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Elon Musk Proposes to Follow Through With Twitter Acquisition

imran5720 said:
What propaganda is that? is it "Work hard and you can achieve anything?"
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Pumping Dogecoin and Bitcoin.

Should be fined like how Kim Kardashian was for pumping/promoting crypto, IMO

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Kim Kardashian fined $1 million by SEC over crypto promotion

Kim Kardashian has agreed to pay $1.26 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that she promoted a cryptocurrency on Instagram without disclosing how much she'd been paid to do so.
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Or how about his Covid tweet where he made it seem like Covid wasn't something to get worried about?

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QCassidy352 said:
You don’t have to like him, but if you don’t think he’s accomplished anything, you’re really not paying attention.
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If you don't share the opinions of a certain group, they say you accomplished nothing and are terrible. It is how it works nowadays. Meanwhile, he had 100k in student loans when he started his first business and he paid those off himself after succeeding. He didn't have those loans wiped out for him like most of the people who dislike him will.
 
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Musk knew he would lose the lawsuit. It looks like the deal is moving forward and trading has stopped as price jumped after Musk's decision.

Get ready for a lot more Musk manipulation of stock prices.

* Edit: clarified that trading stopped because of price increase, not because of the deal itself.
 
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levitynyc said:
He's the biggest fraud in the history of business. Guy has literally done nothing. Didn't even found Tesla.

Hes basically a business celebrity who makes money because he's a business celebrity.
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Musk sometimes has awful takes outside the realm of engineering, but he has contributed much as an engineer. Certainly enough to put up with the occasional shenanigans and bad takes. These days he is mainly making sure the big bets his companies take are steered in the right direction, but that still requires significant generalist engineering skill. Although he uses rapid iterative techniques in his companies like is common in the tech industry, he is somewhat unique in developing from first principles in the areas he has been most successful. Almost reminiscent of Henry Ford where all parts were built in-house and they could rapidly iterate on them, but Ford wasn't building rockets.
 
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I don’t care what he buys.

I’m just waiting for the Elon Solar-Dome to cover the World. Free electricity for everyone.
 
GrumpyMom said:
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.
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This is actually very well said and I'm sorry to hear about those friendships fallen victim to this. It's especially posts on FB that are often out of context, shared, rephrased, sold as factual information. People, I've noticed, so convinced become no longer even suggestive to the question, let alone motivation behind the source itself. Well that, or too lazy to look further and beyond.
 
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He's so weird. His fanboys are even weirder, people who are susceptible to personality worship. It reminds me of Steve Jobs fanboys.
 
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4nNtt said:
Musk sometimes has awful takes outside the realm of engineering, but he has contributed much as an engineer. Certainly enough to put up with the occasional shenanigans and bad takes. These days he is mainly making sure the big bets his companies take are steered in the right direction, but that still requires significant generalist engineering skill. Although he uses rapid iterative techniques in his companies like is common in the tech industry, he is somewhat unique in developing from first principles in the areas he has been most successful. Almost reminiscent of Henry Ford where all parts were built in-house and they could rapidly iterate on them, but Ford wasn't building rockets.
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Musk is not an engineer, despite what he calls himself.
 
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slb said:
He's so weird. His fanboys are even weirder, people who are susceptible to personality worship. It reminds me of Steve Jobs fanboys.
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I'm guessing you're referring to me here since I defended him a few times in the thread. I am not a fanboy for him nor do I worship him. I simply posted facts about him in response to lies and propaganda. I know people who dislike him hate that though, because it hurts their false narrative.
 
kaycrystal626 said:
Just hope he will buy it this time!
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I think he will. The USA is doing a lot to support Ukraine and he is one of the biggest names out there when it comes to public figures. What are the odds that someone got tired of his drama after his recent Ukraine comments? Everybody is all Tesla this and Tesla that but people forget that he relies heavily on taxpayer money and businesses like SpaceX and Starlink are at the mercy of US regulators like the FAA and so on.
 
ProfessionalFan said:
But he is a self-made billionaire, despite what liars call him.
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Being a self-made billionaire doesn't mean you're a good respectable person; all it means is you have a lot of money. It also doesn't mean you're opinion is worth more than anyone else.

I don't care how much he has, or why.
 
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ProfessionalFan said:
I'm guessing you're referring to me here since I defended him a few times in the thread. I am not a fanboy for him nor do I worship him. I simply posted facts about him in response to lies and propaganda. I know people who dislike him hate that though, because it hurts their false narrative.
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What are you getting out of spending your afternoon doing this? Do you think Elon is going to reward you in some way?
 
Another smart business move by Elon. He could either pay what he contractually agreed to. Or continue with the court case, assuredly lose, and pay what he contractually agreed to PLUS lawyer fees. What a brilliant business mind!
 
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zorinlynx said:
Steve Jobs was also somewhat of an *******, but he had an important skill that Elon Musk totally lacks: Knowing when to shut the !@#$ up.
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Steve had some dumb moments too, I know nostalgia is a wonderful thing but let's not act like he never said stuff he shouldn't have said. For example, you're holding it wrong.
 
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