The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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Penfold101 said:
For SpaceX that may well be true - I don't think anyone will ever want to get on one of his Starships to go there, because it looks like a horrific way to spend 6 months, if the technology ever even becomes capable of doing it. That's another thread though.

He didn't start Twitter, obviously, and doesn't give a crap about free speech. If he did, he'd have just made his own one for a few millions dollars and not wasted BILLIONS buying one for a price well over any sane valuation.

Now, all that happens is people get stuck in tunnels in Teslas instead of on the roads. You know the best mass public city transport system? Trains and trams - America hates them though, everyone must have their own car...
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My bad, obviously he bought twitter, his stated reason for buying it was that he was unhappy with how it was being run and feels there is a huge importance for humanity in our ability to discuss things. Twitter is the place people discuss things, you can't replicate the user base.

Elon thinks quite deeply about things like this, his reason for going to Mars is that humans will go extinct if we're only on Earth, inevitably due to an asteroid or nuclear war. He thinks AI is extremely dangerous which obviously it can be. His views on Ukraine are largely based around humanity not going extinct as well.
 
Roar87 said:
Elon thinks quite deeply about things like this, his reason for going to Mars is that humans will go extinct if we're only on Earth, inevitably due to an asteroid or nuclear war. He thinks AI is extremely dangerous which obviously it can be. His views on Ukraine are largely based around humanity not going extinct as well.
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Next time you are chatting to him (based on the above you seem very close) can you ask him why he seems like a massive hypocrite?
 
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VincentHanna said:
Next time you are chatting to him (based on the above you seem very close) can you ask him why he seems like a massive hypocrite?
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I'm glad we have roar here to explain Elon's deepest darkest thoughts. How lucky we are to have a user like that on this forum to educate us lowly folk about the clever deep ways, that our simple minds are too simple to understand.

So today we are told, Elon chose to buy twitter so he can give freedom of speech, not to make a profit as he clearly can't, and not because he was forced to by courts, as he clearly was.

Interesting to imagine what reasons we will be told tomorrow when freedom of speech is clearly no longer the case because Elon has blocked/stopped something he didn't like, and now it's another thing as to why Elon over spent 44 billion when purchasing twitter, and then a few weeks go back and we cycle back to this freedom of speech reason again.
 
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VincentHanna said:
Next time you are chatting to him (based on the above you seem very close) can you ask him why he seems like a massive hypocrite?
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Oh well, everyone else expressing opinions in this thread must also know him on a personal level given all the vitriol and the immediate assumption of malice on his part for any of his actions. Did we yet propose SpaceX was infact a cover up for an attack on the White House?

I actually just listened to him speak on podcasts, what a crazy concept, imagine listening to someone speak rather than reading about what they've said via the filter of The Guardian and Twitter.
 
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unwashed potato! said:
Interesting to imagine what reasons we will be told tomorrow when freedom of speech is clearly no longer the case because Elon has blocked/stopped something he didn't like, and now it's another thing as to why Elon over spent 44 billion when purchasing twitter, and then a few weeks go back and we cycle back to this freedom of speech reason again.
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Honestly the only "sane" reason for Musk to have bought twitter given how little ability he appears to have to understand the most basic things about it, is that he or one of the big backers wanted access to information, information that Musk has already started to make available to his chosen outlets.
I can imagine Bonesaw Bin Salmon for example would have liked to gain access to information about dissidents, journalists and political opponants to his rule, and has the money to throw away to do it.
But that's a bit to CT, and ignores the most obvious reason Musk bought Twitter, which is that he's nowhere near as smart as he or his fans say he is and he let his ego sign a contract he couldn't get out of, so his release of private information is basically him salving his ego.
 
Werewolf said:
Honestly the only "sane" reason for Musk to have bought twitter given how little ability he appears to have to understand the most basic things about it, is that he or one of the big backers wanted access to information, information that Musk has already started to make available to his chosen outlets.
I can imagine Bonesaw Bin Salmon for example would have liked to gain access to information about dissidents, journalists and political opponants to his rule, and has the money to throw away to do it.
But that's a bit to CT, and ignores the most obvious reason Musk bought Twitter, which is that he's nowhere near as smart as he or his fans say he is and he let his ego sign a contract he couldn't get out of, so his release of private information is basically him salving his ego.
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Why do you think he's lying?
 
Roar87 said:

Why do you think he's lying?
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He offered way above any sensible valuation for it, submitted a legally binding offer at said ludicrous price (just because it had 420 in it, as drugs are cool) without doing any due diligence, tried to back out when this was accepted (because why wouldn't you...) cried all the way to the courts making up rubbish about 'bots' or some nonsense, realised he had no legal leg to stand on and then trashed the valuation of Tesla by selling off a load of his stock to finance the price he offered for Twitter, despite saying his money was the first into it and would be the last out (also both lies) and then agreed the sale before he'd have to pay court costs too, and has since shown he has no idea about how to run a social media platform.

He just wanted to get into the headlines and have his ego stroked a bit, be the centre of attention again.
 
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Roar87 said:

Why do you think he's lying?
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Because he went to court to not buy twitter.

Surely you can imagine a reaosn to then have to lie as to why he bought something he didn't want to buy? Do you think he'd go, twitter is rubbish, it's over priced, worth £1 billion, I was forced to buy this? Come on road, do better. Don't pretend to be smart and then miss that obvious point. Get your head out of the dark end and back into the sunshine and see what you're arguing here. This isn't too complex for you to get to grips with, you're just too into daddy elon that you can't imagine a world where Elon isn't perfectly honest and telling you anything but how pretty rainbows are so you can feel all warm and cuddly.

Elon had to lie at that point. He just went to court, paid millions in lawyer fees to not buy twitter, and then lost, had to buy twitter, and now is paying twitters lawyer fees too! Lol
 
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Penfold101 said:
He offered way above any sensible valuation for it, submitted a legally binding offer at said ludicrous price (just because it had 420 in it, as drugs are cool) without doing any due diligence, tried to back out when this was accepted (because why wouldn't you...) cried all the way to the courts making up rubbish about 'bots' or some nonsense, realised he had no legal leg to stand on and then trashed the valuation of Tesla by selling off a load of his stock to finance the price he offered for Twitter, despite saying his money was the first into it and would be the last out (also both lies) and then agreed the sale before he'd have to pay court costs too, and has since shown he has no idea about how to run a social media platform.

He just wanted to get into the headlines and have his ego stroked a bit, be the centre of attention again.
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You're basically just taking the worst possible view of someone with no evidence for no obvious reason except that you personally dislike him
 
Roar87 said:
You're basically just taking the worst possible view of someone with no evidence for no obvious reason except that you personally dislike him
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The first paragraph are all statements of fact, or are there are you would say aren't true?

The second paragraph is my own opinion based on the first paragraph and all the other actions he takes.
 
Roar87 said:
You're basically just taking the worst possible view of someone with no evidence for no obvious reason except that you personally dislike him
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Don't forget "and politically dislike him".... ;) Just imagine if Musk were able to buy the administration of say, Speaker's Corner here, now that would be a thing... :)
 
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