Elon vs Twitter update: Elon helped America win , Tesla stock through the roof

I doubt he believes that, he wants more tax breaks and will generally make more money when the GOP retakes power. The Republican Party as of right now is culture war, cult loving bunch of jackasses.

 

It's ****ing hilarious...

 

https://nypost.com/2022/04/29/twitters-chief-censor-making-17m-per-year-could-be-fired/

 

That is precisely correct. They cannot sustain this surreal Orwellian nonsense without blocking off alternative sources of information and then harassing, bullying and terrorizing the population into a state of paralyzed submission. Which appears to be just exactly what they are intent on doing. If the people are allowed to freely access information, listen, ask questions, discuss and debate, and to demand that these people be held accountable to standards not necessarily of their own making, they cannot sustain their position of power and control.

And they know it.

 

HAHAHAHA

 

The Dems gave him all his money through ev subsidies and regulatory credits. Screwing over americans trying to buy an ice car for under 25K.

His personal is income tax rate is nothing compared to that.

Your logic to is foolish and self serving.

Elon is the Dems gollum

 

The funniest thing to me is that this lady is from Beaumont ****in' Texas.

Butthole of the known universe spawned arguably the most powerful tech attorney in the world.

 

I could care less about Elon and even less about your opinion since you seemed to have pulled it out of your bunghole.

 

This thread is more toxic than twitter.

 

Weird that you take the time to post about him then.

really makes you think.

 

The Shadow Crew Who Encouraged Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover
Behind the scenes, fellow billionaires and internet provocateurs bent Tesla CEO’s ear; Jack Dorsey’s role

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sh...esla-jack-dorsey-11651260119?mod=hp_lead_pos9

excerpt:

As Elon Musk’s crusade against Twitter Inc. escalated from a war of words to a full-on takeover, he was egged on behind the scenes by a mix of voices—from fellow billionaires to internet trolls—with their own beefs with the social-media platform.

In Mr. Musk, a serial entrepreneur with a hard Twitter habit, these men found a vessel for pent-up animosity over the company’s content moderation and management. One of them had a very personal stake: Twitter’s co-founder and former Chief Executive Jack Dorsey, who resigned last year under pressure from his board, was whispering in Mr. Musk’s ear that Twitter should be a private company, people familiar with the matter say.

Now that Twitter’s board has accepted Mr. Musk’s $44 billion buyout offer, the Tesla Inc. CEO and world’s richest person is positioned to act on years of grievance and mold the platform in his own maverick image.

Mr. Musk declined to be interviewed, and it isn’t clear whether he took any of their advice to heart or merely followed his own gut. Likewise, he has been cagey about his plans for the platform should he complete the deal, beyond his oft-stated feelings that speech on Twitter—which he has said he views as the town square of the digital age—should be unfettered so long as it doesn’t violate the law.

People who have spoken to him and his team recently say Mr. Musk remains dismayed that former President Donald Trump is still barred from the platform.

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The two billionaires occasionally replied to each other on Twitter, and often traded private messages. One former Twitter executive said Mr. Dorsey would sometimes appear to space out in meetings because he was messaging Mr. Musk during the workday.

The two men’s shared interests, the former executives said, included exploring whether Twitter could be run more effectively as a private company, as it had been for its first seven years, after Mr. Dorsey launched it with several co-founders. Messrs. Dorsey and Musk were focused primarily on Twitter’s role as a potential public good, rather than a business focused on short-term profits.

After his exit, Mr. Dorsey turned openly critical of the company and its board of directors, many of whom he put in their roles.

The storming of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 last year created a fissure between Mr. Musk’s views and the company’s. In the lead-up to the riot, Mr. Trump posted tweets that Twitter executives viewed as inciting violence. Mr. Dorsey initially opposed banning Mr. Trump from the platform, but grew to see the move as necessary under Twitter’s rules, people familiar with the decision said.

The move riled Mr. Musk, who had previously described himself as “half Democrat half Republican” and endorsed Andrew Yang for the Democratic nomination in 2020.

Mr. Birchall—Mr. Musk’s de facto No. 2—in a text message to an associate described his boss’s view as: “He vehemently disagrees with censoring. Especially for a sitting president. Insane.” Mr. Trump has said he has no plans to tweet again.

Despite their disagreement over how to handle Mr. Trump’s account, the friendship between Messrs. Musk and Dorsey persisted. They stayed in contact over the past year as Mr. Dorsey, who typically keeps a long beard and a nose ring, started spending much of his time in French Polynesia, Hawaii and Costa Rica, where he pursued a meditation practice, according to people close to him.

“Elon is the singular solution I trust,” Mr. Dorsey tweeted on April 25, the day Twitter accepted Mr. Musk’s bid. “I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.”

If Mr. Musk makes good on his bid, Mr. Dorsey, who didn’t respond to requests for comment, stands to walk away with nearly $1 billion for his Twitter stake.

This January, as Twitter’s stock languished near two-year lows, Mr. Musk began buying up shares, according to filings. Though his stake would remain a secret for more than two months, his interest in the platform was palpable to some around him.

One investor in Mr. Musk’s companies who spoke to him during the buildup said the Tesla CEO was agitated by what he viewed as Twitter’s pattern of plausible deniability—of blaming content moderation decisions on an algorithm. That argument, broadly shared by those on the political right, posits that Twitter favors certain tweets and buries others further down on user feeds.

Twitter has said its platform is designed to surface high-quality information.

In March, Mr. Musk placed a call to Seth Dillon, the CEO of the Babylon Bee. The Bee, a right-leaning satirical publication modeled after The Onion, had been suspended from Twitter for a tweet that mocked a prominent transgender female government official as “Man of the Year.” During the call, according to Mr. Dillon, Mr. Musk asked to confirm that it was true that the website had been suspended for the infraction, and mused that he might need to buy Twitter.

His stake was already public by April 13, the day before Mr. Musk was slated to sit for an interview with TED leader Chris Anderson at the TED conference in Vancouver. After flying into the city, Mr. Musk headed to a Nordstrom store to pick up a suit, according to a person familiar with the matter. That evening, he gathered with a small group, including Mr. Anderson and Mr. Jurvetson, who parted ways with his namesake venture-capital firm in 2017 after the firm launched an internal investigation about his behavior toward women, among other matters. He later left the Tesla board, but continues as a director of privately held SpaceX.
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more at the link

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Not the worst response by AOC.

I would.

 

Not if you don't want to miss legislative sessions or nightly cash calls giving depositions in defamation suits from two separate multi-decabillionaires.