Musk’s About Face: Tells Twitter He’s Now Planning To Move Forward With The Purchase
from the dafuq? dept
So this was unexpected (well, perhaps not that unexpected) but Elon Musk sent a letter to Twitter last night stating he now intends to move ahead with the original deal to buy Twitter, with no changes to the terms.
Gentlemen:
On behalf of X Holdings I, Inc., X Holdings II, Inc. and Elon R. Musk (the “Musk Parties”), we write to notify you that the Musk Parties intend to proceed to closing of the transaction contemplated by the April 25, 2022 Merger Agreement, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein and pending receipt of the proceeds of the debt financing contemplated thereby, provided that the Delaware Chancery Court enter an immediate state of the action, Twitter v. Musk, et al…. (the “Action”) and adjourn the trial and all other proceedings related thereto pending such closing or further order of the Court.
The Musk Parties provide this notice without admission of liability and without waiver of or prejudice to any of their rights, including their right to assert the defenses and counterclaims pending in the Action, including in the event the Action is not stayed, Twitter fails or refuses to comply with its obligations under the April 25, 2022 Merger Agreement or if the transaction contemplated thereby otherwise fails to close.
Separately, Musk filed with the SEC about the letter he had sent.
What does this all mean? Well… there’s a shit ton of speculation, but not much is actually known.
This does make it significantly more likely that Musk will in fact own Twitter outright in the very near future. But it’s not a sure thing. Some are arguing that it’s just another stall tactic, which it could be — but if that’s true, Chancellor McCormick seems likely to rip Elon’s brain out of his skull and forcefeed it to him (metaphorically speaking).
I joked that he was paying $44 billion to avoid more of his embarrassing text messages from coming out in the discovery process. But a few people suggested there might actually be something to that: mainly in that he was getting pressure from his friends and financiers to make this go away so they don’t get further embarrassed. That could be, but honestly, if that were the case, I’d think he’d have been better off offering to settle with Twitter for $10 billion and getting out of the entire mess for cheaper.
Another, perhaps more realistic, issue is that in just a couple of days Musk was scheduled for a two day deposition by Twitter’s lawyers in the case. Given what we’ve seen in the case already, with Musk constantly trying to mislead the court and multiple bits of discovery being used to prove it, there was a good chance that the deposition was going to go very, very, very badly for Musk. It’s quite likely his own lawyers were well aware of that and may have finally gotten that across to him.
As the always excellent Chancery Daily notes, this is not over yet. Twitter can’t just assume that because Musk says now he’ll complete the deal he’ll actually complete the deal. He’s already proven quite clearly that you can’t take him at his word on a binding contract. So it seems likely that Twitter is rushing to put in place some fairly ironclad locks that are the legalistic equivalent of “if you fuck around again, you’re going to find out so bad you’ll to wish you’d never heard of Twitter.” And Twitter has the legal team to do that.
Here’s Twitter’s statement on the matter, which may be the most expensive tweet in history if you count the legal billing hours that presumably went into reviewing it before it went out:
This is exactly what the company line should be. It’s the same line the company has been using since the beginning of this mess, and if it doesn’t want to get in trouble, it needs to keep the same message like that going forward.
But I can guarantee that an army of lawyers are scrambling in the background to figure out how all of this works and how to lock it all down.
My guess (and it’s purely a guess) is that this does lead to Elon owning Twitter. They will sign some sort of much-more-strict deal that leaves basically no room for Elon to wriggle out of it. He’ll have a month or two to collect up whatever money he was promised from others, and then… it’ll become Elon’s Twitter.
Just in time for the Supreme Court to tell him he’s now guilty of providing material assistance to ISIS. On that note, someone tell Elon and his fans that now might be a good time to start supporting Section 230.
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Wow.
So is Elon still on the hook for anything? Because Elon has proven how volatile and untrustworthy his personality and business negotiation acumen are.
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Concievably the 44 Billion he personally guarenteed.
The rest of his fucking around doesn’t matter to the result of the deal if he purchases at the original price. None of the harm hes done to twitter will have affected the investors, only himself, so I cant imagine what legal issues he could hold responsibility for.
