Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter

wow, that's recent...

 

Yeah, Twitter, that company of Right wingers...

 

I have no idea what to make of this. We check out CBS LA every day because our daughter lives there, and she is as communicative as your average 25 yo. Heard about this candidate in a nonpartisan primary for California Senate.

He is also a tech billionaire, don’t know his prior politics, but is supposedly running just to take on Musk and Tesla autonomous technology, though he may have a conflict. Don’t know. Just found this interesting.


This tech billionaire wants to take on Tesla — on the way to the United States Senate. Dan O’Dowd, founder and chief executive officer of Green Hills Software, which builds operating services and programming tools for computer systems, announced his bid for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. O’Dowd simultaneously launched a multi-million dollar national advertising campaign against Tesla’s Full Self-Driving technology. The television advertisement, “Unsafe at Any Speed,” includes videos of Tesla’s self-driving car malfunctioning.

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article260555957.html#storylink=cpy

 

We will know if he really cares about freedom, if he doesn’t ban the kid that is using twitter to tell everyone where is private jet is located...

 

I wonder if anything has happened in the last 3 years that might explain that? Like a burgeoning violent revolution to overthrow the United States, with one side largely based on widespread conspiracy theories trying to undermine public health and foment violent revolution and purges in general? And yes, there can be equally extreme stuff from both sides, but that doesn't mean it's equivalent. That's like saying that because Zach Carter will get drafted this weekend, both Florida and Georgia had draft talent on the defensive line that is roughly equal.

Social media has proven to be a scarily efficient organizing medium for existential threats to society, generally coming from one side. Solutions may be imperfect and imprecise, but let's not pretend that there is no issue and just analyze this in the abstract

 

Yes twitter has purged accounts across the board and your 2018 article from Wired bears this out. Since 2018 I can safely say that twitter has changed significantly over the last 4 years. Whether it leans more to the right or left in cancelations at this point doesn't matter. If Elon Musk is to be believed leaning left or right will have no bearing on future changes and how Twitter moves forward. Time will tell and I'm sure there will be complaints from both left and right each claiming biased views.

 

Which stock would you want to be in the last 5 years?

FB, AMZN, Netflix, Google or TSLA?

 

Not good at stonks, but I think I'd want the ones with the highest share price right now

 

You are right, you aren't good at stonks. And I got news for you, you aren't good at stocks either.

 

I'll bet they quietly reinstated all those accounts.

 

I have issues with all those stocks; but I have been heavily invested in Microsoft since the 80s and Apple since MS propped them up in 89 (if my memory isn’t failing me). Ironically Apple has made me more since then, but Microsoft still doesn’t have a viable competitor. Nvidia was one of my new favorites in 00, but I sold them when that whole ARM/China fiasco.

Amazon and Google are the most attractive in you list (for my conservative style of investing), yet one likes to drop their “great” ideas the moment they hit some resistance and the other is owned by a guy that looks like a penis.

My issue with Tesla is that I cannot buy that they are the most valuable car company, with some reports claiming they are worth more than the other top six car companies in the world. Their panel gaps are equal to Dodge and their repair is horrendous. They are a bull stock to me and at that price, I don’t see me playing the bull game with them; unlike I did with GME.

FB and Twitter are social media platforms and I won’t invest in either of them, you have to have standards;-)

Netflix is too unstable since every production company in the world wants to create their own streaming platform.

 

I know everything one could possibly know about stonks.

 

That's exactly what they were trying to do and suspended left wing accounts by mistake. Perhaps you didn't read all of your own 3 1/2 year old article....

The company has reportedly suspended 1,500 accounts over the past week that were suspected of being run by members of pro-Trump 4chan members masquerading as liberal activists, according to anonymous source speaking to The New York Times.

 

Also not a fan of TSLA at these prices and agree their cars don't have the quality of the Germans. I'm in AAPL and have been for 20+ years as well as MSFT. I am conservative with my personal account as well and don't like chasing volatile stocks. I've had some losers as well over the years(Freeport McMoRan and Schumblerger).

 

Yeah, but the headline says otherwise...

 

Yes, those other stocks took off before the last five years, so it would be better to have been in the stock that took off in the last five years if you could perfectly predict who it would be. However, that has nothing to do with what we were discussing, which was the market's assessments of risk in the aftermath of this event.

 

Sure, looking at 5 days is a better judgement than 5 years, said no one ever.