As a vehicle to control the US, Great Britain, Germany - and whatever is the next target - Twitter might be the cheapest investment for the highest return in history.
I would've loved to watch the money go up in flames in a huge failure, but it looks like it paid off big-time.
I'm telling the world. He doesn't want a profit. He wants to lessen the value so when he declares Chapter 7 he won't pay what he owes but what it's worth.
As a man I can appreciate the paradox
of megalomania. That as one FEELS more
powerful one in fact becomes increasingly
powerless. Every drunk whoever took on
the police was absolutely certain that
victory was at hand.
For a software company, this can definitely happen if it just goes into maintenance mode. So no new features, no code changes to make the codebase better, etc... Just fix the bugs that pop up. When this happens to a software company, they are just milking it for profit.
Ditto. Staying on X after Musk took over felt increasingly dirtier by the day. Really had to deactivate to protect myself from the sleaze factor. So relieved that I did!
The 44 Billion was merely an investment for him: the real prize was aiding Trump in winning the presidency, and the incoming lucrative government subsidies and tax breaks. Elon Musk will be the first Trillionaire by the end of the 2nd Trump term. Allowing a megalomaniac Billionaire to freely buy
what is considered the social media Town Square was the Democrat’s “You should’ve aimed for the head…” moment before Thanos snapped his fingers. He now has control to meddle in democracies worldwide with the world’s biggest megaphone to amplify his bs. Look at who donated to help him buy Twitter.
I wonder when the orange turd will start to sell condoms and sex paraphernalia on "X" and Truth Social. What's funny is both sites are nothing but misinformation, lies and fake news. Both really "quality" (not really) social sites but "porn-is-us" or "hooker hitch" should be the new company slogans
It matters not to him... What's $44bn when you're that wealthy? It's like me misspending $4,400. It won't break me. But he got more than $44bn value in using his site for propaganda which gave him the presidency! There's no schadenfreude here.
I closed my account because it is a dumpster fire. Elon is going to need a Halon fire extinguisher to put out the flames. The way he is running it, 50 employees will be too many in about a week.
I'm glad I deleted mine when the sale was finalized. I didn't have a big account so my identity and means of communication weren't tied to it. To the accounts who are trying to unravel/untangle/wean themselves, wishing you all the best, it's a process.
They’re not gonna streamline the government as much as they’re gonna streamline the drifting of the government’s funds through various means so they can pocket laundered cash more efficiently
I have mine open too because I'm clinging to people I care about who won't leave, which I have to respect. If everyone left, I'd have a fucking deactivation party! I'd even get a cake and write FU Elon written on it!
I honestly think that wasn't on his mind when he first made the offer. He was playing stupid games and won a big stupid prize and now everything is so much stupider because smarter people than him saw the potential for one extremely useful idiot with a bottomless wallet and a gigantic platform.
“May be profitable soon” is a wild omission he bought something that was essentially worth very little, pissed off advertisers, lost more money and it trying to recover so his Saudi backers don’t snip his nuts.
It’ll also be an endless source of Schadenfreude as MAGA self-immolates over the multitude of broken promises in the coming years. If the crew of the Titanic had mutinied and made the captain turn around to take another crack at sinking the iceberg can you imagine the howls from the passengers?
I suppose that depends on your expectation of "profitable". if you expect to make thousands of dollars a minute, vs a month, some adjustments in personal expectations may be required. wonder if his staff took a paycut?
Likewise. Open, but locked down. Bio removed, banner removed. Revoked any app permissions.
I figure keeping the account “alive” but generating absolutely zero engagement - I’ve not been active in any way for months - must be minutely more damaging than closing the account.
The fucking troll factory doesn't need more than 20 , that all together with the real trolls - Cheong, Libs of my big dick, and the little concubine Mario Naw-shiteater. Everything else is operated by Olgino and Shenjen.
My fucking dick!
I closed my account beginning of December, I've had enough of insults, lies and hate mongering!! Those on twitter right now are addicted to it! Lets be real, people on twitter need to watch others fall apart to feel good about themselves. Best move i made was leaving that sickness!
People missing the point. Twitter was never about making money. He owns a huge source of propaganda for a fraction of his assets. At least Twitter being a financial failure hurts his ego though.
Exactly his plan for the US....cut every service He doesn't need and then laugh all the way to the bank. He's already said that times will get tough (for us), but we'll be better off in the end. Thinking he believes we will be happy for any little scrap we get when all the social programs die.
