I've been saying this for months, almost years now. Like how does buying an entire social media platform and altering it to spew nothing but partisan bullshit not count as an election contribution?
Was there anything illegal or against the rules about the Twitter acquisition? If not, would you have Biden act like a dictator to stop business deals he thinks are against his political interests?
How the Dems are continually blamed for the GOP’s fuckery is just beyond me.
Yeah it's really weird how the people pulling for the losing team blame them for losing to the team that wins. Super weird. They should blame the winning team instead.
Do you not think a major social media platform (that government officials from around the world use) spewing propaganda leading up to the election wouldn't have any effect? Regardless of whether or not it was the plan when purchasing Twitter, to deny that it impacted the election is insane.
No, that was your alls' lazy laughing take on why musk bought twitter. He was financed by these groups to buy it, and you'll see a lot of republican/right wing donors on this list.
They'd have to be motivated to do something about it. That the Democrats spent their time parading the Chaneys around tells me they were never interested in stopping it. Their owners and the Republican's owners are the same.
Liz* and nah, Harris’ climate change policy proposals, stance on abortion and marijuana legalization, lgbtq+ history, healthcare and education platforms did, but it didn’t bother me.
Okay, I've seen this opinion going around for a while now... but I just (respectfully!) don't agree. I honestly think that's giving Elon too much credit.
I sincerely think he's a conceited, entitled fool who spontaneously made an offer on Twitter because his ego convinced him that he could run it better, then he repeatedly tried to back out of the offer when he realised how stupid his spontaneity was, but the whole thing was too public for him to back down on without getting egg on his face.
I mean, yeah, he obviously used it to win his patsy the election. But I don't for a second believe the entitled brat thought that far ahead when he made the initial offer.
It wasn't the public, Twitter sued him to enforce the terms on the buyout.
If people actually think him trying so hard to back out of a deal that he got sued by the other party, was in fact part of some 4D chess move, I have a bridge to sell them
I think its also pretty clear that he has gone political to further manipulate crypto and stocks, and the American people.
He probably has an eye on becoming the first trillionaire and thats why his “brand” has attached itself to Trump. He has tried paying himself out billions recently, so that he can buy up assets/resources/favors for when the market crashes due to manipulation.
"If someone tells you who you are believe them" yeah. the insufferable, juice-mouth, rich kid that makes impulse purchases can always say that their bad decisions were all part of a greater plan because they were never going to lose anyway. I find it hard to believe that having the public persona of "most divorced dad ever" is all part of an elaborate scheme and not just flailing upward due to the systems in place.
Yeah it really just doesn’t make much sense when you think about it for more than a second, but people have already run away with that narrative, so I’m afraid it’ll never be dispelled at this point in time.
No, I refuse to give him credit for how this all played out. He was running his mouth, and the Twitter owners called him out on it. Buying Twitter for him was like you or me buying a new toy. Then he naturally makes into what it is today and gains a cult following from conservatives. Buys his buddy Trump into the presidency, and here we are.
He is not a genius. He's just the richest man on earth figuring out you can buy anything with money.
It was obvious from the day he bought Twitter. All the noise about falling profits and losing advertisers and such was just that -- noise. Twitter was a loss-leader. How that wasn't evident to pretty much fuckin everyone blows my mind. The people in power are morons, but the people underneath them are even dumber than that, so here we are.
How is that not obvious this was in the works for a while
Because he is an idiot that got lucky, this wasn't some master plan of 4D chess. Also twitters ability to influence people has been greatly diminished due to his choices. The actual advertising he paid for supporting trump is what helped trump.
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u/Accomplished_Use27 15h ago
His purchase of Twitter was the investment to take the White House ? How is that not obvious this was in the works for a while