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Elon Musk Completes $44 Billion Twitter Takeover, Fires Top Executives, and Makes Himself CEO
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I’m not assuming there’s any logic or sensibility present in Musk’s brain anymore. His behavior reeks of social skills deficits; most notably privileged narcissism.
Sounds like the kind of philosophy authoritarians might propose, to defend the “hard choices” that they’ll happily make for other people (you know… “those people”…) to “better the species in the long term”…
He lost billions on the sale in the end, he may as well have driven a used car off the lot. He already has advertisers questioning him and his "free speech" policy of letting extremists scream fire in a theater will turn it into another Truth Social dumpster fire.
Twitter has already tried this model and it did not work out well for them, which is why they had to eventually put rules into place. There's a difference between free speech and hate speech, in the end it will come down to whether or not advertisers will allow it, looking at the latest Kanye debacle we can assume they're having none of it.
Twitter has already tried this model and it did not work out well for them, which is why they had to eventually put rules into place. There's a difference between free speech and hate speech, in the end it will come down to whether or not advertisers will allow it, looking at the latest Kanye debacle we can assume they're having none of it.
Exactly. There's a reason your local bar doesn't have "Tuesday is Nazi night, $2 drafts for anyone in an SS costume."
It took a while for the Zuckwit to see through the "we're just normies with a few questions" mask of the Holocaust deniers. Same I think with Jack Dorsey. But but but it's just speech, say the racists.
Everyone can take a deep breath.
Elon Musk Responds To LeBron James Over Criticisms About Offensive Content On Twitter
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I'm sure advertisers are lining up for this new Twitter...good luck selling ads to anyone other than that mypillow guy Elon:
www.nbcnews.com
Elon Musk, new owner of Twitter, tweets unfounded anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack
Musk sent the since-deleted tweet, which linked to a story on a website that has a history of publishing false information, to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Musk’s tweet had more than 24,000 retweets and 86,000 likes late Sunday morning before he deleted it.
www.nbcnews.com
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I'm sure advertisers are lining up for this new Twitter...good luck selling ads to anyone other than that mypillow guy Elon:
Elon Musk, new owner of Twitter, tweets unfounded anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack
Musk sent the since-deleted tweet, which linked to a story on a website that has a history of publishing false information, to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Musk’s tweet had more than 24,000 retweets and 86,000 likes late Sunday morning before he deleted it.
😂 Musk is hilarious.
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It was NEVER a private platform prior to the sale. It was publicly traded and publicly accessible.
This so called “some ideology” something far rightists have coined “woke” and used exhaustingly I might as is spread everywhere because more and more people are sick of the norm that wasn’t working for the majority of the population. That scare people into realizing old world power and influences would loose their foot hold.
A publicly traded company does not make it publicly owned. It is still a private entity. Therefore Twitter like FaceBook are private platforms and not controlled by a government.
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Reddit by its very existence and history of all bulletin type board forums where dialogue of intellect is what you would call woke or non conservative.
Isnt the point that he wants to be allowed to say that without being banned, just as you can say your opinion without being banned, and the whole point of the discussion is that people should be exposed to each others ideas even if they find them reprehensible so that they can engage in constructive conversation and not hide away in an echo chamber becoming more and more divided and without exposure to others views becoming more and more sensitive to and unaccommodating of other viewpoints?
And your reading of his message may be that he is wishing for a young girl to be killed. My reading was that he doesnt like her for whatever reason and gets frustrated from seeing her her name. "Being eaten by sharks" in my reading, was satirical and obviously not literal. That you either interpreted it as literal, or at least publicly pretended to, is, to me, just evidence that we do all need to be exposed to different views and people more than we currently are.
Somebody calling for someone to be killed is not "engaging in constructive conversation" and should not be tolerated by the platform, especially not in the name of "engaging in constructive conversation."
And "oh oh it was just a joke, our joke about the target of our venom getting killed, just a joke, just a joke" -- explain that one to Nancy Pelosi's husband.
Sorry I dont know who Nancy Pelosi is or her husband, so I dont understand well.
My point was simply that we all interpret everything in our world. There is no objective universal truth when it comes to hearing and understanding words. Your interpretation is no more valid than anyone else's. I am not the poster who said about the sharks. I barely know who the poster was talking about. Im from a non-English speaking country, and I dont use Twitter or social media, I dont have a horse in this race. I dont know if they were joking or not, and I am not saying they were. But I do appreciate nuanced communication. And I do wish for people to be more nuanced in their views. And with that context, I was saying that my interpretation was that they were speaking in a satirical manner, I received their words as an absurdity. You received it as them calling for somebody to be killed (presumably calling the sharks to do the killing?). Both of our interpretations are equally valid, and we should both have the chance to present our thoughts to the other.
Let’s not forget that this purchase wasn’t made with Elon’s money. He bought it with loans and the money speculators put into his company.
He told lies for years about Tesla’s roadmap.
Overhyped products that didn’t even release.
Manipulated the stock price and got rich allies to help him pump up the value.
And then dictators and con artists helped him make the final purchase of Twitter.
He told lies for years about Tesla’s roadmap.
Overhyped products that didn’t even release.
Manipulated the stock price and got rich allies to help him pump up the value.
And then dictators and con artists helped him make the final purchase of Twitter.
Let's try add some facts to this obvious propaganda:
Funds loaning Elon $13 BN:
| Bank of America Barclays BNP Paribas Mizuho Morgan Stanley MUFG Societe Generale | $6.5 billion term loan facility $500 million revolving loan facility $3 billion secured bridge loans $3 billion unsecured bridge loans |
Equity holders:
| Equity Investor | Description | Equity Commitment |
| A.M. Management & Consulting | - | $25 million |
| AH Capital Management | VC firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz | $400 million |
| Aliya Capital Partners | SpaceX investor | $360 million |
| BAMCO | Investment adviser | $100 million |
| Binance | Cryptocurrency firm | $500 million |
| Brookfield | Canadian investment firm with over $690 billion assets under management | $250 million |
| DFJ Growth IV Partners | Tesla, SolarCity, SpaceX and The Boring Company investor | $100 million |
| Fidelity Management & Research Company | Acts as the investment advisor to Fidelity's family of mutual funds | $316 million |
| Honeycomb Asset Management | Private investment firm led by Chief Investment Officer David Fiszel | $5 million |
| Key Wealth Advisors | $30 million | |
| Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust | Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison's trust | $1 billion |
| Litani Ventures | Chicago-based VC firm | $25 million |
| Qatar Holding | Investment house founded by Qatar Investment Authority | $375 million |
| Sequoia Capital Fund | Invested in The Boring Company | $800 million |
| Strauss Capital LLC | - | $150 million |
| Tresser Blvd 402 LLC (Cartenna) | - | $8.5 million |
| VyCapital | Invested in The Boring Company | $700 million |
| Witkoff Capital | New York-based real estate tycoon Steven Witkoff's firm | $100 million |
| Saudi Arabian investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal | Twitter investor | $1.89 billion (34,948,975 shares) |
The Saudi's were already Twitter investors so no change there. Putin has nothing to do with Twitter.
You have literally confirmed two theocracies, one international money laundering racket, and several Putin allies on the list.
Also Larry Ellison has lost his mind too. These people are not your friends.
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Elon Musk's obvious emotional intelligence is that of a child. Most likely a byproduct of his ASD, specifically his Aspergers.
How can you put hateful people up with pedophiles though? One of them is illegal.
And since all people were saying this past year is that twitter is a private company then I’m guessing you will abide to the same answer now.