Buying Twitter made Musk "king of the sandbox," allowing him to promote free speech, but not at the cost of his own ego.
  • Elon Musk purchased shares of Twitter after unsuccessfully petitioning the CEO to remove a Twitter account tracking his private jet.
  • Musk’s personal gripes played a key role in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
  • Musk banned the account after promising not to, highlighting his prioritization of getting his way over free speech.

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    511·
    10 months ago

    I don’t see how claiming he bought Twitter to try and shut up a teenager does anyting to help his reputation.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      356·
      10 months ago

      It re-enforces the idea that he is a “genius” who is playing “4D Chess” and that he “has a plan” and not that he’s a fucking drug addled freak who is making decisions based on his emotional state at the time.

      There was no plan, there’s never a plan. Rich people just play this game where, because they have enough money to insulate themselves from their bad decisions, they pretend that “this was always their plan.”

      Pretty much Musk:

      • EvkobEnglish
        21·
        10 months ago

        Anyone who thinks spending 44 billion dollars on shutting up a teenager constitutes a “genius plan” is already fully on-board the Musk cult. I don’t think there’s really much reinforcement happening.

        I agree we shouldn’t pretend he’s anything less than a dumb asshole who got caught with his pants down.

      • 14th_cylon@lemm.eeEnglish
        51·
        10 months ago

        It re-enforces the idea that he is a “genius” who is playing “4D Chess” and that he “has a plan”

        No, it does not. It makes him look like a kid without any kind of self control (which he probably is anyway)

        And it does that on a platform where it reaches hundreds of people! :D

        So just calm down, no one cares

      • Swuden@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        I dunno man. A teenager baiting a billionaire into spending a significant amount of his fortune to shut him up sounds like the most successful troll in history to me.