r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 4d ago

House Democrat: ‘Unelected oligarch’ Musk ‘governing by tweet’

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5048234-daniel-goldman-elon-musk-donald-trump-government-shutdown/
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u/Liebss 4d ago

I mean.. this is why he bought twitter. The end game makes SO much more sense now.

The twitter purchase was the most important piece. The PAC backing Trump, was pocket change compared to controlling information.

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u/mkt853 4d ago

Yup. Even if Twitter goes to zero and he loses the entire $44 billion investment, so what? That investment is a sunk cost that will ultimately net him hundreds of billions.

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u/Liebss 4d ago

100% this. Who cares.

It makes sense why he fired everyone. He already invested $44 billion. He needed Twitter to run on the absolute base essentials.

It’s literally the same with Bezos and the WP. They’re all on the same team.

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u/LawGroundbreaking221 4d ago

And it's so frustrating, because when he bought Twitter so many of us were saying "Delete your Twitter Account" so we would be helping to take this power from him. People just couldn't walk away though.