“Fidelity is currently valuing X at about $9.4 billion”

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137 points

Musk did not buy this as an investment. He bought it to flip elections and manipulate public opinion.

Tesla is writing him a check that will cover the entire purchase price, and Saudi Arabia and Russia will pay the operating costs.

Active users are what matters; if they lost 75% of their users then I’m paying attention.

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I think it’s even pettier than that. He’s the loud guy on the forum who literally bought the site so he could be admin.

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Honestly, everyone needs to listen to the episode of Search Engine about Elon. It’s such a clear narrative of what happened between the Iron Man cameo and now. It’s pure hubris - someone who is very unlikable desperately hungry for love to the point where his brain bust a fuse.

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I think you’re giving the guy too much credit. Sometimes things are as they seen. He just didn’t like the moderation scheme on Twitter, made a gesture buying it, fumbled a little bit and overbid, then after having been forced to acquire it tried to turn it into something closer to what he wanted it to be.

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If he’s trying to flip elections, he needs to at least pretend it’s being operated in good faith.

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I agree 100%. Liberals retweeting how Elon is losing money is actually making him money

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25 points

Aren’t 75% of the users Russian bots? Lol

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Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure he gave an outlandish bid for Twitter to manipulate it’s stock prices when he pulled put, but he was sued into following through.

I don’t think he ever wanted to buy it, or at least he wanted to crash it’s value to come back and buy it on the cheap.

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then why not buy it normally like a human from earth and instead involve this lawsuit to make himself look like an absolute moron

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If he was that competent why would he resort to openly pumping and dumping meme coins in public just prior to this stunt.

He has some dangerous strings he can pull, but that doesn’t make him a good puppet master.

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We’ll never know since Musk is nurturing a state-funded “user”-base that will always keep their numbers inflated

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