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[JoshuaFH]

They've deleted that page now.

Then apparently there's

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[Rolan7]

I favor the theory that he knew this would happen and he personally wins either way, as he usually does.  I didn't hold on to the posts but some people were claiming he was already looking for a new CEO, and this way he gets to "respect the will of the people" like some gracious overlord.  Not to mention he'll blame bots again, of course.

He's lost a lot of money on this debacle but maybe his feelings are a little hurt, and that's the most we can ever hope to do to a billionaire.  I don't think he'll ever pay for his obvious counts of stock manipulation, and he'll certainly never go hungry.  Which is not to say that he *should* go hungry- but he's contributed less than nothing to humanity.  He deserves, at BEST, the same as the panhandlers in my town.

So I hope his feelings are slightly hurt as he lounges in his mansion, idly toying with the power to save hundreds of thousands of lives.

[JoshuaFH]

he'll certainly never go hungry.  Which is not to say that he *should* go hungry-

No, he should definitely go hungry. A little starvation would probably teach him the value of that green shit he hoards so much of.

[Egan_BW]

Not to mention he'll blame bots again, of course.

Didn't he 'solve' that?

[None]

Only when it's convenient to him; bots get to be a nebulous 'other' adversary to be paraded around whenever necessary. It's fortunate that they're not actually people, since boy howdy is that fascism knocking at the door, but given his echo chamber of 'unlimited free speech' and 'enlightened centrism' that distill down to far-right bullshit, 'the bots' is probably going to end up meaning 'the leftoids' or whichever lame tag for 'people who don't agree with banning journalists and platforming nazis.'

In his latest example, bots don't pay $8 to participate in vanity polls, so Musk isn't actually stepping down as CEO per his last poll; he's running it again for verified users only. You gotta pay if you wanna tell his metrics that he's a clammy chode, and by that point he has your money.

[hector13]

*puts on tinfoil hat*

He is deliberately attempting to make Twitter fail because it will dampen progressive voices (because all of the largest social media companies are socialist, despite being at the heart of capitalism and making their money off massive invasions of user privacy) and amplify conservative voices, by making Trump’s social media thing a more appealing choice than the flaming wreckage of Twitter.

*takes of tinfoil hat*

I like how he’s changed the policy so that only paid for blue ticks now get to vote, ‘cause now I can make the joke that free speech is not free anymore.

[Starver]

Severely tempted to have made a Twitter account (having never had one before) just to periodically keep flgiving Elon's 'location' as "in Cloud-Cuckoo Land", and similar, but never a true physical location[1] nor anything tangibly insulting. Seeing if it gets banned/for why. And I'm generally against deliberate trolling. So, so tempting, though. But if nobody else has tried it, I am dissapoint!


[1] If it turns out he's actually gone into orbit, I'd refrain from suggesting he's "out there!", etc...

[King Zultan]

So the free speech in twitter is only if you agree with Elon and pay for it, doesn't really sound as free as he wants it to.

[hector13]

His vision of Twitter as the digital town square is in fact a gated community with a really shitty HOA.

[scriver]

Branching this off from Amerithread:

I don't get why he's resisting since he was supposedly looking for a replacement to run the company anyway.

Regardless, it will be immensely funny if he does lose again.

It might be that if he has secured funding for twitter and they are demanding his resignation as CEO, then this could have been an attempt to prove or make it look like "the people still believe in him and want him there" to strengthen his position.

[EuchreJack]

Somebody's going to be appearing as a Criminal Defendant soon!

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/12/20/tech/elon-musk-security-team-sought-for-questioning/index.html

As one of my professors liked to say "Conspiracy is a boat that can take you all sorts of places".

[anewaname]

Probably the guy who was following the Musk's security people.

[EuchreJack]

Probably the guy who was following the Musk's security people.

Hm, ordinarily I would agree, but it sounds like Musky has pissed off the cops. He must have run out of money to bribe them with...

[hector13]

We only have Elon Musk’s assertion it was someone following the car, and Elon Musk is not one to let the truth get in the way of making a point.

[MrRoboto75]

He was in such danger that he ranted about it on Twitter before filling a police report.