Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors

sec.gov

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

261–270 of 1001 posts

Re: Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors

#261

Post by zionic »

01100011 wrote: post #169
justapassenger wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Misleading investors is one of Elon’s main jobs. And he’ll continue doing so, as we doesn’t face any consequences for it (expect for becoming ultra rich).

The SEC has been asleep for years now. Every week we see market whales pulling gamma squeezes and pumping tech stocks higher and higher. The market is a joke at this point.

Asleep? SEC has been screwing small investors for as long as it’s been around.

Screw the SEC, just another in a long list of government agencies that shouldn’t exist.

Re: Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors

#262

Post by mostertoaster »

lolwowthere wrote: post #215
mostertoaster wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dont know about electric cars, but what Elon did with space x is simply incredible. Commercial space flights were becoming rarer and rarer out of the US, and now it is the most common. The price of space flight while still high, was reduced by a huge percentage. I’m sure he told many lies to get there. But economics and physics don’t really lie. I like him for the reasons I like Kanye, Bernie Sanders, and Trump (th…

You wrote in Kanye West for president, thought enough other voters would join you to make doing so worth anything to you and your vote, and share that extremely poor adult judgment confidently and publicly? You like him because he says shit? I mean I say shit, too, would you vote for me even if my entire policy platform was incoherent and I stalk and abuse my exes and their new partners in public? You realize his ent…

Kanye 2024. :)

Seriously though this is my point. Kanye is absurd. A fool you might say. Like Trump and Bernie. Yet if you live in an upside down world, you might say some obvious truth, and it will further make you like a fool.

I like that back in 04 he was talking about the way blacks are treated in America, before all the woke fools decided it was popular.

And Beyonces video was better than Taylor’s.

The funny part to me is you actually think your vote for Joe means something.

Re: Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors

#264

Post by bequanna »

beaconstudios wrote: post #165
AustinDev wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An employee exodus from Twitter would only be a good thing in my eyes. They're all too ideological from my experience.

The company will still be ideological, but will simply follow Musk's ideology. Whether that's good or not depends on if you agree with him - I don't.

What ideology is that? Musk has hinted that he views Twitter as a public forum and should be moderated as such.

Until now, I think Twitter's not-so-slight political lean has been viewed as detrimental to the company (and public discourse).

I hope the people who work at Twitter and think it is OK to bring your politics to work go elsewhere. We would all benefit from platform where telling jokes that offend only the wokest doesn't get you banned and silenced.

Re: Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors

#265

Post by [deleted] »

slibhb wrote: post #206
Karellen wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Elon Musk is kind of obnoxious. He lies (or "exaggerates"). > If you hate Elon Musk, consider probing your mind deeply to figure out why. I'm not a hater, but I can understand why others are. Like you said, he's obnoxious. And he lies. Which should be enough justification by itself. But he's also really fucking rich, which is a teeth-grindingly annoying combination. I really admire what he's done for the Electric V…

Lots of celebrities are gigantic douchebags and no one cares. Why do people care with Elon? Why does he have a parade of haters not just criticizing his attitude but also claiming that his work isn't valuable? It's not because "they don't care about EVs or rockets," it's something deeper and uglier.

[deleted]

Re: Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors

#267

Post by jfk13 »

slibhb wrote: post #150
justapassenger wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Misleading investors is one of Elon’s main jobs. And he’ll continue doing so, as we doesn’t face any consequences for it (expect for becoming ultra rich).

Elon Musk is kind of obnoxious. He lies (or "exaggerates"). But what Tesla has done is insane. It's happened so quickly, and that's leaving aside the rockets. The hard evidence that we can build new things, that we can progress and build a future that's better than the present is so important. If it takes a flawed man to show us that, I'll take it. If you hate Elon Musk, consider probing your mind deeply to figure ou…

> Elon Musk is kind of obnoxious. He lies (or "exaggerates"). But what Tesla has done is insane. It's happened so quickly, and that's leaving aside the rockets. The hard evidence that we can build new things, that we can progress and build a future that's better than the present is so important. If it takes a flawed man to show us that, I'll take it.

Or in other words, the end justifies the means?

Not all of us share that philosphy.

Re: Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors

#268

Post by dwighttk »

cactus2093 wrote: post #205
pavlov wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been both a shareholder (since 2013) and customer of Tesla, and probably won't buy one of their products again. I feel deceived about spending over $5k on that "full self-driving" package that three years later still does nothing of the sort. The fact that I made a little money on Elon's coattails doesn't make it OK for him to constantly lie to customers.

150x on your investment in 9 years is more than "a little money".

~10x? Or were there a lot of splits my numbers aren’t showing?

Re: Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors

#269

Post by Mountain_Skies »

Jiejeing wrote: post #102
Overtonwindow wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More profitable, more open, and more fair to all voices. Twitter has become a liberal vacuum that, as a liberal, has gone way too far to the left in silencing voices. It's not a private company, it's a public company, and I hope Elon turns it around into a true, free speech town square, instead of just an echo chamber for blue checks.

"As a liberal, twitter has gone way too far to the left in silencing voices?" Twitter moderation is blind on harassment, nazis who brag about it are using the platform to dox people without any repercussions, send death threats, etc. what the hell are you even talking about?

Sounds like a job for the legal system, not yet another secret kangaroo court run by people with a very narrow ideological bent.

Re: Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors

#270

Post by [deleted] »

beaconstudios wrote: post #165
AustinDev wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An employee exodus from Twitter would only be a good thing in my eyes. They're all too ideological from my experience.

The company will still be ideological, but will simply follow Musk's ideology. Whether that's good or not depends on if you agree with him - I don't.

[deleted]
Post reply on HN