Elon Musk buys $3 billion stake (9.2%) in Twitter and is now the platform's largest shareholder

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently Musk is having some kind of psychological break.

You’re implying that this a break from normal for him. Not only is this normal for him, using a poop emoji to reply the CEO of the company you’re trying to buy during an ongoing negotiation, on a platform you’re negotiating for, is hilarious. I know it’s DC and everyone is uptight around here, but still…

It's not hilarious. It's unhinged.

Elon is married to Grimes, named one of his children X Æ A-Xii, said he would take Tesla private at 420 a share (a pot reference for you DC squares), and smoked a joint live on air with Joe Rogan while musing about aliens and DMT. Dropping a poop emoji a week after he said he was going to take over Coca Cola so that he could put cocaine back in the soft drink was not him having a “psychological break.” It’s him acting like he always has. And apparently it’s worked. When the uptight naysayers on here revolutionize the electric vehicle industry and secure government space flight contracts maybe they can scoff at his behavior. But he’s such a game changing figure because of this type of behavior. If he wasn’t the character he’s always been he’d probably be right here with you and I tossing barbs from the sideline while we rake in a safe salary at our boring jobs.

Where were all of these criticisms years ago when he was making Teslas? It’s so odd that people just started turning on him when he wanted to take over Twitter and not be so censorious. A lot of people are very afraid of not having the final say over who gets to say what on social media and it’s very telling.

Raises hand. I have long been on record with family, friends, acquaintances and the fine people of DCUM that I think Tesla is train that hasn't derailed yet. They are poorly made, are data sieves, and Elon's obsession with self-driving is going to overwhelm the QC issues as the major manufacturers start to make a dent in the market share. Mark my words, some teenager is going to hack into the update system and wreak havoc.

Many Shuvs and Zuuls [will] kn[o]w what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently Musk is having some kind of psychological break.

You’re implying that this a break from normal for him. Not only is this normal for him, using a poop emoji to reply the CEO of the company you’re trying to buy during an ongoing negotiation, on a platform you’re negotiating for, is hilarious. I know it’s DC and everyone is uptight around here, but still…

It's not hilarious. It's unhinged.

Elon is married to Grimes, named one of his children X Æ A-Xii, said he would take Tesla private at 420 a share (a pot reference for you DC squares), and smoked a joint live on air with Joe Rogan while musing about aliens and DMT. Dropping a poop emoji a week after he said he was going to take over Coca Cola so that he could put cocaine back in the soft drink was not him having a “psychological break.” It’s him acting like he always has. And apparently it’s worked. When the uptight naysayers on here revolutionize the electric vehicle industry and secure government space flight contracts maybe they can scoff at his behavior. But he’s such a game changing figure because of this type of behavior. If he wasn’t the character he’s always been he’d probably be right here with you and I tossing barbs from the sideline while we rake in a safe salary at our boring jobs.

Where were all of these criticisms years ago when he was making Teslas? It’s so odd that people just started turning on him when he wanted to take over Twitter and not be so censorious. A lot of people are very afraid of not having the final say over who gets to say what on social media and it’s very telling.

I do not think that his bizarre social hijinx are what make Musk a game-changing figure. Bezos has been equally impactful (possibly moreso), and he doesn't behave like a lunatic in public. I think that Musk has put in effort to cultivate a cult-like following, and that's why you see so many people defending him as somehow more of a visionary than some of the other billionaire tech moguls. Amazon has changed every aspect of retail and logistics for consumer goods, and AWS has completely upended the IT sector. There is literally no aspect of your life Amazon doesn't touch, even if you have never paid a dollar to any of their services.

Regardless, though, tech moguls are not humanities saviors. They are good at certain things and not good at others. Personally, I think that the wealth they are allowed to amass and the influence that wealth gives them (not their technologies per se) is not good for society. For example, why should Bill Gates get to have so much of a say over global public health...regardless of his motivations? I don't believe that he is the best qualified person on earth to have the influence he has...I just think he's a smart guy who happens to have amassed a fortune in the SW sector and that was enough to allow him to dominate the public health discussion as well. It's a problem when we outsource so much to a handful of billionaires...we live with their strengths and also their weaknesses.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently Musk is having some kind of psychological break.