That’s how we truly bring that piece down. He will likely continue to use Tesla to prop it up… pair that with the Cybertruck doing Cybertruck things and missed quotas… that could be two down the road.
🤣🤣🤣 he drug other people in on the buy so it could go down the toilet and just be a tax deduction. Unfortunately at this point I don't know what it would take to have an affect on him.
I keep it to refute the lies and misinformation that fills Musk’s propaganda platformwith more thoughtful researched news items from more trusted platforms.
I've permanently deleted mine, totally. And not ever going back.
Got out of X (aka as Twitter) too.
And Instagram as well.
Im searching now for a replacement for my amazon purchases, and am NOT making any purchases anymore, and cancelled my MBA CC that went with it. All CANCELLED now.
Yehey!
He is the #Ablatross the #Yoko of #OHNO Splitting #America he is #EvolonCrusk, a railway track, driving pass a cemetery. He is that unlucky thing your dog rolls in & smells like Trump's teen bone spurred socks. All the #lard & fat must smell terrible.
Just had a horrendous thought. The felon and freaky Musk merge their sites together, to become an official government propaganda portal...bankrolled by taxpayers...
We can’t make Elon less horrible but we can make him less loud. Cast a vote against him and follow this account to learn about future https://twitterexodus.org actions.
Doesn’t matter how you rationalize it, if you’re on Twitter, you’re helping #PresidentMusk to attract more advertisers & charge them more.
Much as I enjoy your posts, it’s my policy to not follow anyone who supports Musk in any way, especially by contributing to continued existence of Twitter.
They're going to be "fine soon" once all his employees are H-1B hostages who'll do whatever they're told to avoid deportation. He'll be free to abuse them legally and illegally because he knows they won't report his abuses. Twitter is going to be a sweatshop and the Justice Department won't care.
A.) Where did you read that?
B.) His H-1B visa techs? I'm doubtful.
C.) Under a Trump adminsitration , he will be able to do (and pay) whatever he wants to H-1B's and fire them and refer them to ICE if they don't play ball.
Max, I said I read, not that it's true.
Google search came up with below. I haven't vetted any info yet. I don't care to argue about Musk. He is an unhinged pos.
He already got his money’s worth… using it as a propaganda megaphone he helped swing low info voters… Stock Market emotion has rewarded him with significant increase in Tesla share price!
When you completely remove and and all guardrails with an end goal of eliminating safety, security, and basic human decency, I guess it doesn’t take much to allow the racists, bots, and nazis run amuck, as well as your new system promoting and amplifying them. Because “FrEe SpEeCh”.
Curious about the screenshot: At what point does Musk think it wil become "profitable"? Once he gets rid of the other employees, he'll have to do all the work himself for free and even that might not make it profitable.
Governments can easily block platforms. They passed a Tiktok ban to be instituted nationwide, Pornhub in states. This is an actual national security threat, not only in this country but any country.
If you are arguing that the UK along with Germany and Brazil again should ban the fucking thing and the UK could conceivably also press charges against Musk for inciting riots last year, I am right there with you.
There is a tool on my profile page to help people make the migration. It’s not perfect, but it does give you a good start. And yes, I keep finding friends that have finally opened accounts here or I missed them before.
I think he bought twitter to increase his political power and influence, and from that standpoint it was a good call. Now he can influence Congress and foreign elections just by tweeting. He can also make more money anytime easily, as he just did by changing his X handle to that of a crypto coin.
How can we tell Musk’s Twitter is failing? The porn bots and malign influence bots are now all heading to Bluesky. Although with the super block function, I doubt they will last very long.
I deactivated/deleted mine, because he has changed rules/policies. Muskrat can now use your information/e-mail anyway he wants. Store or share your information with ANYONE. To use against you. He also uses your numbers to sell his ads. Your reasoning is flawed, but if it brings you joy go for it🙃🙂🙃
Are we surprises that the guy who sees social security and Medicare as the biggest line items on the government and wants to cut them, also looked at labor as the biggest expense at twitter and cut that?
Dude has the budget balancing skills of an 8 year old. He'd probably forego rent if he was poor
Why do MAGA think that the loss of 7,450 american jobs to make more money for one man is great and why do they want him to do the same to their civil service?!
I’m sure he can run the xitter with 1 or 2 employees. He’s wasting money at this point.
Someone needs to tell to get rid of the waste and reduce his overhead.
