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Theory : Musk destroys Xwitter for reduce his debts to banks (www.businessinsider.com)
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The billionaire had last year tried to back out of his $44 billion offer to buy what was then Twitter, but financed the deal by borrowing $13 billion from a consortium of banks. (...)

Musk may be looking to reduce those payments by ensuring X isn't worth very much, Bloomberg commentator Matt Levine posited in January.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Its a hell of a bankshot for this to have been the 'plan'.

I think most everyone is missing the point and who was backing these deals.

Musk buying twitter was done to empower rightwing culture warriors and to keep the modern alt-right movement relevant.

It was never about making money, its about influencing elections.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it was bought for the sole purpose of hurting people he doesn’t like and helping his political side attempt to gain further power while hindering his political opponents’ abilities to organize. And in his mind, ideally make some money in the process

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

helping his political side attempt to gain further power while hindering his political opponents’ abilities to organize

In that sense it was, and still is, a great investments.

An election is worth far far far more than the price they paid.

[–] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I feel like that's a side effect, where it's being done because now he owns twitter and can.

Originally, I'm pretty sure the reasoning was less convoluted - it was just a pump and dump stock scheme. Which he has a history of doing. He bought a bunch of twitter stock, he posted memes about buying twitter, a bunch of his idiot supporters correspondingly bought twitter stock, which drove up the price.

Then he tried to back out of buying it, he got sued and the SEC got involved. Because he'd had an ongoing vendetta with the SEC they helped force him into buying it.

Then he was stuck being required to purchase an asset which was known to be nearly impossible to get a profit out of, with big loans from multiple parties.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I mean that's a story. Its not the one I believe, and I don't think my reasoning is that convoluted. Elon had to sell something to his backers and the argument that controlling these platforms is how you control the social fabric of the US is what I would have done for a pitch.

Like, he probably should have figured out Trumps contractual obligations to Truth social. Should we lay down a gentleman's bet on Twitter acquiring Truth social in the next 12 months? If he can deliver an election for the Saudis, it will have been well worth it from their perspective.

[–] Redredme@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I dont believe that.

Buying twitter was his ego getting the better of him. Once he came to his senses he tried every which way to get out of the deal. But he couldn't. He had to buy it.

Hanlon tought us: Never account to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Buying twitter was never really thought trough. It was a joke, a meme. Something never meant to be taken seriously. He was sure he could alter the deal. But he couldn't. Instead he instead of Lando was left with the clown's shoes, unicycle and ballerina outfit.

Ever since he's trying to recuperate something, anything. And nothing seems to work, everything he does only backfires. It seems he's embracing the backfire now. Musk being musk, that isn't something he does without a plan.

The question is... What's the plan. And this explanation seems plausible.

And by the way: he's still just doing this for shit and giggles. He's having fun, first and foremost. He's giving us all the finger. Look at that guy during that interview. Everything he says and does is very deliberate. He enjoys his trolling.

To him this isn't real money. He can piss it through the toilet and it would never ever result in any consequence whatsoever for him.

He can lose 90% of his worth and would still be insanely impossibly rich.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Hanlon tought us: Never account to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Buying twitter was never really thought trough. It was a joke, a meme. Something never meant to be taken seriously. He was sure he could alter the deal. But he couldn’t. Instead he instead of Lando was left with the clown’s shoes, unicycle and ballerina outfit.

I think its great that we disagree, but I also think Hanlon would be surprised by the extant degree of malice out there. Shits piling up.