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Fuck ya.

Make em reeeeeee, Elon.

Hircus says

Fuck ya.

Make em reeeeeee, Elon.

Wow. Maybe Elon is truly based and wants to blow things up.

My guess is Elon talked with the board in preparation to join it, then realized that when in private, they were all commies who opposed his ideals of free speech. He may have even suspected they encouraged all the woke twitter employees rage-quitting in protest of the impending Elon. Or, at least realized that the current board is filled with spineless slimes that fear the woke mob, and so bend the knee in fear that shareholders would oust them if they stood up to the woke mob at the expense of optimal quarterly profit.

So he didn't bother joining the board, and changed strategy. That's probably why he said "I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form."

Elon knows that sometimes a public company is the wrong format. Like with spacex - he once said if he made spacex public, that while the additional capital would help them accelerate, he knows that shareholders would not approve of his expensive and likely unprofitable plan to take humanity to Mars. But if the company is private, he isn't beholden to the masses, and can goto Mars and probably burn all the money he desires on it.

Elon is the only billionaire who is fighting the right battles. Soros, Bloomberg, Bezos, Zuck, Gates.... all of those guys scare the fuck out of me.

Good.
Liberals think they are the only ones with money, brains and balls.
I’m not on Twitter but fuck their little feelings, go get em Elon.

How do we know..
1) this is the actual letter
2) this isn’t how Musk game plans on how to manipulate the stock?

Musk will be the first trillionaire by stock manipulation through fame and media exposure.

Step 1 - Buy Twitter.
Step 2 - Make Trump the CEO.

The safe spaces at twitter today must be standing room only.

zzyzzx says

Step 1 - Buy Twitter.
Step 2 - Make Trump the CEO.

This would generate untold amounts of hilarity.

zzyzzx says

Step 1 - Buy Twitter.
Step 2 - Make Trump the CEO.

Greatest event of the 21st century.

Hircus says

My guess is Elon talked with the board in preparation to join it, then realized that when in private, they were all commies who opposed his ideals of free speech

This reminds me of when Ross Perot joined the board of GM in the early 90's with the intention of changing its cultural rot. He told them the truth and they just couldn't take it, bought him out for $750M. Now GM has about a 17% share of the market when it used to worry about having over 50% and be in violation of anti-trust 50 years ago because it made such good cars and had one "for every purse and purpose" per Alfred P. Sloan.

NDrLoR says

Hircus says

My guess is Elon talked with the board in preparation to join it, then realized that when in private, they were all commies who opposed his ideals of free speech

This reminds me of when Ross Perot joined the board of GM in the early 90's with the intention of changing its cultural rot. He told them the truth and they just couldn't take it, bought him out for $750M. Now GM has about a 17% share of the market when it used to worry about having over 50% and be in violation of anti-trust 50 years ago because it made such good cars and had one "for every purse and purpose" per Alfred P. Sloan.

In many case, success and/or unearned $$ leads to idiocy.

I doubt he even planned to join the board in the first place. He bought the chunk of shares so he can threaten dumping them and sending stock price into the toilet if the board resists the takeover.

WineHorror1 says

In many case, success and/or unearned $$ leads to idiocy.

Most of the Dotcom California Libertarian Entrepreneurs became wokey dokey Execs since the 90s.

Any remember "Don't be Evil"?

I'd be just as thrilled to see Trump Jr as CEO.

The guys (foreigners) who run google and Twitter don’t give a shit about your free speech nor privacy rights.
Neither does that twerp Zuckerberg.
A pox on all of them.

To buy TWTR or not to buy? I mean us personally.

His offer is considerably above the current trading price. I guess that implies that the market does not believe it's going to happen.

And how does this work exactly? I guess he needs to ask the board to sell since he has less than 50% of shares. But I don't understand how it works. So if the board votes yes, then all shares get sold to Elon, and minority shareholders who didn't want to sell are simply compelled to sell.