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  • Elon Musk purchased shares of Twitter after unsuccessfully petitioning the CEO to remove a Twitter account tracking his private jet.
  • Musk's personal gripes played a key role in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
  • Musk banned the account after promising not to, highlighting his prioritization of getting his way over free speech.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Pretty sure ended up buying Twitter because the courts made him.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

All that money could have gone to something useful that would have benefited everybody and instead it went into investors pockets

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Like the $6 billion Musk promised to end world hunger.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Elon is first and foremost a con man.

He gives them the old razzle dazzle, and even tech investors get so impressed with his confidence and his technobabble and his statements like “This is ready to ship today” that they’ve just lined up to give him money.

I think what’s happening now is that the blush is coming off the rose. Elon first got his money because he was involved as a founder in a company that he was fired from because of incompetence, but kept a large enough founder equity stake that he cashed out a billionaire. Then, because money was cheap and because you hit a tipping point where it’s easier to make money than lose money, he failed upwards.

Now reality is starting to catch up with him, and he’s in a panic. He’s psyched himself out enough that he’s turned pure Trump, doubling down and becoming more outrageous instead of taking his responsibility to his companies into account.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The only thing of his that is ever ready to ship today is his ~~crowdfunding~~ pre-orders and investment opportunities.

The rest of it is just bullshit, smoke and mirrors, inevitable delays, and gaslighting his cult into thinking he never previously promised something "ready within 3 years" would be completed last year.

I truly hope we eventually pass the tipping point where it becomes more widespread knowledge that he's an incompetent "idea guy" instead of a visionary inventor.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

If that's true, Saudi Arabia probably wouldn't have given him $22B of their dollars with no expectation of a Return on Investment. They have no horse in the "does Elon look foolish?" race.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Twitter is really big in SA so their king wanting extra controll of it makes sense.

Butchering a reporter in Istanbul worked for them but the backlash was likely a bit of an embarrassment to these monsters.

Kashodi was murdered over countering SA bots. Easier to have a controlling interest in the platform than to fight dissidents with dirty assassin tricks. Allah forbid granting some freedom to the press.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Why settle your jet-tracking beef when you can just eat it?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

So Taylor Swift is going to buy it next?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I think he got talked into thinking the Twitter files were real.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Assuming this is true, there are methods to have the same result that are way less expensive...

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Yes. By giving the jet tracking account $50,000 that the kid asked for.

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