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Based upon his build up, this will be a fig leaf/scapegoat .

I don't see anything in his behaviour which would justify your "optimistic" outlook. Sure it won't degenerate in one of those gutter platforms right away but I doubt he'll be able to maintain an acceptable level as long as he's directly involved. He just doesn't make the the impression of an adult person.

imho this may end up being really good for the rest of the internet if it drives away interesting and important people to other platforms.

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Musk had to borrow quite a bit of money to close the deal. Those looming debt payments will force real business decisions.

He lost money before on his childish outbursts. Why is this supposed to be different?

The scale. A million here and there for him is nothing, but billions is real money, even for him.

Obviously not or he wouldn't have gone so far in the first place.

He clearly didn’t mean to go this far, but Twitter out lawyered him and locked him into an airtight contract. His hubris bit him in the ass this time.

This is one of the problems with putting rich and successful people like Musk on a pedestal--it makes it seem like they can't make dumb, ego-driven mistakes. Irrational behavior gets interpreted as some 4D chess move that us mortals can't wrap our head around.

In fact 4D chess is a hermenutic in post-modern exigesis.

Exactly. It's like when people thought it was some amazing play so he could sell loads of tesla stock without tanking it. No, because if it was he would have given himself loads of getouts. Instead he gave up rights to all DD. Just arrogance IMO and he had to pay the price.

Now it's operation "get money back". He'll probably hold it for 5-10 years until tech stocks recover then IPO to try to foist it on his gullible fanboys. Until then he just needs to not scare off advertisers and cut costs enough to afford his debt repayments.

> He clearly didn’t mean to go this far

He signed a very clear contract to buy Twitter, he meant to do this.

He started to try and reneg when stocks dropped and his financing was looking extremely shaky.

> He just doesn't make the the impression of an adult person.

No, obviously not. Ramping up his car company from roughly nothing to major global presence, kickstarting the world on electric traffic, and setting up private space rocketeering on the side. Oh, and becoming the supposedly richest person on the planet in the process. How insufferably childish of him.

But he posts memes and makes fun of people!

It seems you got something the other way around.

As far as I remember it's: being born rich, getting lucky on one investment and than chewing up ideas of other people and having them sweat his bullshit out to keep their jobs sounds more like the true history here. Didn't get much better in the recent years.

I mean Trump made it to the president of the US of A and I wouldn't consider him an adult person either. History looks pretty similar. Just a different time with the appropriate difference in methods.

Adding to this: https://i.redd.it/yv12zm4ik3y91.jpg

Sums it up in the best possible way.

This might be true, in which case maybe he brings jack nack or another executive in? I think jack expressed he wasn’t interested.

Jack is launching his own new social media effort, and announced it publicly immediately after the Twitter deal closed.

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