You’re implying that this a break from normal for him. Not only is this normal for him, using a poop emoji to reply the CEO of the company you’re trying to buy during an ongoing negotiation, on a platform you’re negotiating for, is hilarious. I know it’s DC and everyone is uptight around here, but still…

It's not hilarious. It's unhinged.

Elon is married to Grimes, named one of his children X Æ A-Xii, said he would take Tesla private at 420 a share (a pot reference for you DC squares), and smoked a joint live on air with Joe Rogan while musing about aliens and DMT. Dropping a poop emoji a week after he said he was going to take over Coca Cola so that he could put cocaine back in the soft drink was not him having a “psychological break.” It’s him acting like he always has. And apparently it’s worked. When the uptight naysayers on here revolutionize the electric vehicle industry and secure government space flight contracts maybe they can scoff at his behavior. But he’s such a game changing figure because of this type of behavior. If he wasn’t the character he’s always been he’d probably be right here with you and I tossing barbs from the sideline while we rake in a safe salary at our boring jobs.

Where were all of these criticisms years ago when he was making Teslas? It’s so odd that people just started turning on him when he wanted to take over Twitter and not be so censorious. A lot of people are very afraid of not having the final say over who gets to say what on social media and it’s very telling.

I do not think that his bizarre social hijinx are what make Musk a game-changing figure. Bezos has been equally impactful (possibly moreso), and he doesn't behave like a lunatic in public. I think that Musk has put in effort to cultivate a cult-like following, and that's why you see so many people defending him as somehow more of a visionary than some of the other billionaire tech moguls. Amazon has changed every aspect of retail and logistics for consumer goods, and AWS has completely upended the IT sector. There is literally no aspect of your life Amazon doesn't touch, even if you have never paid a dollar to any of their services.

Regardless, though, tech moguls are not humanities saviors. They are good at certain things and not good at others. Personally, I think that the wealth they are allowed to amass and the influence that wealth gives them (not their technologies per se) is not good for society. For example, why should Bill Gates get to have so much of a say over global public health...regardless of his motivations? I don't believe that he is the best qualified person on earth to have the influence he has...I just think he's a smart guy who happens to have amassed a fortune in the SW sector and that was enough to allow him to dominate the public health discussion as well. It's a problem when we outsource so much to a handful of billionaires...we live with their strengths and also their weaknesses.

One could argue that by turning electric vehicles into a luxury item and popularizing electric vehicles more than anyone else Musk has had much more of a positive impact on the world than Bezos, who has led to the death of small businesses across the country, dumbed down the Washington Post, and is much more of a negative figure overall.

I just find it odd that all these Democrats are so quick to vilify someone who has had such an unquestionably positive impact on climate change via Tesla. There would be a lot more carbon emissions in this world without Elon and his influence.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently Musk is having some kind of psychological break.

You’re implying that this a break from normal for him. Not only is this normal for him, using a poop emoji to reply the CEO of the company you’re trying to buy during an ongoing negotiation, on a platform you’re negotiating for, is hilarious. I know it’s DC and everyone is uptight around here, but still…

It's not hilarious. It's unhinged.

Elon is married to Grimes, named one of his children X Æ A-Xii, said he would take Tesla private at 420 a share (a pot reference for you DC squares), and smoked a joint live on air with Joe Rogan while musing about aliens and DMT. Dropping a poop emoji a week after he said he was going to take over Coca Cola so that he could put cocaine back in the soft drink was not him having a “psychological break.” It’s him acting like he always has. And apparently it’s worked. When the uptight naysayers on here revolutionize the electric vehicle industry and secure government space flight contracts maybe they can scoff at his behavior. But he’s such a game changing figure because of this type of behavior. If he wasn’t the character he’s always been he’d probably be right here with you and I tossing barbs from the sideline while we rake in a safe salary at our boring jobs.

