Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share.

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  1. matthunter

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  3. Uncle Albert

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    I hope that includes cutting off all access to his money.
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  4. matthunter

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    Don't worry, I'm sure Musk has you beaten in the "jump right to the most vindictive response possible" stakes.

    Though admittedly not by much.
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    Hey, if she wants to denounce daddy, she can denounce daddy's money. :shrug:
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    Do you have, like, some kind of Bat Signal that alerts you whenever a really shitty person needs you to rush bravely to their defense?
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    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Who am I defending?
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    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    He's never on the good side, even by accident.
    You'd think the laws of math would have him defend a good person by accident a couple times out of a thousand.
    Nope.
    He's surgically thorough in his choosing.
    :chris:
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    Who exactly is the "good" side in this?
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    You have something of a point in that I didn't even know Musk had a kid, and the kid might be a tosspot.

    Musk is most definitely an asshole, however.
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  11. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Oh, wait, I remember now.
    It's the trickle-down freedom theory.
    If you defend the assholes, and only the assholes, it makes the rest of us more free.
    Except it doesn't, and history and psychology proves it doesn't.
    The theory FEELS right, so let's never let it go.
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  12. Steal Your Face

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    Some people here have a weird definition of defending., we saw it a lot during Trump’s presidency.
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    Probably does, but with the facts of the situation as known why do you hope that?

    These types of situations often come around due to abuse or neglect from parents (not saying that is the case here, don't know anything else beyond what's posted in this thread), so it seems strange to immediately jump to hoping that the parents finances are protected.
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    Musk's got at least 8 kids and 2 ex-wives. Hardly a model parent.
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    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    Musk is a vocal proponent of the Idiocracy style argument that the right type of people need to start having more kids to balance out the types of people who usually have more. It's kinda yikes.
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    He's looking more and more like a cross between Dr. Strangelove and Hugo Drax. :shep:
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    Musk is abandoning the deal.
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    A report I saw indicates he's on the hook for a $1 billion breakup fee. Of course, he's claiming that Twitter hasn't lived up to something to do with what he claims are all the bots...
    :dayton:
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    He's going to spend $100 million in court and lose. The contract is apparently quite clear.
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    That’s a shame.
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    So Car Trump isn't getting Twitter? :lol:
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    Another example of the US legal system keeping African-Americans down, wow.
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    There's a hell of a lot of attention-seeking going on here.
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