Rubin Farr Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 13 hours ago, zazen said: well yeah thats pretty obvious, from the point of view that most of the mega-rich own a newspaper or a TV channel or something. Thats no accident, they get a lot of influence from that. Musk being a bit more modern has chosen to buy Twitter while Bezos is a bit more trad so bought the Washington Post. The Koch brothers own Time magazine, Rupert Murdoch owns a whole load of TV and newspapers etc etc BUT Musk has stated his reasons and if you look back at other things he's been concerned with in the past (like OpenAI) it makes sense - he's basically saying that if we're going to have massive algorithms deciding what tweets to put into people's feeds, that should be a transparent process rather than the murky shit we have going on right now with facebook and twitter etc. Its based on the share price when he made the offer plus 30-40% or so. So the question for shareholders is 'sell now or do you think you'll get a better price in future'. Evidently they think its a good price. Lots of people are rightly suspicous and maybe he's full of shit or whatever but I've been watching him for a while and I think he's sincere in his main aims (e.g. see this) But I do wonder if this whole 'buy twitter' thing is a displacement activity, like maybe there was some stressful problem at SpaceX this month (get those raptor engines mass produced!) or Tesla (get that european gigafactory properly active) and he ended up buying twitter as a kindof stress reaction, in the same way that I'll argue with people in the Aphex forum when really I should have been doing my tax return. Undoubtedly, his Asperger’s plays a role in his decision making, and possibly his impulsiveness as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 (edited) he wants Trump back. That's the only reason. He's the richest man in the world now, But it's all paper. Other than Tesla. Bezos is Brick and Mortar money. Edited May 5, 2022 by marf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignatius Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cern Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 ELON MUSK PREDICTING HIS DEATH He is worried and thinks maybe they gonna do a Epstein thing on him. Can he be the one together with the elite that killing people and drains Adrenochrome or is it Russia that is on to him because of his technical help to Ukraine? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milkface Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 18 minutes ago, cern said: ELON MUSK PREDICTING HIS DEATH He is worried and thinks maybe they gonna do a Epstein thing on him. Can he be the one together with the elite that killing people and drains Adrenochrome or is it Russia that is on to him because of his technical help to Ukraine? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 1 hour ago, cern said: ELON MUSK PREDICTING HIS DEATH He is worried and thinks maybe they gonna do a Epstein thing on him. Can he be the one together with the elite that killing people and drains Adrenochrome or is it Russia that is on to him because of his technical help to Ukraine? p sure he's just looking for attention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3FF3R00 Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Alcofribas said: p sure he's just looking for attention One thing about tweets is that even if the tweets aren’t discussing illegal or unethical business matters, they can have an effect on markets. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s going to be experimenting with those factors a whole bunch. Edited May 9, 2022 by J3FF3R00 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 1 hour ago, Alcofribas said: p sure he's just looking for attention of course 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3FF3R00 Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 (edited) On 4/25/2022 at 10:11 PM, J3FF3R00 said: and unban the Donald Elon Musk would reverse Donald Trump's Twitter ban https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61399483 Edited May 11, 2022 by J3FF3R00 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignatius Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 (edited) On 5/9/2022 at 2:52 PM, cern said: ELON MUSK PREDICTING HIS DEATH Oh good lord this isnt that hard. Just read the tweet just before. Ten minutes before that tweet, he tweeted the threats he'd received from Rogozin, boss of the russian space agency. More here. His tweet about 'if I die' is clearly a pisstake of peoples tendancy to tweet 'i am not suicidal' when they think the deep state is onto them. You can tell its a joke by the unconventional end to the tweet. Edited May 14, 2022 by zazen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 he hook back up with his homie peter thiel and merge twitter with rumble to create a stronger right wing platform 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 (edited) Edited May 18, 2022 by Silent Member 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaartenVC Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 (edited) Does anyone know what's happening with Elon? Or is he just stepping up his memes / shitposting? He seems to be acting more strange as time goes on. He's contradicting himself more and more. What about his vision for the future? Just a ruse for another goal? I don't get it, whatever, not gonna break my head over him... Edited May 18, 2022 by MaartenVC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 I think he's gone off the deep end tbh 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cichlisuite Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 57 minutes ago, MaartenVC said: Does anyone know what's happening with Elon? Or is he just stepping up his memes / shitposting? He seems to be acting more strange as time goes on. He's contradicting himself more and more. What about his vision for the future? Just a ruse for another goal? I don't get it, whatever, not gonna break my head over him... strap in, you're about to witness the full power of the darkside this battlestation they get away with so much, they are laughing in our faces right now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignatius Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Silent Member said: I think he's gone off the deep end tbh probably sleeps wearing a gasmask that has a long tube that goes to his butt so he breathes his own night farts as he sleeps. really does seem to be believing his own bullshit and inflated idea of his own importance. Edited May 18, 2022 by ignatius 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lianne Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 Too much Ambien? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usagi Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 5 hours ago, MaartenVC said: Does anyone know what's happening with Elon? Or is he just stepping up his memes / shitposting? He seems to be acting more strange as time goes on. He's contradicting himself more and more. What about his vision for the future? Just a ruse for another goal? I don't get it, whatever, not gonna break my head over him... I think: he's bitter that he's steadily lost the adoration of the plebs (excluding his fanboys) as a self-appointed techbro messiah who's going to save the world from itself. which btw occurred through no one's fault but his own, all he had to do was not constantly say dumb shit expecting it to be treated as gospel. being in a constant twitter brainloop is one of the main contributors to this kind of behaviour. and so instead of learning from all this and readjusting like an adult, he doubles down on his bullshit like a lil babybrain and decries the meddling leftists who have caused him to lose his appeal. this isn't about values for him, it's about image, that's all he knows. the twitter takeover isn't about free speech or leveling the playing field between left and right, it's about creating a personal megaphone. that's it. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignatius Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 2 part behind the bastards on elon from a while back is interesting https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-i-do-not-like-63419860/ https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-two-i-do-not-like-63472403/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 (edited) Why is a 50 year old billionaire acting like a teenage edgelord all the time? Edited May 19, 2022 by azatoth 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exitonly Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 because even with a billion dollars you can find yourself being a person alone in a room, unloved. 6 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 19 hours ago, MaartenVC said: Does anyone know what's happening with Elon? Or is he just stepping up his memes / shitposting? He seems to be acting more strange as time goes on. He's contradicting himself more and more. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignatius Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 9 hours ago, nikisoko said: because even with a billion dollars you can find yourself being a person alone in a room, unloved. he's always been kind of a troll so the fact that he's rich beyond comprehension and spends time on twitter for various purposes is not surprising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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