So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

Usually one might say "I'm not buying what he is selling".

In this case "I'm not buying what he is buying".

Twitter is full of people who couldn't sustain an argument if you paid them.

A haven for hit and run merchants.

(I'm not on it but I look at links from here sometimes)

It's nonsense. He hasn't detailed how he will fund it and he's come straight out the blocks with a final and best offer. As things stand he can't change the board until 2023. It's a publicity stunt, he is just going to pump and dump his stock like the charlatan that he is. And if he was serious about charging for the service, they would lose their vast network of users(which is the only asset the company really has) at an exponential rate.

Twitter: people who love to hear themselves speak, giving advice to the rest of the world who don’t care.

Can I start a thread on heroin? I have never used it but I should be allowed start a thread if I wanted to.

Is that you Melania?

$43 Billion is f*cking vulgar.

Far too much money. Whatever about the platform and the people that use it, for that money they should be able to police it properly.

Getting away with something because somebody used their platform as a tool should not be an excuse, they should be held to account and not allowed any protections from liability. They should also have to pay for any licences similar to the link tax, although I am not sure I agree with that actual one, but for special exceptions, and itself policed also.

Plagiarism. For God sake....... I'm not even referring to actual plagiarism. I know very little about twitter, but the links I get sent in groups from that or Tiktok seems to be people stealing other peoples jokes or skits and again and again... We get it! We thought it was funny too, and got it the first time, but I don't want to make a video of me miming to it, or type out the same joke and pretend it's mine... 😡

There are so many charges they should be facing if something like that is worth $43 Billion.

Op...you're in favour of free speech then, except when you're not?

So this thread is more about the OP not liking Trump than anything to do with Musk or Twitter.

What is it in this country with the obsession over these 3 things? We don't live in America, Trump - like him or loathe him - isn't president anymore and Musk just strikes me as another overpaid celeb with a gimmick.

As for Twitter itself, if it shut down in the morning I think society as a whole would be better off, but I generally ignore all 3 so who cares. If Musk wants to spend a ridiculous amount of money on it that's his business.

The one thing I do take issue with is the OPs concern that someone they don't like doesn't get back on the platform. That sort of control of a narrative is dangerous for the concept of free speech and democracy.

As soon as the insufferable attention whore fúcks off the better. .

I really hope Elon gets his way

"It's not like he inherited his wealth for goodness sake".

L.O.L.

Musk is no different from any of the other blood sucking billionaires except that he's more tech-savvy. They're all narcissistic sociopaths. If you think Musk is somehow different or more "down to earth", remember the fact that he used a random password generator to name his child and thought it was genius.

For the last year he's been using Twitter to manipulate financial markets. Stock market and crypto investors are for the most part clueless sheep who follow the market and react how everyone else does. Musk knows this and sticks up a statement on Twitter which he knows will cause a certain stock portfolio to react in a certain way. For example, he stuck a load of money in crypto, made a statement about how great crypto is, and boom, value of his crypto went up.

Same thing with his Twitter shares. He bought a load of shares, and delayed notifying the markets - breaking the law - so as to maximise the amount of stock he could buy before his shareholding would pump the price.

In most spheres this kind of direct manipulation of stock markets is illegal, but when you're rich and bending the rules, they don't care.

This offer to buy Twitter is just another part of this manipulation. Other billionaires buy newspaper and TV stations to manipulate propaganda and pump up the value of their pet projects. Musk has realised that you can get much faster reactions on Twitter and is seeking to secure that for himself so that he can't be cut off from it.

Trump isn't running, he is already laying the ground for the reasons he can't / won't. He is 76 in June and hardly a pinnacle of health.

It's probably 50/50 Biden will run.

I have yet to see a president that hasn't been described as catastrophic failure by someone. Or even an Taoiseach or a prime minister, all catastrophies apparently. The only ones anyone likes are historical figures air brushed by propaganda.