Sometimes I’m perplexed how someone can be so smart and immensely stupid at the same time.
Dude became one of (if not the most) richest person in the world and yet his attitude, behavior and speech are immensely stupid.
When has he ever been “so smart”?
Dude used his dads wealth to buy a founders role in a company.
He really is/was smart about some things - marketing and self-promotion. He started with millions and ended up with hundreds of billions, all thanks to his marketing skills, and knowing how to be in the right place at the right time.
Being good at one thing doesn’t automatically mean he’s good at other things - like running a company, or being an engineer as he likes to imagine himself.
"Because his wealth is entirely in overinflated Tesla stock, and because he’s already massively overleveraged from buying Twitter, coming up with that money means selling Tesla stock, and because the Tesla stock price is based on dreams and unicorn farts any amount he sells tends to sink the price.
And there’s no telling when the Tesla stock price will just collapse entirely as investors finally start valuing it like a car manufacturer, and not like kind of predestined savior of the human race (for context, Tesla in its entirety is currently valued at $800bn. Ford is currently valued at $40bn. And Ford sell a LOT more cars than Tesla)."
This is a quote from a comment above. What he’s “smart” about is being a conman. Which doesn’t really take intelligence. It just takes some trial and error and enough money starting out to make mistakes.
Honestly, it’s not that hard to make a truckload of money if you start off with a busload of money (in this analogy, the truck’s bigger). Capitalism is pretty much built to ensure that the rich will either stay rich or get richer unless they’re completely irresponsible with said riches.
And paying attention to trends isn’t a stroke of genius, either. As for marketing, the ‘fresh rebel tech magnate’ turned out to be just a shitposter without the proper context in which to “shine,” nothing more.
Transphobe mad about people deadnaming his company
I don’t get why twitter wouldn’t just comply & implement measures the moment it knew it’s platform was being used to distribute CSAM.
Lol, Elon Musk thinks that the USA justice system runs on crack so the World justice system must too. 🤣🤣
Wheelahan found that under Nevada law, merging Twitter into X turned Twitter into a “constituent entity,” which then transferred all of Twitter’s legal consequences to X Corp.
Isn’t that how it works everywhere? What where they even arguing for?
Like, if that worked, wouldn’t every company just sell itself to a new shell company once a year and drop every kind of legal liability?
Elmo was really hoping he found a SovCit level loophole to just escape all consequences.
Which is weird, because SovCits are a cargo cult who try to mimic the legal miracles top lawyers sometimes manage to pull off. Musk should be different - he does have access to these top lawyers who do have deep understanding of the law.
Unless Twittex’ lawyers got the same treatment the engineers got?