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“None of the harm hes done to twitter will have affected the investors, only himself”
Not really true, these things don’t happen in a vacuum, and all the nonsense has affected the market at various points. This is a guy who’s been fined by the SEC for stupid drunken tweets that have seriously affected the market, so it’s hard to pretend that this kind of activity has no effect.
I’m not sure of the states of all the actions, but IIRC he’s facing several lawsuits, both from Twitter investors who claim harm from his shenanigans (I’m not sure if these are nullified if he actually goes through with the purchase), and from Tesla investors (the source for the purchase money comes from stock sales, and the guarantees are based on Tesla stock, which has affected their prices as well).
The actual damages awarded to Musk himself might end up being nothing because billionaires don’t exactly get hit with meaningful punishment for anything they do, but in theory at least he should be on the hook for a few things.
I’d feel sorry for the dipshit if he weren’t capable of buying and selling my ass a million times over for no reason at all.
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Don’t feel bad, he only wants to buy horses to sexually harass women with, not asses. After all, he’s enough of the latter all by himself, who could need anything more?
Nah, never ever ever feel sorry for him. Feel sorry for everyone else who has to live in a world where he’s in some way relevant.
I’m a bit confused. CDA 230 explicitly does NOT cover criminal charges. Is providing material assistance to ISIS not a criminal act, or is there some other way CDA 230 applies in this case?
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it blocks civil action by those looking for deep pockets to pick by bringing a civil case alleging…
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It has to do with the two cases with regards to section 230 that the supreme court has taken.
If the supreme court rules against section 230 in the first then making a recommendation about what to view or who to follow would void section 230 protections.
Which means that if an ISIS supporter would voice that support on Twitter and the algorithms would recommend that tweet or person (for example through the search option) it would make Twitter materially liable for supporting ISIS.
Believe Elon once...
Shame on Elon.
Believe Elon twice, shame on me.
I thought that at least a portion of the purchase price was thru an investment group pulled together by Elon. I can’t imagine that the group is willing to go along with this.
Maybe I can get my data and delete my account now.
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All your data are belong to us!
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All your tweet are belong to Musk!
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Yeah no…
With his ego and thin skin, I can see myself winning.
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I often wonder if poking at his ego really would be enough to make him emotionally implode and self-destruct. It certainly seems the past several years have been that on a large scale, in slow motion. By becoming so powerful and vocal, he’s puffed up into a public figure with a large social attack surface, who just happens to constantly give people motive to point out what a scumbag he is.
Ironically the best solution for everyone involved is for him to stop being a scumbag. Admittedly, that’s a lot of things he needs to fix about himself. Lacking self-awareness, that ego of his is his weak spot and bloated by attention, his skin is thinner than ever; all of that makes him easy to effectively mock, but I think it makes him actually deciding and taking the steps to be a decent person basically impossible for him.
Can he not just go away?
I think Elon's lawyers finally got to him...
And they told him that doing what he said he was going to do in the first place was likely the cheapest outcome he was going to get. Anything else and he’d probably get burned worse.
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Did anyone see Musk's Tweets® this week?
He assumed my position, that Ukraine needs to be “independent” of NATO, Crimea [ Russia’s access to a southern port ] has been part of Russia for hundreds of years, and if the obscene proxy war continues without peace diplomacy the only fact is that many many more will keep dying. Musk “claimed” that the risk of a nuclear exchange is to great to contemplate.
Like, Why?
Of course, tens of thousands of obviously more mature, knowledgeable political Twitterites let into Musk: anyone not supporting the necessary hate and pride that war necessitates is ignorant, psychotically delusional, and WILL crawl back under their rock.
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I’m not a fan of the war, but I don’t see how the world letting Russia steamroll all over Ukraine would’ve helped anybody but Vladimir Putin. The war should end peacefully, rather than put us on the brink of a nuclear war that a small number of people may survive. But the war should’ve never happened in the first place; the only reason it did was because of Putin’s genocidal ambition.
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It feels unfair (to Ukraine and Ukranians) to say this, but:
Negotiating with Putin makes about as much sense as negotiating with Elon Musk, give or take a modicum of sense. Neither is motivated to communicate and thus negotiate in good faith. Maybe Elon Musk’s recent ‘suggestion’ to Ukraine is more a sign that his and Putin’s thinking is even more aligned than simply being dishonest, attention-seeking, and thus manipulative.
