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With all the countless ways a deal for anything can fall through it is disingenuous to attribute a deal falling through as Musk lying. If anything it shows tha

With all the countless ways a deal for anything can fall through it is disingenuous to attribute a deal falling through as Musk lying. If anything it shows that Musk announces deals too soon. Does it look bad for Musk to say he is building a factory then not doing it? Hell yeah. Does that mean Musk lied and was never serious about building a factory or buying Twitter? Not at all.

mikkergp 4y ago
Except they're not in the negotiation phase right they're in the deal is already made phase. Musk signed a binding agreement to buy twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_levine/status/1545152302142689281 https://twitter.com/matt_levine/status/1545152302142689281
dragontamer 4y ago
> With all the countless ways a deal for anything can fall through Except there's a very limited number of ways for the deal to fall through, and the contract is public. https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001418091/e61e4376-e2c5-4d54-8782-d63fc5e096e9.pdf https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001418091/e61e437... The question is now if the law applies to Elon Musk or not. I hope it does, because laws only work if they apply to everybody equally. There's no part of the contract that says Elon Musk can leave because he messed up his bot calculations. Maybe Twitter blinks and decides not to fight a billionaire over the issue. But if that happens, then we're in a situation where we tacitly agree that billionaires don't have to follow the law (because they figure they can leave any contract they sign unilaterally)