Where were all of these criticisms years ago when he was making Teslas? It’s so odd that people just started turning on him when he wanted to take over Twitter and not be so censorious. A lot of people are very afraid of not having the final say over who gets to say what on social media and it’s very telling.

I do not think that his bizarre social hijinx are what make Musk a game-changing figure. Bezos has been equally impactful (possibly moreso), and he doesn't behave like a lunatic in public. I think that Musk has put in effort to cultivate a cult-like following, and that's why you see so many people defending him as somehow more of a visionary than some of the other billionaire tech moguls. Amazon has changed every aspect of retail and logistics for consumer goods, and AWS has completely upended the IT sector. There is literally no aspect of your life Amazon doesn't touch, even if you have never paid a dollar to any of their services.

Regardless, though, tech moguls are not humanities saviors. They are good at certain things and not good at others. Personally, I think that the wealth they are allowed to amass and the influence that wealth gives them (not their technologies per se) is not good for society. For example, why should Bill Gates get to have so much of a say over global public health...regardless of his motivations? I don't believe that he is the best qualified person on earth to have the influence he has...I just think he's a smart guy who happens to have amassed a fortune in the SW sector and that was enough to allow him to dominate the public health discussion as well. It's a problem when we outsource so much to a handful of billionaires...we live with their strengths and also their weaknesses.

One could argue that by turning electric vehicles into a luxury item and popularizing electric vehicles more than anyone else Musk has had much more of a positive impact on the world than Bezos, who has led to the death of small businesses across the country, dumbed down the Washington Post, and is much more of a negative figure overall.

I just find it odd that all these Democrats are so quick to vilify someone who has had such an unquestionably positive impact on climate change via Tesla. There would be a lot more carbon emissions in this world without Elon and his influence.

He’s more than made up for that with his endless crypto promotion.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently Musk is having some kind of psychological break.

You’re implying that this a break from normal for him. Not only is this normal for him, using a poop emoji to reply the CEO of the company you’re trying to buy during an ongoing negotiation, on a platform you’re negotiating for, is hilarious. I know it’s DC and everyone is uptight around here, but still…

It's not hilarious. It's unhinged.

Elon is married to Grimes, named one of his children X Æ A-Xii, said he would take Tesla private at 420 a share (a pot reference for you DC squares), and smoked a joint live on air with Joe Rogan while musing about aliens and DMT. Dropping a poop emoji a week after he said he was going to take over Coca Cola so that he could put cocaine back in the soft drink was not him having a “psychological break.” It’s him acting like he always has. And apparently it’s worked. When the uptight naysayers on here revolutionize the electric vehicle industry and secure government space flight contracts maybe they can scoff at his behavior. But he’s such a game changing figure because of this type of behavior. If he wasn’t the character he’s always been he’d probably be right here with you and I tossing barbs from the sideline while we rake in a safe salary at our boring jobs.

Where were all of these criticisms years ago when he was making Teslas? It’s so odd that people just started turning on him when he wanted to take over Twitter and not be so censorious. A lot of people are very afraid of not having the final say over who gets to say what on social media and it’s very telling.

I do not think that his bizarre social hijinx are what make Musk a game-changing figure. Bezos has been equally impactful (possibly moreso), and he doesn't behave like a lunatic in public. I think that Musk has put in effort to cultivate a cult-like following, and that's why you see so many people defending him as somehow more of a visionary than some of the other billionaire tech moguls. Amazon has changed every aspect of retail and logistics for consumer goods, and AWS has completely upended the IT sector. There is literally no aspect of your life Amazon doesn't touch, even if you have never paid a dollar to any of their services.

Regardless, though, tech moguls are not humanities saviors. They are good at certain things and not good at others. Personally, I think that the wealth they are allowed to amass and the influence that wealth gives them (not their technologies per se) is not good for society. For example, why should Bill Gates get to have so much of a say over global public health...regardless of his motivations? I don't believe that he is the best qualified person on earth to have the influence he has...I just think he's a smart guy who happens to have amassed a fortune in the SW sector and that was enough to allow him to dominate the public health discussion as well. It's a problem when we outsource so much to a handful of billionaires...we live with their strengths and also their weaknesses.

