David Chartier
When was the last time a $44 billion acquisition lost **over two thirds of its value** in just over a year, and investors didn’t call for _multiple_ heads to roll? When. WHEN
They wanted to destroy it. Him and all of his authoritarian investors. This was deliberate. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/02/x-twitter-stock-falls-elon-musk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
David Chartier
@OddDev Elon Musk bought Twitter with the help of multiple investors ranging from authoritarian countries (Saudi Arabia, China) to hedge funds.
Twitter, despite its many faults, had become a powerful too for people to organize and fight back against many forms of oppression (Look up the 'Arab Spring' and many other protests)
Most billionaires like Musk, and authoritarian countries like Saudi Arabia and China, do not like when regular people gain power.
They bought Twitter to destroy it.
Kai Klostermann
@chartier ... So... what's happening?
David Chartier
And this applies doubly so to the tech journalists who keep interviewing his malicious ass and are like "gee wow you've lost a lot of value what do you think you'll do to try and recover this? Hehe awkward emoji"
NOTHING. Nothing you damn sycophant. Get your head out of his ass, then get it out of your own (no I don't understand how the physics work and I don't care), and wake the fuck up to what's happening.
David Chartier
If you still, **STILL** think this was just a billionaire bumbling around not knowing what he was doing, with authoritarian investors backing him up to the tune of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF INVESTMENT, and none of them have tried to fucking assassinate him, never mind just remove him from power (which they haven't), I have a bridge to sell you.
No, I have a gaggle of bridges to sell you.
No, I have an entire planet's worth of gaggles of bridges to sell you.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
This is absolutely true. @davetroy led the way in November, 2022 (no typo!)
Here's the deal from my point of view:
AnthonyJK-Admin
I absolutely agree....MusKKKrat didn't buy Twitter merely to transform it into his own personal Gab/Parler/TruthSocial; he bought it because conservatives and bigots like him were being challenged and called out by regular people, and because he wanted to kill off all criticism of him and his wingnut TechBros.
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Sexy Moon
accretionist
they did not buy twitter to destroy it
look at trump's rise on twitter: they want to turn a tool that sparked the arab spring into a tool to kill western democracy
and its current status indicates they are successfully doing that
so it's our job to abandon twitter
twitter won't die financially. authoritarian countries will prop it up forever. until twitter ceases to be a valuable commodity for their troll farm efforts. and that depends upon us leaving it
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