Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter

[Doctor Phibes]

@LuFins-Dad said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

The Twitter censorship is weird. Russian chess player Sergey Karjakin is still Tweeting and re-Tweeting the most obnoxious anti-Ukrainian pro-Russian propaganda, talking about Nazi's and all kinds of crap.

There's no consistency at all.

Or maybe they don't give a shit about anything other than American politics.

Well, consider Disney…Right now they are vocally opposing the misnomered “Don’t Say Gay” bill, and at the same time they are expanding operations in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the Palestinian Authority, and many other countries where being gay results in chemical castration if you’re lucky…

Yeah, but Disney's always been a bit of a Mickey Mouse operation.

[Klaus]

I wonder if Musk would have been allowed (or maybe he did?) to bet on the value of Twitter stocks before he bought the actual stocks. He could presumably make (another) fortune that way.

[Klaus]

Ah, so this is why he bought the Twitter stocks:

[jon-nyc]

@Klaus said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

I wonder if Musk would have been allowed (or maybe he did?) to bet on the value of Twitter stocks before he bought the actual stocks. He could presumably make (another) fortune that way.

Well in a sense he did that. He acquired a big chunk before it was public that he was buying. So he already had the shares when the price jumped on the news of him buying shares.

[Klaus]

@jon-nyc said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

@Klaus said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

I wonder if Musk would have been allowed (or maybe he did?) to bet on the value of Twitter stocks before he bought the actual stocks. He could presumably make (another) fortune that way.

Well in a sense he did that. He acquired a big chunk before it was public that he was buying. So he already had the shares when the price jumped on the news of him buying shares.

Yes, but he would need to sell those stocks again to make a profit. He could pull this off only once - next time investors would not fall for this again.

But if he'd buy stock options before buying the actual stock, he could make a nice profit without having to sell the stocks.

[jon-nyc]

That’s true.

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

I have wondered at what point will we see some twitter employees walk

[George K]

@jon-nyc

[George K]

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

Since we can’t elect Elon to be President, can we just name him God-King?

[jon-nyc]

He took a board seat.

“Through conversations with Elon in recent weeks, it became clear to us that he would bring great value to our Board,” CEO Parag Agrawal said in a tweet.

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

Read the thread. Last Friday they said they're working on an edit button.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

I have wondered at what point will we see some twitter employees walk

Today, I hope.

[Jolly]

@George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

The Fag Flag sez it all, doesn't it?

[Horace]

Employees will resign if and only if they don't believe doing so entails any personal sacrifice.

[George K]

Fake

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/twitter-employee-viral/

[Horace]

@George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

Fake

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/twitter-employee-viral/

Well ok, but the message wasn't exaggerated, so it didn't sniff of satire. It was slightly surprising since Elon isn't a tribal conservative, but he's not woke enough to pass muster with pop culturalites in silicon valley. And it was only one person, so totally believable. Though the profile pick didn't look like a gay man, that is true enough. Neither does Dave Rubin, one of the rubes who fell for it.

[George K]