I’ve stopped looking at Elon Musk’s actions as driven by a desire to build anything, nor even the profit motive. His endeavors seem more driven by the hate he has for the father he spends so much of his life imitating. When people aren’t impressed by his new toys (the Optimus robot, for example), he throws a tantrum (him saying this nonsense about Ukraine negotiating away Crimea & being neutral etc), then attempts to reconcile with those he’s angered for the sake of attention (agreeing to buy Twitter again or whatever this latest nothingburger ends up being).
I’m not a counselor, much less his councilor; however his public behavior follows the relatively consistent pattern described above, as well as the amount of time he spends complaining about his incredibly-creepy father and then acting similarly to his same incredibly-father. This isn’t diagnosis, but a description of behaviors he returns to again and again.
My team’s blog called for Elon Musk to ‘no longer contest his own purchase of Twitter’ literally yesterday; maybe this was always his most-likely next move, especially given the looming deposition. However this latest lawsuit move just feels like another attempt to pull one over on Twitter/the court/investors/etc and to misdirect anyone still paying attention to him. He has a tendency to try and center himself in ever situation he’s involved in, which makes writing about it feel like indulging him (unfortunately). To paraphrase one of his fanatical followers, “I’ll pay attention to Elon Musk and write about him, but I won’t like it.” I’d rather not feed his trolling, but he has billions of dollars to keep it fed on, and I at least personally think criticizing him is the only way to negate his centi-billion dollar feedbag in the long run.
Returning to his comments about Ukraine, it’s incredibly crass of him to use this war to try and burnish his now-ruined public reputation. It certainly will garner favor with some Trumpers who share his viewpoint, though I doubt it will win back many of hippies who lost interest in Tesla even if it’s similar to things Noam Chomsky has said about the war already. If Elon Musk’s reputation was a pile of buffalo chips, he just dropped a match on that pile with his latest bits of nonsense. I don’t think he can put that out no matter how many leaks he takes on it.
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If you look up the political donations of SpaceX employees over the last few years, surprisingly, most are toward Democrats. The same Democrats who never saw a war they did not support. Musk was shocked at the undertow when he suggested diplomacy instead of slaughtering thousands of people to re-align world petroleum markets. Most of the US conflicts in the last century were to protect markets & I can say with 40 years of personal authority, NO ONE who speaks against a US involved slaughter will reach any significant press, billionaires are the exception in this country.
See
https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/13/130AEF1531746AAD6AC03EF59F91E1A1_Killing_Hope_Blum_William.pdf
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That’s nice. But self-determination isn’t something you’re allowed to simply take from someone consequence free. And Crimea, as part of Ukraine at the time, was indeed granted independence.
That too is nice. But Ukrainian territory is not currently being attacked by NATO. Perhaps you should look at recent news coverage (say, the last half year) and see what threats Ukraine is facing these days.
… and yet people – including Musk himself – continue to contemplate it. Me, I think Putin using nuclear weapons is his chance to cross the Rubicon.
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…people who are not Ukraine to stop trying to determine their policies. Considering that Putin has been the loudest voice calling for their ‘neutrality’, what does that term even mean, really?
All it translates to is not asking for NATO assistance when being invaded by Russia, the country the Putin leads. Yes, ‘neutral’ is prevarication in this context that essentially asks for Ukraine surrender to Russia. There are two ways this war ends: 1) Ukraine loses and so does everyone (including Russia, since it lost before even starting this war again or 2) All of Ukraine retains/regains its independence from Russia and decides how it wants NATO membership to go without being coerced.
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Except it, and the two tiny eastern pockets this war began on, we’re self determined not to be part of the current/recent Ukraine.
No. But would we be here if the initial demands for independence were granted years ago? Because the pretext and subtext here is the freedom of regions that have declared themselves free of the current Ukrainian government multiple times over years of hardship as second-class minority citizens. We don’t know and cannot know.
As dreadful a thought as it is, it’s extremely unlikely. If Russia launched a nuke the response would be immediate, total, and complete. He’s on a crazed drive. But but I don’t think he’s suicidal.
Russia would simply be erased in response. Along with most of the planet.
