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> 2) Elon is going to get away with it. And he really shouldn’t - he already waived his right to back out based on any of this. Just because you like someone sh
by anonymouse008 4y ago
> 2) Elon is going to get away with it. And he really shouldn’t - he already waived his right to back out based on any of this. Just because you like someone shouldn’t make them above the law, and basically the takeaway here will be that like Trump he’s above the law because a large enough section of the public likes him.
There’s no getting away with it. This was one hundred percent his plan the whole time - throw Twitter into chaos internally. Now for what reasons remain to be seen, but his extensive use of Twitter was highly unusual as a high profile CEO basically rewriting the PR game (which the SEC tried to reign in). That experience gives him unique insight into how Twitter works and what power it holds - he may very well feel a government party is influencing the platform too much and he’d rather destroy Twitter than lose control of it.
- croes 4y agoDon't make it bigger than it is. In that case, he was probably just lucky. Otherwise, they let him get away with a lot because he's just rich enough.
- anonymouse008 4y agoIdk - it was absurd when he used twitter so much, it was absurd when Tesla started trading like a penny stock with 50bn market cap moves in hours, there’s been a lot of absurdities that are just outside of the hard fast rules that this would fit a pattern
- croes 4y agoBut that would mean Mudge lied as he said his whistleblowing had nothing to do with Musk and the timing is just a coincidence.
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- zimpenfish 4y agoHe might just be sticking it to Twitter because they ousted his friend, Jack, and that just happens to line up with another opportunity to shaft them along Elon's axis. Coincidence but not entirely random.
- bandyaboot 4y ago
- m00x 4y agoNot sure if this is satire or some Alex Jones-level conspiracy theory.
- mnd999 4y agoDo people really like Elon? There isn’t much to like about him. Respect his achievements, sure , but actually like him?
- highwaylights 4y agoI don't know that you'd need to wait for an as-yet-to-be-revealed motive if you were looking for one. He got a $44 billion dollar excuse to sell Tesla stock at the height of an unprecedented bubble without causing his zealots to do the same and crash the stock. I'm not saying that's why that happened, but here we are.