Elon Just Bought Twitter
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The dude has plenty of money and is doing this for shits. Don't concern yourself with him not making a return on his investment, the lulz he's experiencing right now are worth it to him alone.
And if you mean it's a waste of money in the "he could be giving it to charity" sense... I hope I don't have to explain why that's so dumb.
Nah, I'm done with charity. They've pretty much all been subverted by leftist grifters and the constant virtue-signalling everywhere is getting on my balls.
I was more thinking along the lines of that money could have been invested more wisely to benefit .... dunno ... political balance, freedom of speech, whatever.
I can't say I agree. How would you spend $43 billion to benefit free speech?
Twitter is the cheapest way to get a big platform with name recognition that people of all walks of life actually use. If you bring it back to free speech, not only have you made a large platform free speech focused, but if it is a successful endeavor and benefits the platform financially (as it surely will), you'll set a path forward for other companies.
Right now companies clearly believe that going woke is the only path to success. A lot of this is big investors who invest based on how woke a company is. We need to show that that can be changed.
He could pull a Soros and buy the actual real-world government from the local level up.
Not with just $43 bil he couldn't.
And I suspect that a Twitter acquisition has far more potential than "owning" $43 bil of local governments. Neither give you full control of the thing you bought, by the way.