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Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by gatormonk, Oct 27, 2022.

  1. PITBOSS

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    Twitter, or X, usage dropped after the rebrand. Will need to watch over next few months if its just a temporary blip


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  2. duggers_dad

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    Some here would consider me to the right of Trump, but I never had any trouble on Twitter. In fact, had it not been for Twitter, I might have never realized (or at least realized as quickly) that there were alternative voices on the mass-derangement that was 2020.
     
  3. mrhansduck

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    Seems I recall polls indicating most Jewish people in the United States consider themselves White. I remember Whoopi identified Jewish people White when talking about the White people murdering other White people. White Nationalists obviously do not consider Jewish people White, and they won't even agree that Jesus was Jewish. Musk clearly seems to be buying into the Great Replacement Theory that Jewish people are out to hurt White people.
     
  4. Emmitto

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    Um yeah, you had no "trouble" because Twitter is designed to deliver this very service -- validation from the Matrix when real life isn't acquiescing.
     
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  5. duggers_dad

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    Funny, I distinctly remember sources with milder perspectives than mine being called in for discussions with Agent Smith. Or somebody.
     
  6. OklahomaGator

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    It has been over a year now since he bought Twitter. X is still operating and Musk is still the richest man in the world according to Forbes.

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  7. duggers_dad

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    *sound of teeth grinding*
     
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  8. wgbgator

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    He's also liking posts on his website about how Jews promote hatred against whites
     
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  9. PITBOSS

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    So one of the worst individual financial business decisions ever shouldn’t be discussed?
     
  10. wgbgator

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    Its good that the bar is "still operating" after a year and not say, losing half your value in that time
     
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  12. channingcrowderhungry

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    Bottom of a pint glass
    One of the most mind numbing dumb business decisions I've ever seen.
     
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  13. mdgator05

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    Things left out of that post:

    1. He has declared the value of Twitter to be $19 Billion, whereas he bought it a year ago for $44 Billion.
    2. That number is likely inflated, as his own financial backers (Fidelity, in particular), rate the value at 35% of what he paid for it, or about $15.4 Billion.
    3. He and his investors continue to lose substantial amounts of money.
    4. He has lost a fair amount of his advertisers, which will likely not be helped by his foray into supporting Hitler apologists this week. This restricts his path to profitability considerably.
    5. Twitter has lost a number of daily users from a year ago. About 15 million down in terms of daily users at this point.
    6. Every strategic initiative that he has tried to make money has not worked.

    All that sets aside the fact that he has likely seriously hurt his own brand and his ability to push initiatives going forward.

    If the bar is that the business that he paid $44 Billion for is still operating after a year, that is a pretty telling statement.
     
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  14. Sohogator

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    Quite a bit more. His $20B valuation was fantastical at the time (this spring?). It likely worth less than $10B.
    Edit md beat me to it…
     
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  15. Sohogator

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    Wonder if the board of Tesla will have the balls to say something about his statements…

    ‘Was He Really High When He Said This?’ Fox Analyst Speculates After Elon Musk Agrees With Anti-Semitic Tweet


    He then cited a 2019 settlement between Tesla and the Securities and Exchange Commission in which Musk is required to have his social media posts pre-cleared by an “experienced securities lawyer.” The agreement came after Musk claimed in 2018 that he was considering a go-private bid at $420 a share and dubiously claimed that he had “funding secured” for such a deal.

    “The board is supposed to be monitoring his tweets,” Gasparino noted. “Where the hell are they on this thing?”
     
  16. WarDamnGator

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  17. rivergator

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    Some people liked Musk's comment about Jews.

    https://www.mediamatters.org/elon-m...celebrate-elon-musks-antisemitic-post-what-we
     
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