• chellewalker@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Oh man, that’s hilarious. Almost as funny as that time he joked about buying Twitter; can you imagine if that happened?

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      24 hours ago

      For what it’s worth, he tried his damndest to get out of buying Twitter. I’m sure he wants people to forget that part.

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        19 hours ago

        That’s true, but casually joking about buying companies when you basically did that (albeit with enough details to not be taken as a joke) is so monumentally dumb. Even for musk. Dude really has not learned to shutup yet.

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          8 hours ago

          To FAFO, One must face consequences, and he is far too rich to face consequences.

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            5 hours ago

            I mean buying twitter at a massive premium was a consequence. Although yeah, he just pooled together other people to pay for it :/.

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              2 hours ago

              It was an inconvenience to be sure, he has a metric f*** ton of money but it’s not liquid assets. He got a lot of people to come in and fund it and then took loans against a small amount of his Tesla stock.

              Realistically though it didn’t put him in any serious trouble, any ended up with a propaganda media company.

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            20 hours ago

            What are you basing that on? I lost a ton of followers when they started deleting bot acconts and the steady flow of around 4 new bot followers each day has died down as well. Maybe your experience has been different but if you’re not even on Twitter, I wonder how you would know.