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I feel like people miss just how hard he tried to not buy Twitter. It seems clear that he was doing his usual market manipulation/dick swinging on social media,

• smoldesu 3y ago
  The real winners are the shareholders. They unloaded an overvalued stock at a ludicrous price, and got to walk away Scot-free while Elon tended to the burning mess. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they were tired of Dorsey's indecision too, and just wanted the whole thing to be over. And they got their wish, looking innocent as an angel and pure as driven snow.
• krapp 3y ago
  It's weird how deeply that seems to have been memory-holed. It was practically a meme how every week Elon would come up with some crazy new scheme to back out of buying Twitter. I think Elon's original offer was even a weed joke on Twitter that was taken seriously, although I may be wrong about that. What happened is that, for possibly the first time in his life, his actions had consequences he was forced to accept. Now the narrative is that it was all some 5D chess move we mere mortals still struggle to comprehend. Like no, he never wanted Twitter, and now that he has it, he's just fucking around.
• version_five 3y ago
  Yeah, I actually mostly like what Musk has done with Twitter in terms of allowing more opinions, encouraging media that doesn't toe the mainstream line, and community notes, but this is still the right answer. He reall didn't want to buy it, it was a dumb 420 meme gone wrong.