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Elon Musk Proposes to Follow Through With Twitter Acquisition
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His father may be rich, but they don't get along and he didn't financially support him like many lie and say he did.
Elon Musk had over $100K of student debt when he started his first company.
He's basically a self-made billionaire, but feel free to try and diminish his accomplishments because he thinks differently than some.
Maybe. But for those of us living in the US he’s one of the unelected obscenely rich power players who has more influence over our lives than the people we vote to represent us.
The people who control social media control us. I saw that with how the nefarious influences on Facebook destroyed the perceptions and character of people with whom I had what was supposed to be lifelong friendships.
The algorithms and the stealth influences pulled people who used to be thoughtful and insightful and critical thinkers into blind angry, fearful extremists on either side of the spectrum. People who had been united over hobbies and common interests were polarized into hatred. Fact-checked news gave way to memes that may or may not be true or anecdotes that may never have happened the way they were re-shared.
It will be interesting to see how Musk shapes Twitter, if this all goes through. If he’s truly crazy, lol I don’t know if he’ll make it any worse than it already is out here.
I may be misreading your comment completely here, in which case I apologise, but… could you clarify who this "African-American immigrant with a disability" is?
Elon simps are the strangest demographic on the internet. I love my Tesla, but the best thing for everyone would be if the dude just logged off for a very, very long time.
He agreed to buy twitter at a particular price. If he was playing anything he lost badly and came out looking like a total fool.
Elon was born in South Africa, immigrated to the US, and has Asperger's. No apologies needed!
Elon Musk Successfully Inserts Own Name Into Headline Again
nope. i've seen people delete their earlier tweets because they're tweeting how they felt at the moment which contradicted their earlier posts.
Yeah that’s what bipolar peepz typically think. (Just for your reference, I’m referring to Musk. And I’m not a hater, I kinda like him
Thanks.
But he is a white South African… Classified as a white South African. Not everyone born in Africa is black. Or qualifies as black.
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Which is what? Buying twitter at the price he initially agreed to? Oh wait, his plan must have been to pay lawyers to prepare a lawsuit that Elon would eventually cancel. Someone has to feed those lawyers.
I suspect his lawyers said he's screwed and needs to follow this through ...
I quit FB years ago. I love & use the internet, but I am pretty much off all social media. I’m a gen x’er, so I wasn’t born into it & can live without it.
From your own link, there are multitudes of responses stating the opposite. If you sort by upvote, the consensus is that he qualifies as African-American. Either way, it's up to opinion to me, and a consensus can be wrong in either direction. I have family who were born and raised in Madagascar that aren't someone you'd describe as black, but they are African-American. I use the terminology to mock the lack of its purpose in use, and that it really doesn't matter.
How is this a best case scenario for most people.
Here is a best case for a sizable group of people: Musk takes over Twitter and there are no supresión of speech except for legally defined threats of physical violence as currently understood by newspapers and pornography as currently recognized by law. Twitter becomes a free speech, free joke, free meme environment. That’s a great outcome for lots of people.
Pressure mounts and Facebook, YouTube, and Google do the same. Free uncensored speech returns as a priority in American life.
He's just this generation's Richard Branson, a self-made, socially inappropriate, attention-seeking, billionaire man-child, who many people sycophantically look up to and follow as though he's some kind of tech messiah. He and Twitter deserve each other.
I've never understood why the spam accounts got in the way of him following through. He could just fix that once he takes over.
You're confusing Musk with a Kardashian.
Only gotta look at his wikipedia to see he was one of the innovators in the early years of the internet. Co-created one website Compaq brought for $300 million then co-created PayPal & sold, that to eBay for $1.5 Billion. That's literally NOT nothing. Yeah didn't found Tesla, just used his own money to keep the company alive since 2004 before it became profitable (from a stock perspective) in only the last few years. Geez not even Warren Buffet would've stuck with a low performing investment that long. Again NOT nothing. As for something he did found, SpaceX. The Space Shuttle cost over $50,000/kg to launch into space. The SpaceX Falcon Heavy cost $1500/kg & the future Starship rocket will be $200/kg. Does that sound like "nothing" to you?