This reminds me of those people who would buy a coffee maker and record themselves destroying it in order to “show that company what I think of them”.
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Keurig machines might be sold at a loss, like ink jet printers-- especially the Keurig 2.0 thing. So, Keurig was hurt, though not as much as the Hannity fans.
8 bucks is much more affordable, and I guess there are people who think its a fair price for causing mischief/amusement etc.
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I was thinking of the muskrat, not the users.
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I deactivated my account after he posted conspiracy theories about Pelosi and to vote Republican.
He’s working so hard to make sure I don’t regret my decision.
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So much about this train wreck reminds me of working in the federal government and seeing the real-life consequences of the unnecessary federal brinksmanship and shut downs during the Obama era.
Kind of ironic but not ironic that he’s running his company the same way as politicians who’s stated goal is to burn everything to the ground.
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He bought it for right-wing ideological reasons. Maybe he imagines it as a leftist company that needs to be purged to “work”, just like those politicians do the state.
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but without Twitter how will I know what time it is
https://twitter.com/big_ben_clock/status/1592034604696887296
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You can have up to 24 of them on your blog. Sometimes they turn into crabs. You can’t see them at all on mobile.
And it’s still better.
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I mean, I do think there is that element. But he’s also stated that he could “fix” Twitter by himself in a weekend, and has touted his very small team working on autonomous driving at Tesla, and how they’ll have self-driving cars “next year.” And next year, and next year, and eight years later, next year… He has a super-inflated sense of his own competency, a lack of understanding of the issues involved, and completely unrealistic notions of how many people are required to do things.
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That’s because he halves his staffing requirements by forcing people to work 80 hour weeks.
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Yeah. And it was more clear in the comment I was replying to, but the other main thing I saw in common with the unnecessary gov’t shut downs was how needlessly reckless and chaotic they were. Real people’s lives were upended, for no other reason than a lack of caring by those in control of the situation.
Musk is following in those footsteps by showing that he simply does not give a fuck about the lives of his workers. I hope they return the favor.
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When I see people claiming that he bought twitter to destroy it for political reasons I like to think about how much more effectively you could spend 44 Billion dollars politically. Elon is just a dumb guy doing dumb stuff. Because he is dumb.
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Yeah, saying he bought Twitter to tear it down is like saying that any mistake he makes is actually some kind of genius maneuver. Some times the simplest explanation is the truest one, he doesn’t know what tf he’s doing.
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That’s fair but it’s turning out he didn’t likely spend 44 billion for it. Much of the debt has been charged back to twitter and seems to be under twitter’s payments to Elon. And of the $44billion list price, he seems to have only needed to come up with about $20 billion , which , again, he’s put back onto twitter as debt to him. I’d wager in real terms he spent probably far less than even the $20 billion out of his own pocket directly.
Which leads to the next question. Who helped fund him? And that’s something we don’t get to know because private companies and private loans.
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We do know pretty well because of filings and because of leaked DMs - it’s a lot of his Tesla stock (which has lost immense value), a few large banks, a couple of other billionaires, and the Saudi Prince. It remains unlikely the plan was to “destroy Twitter” because it’s tanking his other companies shares and destroying his mustique (which had Tesla about 10x overvalued).
There is no world in which this is a brilliant plan that we just don’t understand
Also Elon LOVES Twitter and really does think it matters going forward - the plan was Take over the witter and make it so people that agree with me can say whatever they want. That plan ran into reality when it ran up against advertisers
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I’m just reading a Twitter exchange between Musk and a Twitter employee - it starts with Musk saying something that’s completely nonsensical about Twitter, being corrected by the employee (in a non-response tweet), Musk seeing it and asking questions, the guy responding but suggesting Musk might be better served asking question in internal company communication channels… at which point Musk tells him he’s fired. Musk then tweets out his new grand plan for Twitter based on the information he just learned from the guy. Yeah, he’s a real piece of work.
I’d say Elon did want to destroy Twitter (for political reasons) - at least Twitter as it existed. The problem is, he doesn’t actually have any sort of clear (or even vague, it seems) idea of what he wants to replace it with, absolutely no idea how to do it, and is actively destroying Twitter as any sort of functional platform accidentally as he flails around.
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