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So, what, he spent several billion dollars on ten percent of Twitter as part of his plan to tank the company?

Which will obviously not even tank the company because clearly everyone sees what the product is and they see what the ad output is (pretty abysmal). So the big reveal is… nothing revelatory.

This theory doesn’t really make sense and is really covering for Musk’s incompetence or a deeper nefariousness: he needed a very public excuse to offload $8B of his TSLA stock without spooking the market, and he’s happy to pay a $1B+ fee to have been able to do that

It's been stated multiple times in this thread that he can't walk away just by paying $1B.

If he wanted to only offload $8B TSLA stock and not buy the company, why put that possibility way more out of reach by waiving due dilligence and accepting the special performance clause?

Are we also to assume that he has managed to assemble the most abjectly incompetent team of lawyers in the world as well?

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