Move the headquarters to tent in a state park with a Portapotty?
Stop paying employees more than minimum wage?
In the run up to the gilded age robber barons bought up or opened newspapers so they could feed the masses the desired propaganda to advance their personal goals. Musk buying twitter is just a modern version of that.
Yes. I listen to a podcast called The Gilded Gentleman. It’s not political but it did talk about this in one episode. And also mentioned that the New York Post used to be a respected newspaper and not the rag it is today. The choice of disparaging words is mine, not the podcast’s.
Propaganda is everywhere, but we tend to only see it when it's promoting something we disagree with. Newspapers/media hurt themselves when they took political sides. The owners/publishers/editors/etc. are doing the same thing as people accuse Musk. Curating the news in their tone & to their agenda.
Idk there were more search engines back in the day. And MySpace. Twitter has gone too far. Normals will leave as other platforms emerge and the trolls will follow bc the trolling is all they’ve ever been there for
Elon put up $20 billion in cash, but the rest were investment banks and private equity firms. Those other entities have absolutely lost their shirts with Twitter. The banks are furious because it is billions of dollars in the red on their balance sheets.
Looking over the acquisition investor lists, I didn't see any Russians. I'm not saying there was none, but there was Saudi prince Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud.
I am glad people like yourself chronicle the end, Sundae. I'd probably get suspended for asking Elon when his jet is going to Jeju airlines. You're a better person.
I am surprised a DDoS attack is not bringing it down but I would guess they are not on their own gear, but in cloud under something like AWS Shield to protect it from cheap ddos "testing" services
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I would've loved to watch the money go up in flames in a huge failure, but it looks like it paid off big-time.
of megalomania. That as one FEELS more
powerful one in fact becomes increasingly
powerless. Every drunk whoever took on
the police was absolutely certain that
victory was at hand.
Musk sowed the seeds for the demise of his user base.
It’s a case study of “STAY IN YOUR LANE”. Engineers shouldn’t attempt to also be media tycoons!
lucky, lucky us.
Wishful thinking?
And this is what they're gonna recommend for our "government efficiency," yes?
I figure keeping the account “alive” but generating absolutely zero engagement - I’ve not been active in any way for months - must be minutely more damaging than closing the account.
I’m sure I’ll get around to it eventually 😬
My fucking dick!
My normal account, which I closed down a couple of months ago, had a huge blocklist.
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Keep the account, just quit engaging.
Honestly, as long as he's getting richer, he doesn't care what the state of our country is.
Musk is a dangerous man and our own behaviours fuel him. Ironically, when we all leave… the shitheads will too because they need us to hear them.
Hey, you seem to be in the UK, you hearing g about this?
Got out of X (aka as Twitter) too.
And Instagram as well.
Im searching now for a replacement for my amazon purchases, and am NOT making any purchases anymore, and cancelled my MBA CC that went with it. All CANCELLED now.
Yehey!
If it named the 50 key people…’
What a shame, that fool ruined it.
Have a great weekend my friend. ☺️
https://seo.ai/blog/how-many-people-work-at-x
hahhahha
All his nefarious activities .
Much as I enjoy your posts, it’s my policy to not follow anyone who supports Musk in any way, especially by contributing to continued existence of Twitter.
It's set to "No, this is fine." no matter what.
B.) His H-1B visa techs? I'm doubtful.
C.) Under a Trump adminsitration , he will be able to do (and pay) whatever he wants to H-1B's and fire them and refer them to ICE if they don't play ball.
Google search came up with below. I haven't vetted any info yet. I don't care to argue about Musk. He is an unhinged pos.
Leaving S.F. is the only time his pullout game was strong. Good riddance.
For other companies!
but, they won't.
why? Fuck if I know.
THIS U.S. government has the owner of Twitter acting as semi official co-president/bootlicker in chief to Trump.
Now: who's banning *Twitter*, again?
Thanks
Nobody misses you over there.
Dude has the budget balancing skills of an 8 year old. He'd probably forego rent if he was poor
Someone needs to tell to get rid of the waste and reduce his overhead.
Move the headquarters to tent in a state park with a Portapotty?
Stop paying employees more than minimum wage?
That should do it
50 employees.
I find that hard to believe and incredibly funny.*
*sorry for those who lost their jobs.
Poor Morgan Stanley. Lol.
Moron
Took the biggest best platform
And turned it into dung
Dumb ignorant deplorable people are sending our country down the drain!