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Elon Musk buys Twitter
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Dirk Benedict
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Jellyfish have more spine.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
i think i'm turning into an elon musk stan
ManaByte
Gold Member
Starting to doubt he's going to be able to change much without burning it all to the ground and restarting it fresh. I mean you can't even call Disney "groomers" without being banned from the platform now just because they spend so much on ads with them.
Ownage
Member
Turned down or was told to stay out or face legal issues?
Elon has a drug problem and says random shit that is causing major corporate reputation erosion. The company doesn't want him around either. Many staff have threatened to quit. As the CEO says, this is for the best.
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Hosam6xavi
Banned
He's going for more 
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
No one's quitting shit lol. It's all performative, they're full of it.
ManaByte
Gold Member
He's going for more
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
WTF? I find it odd, that Twitter signed me out!
Now, I am having some difficulty signing back in, for whatever-reason...
Now, I am having some difficulty signing back in, for whatever-reason...
GymWolf
Gold Member
I was quoting sammy cacciatore from bms
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SJRB
Gold Member
He's going for more
Seems like the logical thing. He seems extremely invested in Twitter at the moment.
Even when he's not in the board he'll still be crazy influential.
^ Rare for Elon to delete a tweet…
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
All that and the toolbox bails out when it actually counts lol
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
What was it about?
Such a beautiful thing to see Elon trolling from within while plotting a take over.Just a single emoji:
Not at all what I said. In my opinion Elon Musk is more likely to push for a truly free speech platform on Twitter than current management. I don't have a Twitter account nor will I be getting one with Musk having a large share of the company, I just think he can have a positive influence on what is a cesspool of a company.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
He's going for more
Why is it so hard for you to see the forest through the trees, sometimes?
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Boss Mog
Member
I'm really hoping he turned down the board seat so he could go for a hostile takeover. The only reason they offered him the seat was to prevent that because it limited his ownership to 14.9%, but his refusal means that he isn't subject to that limit now. As for Disney, I'm not sure telling twitter to delete tweets is going to do much, there's already a whole line of merchandise lol:
CGiRanger
Banned
I'm also pretty sure that as a board member, Musk would be heavily prohibited from the type of outspoken commentary and critique he has been slinging at Twitter, and so if he was totally stonewalled or caged from accomplishing anything, he'd not be able to speak of it at all.I'm really hoping he turned down the board seat so he could go for a hostile takeover. The only reason they offered him the seat was to prevent that because it limited his ownership to 14.9%, but his refusal means that he isn't subject to that limit now. As for Disney, I'm not sure telling twitter to delete tweets is going to do much, there's already a whole line of merchandise lol:
Boss Mog
Member
Exactly and apparently he's already filed paperwork to state that he will criticize and demand change:
Elon Musk will NOT join the board of Twitter
The social media giant's share price was up nearly 1% as of mid-morning Monday, to $46.49 after closing at $46.23 Friday.
No kidding.
I think social media will eventually develop a "social creditibility score" to allow for fairly liberal (classic sense) speech. If they pulled quotes from people and polled viewers about whether or not the quote was "credible", but the viewer was blinded as to who said it (so the extreme partisanship wouldnt have conservatives down voting Fauci for saying 'the sky is blue' and dems wouldn't down vote Ivanka Trump for saying 'women need safe spaces' ( then I think we could establish a metric to allow people to judge credibility without needing censorship.
No one can do full diligence research on every issue, at some point you gotta place trust in a posters integrity. This can be graded and evaluated on a large scale without resorting to a Chinese type (or black mirror) social credit score.
Vicetrailia
Member
I'm gonna bail on twitter stock, it's too risky and I already made something.
chromhound
Member
he's buying more for sure lol
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
I am interested to see how this plays out. It would be absolutely hilarious if Musk buys out 51%.
ape2man
Member
Hostile take over confirmed
Ionian
Member
Elon went from bald nerd 20 years agoto savior of mankindin what experts call the greatest comeback in history of humanity, bar Maitreya (who we are still waiting for)... Good for him and thanks weed for making those who smoke you cool
He wasn't bald, also he shaved his head.
Look at his head. I know because I do it to myself.
Hair treatment sure, he wasn't bald though in the slightest.
Bald == No hair.
Toots
Gold Member
Whatever makes you cope with your alopecia my dude, just please tell your husband not to get on stage and slap me !
(but really it was a joke, i know he wasn't completely bald, only severely balding, and anyway he got so much money apparence is irrelevant for him)
Ionian
Member
That's your best?
OK.
We sometimes all walk a lonely path, no harm in that.
It's the road back that matters.
Chittagong
Gold Member
Would take the world back to the best timeline
Scenario 1 - Twitter is de-wokefied and becomes the most based social media
Scenario 2 - So many woke employees quit that Twitter collapses
Win/win if I’ve ever seen one. Elon pls
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
He should be like the Christopher Lyod character in Roger Rabit. "I bought the red car to dismantle it" I"m not convinced anything would rise up in its place. Burn it down Elon.
Wheeljack539
Member
The best part would be that for the woke crowd they'd have nowhere to go as they'd be stuck with Gab, Telegram or Truth which is a non starter.
ManaByte
Gold Member
Sorry there’s already a based social media platform.
Turnt
Member
Someone's a big fan of Yammer.
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Don't think there's going to be nearly the changes people think could happen, but a little more consistency with their policies would be welcomed. Also, not loosely considering anything .0001% of the population don't like as "hate." Hate is a specific thing. The word hate doesn't mean any little thing some blue hair is annoyed at.
LegendOfKage
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And what would that be?
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