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It’s funny how you are so concerned about the alleged voting fraud in the last US election, but you have no problems at all accepting that the votes from the referendum in Donetsk and Luhansk where correct even though there are numerous reports of severe irregularities from multiple independent sources. There are documented examples of people voting multiple times, no identity checks, no paper trails, plus the fact that separatists threatened and killed pro-Ukrainians.
Seems you can’t really stop yourself from making up excuses for insurrectionists wherever they are in the world.
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First, I am aware of the factual discrepancy in how they intentionally de-categorised Russian descendent state borns as ukrainian. As opposed to those who were non-citizen residents.
Take a slightly less political look at the numbers
That argument isn’t going to work for anyone with the ability for critical thinking. Not when you comment statements like
“no independent insight into who actually voted and how the votes where counted”
There’s no independent insight or oversight in the IS.
And who knows who votes when all you give is a name. No ID?
So? You simply can not (so will not) find a single place where I suggest the actual proven fraud was anything more than a blip incapable of changing the election. Since 100% of my comments on the process of 2020 relate to either lone Wolf criminals (like the post office employees and harvesters who discarded ballots in bull or mass).
Or the usurpation of democracy by would-be-king governors who illegally made changes to the election process by office and not through state legislatures.
I mean, the very things you claim are missing from the independence voting in Ukraine are the very things one party here is against “…, no identity checks, no paper trails,”
You don’t come across convincing when you demand someone else do the very things you abhor here.
Although I shouldn’t be too surprised. Some Democrats have called for ALL who voted for trump to be investigated. Every one.
Guilty until proven innocent. So It makes sense you you support a government sending in actors in the middle of the night to kidnap people based solely on political ideas. Killing anyone who doesn’t come quietly when awoken from sleep at 2am with violent intrusion in their home.
I’m a libertarian. I support the right of individual choice of destiny and the responsibility for one’s own choices.
But part of liberty involves the ability of self.
At the end of the American revolution, most who did not wish to stay we’re allowed safe passage to leave. Including actual fighters.
That is the mandate of peaceful settlement following armed independence.
It is an aspect that was allowed following WWII. And most countries did the same with the end of the USSR. With redrawing of borders in the 90s many small near-total-majority border pockets where re-distributed to neighbours.
So again, I truly believe that what happened was the fault of Ukraine’s choices over a stubborn period of years.
The border communities wanted nothing to do with the new government. They tried for peaceful separation and were met with brutality, murder, or enslavement. The locals fought back against that. And we’re further slaughtered.
Ukraine’s choices where no better than what the US did to native peoples here.
One can support the people without agreeing with a governmental choice. But the propaganda of “The West” has ignored the suffering, as it so often does, of the minority at the core of the conflict. For years! Russia’s recent and bizarre counter propaganda is just as problematic. In that, reality is lost in shite from both ideals.
Now because of international stubbornness and god games, we have two large countries obliterating their civilian populations.
And the very people at the heart of the conflict are near completely lost. Dying, dead, or wishing they were.
What benefit for Ukraine for a non-countable percentage of land holding. What benefit to Russia now facing 5 movements within that have generally co-existed since the 1700s.
No, this is why so many outside of the US two-party system are outside it. 200 years in someone else’s war.
These same issues on a less violent, overall, level are brewing in this country today!
Large populations vs large city voting blocks.
California is looking at splitting in half. The north east is looking at recarving 4 states. Illinois still seeks to jettison Chicago. New york has multiple movements to split off the city area.
Texas is, has, and continues to have the LEGAL right to repartition and very well may do so.
All of these may be our Ukraine.
Those in power, there, and here, demand dominant obedience from the ruled.
People like you, looking at the big picture through your own unshakable political lens, fail to see the other side as anything but dirt.
Lost in big politics is the reality of human life.
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I don’t do politics, I look at facts. If you have factual evidence that the official demographic numbers for Ukraine’s Oblasts in 2013/2014 are wrong – present it.
Ah, so the US doesn’t have any kind election monitors at all and anyone can just vote after giving a random name? And apparently international election observers are forbidden in the US.
You have spent many posts hand-wringing about alleged voting-fraud how it must be investigated even though there where factual evidence available that mooted every one of your arguments. But as I pointed out, you accept without question a referendum in Donetsk that had so many documented irregularities it’s mindboggling.
Haha, find one post from me where I have said I abhor that practice. I happen to be of the opinion that all voters should show an ID – the problem the US has is that getting an ID that’s acceptable for voting in certain states are difficult for certain demographics and have been made even more difficult in Republican controlled districts over the years.
