Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter

You raise some interesting points. I am pretty sure I heard Mark Levin or someone like him awhile back taking the position that the shareholders would be able to successfully sue the board/company if they didn't vote to accept the deal Musk was offering. I assume he was speaking about some sort of derivative suit. I didn't research that issue, but it didn't make sense to me when I heard it.

 

Full LogiQ on display on this thread.

One and only one poster has the REAL info. He was able to verify this info from an inherently unverifiable source, through uncommon effort and superior cognitive ability.

Heroically, he will pass this secret info on to you. Don’t forget to add some form of courage/bravery/champion to this person’s bio.

Also, despite this person outing these massive conspiracies that are able to control the most powerful people, institutions, and corporations to have ever existed, that routinely kill people, this particular person and the very, very small circle of fellow elite heroes, openly continue to buck The Power all day every day.

Imagine how elite you have to be in order to not only survive, but thrive in those conditions. Or do yourself a favor and don’t even try to imagine, since you lack the mental capacity.

Just post in awe about these few Elite Warrior Saviors. They will save you, if only you allow it. And allowing it means stop with the Thought Crimes, and simply comply with the authority of the Enlightened Ones.

 

Spying... Lol.

 

Smart if true I suppose, a billion there, 8 billion here....How Elon's bizarre Twitter takeover saga could have just been a cover for him to sell $8.5 billion in Tesla stock

 

If that was his plan, it doesn't make much sense to waive due diligence. He would want to leave himself an out.

Occam's razor says he just wanted it at $54 when the market was high, but doesn't want it at that price now that the market is low.

 

Even better.

NewsPunch is a Los Angeles-based fake news website.[1] Originally named Your News Wire,[5][11][12] it was founded in 2014 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai and his husband Sinclair Treadway.[3][6][13] In November 2018, it rebranded itself as NewsPunch.[11] Your News Wire was revived as a separate website in November 2020, and has continued publishing hoaxes similar to those in NewsPunch.

“Regular contributors to NewsPunch include Adl-Tabatabai, a former BBC and MTVemployee from London previously an employee of conspiracy theorist David Icke,[15] Adl-Tabatabai's mother Carol Adl, an alternative health practitioner, and Baxter Dmitry, who had previously been posing as an unrelated Latvianman using a stolen profile photo.”

They are apparently the #2 source of fake newz spread on Facebook. Impressive.

 

And Twitter is where 90% of right wingers get their news…

 

I assume the other tab you have open is Gateway Pundit or The American Thinker

 

I had to look...it either the weather radar or Quordle. Not sure which but great eye

 

not good news on the draw for Musk. Judge has forced a buyer to close before. That is apparently on the rare side of the spectrum in that arena.

Will / can he remain silent on the judge? this should make it more interesting...immovable object meets infinite force. it doesn't appear that she is the type that would be baited in doing something to warrant recusal while history says he can't help but to tweet something that will hurt himself somehow. Tesla may be at bargain prices before this is over.

Judge in Twitter v. Musk once made rare ruling: ordering a deal to close (msn.com)

(Reuters) -The judge overseeing Twitter Inc's $44 billion lawsuit against Elon Musk has a no-nonsense reputation as well as the distinction of being one of the few jurists who has ever ordered a reluctant buyer to close a U.S. corporate merger.

Kathaleen McCormick took over the role of chancellor or chief judge of the Court of Chancery last year, the first woman in that role. On Wednesday, she was assigned the Twitter lawsuit which seeks to force Musk to complete his deal for the social media platform, which promises to be one of the biggest legal showdowns in years.

"She already has a track record of not putting up with some of the worst behavior that we see in these areas when people want to get out of deals," said Adam Badawi, a law professor who specializes in corporate governance at the University of California Berkeley. "She is a serious, no-nonsense judge."

In contrast to Musk's brash and volatile behavior, she is known as soft-spoken, approachable and amiable -- but a person who also stands her ground. She advocates respect among litigants and integrity at legal conferences.

 

Matt Yglesias on how Elon’s supposed embrace of “free speech “ at the least the RW version of the term, may collide with his embrace of Chinese social media censorship if he ever controls Twitter

The same is true, though obviously in a much broader sense, of Musk’s emergence as a champion of free speech who is skeptical of heavy-handed content moderation policies by big tech platforms. Reasonable people can disagree as to exactly where Twitter and Facebook should draw these lines, and I tend to agree with Musk about some of the specifics here. But obviously the speech restrictions on Twitter and Facebook are much less onerous than the ones the PRC imposes on their domestic internet. That’s part of the reason Twitter and Facebook are banned in China! But Musk has never said or done anything to champion free speech in China. That’s not surprising — nobody with business interests in China criticizes the PRC’s speech repression. But it is a reminder that Musk, like many business people, prioritizes being in the good graces of the dictators who run China over maintaining his commitment to free speech.
And, again, Musk’s silence on free speech in China isn’t because he doesn’t talk about China. He does talk about China — including publicly advocating for a PRC takeover of Taiwan just one day before Tesla buyers were made eligible for an important PRC tax break.


Elon Musk’s business ties deserve more scrutiny

 

Seems Musk and LeBron have a lot in common.

 

Lebron advocated for a takeover of Taiwan? Lebron thinks Ukraine should capitulate?

Nice try. Know ya'll hate him, but he's not soulless. He's a good guy

 

I hate LeBron? News to me. I have him #3 in my lifetime behind MJ and Kobe.

