Elon Musk Agrees to $44b Deal for Twitter

[brackis1]

Does anyone notice how Elon once made it his life mission to save the planet by electrifying transportation, and now he doesn't say a single thing about it? It's as if the environment never mattered, and all that mattered was his brand early on to con people into buying a car with his "world-saving" hype. Elon's brand has shifted majorly since he called that British diver a . That's when he started having contempt for the general population and decided to go full Bond villain.

I mean he has been a shitbag for decades.
There were articles about him being a villain from the 2010 era.

 

[Sano]

my guy? you should try looking at the world differently, not everyone's on one side.
twitter currently pushes a worldview dynamics i despise. if musk comes along and throws a wrench in it, that's just great. my desire fulfilled. and i don't give a shit about what others say about my motivations. i don't even use twitter except for looking at art accounts. i never made one post there in my life, and i have the account for 10 years.

the idea that you can be on the internet all day and push towards meaningful human interaction is nonsense. it's the height of naivete. the only way we'd increase human interaction is if we smashed the entire internet forever. so there's something else behind that motivation.

i'd love to see him buy it because i like watching a bit of chaos ensue. and the idea that he's somehow worse than others, please. they're all a bunch of inhuman creeps. and the big posters on twitter are inhuman creeps too. slowly decomposing between acid-like hatred and playing the virtuous role while yelling for cancelling this or that, deplatforming, endlessly cruel. you think any of that deserves protection? fuck that, let musk come and burn it all down.

i don't give a shit about balance and neither do any of the ones opposing the sale. people just love to virtue signal and camouflage their real intentions - oh, we'll have more algorithms regulating our lives - yeah right, you don't give a shit about that, you care that maybe it's the algorithm that you don't agree with.

You said it was good because you wanted to remove the grifters and the ideologically driven, but when it's pointed out that Musk is those things to the tenth degree, you change the goal post. Instead of engaging with those points, now you just want chaos. Don't you also find it ironic that you in one breath say that not everyone is on a team, yet in the next you engage in team politics and accuse me of the same when I never did?

You're wrong on that point btw. I do care about algorithms and social media, regardless of political affiliation. Social media caters to the extreme and the unhealthy, and algorithms amplifies that much more efficiently. Going "meh capitalism" when that is applied to Musk is a weak cop-out, and a particular hypocritical one considering the gripes you apparently have social media. Seems to me that you're the one who doesn't care about how amplified the bad parts are, as long as it comes from someone you agree with, which is why you're projecting that onto me. I have never had a Twitter account, and I wont, but I have been on instagram and facebook for long enough to see how toxic they are. At least we may agree on that.

 

[Confucamus]

Lefties don't care about the company and those who work for them. Or they do and wouldn't wish them harm because they're just trying to earn a living.

The MyPillow guy is an idiot though. He's the one going out there and making himself look bad. MyPillow employees have nothing to do with it.

I disagree with your first sentence. I agree on your second sentence.

 

[Spounman]

You want BezGOAT wannabe to ruin the lives of thousands of hard working middleclass Americans because he has a shitty political view?

They're prob 90% indians here on work visas

 

[method115]

I might be the only one thinking that this is an attempt to make Twitter back out of the deal. Make them afraid for their personnel so they'll terminate the deal to protect the staff.

Isn’t the board required to do what’s best for their shareholders though? Accepting this deal seems to be what’s best not keeping people employed.

 

[SurferH2O]

Does anyone notice how Elon once made it his life mission to save the planet by electrifying transportation, and now he doesn't say a single thing about it? It's as if the environment never mattered, and all that mattered was his brand early on to con people into buying a car with his "world-saving" hype. Elon's brand has shifted majorly since he called that British diver a . That's when he started having contempt for the general population and decided to go full Bond villain.

Because, unlike you, he can do Math. He realizes the U.S.A. and most of the world cannot support Electric Vehicles at this time without massive Black Outs. He is still the CEO, but he realizes his growth in that arena is finite at this time.

Also, just so you also know. Electric Vehicles are worse that Hybrids and Gas powered for the environment. I'll bet you didn't know that either.

