• blazera@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Yeah this is all lining up way too neatly on the timeline of him meeting with Putin, then buying twitter. Guys a russian asset working to undermine western communications supportive of ukraine.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    What? The super genius couldn’t turn it into a cash machine? I thought he was the smartest (and funniest) person on the planet!

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      2 years ago

      I think this is the saddest part, at least for him. Before Twitter, a lot of people thought he was relatively intelligent to be a part of a groundbreaking electric car company, a crazy tunnel digging company, and wild space vehicle company doing innovative things. Now since Twitter, we see an insanely rich narcissistic meglomaniac that was kept out of most Tesla big decisions as he just wanted the publicity for himself, the tunnel digging company was nothing more than a way to interfere with green projects, SpaceX did the same thing as Tesla and succeeded despite Musk’s involvement, and a once respected medium of open communication worth a reported $44 billion dollars devolve into a cess pool of bigotry and arbitrary restrictions. Whatever good will he built for himself over the years that saw him even get a cameo in a Marvel movie next to Tony Stark, he’s burned through most of it in the eyes of a lot of people.

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    Screw around and find out, Elon Musk…That man’s choices lead to this outcome, and I want to see him simmer in the shit stew. Keep the great news rolling in! 😏

    • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zone
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      Lol he doesnt care bro. Remember he’s a billionaire, even if he spends $20 million a day, he won’t be able to spend it all in his lifetime. 9-5 plebs like us can only wish of this one day to put this into perspective, I got a $200k loan which will take me 30 years to pay it back lol

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        He paid 44 billion for twitter, that’s pretty big chunk of his wealth. And most of his wealth is tied to his shares in Tesla/SpaceX and he can’t liquidate them without massive negative impacts on their value.

        A lot of billionaires are rich on paper. $44 billion of liquid assets is much more than it would appear.

      • Samantha E Xavia@lemmy.world
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        I just sometimes browse it, that and I use it when things like Uber Eats and other services seem to not work as companies seem to get back to so much quicker on there than any ‘help service’. I’ve posted way more on Mastodon than ever on Twitter. So not really much keeping me about tbh just want to be able to see things such as Minecraft info or sometimes put out a thought. Also some of my contacts only speak through Twitter as of the moment.

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          2 years ago

          Thanks for replying. Personally I struggle to see what the use of it ever was. But that’s on me and my reality. Thanks for giving me insight :-)