In some very dark ways, this is going to be hilarious.

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Will our big wet boy make his way back to the promised land of posting? :inshallah: :trump-anguish:

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I’m assuming that will be one of the first things to happen. Trump was great for user metrics I’m sure. Jeff Tiedrich must be creaming his pants right now.

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All the now-forgotten about reply-guys will gather under Trump’s first tweet back to unleash the great zingers that they have been working on for over a year.

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11 points

Funniest timeline continues.

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lmaooo

Apartheid failchild now owns twitter

:melon-musk: :brd:

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So this is funny and all and I haven’t been following this too closely other than reading headlines so I may not have the full picture but it is pretty fucked up that one of the largest media companies can say “no we don’t want you to buy us” and this guy can go “mmmmm but I’m gonna” lol

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Musk is using his Tesla shares as collateral.

He is pretty much saying that Twitter is worth more than Tesla to him.

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I mean twitters potential as a propaganda machine vs gender reveal parties on wheels, probably a fair assessment lol

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Twitter is worth more than Tesla to him.

His behavior the past few years has made that glaringly obvious

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Saying “we don’t want you to buy us” is usually just a negotiating ploy in these deals. The other owners of twitter are just other billionaire capitalists, hedge funds acting on behalf of capitalists, or mutual fund companies who only care about ROI.

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That’s true. They certainly don’t have any concerns about twitter other than how much money it can make them. I guess i should expand to the obvious, it’s fucked up that one person can just buy into such a major media company like this. Nationalize the internet and all that

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we’re not making a /c/twitter rescue community they’re all losers

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We already have that

It’s called /c/the_dunk_tank

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it’s called hexbear.net/post

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we can just tell ppl its an upside down twitter clone and they wouldnt notice

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Everyone remember how tumblr was sold to Yahoo for $1.1 billion, and then resold later for $3 million, a 99.8% drop in value? That was fun.

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It’s as if social platforms are extremely hard to monetize without destroying the platforms themselves.

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“Capitalism is the most efficient way to distribute resources and handle the information problem regarding ‘value’…”

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