Posted on 04/15/2022 4:52:20 AM PDT by billorites
I don’t believe he really wants to buy Twitter. I’m beginning to think that this is some publicity ploy by Musk to improve his brand.
“For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.”
Tesla’s are selling like hotcakes. I don’t think he needs to improve his brand - but who knows. My impression is that he is tired of the woke crowd controlling speech. When he moved operations out of California he went from being a darling of the left to a pariah. He saw firsthand how out of touch and wannabe controlling the left truly is.
I think it is much simpler than that.
The old pump and dump.
Make a bunch of money in a short period of time.
Talk about clueless! Boot sounds like a wannabe dictator. But then, so do so many on the left.
Billionaires, from what I’ve observed, usually have three objectives when they do stuff like this.
1. They want to cost other billionaires money, by forcing them to buy almost against their will because they would lose if they don’t act. Billionaires are often in an unsaid war with each other to try and push each other down.
2. Publicity.
3. By having somebody buy Twitter for him, it will push up the stock price and allow him to sell out at a profit, unless he bought them long-term, which I doubt. I can’t see Twitter being around for many years.
However, I think he would have followed through, if the board couldn’t find an alternative buyer.
He did it with Bitcoin, when he offered to sell cars through Bitcoin.
OUR DEMOCRACY IS AT STAKE!!!
Not really.
When they say things like this, you can be absolutely certain that what they mean by “democracy” is nothing of the sort. Sure, you will get to vote, but it will be utterly meaningless and change nothing, ever.
The form of government most like what they want is best seen in Mao’s China or Stalin’s Soviet Union.
He’s virtue-signaling to his boss and Woke readers by repeating the “party line.”
It was astonishing.
Like the Leftists in America in 1941 who caused whiplash in those observing them when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union (performing a stunning 180 reversal instantaneously going from full antiwar pacifists to full-on war cheerleaders) the Left has gone from completely and fiercely embracing Section 230 protections for Twitter (to protect Twitter and Facebook from "right wing lawsuits") to full throated spittle-lipped, bug-eyed fervent activists for the removal of Section 230 protections that "Tech Billionaires" shouldn't be able to take advantage of! They should be open to lawsuits for slander and misinformation like everyone else!
I listened to this reversal from the likes of Joe Scarborough with an odd and jarring combination of disbelief and jaded acceptance. I couldn't believe I was hearing it, yet I didn't expect to hear anything else.
And like the Leftist Communist Sympathizers in 1941, they make no apologies and feel no shame at the instantaneous reversal. If they were asked to explain (they weren't and aren't) they simply would ignore the question, pushing the hypocritical reversal further and further into the past towards irrelevance.
Astonishing.
Elon Musk is no conservative. But he is an enemy of the left in one of the single most important battlefields of our lifetime: Freedom of Speech. We saw the damage done in this last election due to censorship.
In that light, I accept Elon Musk, even with his lips planted firmly on the teat of government money, subsidies, and even Chinese money, as a full ally.
I see that the hysterical left is losing its mind over Musk’s possible takeover. That tells me that twitter and the other “social media” were created PRECISELY TO take away free speech and to control thought. They were implemented to ferret out dissenters, to identify them, and to silence them.
The social media are not just platforms to post pictures of the dog. They are one of the primary means by which the left silences dissidents.
Twitter employees, who I’ll call twits, are now all in a snit over Musk. The snowflakes are having a meltdown, and will soon be needing to retreat to a safe space with a therapy dog.
Great observations, and I fully agree.
The irony is really lost on these morons isn't it?
Twatter is Oligarch Central!!!
Any person that can put so many leftists into a tizzy is a great guy and ally in my book.
Atty Boy Elon.
“...He should start his own platform, maybe Oligarch Social, and leave Twitter alone.”
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Oh quite the opposite...he should take over Twitter and do to the Political Left precisely what they have done to the Right.
“Tesla’s are selling like hot cakes”
6 month wait to buy one around here. I test drove one because my daughter is a Musk fan and it was a pretty decent vehicle. Fastest acceleration of any stock car I have driven recently.
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