Are there people out there who still think twitter was bought for some kind of business/investment reasons?
Elon Musk | Doer of things on X and sad little man
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No?
I also don’t think it was some sort of Machiavellian political strategy either. He was pissed off after being humiliated on the platform after the whole paedo cave diver thing, so wanted to control it. And the only way he knows how to exert control is by buying things.
Depends how much meaning you put into the word "strategy". I don't think he had a very detailed plan, but I definitely think he intended to influence public opinion and eventually policy through how rules are and are not enforced on Twitter after his acquisition.
Yeah, even if its not a 'Machiavellian political strategy'. At the very least twitter's value is in how it can be used to win elections and forge policy around the world. Very useful tool to have.
Its just the fact he doesn't seem to care about Twitter's long term survival that makes me think its all about getting Trump elected in 2024. Well, that and him seemingly spending most of his time trying to get Trump elected in 2024 as if it is literally the most important thing in the world to him.
Will be interesting to see what he does with Twitter if Trump loses.
yes apparently new words / terms weren't around much before they became coined!
Right-wing American politics is full on WWE. Heel turns, tag-teams, you name it.
Remember this from two years ago?
Remember this from two years ago?
Harsh on @Pogue Mahone.
Has Elon Musk lost his mind, or is he just riding the conservative maga train to make a sizeable profit?
lost his mind. Money doesn't shield you deciding to become a cnut for political clout.
As stupid as he looks, the video is even worse. Looks like he’s in the 1950’s celebrating a goal.
An ex of mine once told me a story of how there was this girl she knew who had no friends and a group of girls told her if she ate a piece of dog shit they would be her friend. Musk is that girl with no friends willing to do whatever it takes to get some.
Imagine being a multi-billionaire and choosing to do this with your life instead of making the world better.
Did she devour the doo-doo?
I think you only have to ask yourself, What Would Musk Do(odoo)?
Also, side note but teenage girls are horrible aren't they?
Sadly yes, don't know if the girls did become friends though.
Trump and Elon certainly like ‘m.
FFS
Reminds me of the time me and a friend got jumped on our way home from town as kids, these guys asked us to give them our "trainees" then when I took one of my trainers off he says "do you really think I want your trainees?"
Make your fecking mind up.
Saw this on reddit, has he recently updated the profile to promote Trumps PAC?
Seems that way. Just checked. The thundercnut is actually wearing the cap.Saw this on reddit, has he recently updated the profile to promote Trumps PAC?
Forget about making the world better, even if you were entirely averse to that and only cared about yourself, there are so many more interesting things you could be doing with that money.
You could see every remarkable historical or natural site around the world. You could be going to a different restaurant in a different country every night. You could have as many sexual partners as you desire. You can do almost anything your imagination can conjure up with that kind of money, and this is what he settles on doing.
He has specified plans for it yes. Dunno if they'll ever eventuate, time will tell I guess.
It looks like he’s trying to hold in a poo.Apparently it's a thing he does.
Scary
Apparently it's a thing he does.
Or just be annonymous and enjoy life travelling, eating, fecking, drinking, partying, any activities inimaginable. Nope, a right wing cnut it is
Could have been Bruce Wayne, ended up being the Penguin's groupie.
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Based on the lawsuit that forced him to take it over, I don't think he ever wanted it. He pretended to be buying it for the attention and approval of his Internet friends hut wanted to back out when he realised that it was a stupid idea. Unfortunately he's incompetent and was legally forced into buying it. Now he's trying to make the best of a bad hand and/or is genuinely brainwashed by twitter garbage into thinking this stuff.
Teenage girls are psychopathic. My mixed gender secondary school was near a girls only secondary school so it usually only had a few girls in each class amd the rest boys. A few years ago though the bullying in the girls only school got so bad parents started to send their daughters to the mixed school for their own good. Girls went from being 1 in 20 to 1 in 3 in the mixed school.
I find it to be a common problem with people that have too much time on their hands. They can be rich or poor but they don't have a steady day job. Maybe they're a business owner, or a student, or unemployed, or a trust fund baby. But nowadays, people like that fill those time gaps by browsing the vast stretches of the internet which invariably leads them down right wing nutjob rabbit holes. Even happens to the richest man in the world.
Reminds me of the guy who sold Minecraft for billions. Ended up depressed as all his friends were still working and made some questionable tweets. That's what Musk is doing on a bigger scale.
He's such a pathetic ****
And a million other UK examples in rags like The Sun and Times.
Fair enough. Like I said, it may just have been that I didn’t know of the other examples so what Musk was doing felt so weird to me
Making it a Trump/GOP campaign website was definitely one of the primary reasons.
https://www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musk-takes-america-x-handle
Won't be surprised when the next Jan 6 is planned openly on Twitter with Elon providing the megaphone
Supposedly he is now accused of hijacking the @america account for this election bullshit. The person that had it hasn't posted in 4 years but was critical of Musk at the time of use. He's just gone in a taken it, given the original owner some account called @america123_12 and thats it.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-seizes-america-handle-on-x-to-boost-his-pro-trump-superpac/
https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-seizes-america-handle-on-x-to-boost-his-pro-trump-superpac/
I mean it's his personal toy and it's users are his play things... anyone surprised!?