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[–] [email protected] 363 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Daughter turning into something I don’t like? Buy out the thing she uses to try and regulate her. Very normal and healthy behavior

[–] [email protected] 134 points 1 year ago (3 children)

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-business-b0a0f7e64c4616780459f012d172b1c9

One reason why Musk bought Twitter this week is because he had little choice. The world’s richest man spent months trying to back out of the $44 billion purchase agreement he originally signed in April. But the uncertainty was so disruptive to Twitter’s business that it sued him in the Delaware Court of Chancery to force the deal’s completion, and a judge gave a Friday deadline to complete the deal or face a November trial that Musk was likely to lose.

This is all bullshit. Self-aggrandizing lies to give the appearance that this massive failure was all in the plan. The guy was trying to play games with stocks and got caught. He's a dumbass with no idea how the business he didn't want to own but was forced to buy in the end works. It's not deeper than that.

I'm sure his daughter hating him is very upsetting but it's not why he set 40 billion dollars on fire.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not both? Because you’re absolutely right that he got fucked on a bad gamble and then tried to save face, but I can also easily see him trying to buy stuff just to stick it to the left. (But in all reality again you’re probably pretty solely right lol)

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[–] [email protected] 215 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This "technology" community is quickly becoming just as bad as the one on reddit.

The insane ravings and personal drama of a lunatic billionaire isn't news about technology.

Even news about Twitter itself isn't technology news. Twitter is a business that sells services. They don't make or contribute to any types of technology.

The only thing that Twitter technology related is that their business operates on the internet. That's it. Chewy.com or NYTimes.com is just as much "technology" as Twitter is.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

They don't make or contribute to any types of technology.

That part isn't completely true. When they created the bootstrap framework it changed how many people built websites. They can and have contributed to technology. However, your point is valid that news about Twitter is business news.

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is revisionist, that sequence of events was what caused him to start to play footsie with the idea of buying Twitter, the SEC saying that’s a big no-no is what made him actually make the offer to buy it and then he was forced by a court to finish the deal after a long legal battle to not buy it

[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Don't forget the part where Dorsey literally conned him by playing to his ego. Jack cashed out almost a billion in cash to himself even though Twitter was close to bankruptcy. It was brilliant.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What cracks me up the most is that Jack already had a Twitter clone in the works, ready to be released once Musk burns down the old plattform and people wish for Twitter but without Musk back.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Bluesky isn't exactly a twitter clone, it's what Jack wanted Twitter to pivot to, but the board of directors refused to play ball.

So Jack spun up a separate entity and explicitly made it its own thing outside of twitter.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably not the last time this trick works on ol' blockhead.

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago

They always tell on themselves.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elon your daughter thinks the rich are evil because of knowing you personally

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This.

Its sad the amount of people that cant make this logical baby step.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago

You're sure proving her wrong, right Elon? ...Right?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago

Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.

Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Anyone whose net worth is in the billions is evil, because pretty much the only feasible way to gather that much wealth is to be a psychopath.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I could be generous and say they are not evil, but the system that allows them to become billionaires in the first place is evil.

But as soon as you say "Twitter made my daughter hate rich people, so to prove her wrong I bought it and ran it into the ground so people can't exchange ideas there anymore"...yeah, you're not making the case you think you are.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Obvious pattern w/ Elon blaming his stupidity on everyone else except himself. The media really should stop giving this jackass narcissist attention.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Mr Musk had initially rushed to embrace the news when Jenna, formally known as Xavier, transitioned at age 16.

To me this suggests that he first thought it would seem hip and contrarian to support his trans daughter, then he realized that actually the people he considers hip and contrarian are all about hating on trans kids now, and so swiftly pivoted to doing that. (I don't imagine he had any strong feelings about his daughter as a person either way - it's not like he was around for her childhood changing diapers or whatever)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The guy gets his life force from being talked about. If we ignore him completely and show his daughter the support he never gave her, it will ruin him.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Unless the woke mind virus, which is fundamentally anti-science, anti-merit, and anti-human in general, is stopped, civilisation will never become multi-planetary,” Mr Musk told Mr Isaacson.

A meme representing Edgar Allan Poe in two panels. In the second panel, the words "what the fuck am I reading?" appear.

“If you want ~~to just be a niche player~~ an iconic name, PayPal is a better name, But if you want ~~to take over the world’s financial system~~ it to be impossible to reliably websearch and talk about outside a very specific context, then X is the better name.”

