He Paid 44 billion for an Algorithm, And He is hoping We are stupid enough

[Heather MC]

To help him recoup that 44 Billion.

Talk about a sucker born every minute, if anyone is willing to pay for Twitter, just to assist Musk in recouping that 44 billion dollars.
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Issa No For me, Dawg🤷🏾‍♀️

[RockRaven]

1. He's not trying to make $ by buying Twitter. He wants attention & control over public discourse.

And that he has successfully bought, for the time being.

[Heather MC]

2. Ummmm....

He is tho! Whether he actually goes through with this or not remains to be seen, but he certainly beginning to float the idea which is how these billionaires play billionaires play this game.
They drive the price up on something for a little bit to see if people are willing to pay for.
And once one platform has people paying $20 a month for for this service.

Others will begin to follow suit.
It's another form of market manipulation

Example look at medications. One man ran the price up on insulin over night,, by like 300% or more, just to see what would happen
And yes there was outrage, but guess what other companies are now following suit and doing the same thing with other medications.

We are being robbed denying that fact, helps no one

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/31/elon-musk-charge-twitter-users-verified-accounts-vine

[blueinredohio]

5. People have to have insulin they don't have to have Twitter.

[Heather MC]

6. Take a walk through most people's houses if they don't freak

And just look at all the stuff we spend our money on that we absolutely don't need
We have literally been trained just to absent-mindedly spend our money.

People are gullible enough to pay for Twitter. I think it's sweet that you don't believe that.
I hope you are right and I am wrong.💜

[blueinredohio]

7. I didn't say they wouldn't do it.

I said they need insulin but they don't need Twitter. I buy things I don't need but I want them so I buy them.

[Warpy]

13. You're correct. Musk is hoping people are so addicted to Twitter

that they'll cough up $240/year for the privilege of calling themselves "verified" while raking in even more money on advertising revenue so Twitter will make a profit for the first time, ever.

It's not going to work. people who create the kind of content that draws others in to read are not going to pay for being Twitter's product. Also, I can't see his staff working the hourse he wants them to, they're going to tell him to go to hell pretty quickly.

Rich men seem to want people to pay for the privilege of working for them. They always seem to shocked when we want paychecks instead of glory.

[Meowmee]

17. Exactly

People have no choice with insulin and many other medications which is the worst kind of exploitation.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. No one is going to pay Musk's fees

[Heather MC]

4. You'd be surprised how stupid people are or maybe you wouldn't and you're just hoping

They are not that stupid.
🤣💜

[Scrivener7]

18. People said that about water and TV.

[localroger]

8. What Elon wanted was to be able to push HIS bullshit on Twitter without it being blocked

He figured he was buying a going concern that would otherwise just justify itself, but in the runup to the deal he found out it was more complicated than that, which is why he tried to bail on the deal. In the end he decided to go through with it to avoid the court drama, because hey had $44bil anyway and why not, and now he's just flailing trying to figure out what to do with his new toy other than vent his own spleen without worrying about the censors himself. It really isn't more complicated than that.

[Heather MC]

9. Never forget he tried to back out of the deal after he had signed paperwork

Legally binding them to the deal

That's how stupid he is.

He's just a really dumb person with a lot of money
And I actually read an article by the Hill, about whether they should lift the rule about being a natural born American so someone like ElonMusty could run for president one day.🤦🏾‍♀️

If that isn't the most terrifying thing I've ever read I don't know could be

[localroger]

22. Well 'lifting that rule' about being natural born to run for Prez

would require a Constitutional amendment, which ain't likely to happen real soon. And if they couldn't do it for Ahnuld they ain't doin' it for Elon.

BTW watched Moonraker again Monday night and if Elon Musk isn't Hugo Drax, I don't know who Drax was supposed to be based on. Even if Elon wasn't born yet when they made that movie.

[Heather MC]

23. I will have to rewatch a Moonraker.

🤔

[ecstatic]

10. It shows that Elon is more of an idiot than I ever imagined

I always thought the blue check was for the safety of the users of the site. Without verification, anyone can claim to be someone they are not. Is he now suggesting that unsuspecting users should be able to be scammed or receive misinformation from random scammers? Also, many people only go on Twitter to read what the celebrities are saying. Celebrities make Twitter what it is and as Stephen King said, Twitter should be paying them.

Elon must not be aware that many EXTREMELY popular social platforms have come and gone over the past 25 years. Facebook was the first platform to break that pattern of becoming irrelevant within 5 years, and Twitter has also had a nice run, but I think we're witnessing the end of it. Hopefully the original Twitter founders will come up with a great alternative soon. Elon wasted his 44 billion. Good riddance.

[Thunderbeast]

11. DAMN! I closed my account on Saturday.

I guess I will not have the opportunity to help poor Elon in his quest.

Prediction:

SpaceX and Tesla will be looking for bailouts within 24. Months. Buyers may hope for a fire sale.

[Heather MC]

12. I can't believe how far Tesla stock has fallen

It's almost as if hes supposed to be losing all of his money.

It would be nice if we could trick him into doing some good with the rest of his billions his billions since he's decided to give it all away for dumb shyt

[Justice matters.]

14. Stephen King doesn't need a blue check. He makes sense, and...

his followers (of which I certainly am) know who he is...

The same for every known personality who makes sense (99% of republiQans fail at that).

Their followers already know who they are.

[Martin68]

15. I hope he falls like a ton of bricks. Elon is intuitive but not very savvy. Greedy, but not very

wise to the ways of the world. I have family members and friends who are highly functional aspies. They are geniuses, but have great vulnerabilities. I think Elon has moved out of his comfort zone into a very risky venture.

[orangecrush]

16. ROTFLMAO

Great meme!

[PatrickforB]

19. I will not be paying for Twitter. Under any circumstances. Elon...Goodbye!

[raising2moredems]

20. Dorsey will have his new and improved not-Twitter-but-like-Twitter

ready for the masses here soon. Musk and the orange gorilla will both probably sue lol.

[Heather MC]

21. If he didn't get Dorsy to sign an agreement that he wouldn't start a new Twitter

Then that proves just how stupid ElonMusty is🤷🏾‍♀️

[BlueIdaho]

24. A yawning chasm of shittyness

Glad I left eight years ago - nothing much has changed.