Comment on Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims

Jaysyn@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t see how claiming he bought Twitter to try and shut up a teenager does anyting to help his reputation.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It re-enforces the idea that he is a “genius” who is playing “4D Chess” and that he “has a plan” and not that he’s a fucking drug addled freak who is making decisions based on his emotional state at the time.

    There was no plan, there’s never a plan. Rich people just play this game where, because they have enough money to insulate themselves from their bad decisions, they pretend that “this was always their plan.”

    Pretty much Musk:

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    • Evkob@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Anyone who thinks spending 44 billion dollars on shutting up a teenager constitutes a “genius plan” is already fully on-board the Musk cult. I don’t think there’s really much reinforcement happening.

      I agree we shouldn’t pretend he’s anything less than a dumb asshole who got caught with his pants down.

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    • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It re-enforces the idea that he is a “genius” who is playing “4D Chess” and that he “has a plan”

      No, it does not. It makes him look like a kid without any kind of self control (which he probably is anyway)

      And it does that on a platform where it reaches hundreds of people! :D

      So just calm down, no one cares

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      • someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Man child.

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    • Swuden@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I dunno man. A teenager baiting a billionaire into spending a significant amount of his fortune to shut him up sounds like the most successful troll in history to me.

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