I built something evil and all I got was this stupid t-shirt

      • space_comrade [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Elon forgot that he wasn't dealing with the idiots he sells his shitty cars to but rather his fellow bourgeoisie. The bougs take their contracts between each other very seriously, unlike the contracts they make with consumers and workers.

        • mittens [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Nevermind that, the offer represented twice the total valuation of twitter, execs are expected to follow through or they could be liable themselves for not acting in the best interest of the shareholders. I seriously don't know what's going on though, like my theory is still that it was all a dubious scheme to cash out some Tesla stock and not cause a huge panic but it went terribly, awfully wrong. This makes the tumblr fiasco look like money moves.

    • Cheesewizzard [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It just seems like if he wanted to actually save the company by cost cutting, he’d have tried to take a softer approach (not that layoffs can ever be done softly). It just seems gratuitous — like he’s trying to piss off even the ones who won’t be laid off. Idk, probably project a normal mind on the reptile that is elon musk.

      • Mindfury [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Imagine if this motherfucker shorted twitter stock or has a fuckload of put options and is now deliberately crashing the plane with no survivors

        I'd say no one would be this dumb, but after that weird shit where that one circuit court held that federal departments can't enforce anything, maybe he's gambled on being too big to prosecute?

        • hypercube [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          thing is that twitter stock doesn't exist anymore - he bought the company & took it private

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            We need to consider the possibility that he is both that incompetent and that deluded about his own level of competence.

            • hypercube [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              ty for introducing me to the funniest possible possibility..........

      • flan [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        yeah im sure there's a component of him being a baby about screwing up

    • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      He actually could have gotten out of the deal by paying Twitter a billion dollars, but I guess he wasn't willing to liquidate so much stock.