You're welcome.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

Lol. Cry more. He owns it and can do what he wants.

i must have missed something of late

did he actually go and buy twitter yet? i thought this shit was still up in the air and the deal hasnt been finalized yet.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

You said it was good because you wanted to remove the grifters and the ideologically driven, but when it's pointed out that Musk is those things to the tenth degree, you change the goal post. Instead of engaging with those points, now you just want chaos. Don't you also find it ironic that you in one breath say that not everyone is on a team, yet in the next you engage in team politics and accuse me of the same when I never did?

changed nothing. it's still good to me if the grifters i despise are removed by grifters i feel nothing about. no contradiction there. also, there is no irony in pointing out that not everyone is on a team - because it's true. not everyone is on a team. whopdeedoo. life is complex, it's not all neat little packages.

You're wrong on that point btw. I do care about algorithms and social media, regardless of political affiliation. Social media caters to the extreme and the unhealthy, and algorithms amplifies that much more efficiently. Going "meh capitalism" when that is applied to Musk is a weak cop-out, and a particular hypocritical one considering the gripes you apparently have social media. Seems to me that you're the one who doesn't care about how amplified the bad parts are, as long as it comes from someone you agree with, which is why you're projecting that onto me. I have never had a Twitter account, and I wont, but I have been on instagram and facebook for long enough to see how toxic they are. At least we may agree on that.

you're making this weird. i literally just said i only go to twitter for art pages, which contains the implication that i TRULY DON"T CARE ABOUT HOW AMPLIFIED THE BAD PARTS ARE. i'm not going to start using twitter more if all the woke creeps run away. fuck that, it can die for all i care. my point was that i suspect you don't care either unless it's self serving. i do care though if a part of twitter which i find disgusting, alongside the people pushing what i find to be a disgusting world view, get rekt a bit. it's called schadenfreude. and i'm completely unashamed by it.

 

[My2Cents]

He should fire 100% of those woke imbeciles

 

[SandisLL]

Because, unlike you, he can do Math. He realizes the U.S.A. and most of the world cannot support Electric Vehicles at this time without massive Black Outs. He is still the CEO, but he realizes his growth in that arena is finite at this time.

Also, just so you also know. Electric Vehicles are worse that Hybrids and Gas powered for the environment. I'll bet you didn't know that either.

You're welcome.

If you mean this cos existing power plants and infrastructure I agree.
Also if you need to move heavy load.
Also about lithium as future white gold and waste problem.

___

While to some extent some problems might be solved.
1. Build more pupmped storage hydroelectric power plants.
It is VERY important thing!
2. Get that users are installing solar panels etc for local usage! and also charge cars from grid during night...etc.


Ofc I agree that all might not be solved by 100%, however by some 50% yeah.....

 

[SandisLL]

For example the same solar collectors for water heating.
I use heat accumulator.
If water is heated up I might use in late night or early morning ...etc...
If not enough hot, still to heat up water for example with +30C° still is cheaper than to heat up water with temp +10C° from pipeline etc....
My neighbour is charging his EV during night when market price is lower....
Heat pumps in my area are programmed more use electricity during night and evening etc....

Okey, Northern Europe.

 

[OldBoy91]

Lmao at leftists suddenly pretending to care about people losing their livelihoods.

The same people who, not only want people to lose their jobs because they have the wrong opinions, but also want for them to never be able to find work again.

 

[IamStryker]

i must have missed something of late

did he actually go and buy twitter yet? i thought this shit was still up in the air and the deal hasnt been finalized yet.

Last I heard it's happening. No idea how long it will take.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

Last I heard it's happening. No idea how long it will take.

last i heard they were still going to overturn the election and have trump constitutionally reinstated as president. ive also heard something about the ghost of JFK Jr. making his grand appearance in Dallas in front of the grassy knoll, where he will announce to be donald trump's running mate in 2024.

i'll believe this elon musk buying twitter shit when the deal is done and finalized. until then its all smoke and mirrors and elon doesnt appear to be acting in good faith.