It’s funny you think I’m a democrat, it shows how your mindset is fixed in a us versus them mentality. I point out stupidity wherever I find it, and a majority of the democrats are stupid but they aren’t even on the same level as the republicans.
Your illogical rambling above about what you think I support isn’t rooted in reality one bit, it is a figment of your bad imagination because you had to make some shit up so you could “other” me.
You’ve read too much Russian propaganda again, what you had where a handful of pro-Russians and anti-government groups who protested – this is all very well-documented. There where no killings, no “secret police” abducting people, that came after the Russian-backed separatists took over and it was the separatists that did that and still do. Seems you have missed all the horror stories from those who fled or survived incarceration in Donetsk and Luhansk which have become totalitarian hellholes where they regularly torture and kill people who dare to speak up.
Also, lets talk about those “communities” who tried for peaceful separation – here’s a list of percentages of those opposing that idea from February 2014:
* 85.4% Mykolayiv Oblast
* 84.1% Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
* 84.6% Kherson Oblast
* 81.5% Zaporizhia Oblast
* 78.8% Odesa Oblast
* 65.6% Kharkiv Oblast
* 52.2% Donetsk Oblast
* 51.9% Luhansk Oblast
Ie, a majority in all Oblast’s where opposed to it which can only mean that you think it’s totally okay to violently overthrow a government if you don’t get what you want when you can’t get the votes for it.
International stubbornness? Russia started this, because no matter how you look on it – without Russia’s support, everyone who lived in Donetsk and Luhansk would have a much better life today and many of them would also be alive.
It seems you have an aversion of actually pointing the finger at those who are guilty, instead you try to spread the blame around in a frantic attempt at avoiding calling the murderers for what they really are.
Perhaps invest some more money into education and reducing inequality, because that are the root cause to almost all the problems that ails the US. But that requires politicians that are statesmen/women – something that the US are lacking because money equal politics and the gullible voters have the attention-span of goldfish unless it involves some drama.
As I said, I don’t do politics and I don’t live the US so I’m not handicapped by the distorted lens of hyperpartisanship that a majority of people from the US insists to view reality through. You call yourself libertarian, but all too often you echo the current US conservative views spiced up with some Russian talking points. And in regards to seeing the “other side” as dirt, everyone is the other side for me and if a particular group or persons do dirty things, they are dirt.
I have the benefit of having lived and worked in different parts of the world throughout my life and been exposed to diverse political systems. I don’t adhere to any specific political spectrum because I’m a realist – anyone who places themselves at a specific point on the political spectrum have voluntarily restricted their thinking and acceptance of ideas and facts originating outside that political group.
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It’s Symantecs for political use.
They counted every Ukrainian born as Ukrainian. Ignoring heritage doesn’t erase it.
Bore does being born in a country make one supportive of the current government.
In some states, yes! That’s exactly the issue. Like in Illinois. If your close enough or there are multiple matches they then ask “which one is you” while showing you the booklet of cards.
Completely incorrect.
I spent many posts complaining about the illegal unconstitutional changes to election rules by would-be-king governors. I spent many posts demanding acknowledgment that the system was abused by lone Wolf actors. That’s very different than the minority line in the right that there was systemic outcome-changing fraud.
The near-total of the population was of Russian decent. It’s the same as accepting that some mega city in the US voted Democrat. It’s just basic facts of demographics. Historical consistency.
Really? All you need in 50 states is an ID card. Witch is $0-$10 in almost every state. And while the republicans demand ID and the dems want no verification, I demand a federally funded free photo ID for every citizen and legal resident.
Wrong debate, not if I’d should be needed but how to give one to every person legally on the country.
Limiting support for minority populations to minorities you agree with or care about is a typical democrat stance. My apologies if you share the stance but not the party.
Your still missing the idea in action. Those in support int the two principle regions here were literally border communities. You don’t need whole region independence, just a redraw around border villages. Which is exactly what I stated above. The Russian populations were entirely border land and include few or now opposers.
No, Russia escalated it
Problems, but not the root.
These breaks are because of different cultural existences. Different life styles. Right now a single city can dictate the existence of an entire state despite the fact that 99% of the state is not within city limits.
