• Gerowen@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    He’s impulsive and doesn’t know when to shut up. I got the distinct impression that, initially, he was absolutely not serious about buying Twitter. It was a joke/jest. BUT, because his antics affected their stock price he actually got forced into the purchase and now he’s desperately trying to figure out how to make the purchase worth what he actually paid, which is fine and all, except he seems to be leading by impulse, not by consensus or logic. He wakes up in the morning, has some random ass idea and implements it without any oversight. Even his new CEO straight up admitted that she is basically a straw man CEO who will offer no friction to anything Elon wants to do.

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      1 year ago

      This is pretty much what ive thought all along. He already owned a huge chuck of twotter when he said he’d buy it. The Ftc called him out and accused him of market manipulation. He then tried everything thing he could to weasel his way out of buying twitter but failed. Now he’s purposely trashing the site so he can declare bankruptcy and get his money back. That’s my theory at least.

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        1 year ago

        Get his money back from whom? It’s not like a toaster that he can bring back to the store.

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      1 year ago

      He even tried to get out of it by claiming Twitter had a bot problem. Courts ruled that he stepped too far into the shit to back out of it.

      And now, it seems, the alleged bot problem is worse than it’s ever been. Sheesh.

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      This is pretty much what ive thought all along. He already owned a huge chuck of twotter when he said he’d buy it. The Ftc called him out and accused him of market manipulation. He then tried everything thing he could to weasel his way out of buying twitter but failed. Now he’s purposely trashing the site so he can declare bankruptcy and get his money back. That’s my theory at least.