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America is living in a disinformation space. There is a reason Musk bought Twitter, and it's not because he thought he could make it better for users.
See also: hyperreality
Also the reason why Saudis funded it. They want a piece of the post truth pie. But why did Elon even bother with the Saudi money? Is it as simple as wanting to keep the high score?
He paid $44 billion for twitter (of his and others' money) but the presidency of the richest country on earth only cost $250 million? It doesn't add up at all.
He doesn't have money. He has assets. That means he need's to take out a loan against his assets. And who would have done such a thing for a money pit that was twitter?
I suspect it was planned out. He "jokingly" says he wanted to buy twitter. Courts say it was a legitimate offer and he has to go through with it. He protested for a moment then says oh well, ya got me. Commence purges that likely had to do with political beliefs, then here we are, buying the president of the USA for 1/176th the price of twitter. I'm just rambling here but where's the missing piece? Or is it just that cut and dry?
Same thought came to mind two days ago. In retrospect, that Twitter purchase appears so excellent as to make the attempted backtracking look contrived and intentional.
But there are other possible explanations. Maybe he jumped the gun before his planning partners had agreed to.
And I'm reminded there doesn't need to be any conspiracy here because I can't think of what would have been different if the purchase were announced as a one intended to influence politics.
Wasn't he pushing the angle that Twitter falsely stated the user base because of the high numbers of bots and therefore falsely stated the business value? I think he was trying to push the sale value down. I could easily be wrong, I didnt follow it closely.
Rambling a bit
Ppl don’t get it. They yell ‘give all his money to us’ but then the stock market crashes when billions of ‘dollars’ are pulled out of the system. I think he was reported to have sold stocks pre-twitter sales but he didn’t have the cash up front. He probably takes no salary and just pulls from company profits into an estate fund like it’s his bank account so most of his wealth is in his companies. Twitter has turned into the red pill space we would expect of America and not the Saudis prolly because Saudis put in 1/44th of the money it took to buy Twitter. There are millions of other multi millionaires, investment groups, etc he could much more money from.
The majority of VPN users uses it for Netflix. Having your ip hidden means fuck all if you still consume the same media. Also: as if "only 25%" isn't still a significant amount of the population