And the majority of active calls for new/changed state lines (see Wikipedia lists for state modifications) are to jettison the cities into their own states.
Democrats pretend it’s racial. There’s probably some tiny sliver of truth to that, but it’s not the lead reason.
What works for the city does not work on the farm.
City dems call for $20 per hour when the average farm community house costs less than $50,000
Where a luxury life is had at $40-$60k per year.
There’s a decide on the reality between city and rural.
Much like in Ukraine there are different lifestyle and existence factors in play. One (the government there, cities here) seeks to dominate by excessive force over the other entirely without regard to consequences.
Only in regards to security, be it national or personal. And without full agreement, such as thinking any involvement in foreign political activities is wrong.
My view on the Ru/Ua issue is from a personal belief in personal liberty.
Both main parties suck. Libertarian is probably the closest existing party that I could fit into and the line I usually, but not always, vote on.
My internet history is heavily peppered with my belief in the potential for a socialised civilised sumo-anarchy. And all but two(ish) tick boxes fall on the left side of the country’s devise, often far left.
As others have pointed out here, much of my voting history is geared to disruption. Keeping branches in separate party hands. Forcing debate and compromise.
But people like me from Gen X are finally seeing the results we want: the crumbling of the two-party system.
It’s not the fractures many of us hoped for, but breaking the two parties is good for everyone.
Right now the power in the country is held by two groups of über wealthy businessmen who buy and sell government officials. And any one willing to cling to those politicians.
The last 6 years have split the Republican Party into three factions.
The last 12 have splintered the democrats into a barely tenable name.
Maybe a chance for a real leader “for the people” is once again a possibility.
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Putin deciding to annex East Ukraine pretty much killed diplomacy. Russia is not interested in a peace settlement only in victory.
HAHA!
What his lawyers likely said to him…”You. Fucked. Yourself. Time to look dignified bent over. Oh, and here’s our invoice.”
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$$$ Gone
Well there goes a lot of Mike’s funding. Hope you invested well Mike.
not a real offer
IIUC the letter saying he would go through with the deal has a requirement that Twitter drop the lawsuit first. This is not acceptable, imo.
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Dude its a fucking done deal. Twitter accepted last night. Musk will take over as early as Friday.
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Huh. It’s Saturday and Muck isn’t in control. I wonder if this is another one of those things where the reality of a situation isn’t the simplistic fiction you want it to be.
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‘I pinky-promise I’ll actually follow through with my offer to buy the company this time so long as the lawsuit that is not going well for me is dropped’ does rather reek of desperation and delaying tactics, yes, and hopefully one everyone involved sees through.
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Musk buying twitter and taking it private. Facebook pulling back and firing thousands of employees.
Wow woke social media is imploding fast. Mike’s going to have to find some new dick to suck ASAP.
Re: Woke this Cholo
Poor baby, not gonna have any more targets of your fantasy hate fucks.
I’m hoping the deal doesn’t go through for the simple fact that Musk has stated he’d give Trump his account back.
Trump is a cult leader. MAGA is a cult. And giving cult leaders a louder voice to amass more influence is never a good thing.
Since being kicked off Twitter, Trump’s influence has been waning. His Truth Social is a failure and his rally attendance has been dismal. Give him back his Twitter account and there’s a risk that he could grow his cult again.
So I have to wonder if commenters like a certain reliably-flagged-into-being-hidden-for-saying-equally-reliably-hateful-and-violent-remarks, are driven by an insecurity about their inability to comprehend and critically analyze news. Or are just fanatical trolls worshiping tech saviorism, driven to hateful zealotry that they ironically project onto others (like anyone who dares say anything critical or even factual about Elon Musk).
Which really reminds that on the one hand I wish SpaceNews commenters would read some articles about these court cases on here, but on the other hand I worry they’d just troll like the aforementioned commenter-non-grata. As is ever the case, these bros seem to live in an alternative reality where things like events, facts, consequences, math, and the tools of reasoning are all dire foes.
As horses say, “You can lead a human to reason, but you can’t make him think.”
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Herd mentality.
Thanks evolution.
That's a mistake
Funny part that a lot of people won’t notice: the document says “Chancery Court” while the name of the institution is “Court of Chancery”.
Whoops, that won’t go over well.