Elon Just Bought Twitter
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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.
Soros spends a few million here and there strategically to buy judges, DAs, etc. Or do like Zuckerburg and buy the election in swing states. 43 billion go a long way.
The other thing to consider is that his 43 billion didn't just vanish when he bought Twitter. He now has an asset worth 43 billion. If you buy off judges, DAs, etc., that's a one time thing. You cannot "resell" a bought judge.