he's been trying to worm his way out of it from day one. i dont think he really has any intention on spending so much money on a company that won't make him any money. with this latest hubbub it just seems as if he's trying to threaten twitter and bully them into backing out of the deal just to protect their employees, because he doesn't want to be looked at as the guy who got cold feet and pussed out, and his whole wackadoodle excuses about the twitter bot fiasco wasnt convincing enough to save face.

he should just bail out, pay the billion dollars or at least tie it up through the courts for years, and simply just walk away. he stands to lose alot more money than that if he actually goes through on the deal. i dont even know if he can still come up with the loans just to complete the buyout seeing how his shares have tanked. perhaps he already secured the financing? otherwise its probably going to end up costing him alot more than he originally would have had to pay the first time around.

i have no idea whats going on there, but it doesnt make a whole lot of sense to spend so much money on something where he will not be able to generate much profit off of. he would have to shake things up entirely and try an agressive approach to monetize it, outside of running ads which most people are just going to block anyways. but its just going to drive most of the users away if they have to pay money for some kind of subscription or some shit just to be able to use twitter. i really don't see the point of investing in a business that stands to lose money, but hey if thats how the rich guy wants to spend his money and turn twitter into his personal playground, well all the power to him i guess.

 

[Super_Nintendo]

lol at the pearl clutching in this thread. If some leftie billionaire bought MyPillow and said he was going to lay off 75% of their workers, would the posters ITT remain consistent?

If MyPillow employees were famous for sabotaging accounts on purpose by sending out the wrong product, deleting orders before shipping, or smearing shit on pillows based on political affiliation, I would be consistent and say that they probably shouldn't be working there.

 

[Super_Nintendo]

So you know enough about the employees of Twitter to say they're all militant commies? They're all IT workers and office support workers who work to earn a wage and feed their families. This isn't a cult where people donate all their time and money for a cause. Do you paint everything with a single colored brush?

Funny how the struggle of wage earning and feeding families is a problem if it's happening to libs, but when conservatives experience 7 years of non-stop deplatforming abuse by pink haired activists, it's okay. I don't see much liberal uproar about that, just cheering.

 

[brackis1]

Funny how the struggle of wage earning and feeding families is a problem if it's happening to libs, but when conservatives experience 7 years of non-stop deplatforming abuse by pink haired activists, it's okay. I don't see much liberal uproar about that, just cheering.

lmao holy shit
losing your job and losing your twitter account are the same thing to you?
Get professional help
(and that doesn't mean talk to someone on twitter)

What's your job again?

 

[idrankyourbeer]

lmao holy shit
losing your job and losing your twitter account are the same thing to you?
Get professional help
(and that doesn't mean talk to someone on twitter)

What's your job again?

losing your twitter account is serious business to some people. take donald trump for instance. he's more pissed off about losing his precious twitter account than he is over losing his job as president of the united states.

you know deep down that when he sat back down on the toilet and logged into twitter to fire off another one of his unhinged tweets only to find out that he was banned, it absolutely ruined him. but at least he's been able to get back on his feet and he is now using "truth" social to vomit out his verbal diarrhea. but its such a crying shame that there isn't any libs on there for him to own.

 

[Super_Nintendo]

lmao holy shit
losing your job and losing your twitter account are the same thing to you?
Get professional help
(and that doesn't mean talk to someone on twitter)

What's your job again?

I'm not happy anyone's losing their job, including anyone from the left. Many rely on Twitter and Big Tech in general for their businesses and livelihoods. Conservatives getting booted off for being conservative doesn't cause outrage, but Twitter employees losing their jobs does. You guys have no consistency in this at all.

 

[Super_Nintendo]

We had 7+ years of blue-haired tech activists grinning behind the scenes while they fucked with people's livelihoods for petty political reasons.

Leftists: "Good riddance to another republican and f him and his business!"

"Who cares if he uses to the internet to run his business so he can support his struggling family and special needs child"

"And f this other guy's GoFundme or Paypal too. His daughter just got paralyzed by felons that are on the street because of bail-reform policies or woke DAs, and they can't afford medical, but we can't support them cause it goes against our narrative. Shut it down!"


Also leftists: "OMG! I'm literally shaking, will somebody please think of the leftist employees who can no longer support themselves! Have a heart, will ya?!"