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Elon Musk Proposes “a literal d*ck measuring contest” With Mark Zuckerberg
- mad_tortoise 3y agoIs there a psychological term for people with immense power having the most fragile ego's?
- jazzyjackson 3y agoIt's so annoying how any press around twitter makes it sound like Elon had 44 bills lying around to personally buy the company for himself. He may have put himself in charge with that money, but whose money was it again?
- Someone 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon_Musk#Takeover_bid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon...: “On April 20, Musk disclosed that he had secured financing provided by a group of banks led by Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays, MUFG, Société Générale, Mizuho Bank, and BNP Paribas, for a potential tender offer to acquire the company.[30][31] The funding included $7 billion of senior secured bank loans; $6 billion in subordinated debt; $6.25 billion in bank loans to Musk personally, secured by $62.5 billion of his Tesla stock; $20 billion in cash equity from Musk, to be provided by sales of Tesla stock and other assets; and $7.1 billion in equity from 19 independent investors.“ So, about 56% was Musk’s money and, if I’m understanding that correcly, 28% Twitter’s, 16% independent investors.
- rsynnott 3y agoImagine being the person at one of those banks who signed off on this.
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- bsaul 3y agoI fail to see if some people hate musk so much that they fail to even recognize the most obvious joke. I don’t understand how anyone can read that tweet other than a way for musk to say « this whole dick measuring contest between meta and twitter is ridiculous »
- foldr 3y agoI think people recognize that it's joke but think that it's a dumb joke.
- creato 3y agoHow is it ridiculous exactly? It’s not just a dick measuring contest that can just be called off on a whim, it’s serious business competition.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> a way for musk to say « this whole dick measuring contest between meta and twitter is ridiculous He started it! The joke backfires because it’s a cowardly cop-out from admitting fault. Humour has to have a kernel of truth to it. This tweet is a kid slapping a cat, getting swiped and declaring—to nobody in particular—that all cats are idiots. No!
- beardyw 3y agoWow, we now have the perfect metaphor for the age we live in. Early second millennium is the Time Of The ....s
- DoItToMe81 3y agoFully grown adults censoring their own articles l*ke this is pathetic and offputting. I do not understand why it has become so common.
- dkersten 3y agoIt’s not even real censorship. Everyone knows that the word is “dick”. It’s like Louis CK once said, “the f word” is far worse than just saying “fuck” because you’re making the other person say it in their heads while washing your own hands of having said it. If it’s so offensive then don’t make me think it. If you want to say fuck or dick or whatever, just say it.
- tibbydudeza 3y agoIt is simply glorious to watch how it is all imploding for Twitter of late and their egomaniac CEO Elon. The power is with the people and not billionaires - it seems if your product stinks and a viable alternative comes along, that they will jump ship.
- Version467 3y agoI sometimes wonder how Elon Musk would be as a person if he hadn’t become filthy rich. Does being the richest man on the planet just enable his craziness, or did it cause it? But then I let go of that thought, because I don’t want to give a petulant man-child who is apparently proposing literal dick measuring contests any more attention than they already get.
- Version467 3y agoI know this breaks the rules by being needlessly snarky as well as not adding anything whatsoever to the conversation. Will remove if anyone is annoyed by this, just felt the need to type it out.
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- damnesian 3y agoThe net result of all this dick measuring is I'm getting seriously turned off by both megalomaniac's platforms.
- GianFabien 3y agoI was looking forward to the live streamed cage fight.
- jqpabc123 3y agoSo what does this achieve? It further validates an armchair diagnosis of rampant meglomania. The deeper/followup question --- why do they think this is good for business?
- jfengel 3y agoI think that's looking at it backwards. They both have more money than they can spend. They don't need something to be good for business. Rather, they need their business to be good for them. They grow their business to prove that their dicks are bigger -- metaphorically, until now. They might even agree with that armchair diagnosis of megalomania. They'd just disagree that megalomania is a bad thing, if you are in fact the greatest human being in the world. One does have to wonder what it will do for Musk's (metaphorical) dick if he manages to kill off Twitter -- not the lost money, which is pocket change, but the business failure. He certainly has SpaceX and Tesla to fall back on, and if he can push on to Mars everything else will be trivia.
- jqpabc123 3y agoThey grow their business to prove that their dicks are bigger -- metaphorically, until now. So we do finally agree --- in a circular, roundabout manner. They *do* need something to be good for business --- otherwise, they can't grow their business and prove their dick is bigger. In any case; acting like a megalomaniac is counterproductive to achieving this objective.
- jfengel 3y agoIndeed, it does seem to be hard to pin down what the victory conditions are. It's clearly not money. It has something to do with control of the public discourse, but Musk is destroying Twitter's influence. It's hard to tell if he knows that. He seems to think he's got some kind of grand long-term plan, but even if he does, his short-term behavior doesn't seem to contribute. If he thinks he bought up an enormous customer base for his "everything app", he seems badly mistaken.
- Pxtl 3y agoMusk has become a cautionary tale for millions of nerds about what end-stage internet poisoning looks like. He's one of the richest men in the world. He could have literally anything he wants. He had the respect and adoration of a massive amount of the public, getting loving name-drops and cameos in Iron Man and Star Trek. Instead of indulging in a spectacularly hedonistic life, or pushing hard on his massively successful world-changing businesses, or spending time with his flotilla of offspring, he spends his time acting like an edgy transphobic 14-year-old on twitter. What a waste. The internet is bad for you.