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#426
Grand Vol said:
He's a liberal that claims to love the free market, but gets all butt-hurt when the free market does something he doesn't like.
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At this point, I'm willing to take the wins I can get from whomever. If it means having to stand side by side with long time liberals or socialists in order to get traction on an single issue that I share common ground with, then I'm ready to do it. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I can support Musk on this single issue involving free speech and still have my criticisms of him on other things.
 
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WBO said:
So far it seems Elon isn't welcome there, and while a 9% shareholder in a publicly traded company is huge, it ain't control. The tech industry is very different. A lot of those skills are hard to find. When your workforce turns on you, it can be a disaster. Plus the SEC is really on Musk's tail right now. At this level of ownership, they watch everything you do and can stop you from buying any additional stock in the company (because it is publicly traded). I don't see any changes there anytime soon, especially since he reversed field on being on the board.
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They'll be plenty of conservative tech people that would love to be hired without hiding their political beliefs.
 
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#429
Rasputin_Vol said:
At this point, I'm willing to take the wins I can get from whomever. If it means having to stand side by side with long time liberals or socialists in order to get traction on an single issue that I share common ground with, then I'm ready to do it. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I can support Musk on this single issue involving free speech and still have my criticisms of him on other things.
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Amen. Preach. This goes for Tulsi Gabbard as well.
 
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#430
Rasputin_Vol said:
At this point, I'm willing to take the wins I can get from whomever. If it means having to stand side by side with long time liberals or socialists in order to get traction on an single issue that I share common ground with, then I'm ready to do it. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I can support Musk on this single issue involving free speech and still have my criticisms of him on other things.
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Actually, I was talking about Huff...

I think Musk has had a serious change of heart in the past few years. The difference is, he's got the money and clout to be heard and make changes.
 
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#432
WBO said:
A year later, Twitter seems to be doing pretty well and those conservative social sites seem to be sucking pretty bad, especially Trump's site.

You know why don't you, conservatives just want to hate and people get tired of that.
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I think there is plenty of hate to go around. Most people live in a bubble, and some most don't even know it.
 
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#433
WBO said:
So far it seems Elon isn't welcome there, and while a 9% shareholder in a publicly traded company is huge, it ain't control. The tech industry is very different. A lot of those skills are hard to find. When your workforce turns on you, it can be a disaster. Plus the SEC is really on Musk's tail right now. At this level of ownership, they watch everything you do and can stop you from buying any additional stock in the company (because it is publicly traded). I don't see any changes there anytime soon, especially since he reversed field on being on the board.
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Like I said…. We’ll see. They pissed him off and I’d never bet against musk.
 
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#436
Power move. He's in the driver's seat on this one.

Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter, take it private

Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter in a deal worth more than $43 billion and take the social media company private.


Musk’s best and final offer was to pay $54.20 per share for 100% of Twitter, and said that if his offer was not accepted he’d have to reconsider his position as a shareholder, according to an SEC filing.
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#438
ClearwaterVol said:
Elon is not taking a board seat.
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Nope he’s taking the whole damn board 😂

Tesla CEO Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

“I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy,” Musk said in the filing. “However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.”
 
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WBO said:
So far it seems Elon isn't welcome there, and while a 9% shareholder in a publicly traded company is huge, it ain't control. The tech industry is very different. A lot of those skills are hard to find. When your workforce turns on you, it can be a disaster. Plus the SEC is really on Musk's tail right now. At this level of ownership, they watch everything you do and can stop you from buying any additional stock in the company (because it is publicly traded). I don't see any changes there anytime soon, especially since he reversed field on being on the board.
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Gee, i didn’t know that an employee was required to be „welcoming“ to his or her employer. I have several precious bosses that I would have liked to have some say so on 🙄
And in terms of attracting highly skilled technical workers, I mean it’s not like Musk has created and staffed the worlds most successful and advanced aerospace company or anything
Engineers (including software) would crawl over broken glass to work for the guy. He will be fine.
My only concern is more practical. We need Musk to keep focusing on Space. I really don’t want anything being a distraction right now. We gotta get Starship into orbit ASAP
 
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#445
Musk’s offer is an almost 20% premium at todays price. Shareholders would be morons to not take it and those that don’t take it don’t care about free market they’d likely lean more towards controlling Twitter’s user policies. Musk is going to burn them down. Even if he doesn’t get all of the stock he should easily capture 50+% and control the company.
 
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#446
Grand Vol said:
He's a liberal that claims to love the free market, but gets all butt-hurt when the free market does something he doesn't like.
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I see Musk as neither liberal nor conservative. He is a member of that increasingly rare species known as a strict pragmatist. He will adopt any approach that simply produces the results he desires. And that is kind of what you want IMO
 
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#447
#447
OrangeTsar said:
I see Musk as neither liberal nor conservative. He is a member of that increasingly rare species known as a strict pragmatist. He will adopt any approach that simply produces the results he desires. And that is kind of what you want IMO
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GV was talking about huff
 
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