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The best thing for the Fediverse has been Musk cannibalizing twitter with ever decision he makes it seems.

Twitter imploding -> People finding Mastodon as an alternative -> People discovering federation as an alternative to walled garden social media

It's always fun to play is he weirdly out of touch because he's a billionaire or is he weirdly out of touch because he's autistic. I think this might be a bit of both.

Hand gestures don't come naturally to everybody. Some people learn them just to fit in and some try and evoke the same emotions from them without understanding the emotions or the motions completely because they're just not physically capable of connecting those brain synapses. Add to that the fact Elon doesn't hang out with normal people. He only hangs out with engineers and sycophants. So he doesn't get to naturally see people in their everyday environment. He only sees people acting in videos and then he tries to imitate that and the sycophants and engineers around him applaud him. The dumb shit he says gets retweets so he thinks everyone agrees. Then he goes out into the real world and continues parroting this end stage meming with gestures he learned from Hitler speaches, not realizing the jerky movement was due to low frame rate and high meth rate, and is stun locked when everybody else is trying to figure out what the fuck is happening. And what the fuck is happening is that we are witnessing a man who is so far up his own ass that even basic hand gestures are oddly shitty.

I think it's the ketamine

Being a social media ceo turns you into an uncanny valley monster apparently.

Holy smokes! I just watched it, he doesn't hardly even look at the interviewer, he's constantly looking at the audience and trying to get a reaction. I take it back what I said earlier, I was far more mature then him when I was in 8th grade. The interviewer is having a hard time with someone so cocky and stupid.

Typical conservative victim mentality. It can't be a result of his actions, no. It's not his fault the company is crashing and burning. It's those darn blackmailing advertisers!

He's just using abusive partner/parent tricks to manipulate people. I doubt they have any real basis in logic.

everybody on Earth will know

hahaha holy shit, he believes. he really believes his own shit. he really views "X" as being of planetary importance. he's actually living in his daydream, where Mars (by his hand) and Earth are networked (by him) and his "X" has somehow supplanted the Internet and spans between planets. his principal operating perspective is a delusion. wow. like, all the time.

Most people are rooting for that shit ass company toburn to the ground.

If only it was actually his last $20B

Why wouldn't he have done that first?

Twitters downfall is intentional, if he wanted to micromanage Tesla and SpaceX he would have. This is all a symptom of the fact that he didn't want to buy Twitter in the first place, he was using it as a coverup for selling stock in Tesla.

I don't understand why Tesla won't remove him. He isn't even the majority stock holder. I highly doubt he adds any value for the company at this point so the only thing I can think of is that there must be some weird clause in their agreements.

I've owned a Tesla since 2017 and at this point, I've only replaced tires and spent less than $1000 on electricity to go a bit over 50k miles, but I'm ashamed to be driving it every day and it sucks.

Not for nothing. His Nazi fans loved it. And all he seems to care about now is what they think.

He's the primary owner of the private shares. The shares are not publicly traded. None of what you said makes any sense.

There are no twitter stocks, you can't buy or sell them, and therefore can't short them, since you need to borrow them to do just that. This could work if Elon had some percent of the company, so other people's money would enter the equation, but right now it is not possible.

I'm a little confused by this comment, Twitter isn't a publicly traded stock anymore?

Unless you mean he made deals with them before he BOUGHT twitter (for well beyond market value), meaning the hedgies would be taking a loss....?f

edit: that doesn't preclude the possibility he's tanking the company so he can declare bankruptcy to get out of his loans, but that doesn't involve conspiring with hedge funds, it's just a different kind of financial fraud

Do you have evidence of him committing insider trading?

Making deals with hedge funds to ruin a brand they have shorted seems illegal.

Is there any legislation that prohibits this in the United States?

Persecution fetish. It's a prerequisite for all MAGA trash

Plus it's buzzwords to rile up and gain favor with the authoritarian chuds who speak on the court of public opinion