Fixed that for you.

There's a reason why people still call it Twitter, you know.

He said in April: “Twitter could become what X.com should have been, and we can help save free speech in the process.”

And a potato could become a bell pepper to save my gulasch. Sadly it won't because reality doesn't magically revolve around my belly button, and it wouldn't even if I were rich. So instead I'm making some curry.

Musk should learn to cook.

Mr Musk suggested charging people to be verified to eliminate bots, bring in cash and help transform it into a payments platform - fulfilling his “original vision” for X.com

Ignorance on the nature of his own platform. Even if you demanded a single cent out of it, saner people won't put their credit card info there, simply because they want to reduce the amount of data that you can vulture out of them.

In other words he flushed the baby alongside the dirty bathtub water.

Mr Agrawal had tried to resign. // “But we beat him,” said Mr Musk’s lawyer, Alex Spiro.

TIL Musk behaves like an internet shitposter.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

She sounds pretty based ngl

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Guys, he's not that bad...

He's only a money hoarding billionaire who came from a glut of generational wealth obtained through other's suffering via his father's Emerald mine, which Musk vehemently denies exists in order to build up his image of being self-made.

I mean it's not like his father used that wealth to boost him up by being among the first angel investors in his first company, ZIP2, something else which he vehemently denies to keep up his self-made image.

It's not like he went on to use the money he got from selling ZIP2 to become an ~~early angel investor~~ "co-founder" of X.com, which he then essentially forced the actual founders out of before selling that onwards as well.

It's not like he then went onto use almost the exact tactic to force/sue his way into being a "co-founder" of Tesla.

And it's definitely not like he had a friend get appointed Administrator of NASA, who conveniently decided to award SpaceX almost $300 million, despite them not having flown any rockets yet.

His daughter is obviously worried about nothing, and he just needed to prove her wrong by cack-handedly buying out the platform she used to speak out ~~in order to control her~~ in the name of free speech.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

"I'm a transphobic dickhead who flirts with Nazis on Twitter but no no it must be the evil socialism that drove my daughter to hate me"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Time for the new game, "GPT? Or just bad writing?"

Mr Musk had initially rushed to embrace the news when Jenna, formally known as Xavier, transitioned at age 16.

But when she later cut him out of her life entirely, he knew he had a fight on his hands, a battle which would eventually culminate in the world’s richest man buying Twitter for $44 billion.

This is all that is said about her cutting him out of her life.

Despite his businesses, Tesla, SpaceX and Starlink, all outperforming their rivals and soaring in value, Mr Musk was still unfulfilled in April 2022.

Shivon Zilis, a director of Neuralink, Mr Musk’s AI firm and the mother of his twins, told him: “You don’t have to be in a state of war at all times. Or is it that you find greater comfort when you’re in periods of war?”

Mr Musk said his “default settings” include always wanting “to push my chips back on the table or play the next level of the game.”

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

infected

Quite a language choice there for someone riddled with cryptofascist brainworms brainworms

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Somehow both unbelievable and completely believable that he is going to try and blame his child for making the stupid decision to pay so much for Twitter and for waving due diligence, which would have given him space to back out of the deal.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Abusive parents regularly blame the children they abuse for "making" them do the abuse.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

I've hypothesized before that he just bought Twitter to destroy a platform for "woke" people, but it's still weird reading it out like this. This whole thing reads like destroying one of the biggest social media platforms while wasting billions of dollars is about the same level of investment for him as buying a new phone is for me. Not insignificant, but also something he just does on a whim. And honestly I think his daughter will not exactly like him more after this lol. Rich cunts like Elon buying whatever they fancy just to gain more power is exactly what she'd hate if the article is to be believed.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Imagine being such a good communicator that between sitting down to talk to your semi estranged daughter or buying a tech platform, you choose the latter.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

order-of-lenin to the trans communist who is destroying both Twitter and the emerald boy.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Being rich implies you are evil. If you were good, you would give back to the people who create your wealth.

A good person understands they are not entitled to that much money with so much bad things in the world nor need it in the first place to live a decent live.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MSM: Keeps churning out click-bait headlines

Also MSM: "Why are our numbers down?"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Doing his best to really prove her point.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Since there has already been a lot of activity on this post, I cannot delete the post. However, I will lock it, and in the future, such posts will be highly filtered from getting posted.

Personal take: it kind of shows how far right Elon Musk exactly is. Giving the likes of him exposure is not healthy for Lemmy.

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