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now why on earth would an apartheid beneficiary do something like spend billions of dollars to dissolve an online platform used as a way for his political rivals to organize against him?
no it's because he is a dumb silly goose making wacky decisions! this was definitely not a targeted and malicious investment to make his enemies go away
Never assume malice when sheer stupidity suffices.
Musk is a scammer and a retard. A very lucky one, for sure, and he knows how to rile people up, sure, but he's idiocy embodied.
Every idea coming out of his mouth is sheer stupidity, it's just thatost people are too busy chanting his name to really listen to what he's saying.
If this was an evil plan to rid himself from his enemies then the flying fuck would he pay twice Twitter's worth? you have to be really musk to do such a stupid thing. The only reason he isn't bankrupt broke and dead all at the same time is because of his ability to rile people up with lies. The only project that remotely might be called successful are telsa and SpaceX.
Tesla (very notoriously NOT founded by musk) is ENOURMOUSLY overvalued, by a factor 100-1000, and has already been dropping in value like a brick. Tesla's are horrible cars depreciate in value like no other. It started nice and flashy, like all musk projects , but other car brands will overtake it and within 2 years telsa will start to become yet another footnote in History.
SpaceX is hemorrhaging money and only continues to pay because all IS citizens fund the shit out of it. Yes, you pay for elon's toys.
Both companies exist only and ONLY by the grace of actual smart engineers trying to build something good. All musk has talked about these companies is bullshit. Men in mars in ~~2014~~ ~~2015~~ ~~2016~~ ~~2017~~ ~~2018~~.... You get the idea.
His AI and robotics company is just hilarious to watch as university students try to replicate shit that Boston dynamics already mastered 20 years ago, and then musk claims it's his new gold. That is not even mentioning that half the 20-year old-shit videos are still faked anyway because they can't even do that well.
He got his money from that 7zip (IIRC) company being bought out after he was fired for BEING INCOMPETENT. Let that sink in.
Point is.
Musk is an idiot. Stop assigning some evilnplot to him, he doesn't have the intelligence for that.