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

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  1. Uncle Albert

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    If twitter is destroyed, it is still a win.
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  2. Steal Your Face

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    Nazi, Nazi, Nazi!
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  3. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Indulge.
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  4. Ten Lubak

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    It's a lot more simple than @Diacanu 's "I see Nazis everywhere" plan

    Musk is trying to create a culture war to distract from the actual class war that's happening. He wants people talking and fighting about the problems that barely exist vs the ones that actually do. And given his apartheid upbringing he gets the added benefit of "the blecks" being on the receiving end of the most hate
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  5. Uncle Albert

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    Musk didn't exactly invent THAT sort of scheming.
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  6. Ten Lubak

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    Of course not, he's just employing it via his purchase of Twitter
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  7. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Isn't that what most rich people do?
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  8. Ten Lubak

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    Super-rich, yes definitely, but he's taken it to the next level with his Twitter acquisition. It's all much more "direct to consumer" now
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  9. Uncle Albert

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    Yeah, the conventional path would be to do it through the government.
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  10. Ten Lubak

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    The problem is that it's just so hard to buy and sell American politicians these days because they're all so rich :yes:
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  11. Diacanu

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    The ADL wants to pee in your Cheerios.
    Don't let them, Al.
    Don't let them pee in your Cheerios.
    Get ready.
    Get ready to fight.
    Here they come.
    Here they come!
    Get ready!!
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  12. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    They do it through regulatory agencies by creating barriers of entry for small businesses or creating regulations that favor certain companies.
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    A lot of wealth can be accumulated by the time you're 150 years old.
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    They always want more money. Anything that benefits them, personally.
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  15. Raoul the Red Shirt

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    Here's a search of @Diacanu calling people a Nazi. I'll let it speak for itself.
    http://wordforge.net/index.php?search/64168904/&page=13&q=Nazi&o=date&c[node]=2&c[user][0]=81
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    Don't indulge FF.
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    That has to be the biggest pissbaby fit ever. It does seem to track, but losing all that money and value in multiple businesses seems more like a huge self own that he is psychotically trying to fool himself into owning the libs. This seems to be what it looks like when the world's richest man has the same humiliation fetish as @Uncle Albert and @Steal Your Face .

    Come on elon, save some money and make a wrodforge account. We would humiliate you for free, or if you needed to pay us I would take a check. You could toss some money to UA and the boy so UA can get off the bike, and perhaps the boy can get a night off from subway to cuddle with his dead mom's ashes.
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    He calls you a nazi because that is what you clearly are.
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    Free speech absolutism!
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    The first rule of libertarianism is words mean nothing. If you like the word use it to describe yourself. If it doesn't sound good then it obviously does not describe you. This is how the world works when everyone is an island and you can't force them to use words the proper way because that makes the snowflakes melt. That is the real reason things are getting hotter. It is all those woke intellectuals deciding to agree on a common definition for words so that they can converse. That is what @Uncle Albert says and he is smart because he breathes toxic vapors for a living. They have to keep telling him the tanks are for welding, not for huffing.
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67024538

    Elmo is being sued by the SEC because he's refusing to sit for a third round of testimony about his purchase of Twitter, which they say is needed as nearly half the documents they requested came in after his previous testimony.

    His lawyers have called it harassment and claimed it's distracting Elmo from very important work. But of course he still has time to spew out conspiracy theories and white supremacy on X...
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    They really should make elmo an honorary Trump child. dude is so much more a trump boy than the trump boys. Seriously, how hard is it to be donald Jr. and Elmo is a better don Jr. than don Jr. Trump needs to fire little don.
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    Bullies always whine about how they’re being picked on. :brood:
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    Is wearing cartoon boots a fucking thing now? Stop appropriating nerd culture for your pop cosplay you assholes.
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