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All of that plus the original intention was to buy twitter and stop the bots.

solardev 3y ago
...was that really his original intention...
pavlov 3y ago
“Stop the bots” was a made-up rationale when he wanted out of the deal. The original intention was to buy Twitter so Musk would be the most popular man in the world, his comedy would be appreciated by a billion followers soon, and as a nice bonus they’d buy whatever crypto he decided to pump. The Twitter buyout was maybe the very last major business decision executed entirely on 2021 moon logic.
- solardev 3y ago
  > The Twitter buyout was maybe the very last major business decision executed entirely on 2021 moon logic. You know, a part of me hopes he makes it to Mars in my lifetime and just proceeds to take over the planet, running an alternative society there. Planet Musk: The Reality Show™ would be quite the thing to watch... from 140 million miles away.
  - babypuncher 3y ago
    I feel like this is how we get a much dumber version of the MCR from The Expanse. Like, they wouldn't be justifying their weird space fascism as a means to terraform Mars, it would all just be one big joke to fuel Musk's ego, and somehow a bunch of people end up being stupid enough to buy into it.
    - bryanrasmussen 3y ago
      I was thinking it would be sort of Martian Time Slip, only just Elon Musk instead of Ernie Kott all the time.
  - rsynnott 3y ago
    In the past few years, I’ve read at least two sci-fi novels (an Alastair Reynolds one and one other, maybe Ken MacLeod) which made passing reference to a failed Musk Mars base. Seems to be a popular idea.
    - 15457345234 3y ago
      > Alastair Reynolds I always did wonder if the Musk Dogs species from Pushing Ice - who trick the colonists into blowing up their planet or something along those lines - was a vague dig at Musk...
- refulgentis 3y ago
  Lol @ the Twitter purchase being a "jump the shark" moment for the gogo COVID era Lol'ing at its accuracy, and it being obvious once you hear it, but something that didn't cross my mind until now. Even the constant rolling firings at BigCos: I find it hard to believe companies would have cut as quickly and aggressively and continually as they did without Musk's...housecleaning?...making them look reasonable in comparison.
- Karellen 3y ago
  > they’d buy whatever crypto [Musk] decided to pump. For a moment, I'd forgotten that was a thing Musk actually did. I got so used to bots impersonating him pumping cryptocurrencies, my memories had rewritten the times he did do it himself into more impersonators doing it instead.
rsynnott 3y ago
And if you believe that, you’ll believe anything.

...was that really his original intention...

“Stop the bots” was a made-up rationale when he wanted out of the deal. The original intention was to buy Twitter so Musk would be the most popular man in the world, his comedy would be appreciated by a billion followers soon, and as a nice bonus they’d buy whatever crypto he decided to pump. The Twitter buyout was maybe the very last major business decision executed entirely on 2021 moon logic.

solardev 3y ago
> The Twitter buyout was maybe the very last major business decision executed entirely on 2021 moon logic. You know, a part of me hopes he makes it to Mars in my lifetime and just proceeds to take over the planet, running an alternative society there. Planet Musk: The Reality Show™ would be quite the thing to watch... from 140 million miles away.
- babypuncher 3y ago
  I feel like this is how we get a much dumber version of the MCR from The Expanse. Like, they wouldn't be justifying their weird space fascism as a means to terraform Mars, it would all just be one big joke to fuel Musk's ego, and somehow a bunch of people end up being stupid enough to buy into it.
  - bryanrasmussen 3y ago
    I was thinking it would be sort of Martian Time Slip, only just Elon Musk instead of Ernie Kott all the time.
- rsynnott 3y ago
  In the past few years, I’ve read at least two sci-fi novels (an Alastair Reynolds one and one other, maybe Ken MacLeod) which made passing reference to a failed Musk Mars base. Seems to be a popular idea.
  - 15457345234 3y ago
    > Alastair Reynolds I always did wonder if the Musk Dogs species from Pushing Ice - who trick the colonists into blowing up their planet or something along those lines - was a vague dig at Musk...
refulgentis 3y ago
Lol @ the Twitter purchase being a "jump the shark" moment for the gogo COVID era Lol'ing at its accuracy, and it being obvious once you hear it, but something that didn't cross my mind until now. Even the constant rolling firings at BigCos: I find it hard to believe companies would have cut as quickly and aggressively and continually as they did without Musk's...housecleaning?...making them look reasonable in comparison.
Karellen 3y ago
> they’d buy whatever crypto [Musk] decided to pump. For a moment, I'd forgotten that was a thing Musk actually did. I got so used to bots impersonating him pumping cryptocurrencies, my memories had rewritten the times he did do it himself into more impersonators doing it instead.

rsynnott 3y ago

And if you believe that, you’ll believe anything.