One could argue that by turning electric vehicles into a luxury item and popularizing electric vehicles more than anyone else Musk has had much more of a positive impact on the world than Bezos, who has led to the death of small businesses across the country, dumbed down the Washington Post, and is much more of a negative figure overall.

I just find it odd that all these Democrats are so quick to vilify someone who has had such an unquestionably positive impact on climate change via Tesla. There would be a lot more carbon emissions in this world without Elon and his influence.

He’s a venture capitalist who took over the company. He didn’t invent the technology or build the cars.

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He's got them by the gonads. If he walks and they take him to court for non-payment of the fee, they subject themselves to all sorts of uncomfortable things. And walking means the public learns more about the amount of bot activity allowed on Twitter, so stock tanks. And then there is the just-released tapes from engineers inside Twitter admitting their bias.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently Musk is having some kind of psychological break.

You’re implying that this a break from normal for him. Not only is this normal for him, using a poop emoji to reply the CEO of the company you’re trying to buy during an ongoing negotiation, on a platform you’re negotiating for, is hilarious. I know it’s DC and everyone is uptight around here, but still…

It's not hilarious. It's unhinged.

Elon is married to Grimes, named one of his children X Æ A-Xii, said he would take Tesla private at 420 a share (a pot reference for you DC squares), and smoked a joint live on air with Joe Rogan while musing about aliens and DMT. Dropping a poop emoji a week after he said he was going to take over Coca Cola so that he could put cocaine back in the soft drink was not him having a “psychological break.” It’s him acting like he always has. And apparently it’s worked. When the uptight naysayers on here revolutionize the electric vehicle industry and secure government space flight contracts maybe they can scoff at his behavior. But he’s such a game changing figure because of this type of behavior. If he wasn’t the character he’s always been he’d probably be right here with you and I tossing barbs from the sideline while we rake in a safe salary at our boring jobs.

Where were all of these criticisms years ago when he was making Teslas? It’s so odd that people just started turning on him when he wanted to take over Twitter and not be so censorious. A lot of people are very afraid of not having the final say over who gets to say what on social media and it’s very telling.

I do not think that his bizarre social hijinx are what make Musk a game-changing figure. Bezos has been equally impactful (possibly moreso), and he doesn't behave like a lunatic in public. I think that Musk has put in effort to cultivate a cult-like following, and that's why you see so many people defending him as somehow more of a visionary than some of the other billionaire tech moguls. Amazon has changed every aspect of retail and logistics for consumer goods, and AWS has completely upended the IT sector. There is literally no aspect of your life Amazon doesn't touch, even if you have never paid a dollar to any of their services.

Regardless, though, tech moguls are not humanities saviors. They are good at certain things and not good at others. Personally, I think that the wealth they are allowed to amass and the influence that wealth gives them (not their technologies per se) is not good for society. For example, why should Bill Gates get to have so much of a say over global public health...regardless of his motivations? I don't believe that he is the best qualified person on earth to have the influence he has...I just think he's a smart guy who happens to have amassed a fortune in the SW sector and that was enough to allow him to dominate the public health discussion as well. It's a problem when we outsource so much to a handful of billionaires...we live with their strengths and also their weaknesses.

One could argue that by turning electric vehicles into a luxury item and popularizing electric vehicles more than anyone else Musk has had much more of a positive impact on the world than Bezos, who has led to the death of small businesses across the country, dumbed down the Washington Post, and is much more of a negative figure overall.

I just find it odd that all these Democrats are so quick to vilify someone who has had such an unquestionably positive impact on climate change via Tesla. There would be a lot more carbon emissions in this world without Elon and his influence.

Such binary thinking.

He can have done a lot for EVs/climate and still be an unstable nut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently Musk is having some kind of psychological break.

You’re implying that this a break from normal for him. Not only is this normal for him, using a poop emoji to reply the CEO of the company you’re trying to buy during an ongoing negotiation, on a platform you’re negotiating for, is hilarious. I know it’s DC and everyone is uptight around here, but still…

It's not hilarious. It's unhinged.

