Elon Musk now owns 9.2% of twitter...update.. will soon be the sole owner as Board of Directors accepts his purchase offer

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cytg111

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So he'd be sad for a few weeks.
My point is that the only thing Musk has to do for the rest of his life is spend buckets of money on stupid crap that doesn't matter. 44 billion down the crapper won't change anything.

I really am interested to see what he changes at twitter. It has all the makings of a dumpster fire, and Musk seems like the kind of guy that wouldn't have a problem tossing out the first match.
The far left has already pissed him off, and I fully expect to see a reaction to that in how he runs the platform. I'm looking forward to several days worth of amusement from this one.

I will be disappointed if he lets the Q crowd run wild. I visit another place with a small group of Qtards and the level of stupid is off the charts in the section where they're allowed to post. It was amusing poking them at first, but it became depressing when I realized the poor bastards have lost touch with reality. Chemtrails, lizard people, and some clown that claims to be a time traveler from the future are all in the mix. It hurts my soul to see people so far out of touch with reality.
Oh man, spider sense is sensing entertainment value!!!
 

pmv

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I think his point is that Twitter is probably referenced more frequently here because there's a big overlap in interests between Twitter users and ATPN users.

I do think there is a significant question as to what people interpret as 'using' Twitter. I personally count myself as a Twitter user as I read it frequently but I have never tweeted. I can see how someone else could do the exact same thing and NOT consider themselves a user.


I don't know what that chart posted means by 'using' a site. I view Tweets occasionally, almost always because they are linked from elsewhere. OTOH that's a lot more than I 'use' Facebook. YouTube I use quite a lot. I barely know what the other sites on that chart are.
 
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Twitter turned my account into a read-only account several months ago. I used to tweet giveaway URLs and followed tech companies using it. Their moderators think I was abusing their system. Idiots.
 

fskimospy

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So.
Zero lessons learned.
I am beginning to suspect Elon is not a genius after all.
It is remarkably stupid to base your understanding of what Ukrainians think about Russia that took place before Russia invaded them in 2014 and then embarked on a genocide in 2022.

Maybe, just maybe, that changed some opinions.
 

cytg111

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It is remarkably stupid to base your understanding of what Ukrainians think about Russia that took place before Russia invaded them in 2014 and then embarked on a genocide in 2022.

Maybe, just maybe, that changed some opinions.

We also know he is a sucker for Joes approval and Rogan is tip toeing into Tucker territory these days.


Its all Soros funded too.
 

Red Squirrel

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I'm starting to think he's just doing all of this to delay the trial. He'll find another reason to back out.

They've been doing some kind of cleanup though I think. Lost a couple hundred followers then regained some, lot of other people I follow reporting similar. Maybe purging bots or something.
 

Pens1566

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I'm starting to think he's just doing all of this to delay the trial. He'll find another reason to back out.

They've been doing some kind of cleanup though I think. Lost a couple hundred followers then regained some, lot of other people I follow reporting similar. Maybe purging bots or something.

Someone today said he's trying to delay the close until after tesla earnings call so he can squeeze a little bit more out of shares he ponied up.
 

MrSquished

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I'm starting to think he's just doing all of this to delay the trial. He'll find another reason to back out.

They've been doing some kind of cleanup though I think. Lost a couple hundred followers then regained some, lot of other people I follow reporting similar. Maybe purging bots or something.
He got a 10-day delay. He's legally fucked. And it's wonderful to watch the jackass be fucked like that.
 
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Zorba

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I think his point is that Twitter is probably referenced more frequently here because there's a big overlap in interests between Twitter users and ATPN users.

I do think there is a significant question as to what people interpret as 'using' Twitter. I personally count myself as a Twitter user as I read it frequently but I have never tweeted. I can see how someone else could do the exact same thing and NOT consider themselves a user.
I frequent Disney World forums and discords and they are also packed with embedded tweets. I think any forum dedicated to news likely is.

I'm like you, I read tweets everyday, but only got an account recently to see the age restricted material on Ukraine. I've never posted.
 
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Vic

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Doesn't matter. If it tanks the day he takes control and he disbands the entire company it won't make a difference in his life.
Yes, because going from being the world's richest person to bankrupt wouldn't make a difference in anyone's life..
 

Vic

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Corrected that. Then there are the operating losses when the user base advertisers pay for mostly flee the platform. The company will become a cash incinerator on top of his investment.
Yeah, this is weird to me. Do people really believe that just because Elon has ~$150 billion in TSLA that he has $44 billion in cash? It doesn't work that way.

For one thing, Musk has already borrowed heavily against his TSLA shares in order to finance his lifestyle and other business interests.
And for another, selling his TSLA shares to buy twitter would tank TSLA's stock price.

The actual reality here is that Musk can't afford to buy twitter. Because if he could, there wouldn't be any of this drama.
 

MrSquished

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Yes, because going from being the world's richest person to bankrupt wouldn't make a difference in anyone's life..

Yep. If he has to cough up a lot of the money, liquid, for the Twitter deal, he will have to cash out so much stock, it would drive Tesla's stock really far down and honestly to keep most of the big stockholders to stay in and stabilize the price at some point, he'd have to resign as CEO because none of them would see him as a capable leader anymore. Only his retail fanboys would but not the big guys in the market. His ego probably wouldn't let him do that as we know he is a massive egotistical maniac.

He will still be rich but oh would it make a huge difference in his life, his mental state and his finances.

The main thing that can save him now is a government swooping in and helping him finance the Twitter deal, and it will be a government not friendly to the interests of the United States because they see that his snowflake white male fragility and quasi-libertarian stances would be great to help fuck up this country. He can be just as divisive as Trump, just looked at as smarter. Just because he has some engineering chops, and used to be a good salesman, but now people are seeing the snake oil, and he is terrible at everything else.
 

Pens1566

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Yeah, this is weird to me. Do people really believe that just because Elon has ~$150 billion in TSLA that he has $44 billion in cash? It doesn't work that way.

For one thing, Musk has already borrowed heavily against his TSLA shares in order to finance his lifestyle and other business interests.
And for another, selling his TSLA shares to buy twitter would tank TSLA's stock price.

The actual reality here is that Musk can't afford to buy twitter. Because if he could, there wouldn't be any of this drama.

Yeah, he's nowhere near liquid enough to go through with this and that's his main issue. He's stalling to either squeeze as much as he can to make it still work, or to poison it enough to make it fall through.
 

MrSquished

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fskimospy

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Elon blames one of his kids hating him on communism taught in schools, but yet says he is moderate

That guy is such a piece of shit human

He has the world’s thinnest skin. It’s frankly hilarious how he can’t handle even the slightest criticism.

Also while I’m not a parent I suspect having an attitude of ‘oh well, I have more’ if your children don’t like you might be the reason why your children don’t like you.
 
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My father actually told me that he's glad he had other children besides me otherwise having just me would have been awful. And he wonders why I don't talk to him.
 

MrSquished

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He has the world’s thinnest skin. It’s frankly hilarious how he can’t handle even the slightest criticism.

Also while I’m not a parent I suspect having an attitude of ‘oh well, I have more’ if your children don’t like you might be the reason why your children don’t like you.
Exactly the kind of guy we need a bunch of young white males being fanboys of. Everything is always unfair to them. That's why Elon is a fairly large danger, though some of his bullshit is becoming too much to ignore for some
 
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