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[–] TehWorld@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wasn’t president Musk’s announcement that he was going to BUY twitter a tweet? Seeing as it’s worth fuck-all now that’s in the running.

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah though his total demolition of the company wasn’t done by that tweet. He had to keep making bad decisions for that!

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[–] Khaliso@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

To be fair, buying Twitter was instrumental in him getting Trump to the presidency.

Like any Billionaire, he needed a media outlet to manufacture consent with - I'd argue that him buying Twitter wasn't as stupid a move as it initially seems.

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[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 year ago

I think he used Twitter to help Trump as a way of salvaging that investment, but I don’t think he originally bought it with that intention.

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[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Buying the company was the decision to take over the communications channel by dictators worldwide. It wasn't an accident and he doesn't care about the value of shitter in the long term.

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[–] parody@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hi I’m @parody & I bought the spectacle