Elon is married to Grimes, named one of his children X Æ A-Xii, said he would take Tesla private at 420 a share (a pot reference for you DC squares), and smoked a joint live on air with Joe Rogan while musing about aliens and DMT. Dropping a poop emoji a week after he said he was going to take over Coca Cola so that he could put cocaine back in the soft drink was not him having a “psychological break.” It’s him acting like he always has. And apparently it’s worked. When the uptight naysayers on here revolutionize the electric vehicle industry and secure government space flight contracts maybe they can scoff at his behavior. But he’s such a game changing figure because of this type of behavior. If he wasn’t the character he’s always been he’d probably be right here with you and I tossing barbs from the sideline while we rake in a safe salary at our boring jobs.

Where were all of these criticisms years ago when he was making Teslas? It’s so odd that people just started turning on him when he wanted to take over Twitter and not be so censorious. A lot of people are very afraid of not having the final say over who gets to say what on social media and it’s very telling.

I do not think that his bizarre social hijinx are what make Musk a game-changing figure. Bezos has been equally impactful (possibly moreso), and he doesn't behave like a lunatic in public. I think that Musk has put in effort to cultivate a cult-like following, and that's why you see so many people defending him as somehow more of a visionary than some of the other billionaire tech moguls. Amazon has changed every aspect of retail and logistics for consumer goods, and AWS has completely upended the IT sector. There is literally no aspect of your life Amazon doesn't touch, even if you have never paid a dollar to any of their services.

Regardless, though, tech moguls are not humanities saviors. They are good at certain things and not good at others. Personally, I think that the wealth they are allowed to amass and the influence that wealth gives them (not their technologies per se) is not good for society. For example, why should Bill Gates get to have so much of a say over global public health...regardless of his motivations? I don't believe that he is the best qualified person on earth to have the influence he has...I just think he's a smart guy who happens to have amassed a fortune in the SW sector and that was enough to allow him to dominate the public health discussion as well. It's a problem when we outsource so much to a handful of billionaires...we live with their strengths and also their weaknesses.

One could argue that by turning electric vehicles into a luxury item and popularizing electric vehicles more than anyone else Musk has had much more of a positive impact on the world than Bezos, who has led to the death of small businesses across the country, dumbed down the Washington Post, and is much more of a negative figure overall.

I just find it odd that all these Democrats are so quick to vilify someone who has had such an unquestionably positive impact on climate change via Tesla. There would be a lot more carbon emissions in this world without Elon and his influence.

Any time someone makes an absolute statement about a counterfactual, I'm always a little skeptical. But I do think that Musk has done a lot to promote the electrification of passenger vehicles which is one critical piece of decarbonization. There are many others, some of which are i) less lucrative and/or ii) involve a more complex mix of technologies, incumbent processes, and social challenges. I think that overly focusing on one or two saviors distracts from the breadth of solutions we need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He's got them by the gonads. If he walks and they take him to court for non-payment of the fee, they subject themselves to all sorts of uncomfortable things. And walking means the public learns more about the amount of bot activity allowed on Twitter, so stock tanks. And then there is the just-released tapes from engineers inside Twitter admitting their bias.

This isn’t correct, but okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He's got them by the gonads. If he walks and they take him to court for non-payment of the fee, they subject themselves to all sorts of uncomfortable things. And walking means the public learns more about the amount of bot activity allowed on Twitter, so stock tanks. And then there is the just-released tapes from engineers inside Twitter admitting their bias.

+1

[Anonymous]

Twitter board is already started to turn the screws on Musk

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/17/elon-musk-twitter-will-enforce-merger

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's got them by the gonads. If he walks and they take him to court for non-payment of the fee, they subject themselves to all sorts of uncomfortable things. And walking means the public learns more about the amount of bot activity allowed on Twitter, so stock tanks. And then there is the just-released tapes from engineers inside Twitter admitting their bias.

This isn’t correct, but okay.

It certainly is correct. There is now ample video of high level insiders stating how they feel and its not pretty. Does Twitter want that under oath? Nope.

[Anonymous]

LOL.