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[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

He’s really on a roll. X is a racist right-wing extremist horror show for any person with fucking common sense and forums are banning links to it. Got dumpstered by PoE community for boosting until he admitted it. Made fun of mercilessly by *nix geeks for his moronic woke mind tweet. Pivoted to “trolling” like he just discovered /pol and he can’t even do the salute correctly. He’s not good at anything. Even Trump looks visibly disgusted in every picture where they’re together.

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

Self destructive impulses, desires to own/control and nazis sure do go together.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

I wonder if that's before or after paying down the debt he saddled the company with.

[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hell yeah, the faster he runs it into the ground, the better!

[–] breadcat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

pretty sure twitter was losing money before he bought it

It had actually just started breaking even, but all the experts agreed it had effectively reached market cap and thus would never take in the kind of cash its valuation implied from a purely financial perspective.

Then Elon significantly overpaid for it.

At least if you don't factor in narrative control as value, if you view it as an investment in ending American democracy it was probably a decent purchase.

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