoing fascist/capitalist attempt to subvert our democracy.
In positive news did you see the booing that Elon sustained at a Chapelle show?
https://youtu.be/BdBga225HBk
some guy called into the majority report this AM who was at the show...said the ticket priced were ridiculously expensive and chappelle kind of sucked and Chris rock killed
Well, that's not surprising seeing as DC absolutely fucking sucks these days.
His material it's garbage now. Even his thing about "who wants to see titties in space?" bit was like 13 year old hack shit. Embarrassing stuff
that and his cars light on fire. he didn't seem like a genius on Rogan's show a few years back. but he's got twitter operational on a skeleton crew so whether that's just captain of industry and productivity shit or real intelligence, who's to say? kind of amazing that the corporation was publicly traded and the stockholders allowed the workforce to grow so bloated. guess from the outside you'd have no idea who was integral and who wasn't.
i read under Muska they dropped from 7500 employees to 50!
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Cant believe theres so much hate towards twitter its fucking amazing imo. So many funny cunts
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elon can go fuck himself and if you support or stand with him you can go fuck yourself too
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couldnt care less about elon just think theres funny cunts on twitter n found it weird people have had a shit experience