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Who would have guessed that a social media platform owned by an apartheid-loving fascist would trend right wing? I mean, Musk is such a stable genius.
/s just in case.
And all he had to do was act like he wanted to back track on the offer and the courts forced the sale through quickly rather than slow things down and consider whether social media should even be a privately owned thing run at the whims of a guy that used that same platform to try to ruin someone's life with a baseless pedophilia accusation because they hurt he's feelings when telling him his sub idea wouldn't work and he was just getting in the way rather than helping anything.
I just wonder if the courts fell for his ploy or if they just played the part they were supposed to and the whole thing was an act.
Also, I don't think it's a coincidence that he spent 44 billion on Twitter and then, after pretty much ruining it, for some reason Tesla shareholders (which are majority institutional shareholders) vote through a 50 billion compensation package for him.