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More like him criticizing the company and promising features was a deal breaker for Twitter's board and investors, and they have the power to tell him to fuck off.

Elon's lived in a fantasy land for years thanks to the Tesla board and investors letting him do whatever he wants.

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There is not much fantasy about it if he can indeed do what he wants. He could buy twitter outright. Fantasy implies being divorced from reality.

I doubt that's his intention though.

He's not only divorced from reality, they haven't spoken in years and reality has a restraining order against him. cf: Full self-driving.

Take a look at Giga Texas' launch and let me know if you still feel that way.

I wonder what you've achieved in your life that makes you think you're in a position to say anything about that man

I’ve never made a film in my life but I sure feel like I can say that Batman and Robin is a real stinker of a film. Those involved have made other good films though.

I have valid opinions about politicians too ;)

One can legitimately acknowledge the good and bad in a person.

I by "reality" you mean the usual lowest common denominator you see implemented everywhere, then I find it quite refreshing to see someone not following suit. If only I were rich enough to be as divorced from that shit as he is.

Doubt he could buy it outright. On paper he's worth a lot, but a lot of that is tied up in ownership of his companies.

Ben Thompson[0] detailed today why Twitter's governance makes a takeover exceedingly unlikely. Sorry but I don't have a great tl;dr.

[0] https://stratechery.com/2022/musk-declines-twitter-board-sea...

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