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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  • Jaysyn@kbin.social
    95·
    10 months ago

    Just fucking stop.

    Elon Musk was forced to buy Twitter after doing several incredibly stupid things publicly.

    Quit assisting this fascist dumbass in his attempt at laundering his reputation.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      51·
      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
        35·
        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:

        • Evkob@lemmy.caEnglish
          20·
          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
          5·
          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.