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I think Musk believes that Twitter is the primary meeting place and seemingly unified-ish mouthpiece of anti-capitalists in the west and he's seeing that they are making dangerous progress. He's someone who is a capitalist and feels that $50B is a worthy investment to disrupt anti-capitalist momentum.

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> they are making dangerous progress

lol

Twitter has 400 million users GLOBALLY. How many are bots? How many are active? How many are "anti-capitalists"?

Twitter is not representative of anything except twitter.

You say that, but the memes and quotes generated from twitter posts and threads spread far and wide. You'll see people who don't even use Twitter quoting things almost verbatim 3 months after it blew up. Same with 4chan and the fringe right sadly. The memes, like "OK Groomer" start out in some weird radical place but then catch elsewhere if they are viral enough.

I think that is a very narrow view on events.

First, I really do not think twitter is a anticapitalist forum and second, controlling twitter communication yields quite some power.

Single tweets made furor on the stock market.

It is probably way more about money, than anti activism, or pro free speech activism. (plus the personal vendetta of the twitter bot, who published Elons flights).

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