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Elon Musk: Taking over Twitter had to be done... It was "Civilizational"
Twitter/X ^ | April 27 | Elon Musk

Posted on 04/27/2024 5:00:42 PM PDT by RandFan

@cb_doge

Elon Musk didn't purchase Twitter to make money.

Infact he risked his life to save the civilization by reinstating free speech for the public.

(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; twitter
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To: Paladin2

Musk was not wrong but I’m still shocked that Jack Dorsey sold it to him - in fact, insisted that Musk buy it when he tried to back out.


21 posted on 04/27/2024 6:07:05 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (6,575,474 Truth | 87,429,044 Twitter)
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To: RandFan
Glad he bought it, but he paid two or three times more than it was worth.

From memory...

Twitter was 16 years old, but had just two profitable years.

Elon paid a total of $44 billion, including TWTR stock that he already owned, plus TWTR debts that he inherited.

He could have started a direct competitor for $1 billion, and probably have been profitable by Year Three.

The amount he paid for Twitter was completely insane.

22 posted on 04/27/2024 6:07:45 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: SamAdams76

Jack Dorsey:

A. Weird

B. Knew the details of the financials

c. Could have been tired of running the place.


23 posted on 04/27/2024 6:10:05 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Antioch
If Space X wasn’t lifting the bulk of the Pentagon’s toys into orbit Musk would have been crushed like a bug.

Only Elon Musk could hVe gotten away with it.

What about Jeff Bezos? He controls Amazon. A big impact on our economy. That's about it.

24 posted on 04/27/2024 6:11:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: zeestephen
He could have started a direct competitor for $1 billion.

Yes. He could have started X.com. But no one would go there.

25 posted on 04/27/2024 6:12:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Paladin2
c. Could have been tired of running the place.

My impression was that he just wanted go to an island in the Pacific and do some acid.

He didn't want to do any work.

26 posted on 04/27/2024 6:13:54 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: waterhill

Seek help, and a new “Hat”. 👽


27 posted on 04/27/2024 6:41:35 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal! )
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To: RandFan

Yes, what Musk did was what was needed. People have to be able to communicate freely with each other.

Who gave any government the right to tell the people what they could say, thus what they could hear?


28 posted on 04/27/2024 6:45:16 PM PDT by Racketeer
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To: RandFan

He could have paid 1/4 as much. And still gotten ripped off.


29 posted on 04/27/2024 6:53:33 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: GaryCrow

Some good points there Gary that was a dark period.


30 posted on 04/27/2024 6:58:00 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Horse puckey. Elon Musk purchased Twitter to tank Truth Social. He has only slightly restored free speech. There are a lot of people who came back only to get banned again for being politically incorrect. Elon is a Chicom agent.


31 posted on 04/27/2024 7:15:02 PM PDT by GulliverSwift
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To: GulliverSwift

Rubbish,


32 posted on 04/27/2024 7:16:33 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: OldHarbor

Elon Musk is censoring Matt Taibbi now. That’s why Taibbi does not post very much to Twitter any more. Elon canceled Taibbi because he uses Substack, which Elon sees as a business rival so he has attacked anyone prominent writers who use it for their websites.


33 posted on 04/27/2024 7:17:16 PM PDT by GulliverSwift
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To: RandFan

There’s no denying that Elon loves the Chinese communists. He even wrote an article for their censorship agency.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/elon-musk-pitches-lofty-goals-in-magazine-run-by-chinas-internet-censorship-agency/articleshow/93552032.cms

He is owned by the Chicoms through and through. They have him by the balls. They control everything he does.


34 posted on 04/27/2024 7:21:35 PM PDT by GulliverSwift
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To: RandFan

If we’ve reached a stage where so many people have turned off their personal bullsh1rt meter and are tasking their marching orders from strangers who speak to them from a box, civilization is already lost, regardless who owns twitwitter.


35 posted on 04/27/2024 8:11:46 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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Can he afford to buy Alphabet and Meta too?


36 posted on 04/27/2024 8:42:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: RandFan

I don’t believe that for a femtosecond, ESPECIALLY when it’s spoon fed to me.

Case in point: SpaceX.


37 posted on 04/27/2024 9:20:21 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: MotorCityBuck

What?


38 posted on 04/27/2024 10:31:23 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe!)
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To: waterhill

I like Ted and all, butt you are kinda beeing being weird


39 posted on 04/27/2024 10:39:41 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe!)
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To: GulliverSwift

I got banned the other day at ‘X’ for making a comment about Kristi Noem killing all those animals. I ended up creating another account.


40 posted on 04/27/2024 10:42:17 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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