His donor was himself, Saudis only made up about 4% of the investment. He’s not making money off ruining Twitter, he’s just an idiot who got lucky in the dotcom bubble. Stop giving him so much credit because you like conspiracies.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The strategy was to tank global leftist talking points and disperse the community. His donors are mega rich saudis, russians, and others who benefit from right-wing ideologies being implemented. A blind man could see this before the sun is up.
Steeve@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not a conspiracy that Elon runs interferance for conservatives and extremists and even Russia. It is not a conspiracy that he doesn’t like lefties and immediately proved it when he got the platform.
Steeve@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
But it is a conspiracy that he bought Twitter with the intention of running it into the ground for the sake of those groups. He bought it because he got into an internet pissing match and when he tried to back out they threatened to sue his ass into the ground. The dude is a fucking idiot edgelord, it isn’t surprising that the only people he has left around him are similar.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Yeah, the whole 9d chess game idea falls apart when you remember he was sued into buying it.
Unless… he wanted them to sue him for, um… some reason?
We also need to remember not to believe his hype - he’s not a super genius, he’s just a rich asshole who knows how to market himself. All the technological accomplishments his companies made were done by engineers, not by him.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Strategic Propagandist …………………….|………. Useful Idiot
4am@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I s been saying this for a while and have been called a conspiracy nut; or at minimum that it’s “unrealistic”.
Well. Sweet vindication.
Maalus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You got vindicated by a random user on a platform full of people with rather extreme views. If you say that anywhere else - you’ll still be a conspiracy nut. It’s not clear what he’s doing or why, one can only guess (or create conspiracies if you will)
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not just them hedge funds are in on it. Anyone with money to lose has chipped in a few billion to the cause
bemenaker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can make money off of stocks dropping. It’s called shorting an option.
GreenMario@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That and reddit which is why they shit the bed the exact same time. It’s coordinated.
4am@lemm.ee 11 months ago
“Elon is my hero” - Conservative Free Speech Warrior/Database Admin /u/spez
cmbabul@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Also probably why Threads ever existed in the first place, in hopes of killing an uncontrolled venue in its infancy
phillaholic@lemm.ee 11 months ago
No it’s not. The free money dried up and Reddit wants to go public. It’s no more nefarious than that.
nomecks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People don’t get how much the modern internet grew because of shitty interest rates.