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So amusing. If you haven't seen some of Elon Musk's antics leading up to this, you really should: Today - [image] 'In all fairness your honor, my client was in

• ardfard 5y ago
  That's the perks of having f.u. money.
  • mnd999 5y ago
    Sure, but why do you want that on your board? Elon might have enough money already but everyone else would like to continue making it. He is very good at guerrilla marketing, but I guess they decided it wasn’t worth it.
• coolso 5y ago
  > jesus christ is he immature This seems to be the #1 complaint about him. Honestly, so what? Since when is Twitter serious business? To take it a step further... why does life have to always be serious business? There's plenty enough of that as it is. I think it's telling that people are up in arms and furious that Elon Musk might... bring back a little free speech and equal moderation to Twitter? I mean the threat isn't that the left is going to be censored more, it's that the right will be censored less equivalent to how the left is currently "censored" there. And that's what people are scared of, evidently. Excellent ideas, apparently, require strict censorship and moderation to propagate. One of the number one complaints about our last President was the same thing: "he's immature". So finally, we got a super mature President who's in office currently. Along with super high inflation, super high gas prices, supply chain issues, and a Putin who evidently thinks he can get away with anything now. "Immature" isn't always a bad thing.
  • Ekaros 5y ago
    > Since when is Twitter serious business? Since the day of IPO... We are talking about relatively expensive publicly traded company here. There should be some level of moderation with those people who can actually control and affect such company. Sure if you don't own single share do whatever you want, but once you have certain threshold of ownership, I expect certain level of professionalism.
  • otterley 5y ago
    Character matters a lot. Our leaders should be moral as well as financial leaders. As for the president, you give that position way too much credit (or, inversely, blame). They have no authority or control over gas prices, supply chain issues, or autocrats invading other countries. They’re not God; they’re just doing a job described in Article II of the Constitution. Republican or Democrat; it doesn’t matter.
    • coolso 5y ago
      > They have no authority or control over gas prices, supply chain issues, or autocrats invading other countries. They may not have direct control... but nobody is arguing the President literally said "supply chain issues, start existing!" or failed to say "gas prices, you better not rise!" while waiving his finger. Presidents absolutely have indirect control over all of those things though, and more.
      • otterley 5y ago
        Suppose you were President. How would you control those things, and with what authority? And how would you prevent unintended consequences that are worse than the problems you set out to solve? You don’t have to answer this question, but it’s a really useful thought exercise. Leadership is much harder than people often realize.
        • coolso 5y ago
          I would probably use Trump’s playbook during his administration as a guide since it resulted in low inflation, low gas prices, no supply chain issues, a Putin kept in check, etc. In contrast, the current President definitely appears to be finding leadership harder than he realized despite his 50 year career in politics.
• k8sToGo 5y ago
  He seems to have cleaned up some of them.
• mlindner 5y ago
  All those posts you mentioned have been deleted though.
  • saagarjha 5y ago
    Definitely doesn’t make it any less immature.