I was referring to his capitulation to China when money is involved.

He is very vocal about things here, but silent about Chinese atrocities.

If pointing that out means I dont "like" a person I've never met, then so be it.

Add Adam Silver and most of the league to the list too.

 

Yes, he and the NBA capitulate to China when money is involved, as do we all (capitulate when money is involved). That construction literally captures just about everyone. I don't write Op-Eds in the local paper that express my feelings. I would lose my job, as I should. We all do some of the same. Point is stupid.

Conservatives hate Lebron as a domestic activist, because what he stands for is antithetical to them.

And there is a big difference between checking your criticism of China's subjugation of HK and openly advocating for it's subjugation of Taiwan against Taiwan's will. Elon's an open totalitarian, while claiming he is a "free speech" advocate. No comparison

Please.

 

Sadly, that's almost every public persona looking to make money. They're rabid pitbulls when it comes to advocating for anything they're passionate about, but become maltese puppies about China's human rights atrocities because they want a piece of the world's largest consumer market.

I thought Ricky Gervais did an amazing job skewering actors/directors/etc at the Golden Globes over this exact thing a few years ago:

Transcript of Ricky Gervais’ Golden Globes 2020 Opening Monologue – The Hollywood Reporter

 

LBJ was on the wrong side ot the Daryl Morey debate.

When the NBA should have been supporting an American using its free speech rights to defend free speech and Hong Kong, LBJ and the NBA actually tried to silence him.

 

TG, i think you're missing the point. A "domestic activist" who financially benefits from evil outside of our country is not a REAL activist. He is an opportunist.

Not sure why you assume I hate LeBron. I am a hoops junkie since my youth. The guy is a goat.

Hypocrites can be goats.

I saved my hate for the guys in the 90's that kept keeping Orlando from raising a banner.

 

Many moral thinkers agree with your position that an absence of perfect consistency disqualifies criticism of them. A few examples



Understanding this aspect of Putin's perspective on the world is crucial to understanding why he's been so unwilling to back down in the face of what he sees as Western intransigence and hypocrisy.

For many in post-Soviet Russia, the West has, until now, a history of routinely flouting international law by invading other states -- often on a whim. The best example of this is the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Saddam Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction" never materialized and are often regarded as a manufactured pretext for Western intervention.

NATO intervention in Yugoslavia in the 1990s provides another favorite Russian example of Western willingness to flout international boundaries when expedient. The West oversaw the fragmentation of Yugoslavia, where it supported the breaking away of Kosovo from Russian-backed Serbia.

For Putin, the protection of Russian speakers in Ukraine is as justifiable a reason for intervention as those offered by the West in Iraq and Yugoslavia.


Western hypocrisy is one reason Vladimir Putin won’t back down in Ukraine - UPI.com

Behind the attempts to exclude Russia from all international organizations and turn Russia into the "pariah on the international stage" as President Biden put it, the real purpose of the US is to maintain its hegemony in international affairs. But the hypocrisy is that the country itself is the biggest transgressor of international rules.

Despite its own track record of mass killing and human rights violations, the US constantly criticizes the human rights situation of other countries, a typical act of double standards. From Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan to Libya, Somalia and Syria, the US started 10 wars between 1989 and 2017 and caused 6 million casualties. From the end of World War II in 1945 to 2001, among the 248 armed conflicts that occurred in 153 regions of the world, 201 were initiated by the US. A report from Brown University revealed that the wars launched by the US in the two decades following the 9/11 terrorist attack killed more than 900,000 people. In June 2018, the US pulled out of the Human Rights Council, calling it a "cesspool of political bias" and "hypocritical body" that "makes a mockery of human rights". As it rejoined the council this year, the US not only failed to reflect upon its own human rights record and take concrete steps to improve it, but instead expelled Russia from the body out of political bias and purpose.

Time to put an end to US hypocrisy

Putin reframed accusations of harboring cybercriminals with the dubious claim that the US is more responsible than Russia for hacking — and similarly attempted to turn the tables on issues such as human rights.

“I’m talking about something that’s already well known, but not known to the broader public, not from American sources, I’m afraid,” Putin said through a translator. He didn’t cite a source, but said an expert assessment “said that most of the cyberattacks in the world are carried out from the cyber realm of the United States, and certainly places (like) Canada afterwards.”

The Russian leader changed the topic when a journalist asked about his government imprisoning opposition leader Alexei Navalny, pointing to the prosecution of more than 400 supporters of former President Donald Trump for allegedly storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 to disrupt Biden’s victory.

“People came to the US Congress with political demands and over 400 people had criminal charges placed on them. They face prison sentences up to 20, maybe 25 years. They’re being called domestic terrorists,” Putin said.


Putin claims Biden, US hypocrisy on cybercrime, human rights and Ukraine


UN experts report states that up to 1 million ethnic Uyghurs could be in so-called "re-education camps" in Xinjiang whose existence is denied by the Chinese authorities.

"Externally, human rights protection is a pretence the U.S. government uses to cover up its agenda of seeking hegemony," Zhao said, noting that in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria alone, more than 20 million people have become refugees and migrants as a result of subversion and wars launched by the U.S.


china: China says US Human Rights report reveals hypocrisy, double standards - The Economic Times


In other words, hey US, shut up and dribble!

 

Not sure how any of that makes what I said untrue. 'Bron was on the wrong side of it and a real activist doesn't stop speaking when it hits his wallet.