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Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account

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Re: Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account

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Uh, being able to change your mind and not limiting yourself to a pre-subscribed set of ideas is a good thing.

That's true, but that's not what's happening here. Musk reverses his stance on things whimsically and self-servingly. He's not even saying that he has new evidence. His thoughts and actions are completely erratic.

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Re: Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account

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He surely did. But then who pushed him (along with the company) into that hole? :)

And I'm sure if on earth 2 the board had rejected his offer, citing any of these reasons you'd be in full agreement with them.... I mostly remember Musk fans cheering this madness on as it was happening. The timing was ridiculously terrible given the market downturn but I'm pretty sure anyone sympathetic to your current argument would have been cursing the board if they had rejected his bid.

You are probably right. Still, it's not just negotiating and signing a burdensome deal for Musk, but going as far as SUING him into honoring it, that makes their intent obvious (purely monetary reward, no regard for the employees nor the product, nor societal impact). They knew exactly what it meant for Twitter but went for it anyway just to get a payout.

Again, this was their fiduciary duty to do so but then not holding them accountable for selling out is ridiculous.

EDIT: I mean morally accountable.

Re: Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account

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Trump's gonna HAVE to start posting again because of the optics. The most recent tweets on his profile are the tweets from right before he got banned - the Capitol insurrection tweets. His profile is now just a glowing reminder of the Capitol insurrection. Terrible look for Trump. He's gonna need to either start deleting, or start burying these with new tweets, because the current situation is not exactly positive fo…

Haha, that makes sense. If it's true, a good move for Musk would be to pin Trump's last tweets to the home page. :)

Re: Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uh, being able to change your mind and not limiting yourself to a pre-subscribed set of ideas is a good thing.

That's true, but that's not what's happening here. Musk reverses his stance on things whimsically and self-servingly. He's not even saying that he has new evidence. His thoughts and actions are completely erratic.

From your perspective it appears erratic because you don't have the same information.

Re: Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account

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Trump's gonna HAVE to start posting again because of the optics. The most recent tweets on his profile are the tweets from right before he got banned - the Capitol insurrection tweets. His profile is now just a glowing reminder of the Capitol insurrection. Terrible look for Trump. He's gonna need to either start deleting, or start burying these with new tweets, because the current situation is not exactly positive fo…

He could simply post that he's on another platform and leave it, and/or make the account private, so that no one can create another account with the same Twitter handle 30 days after the account is closed.

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I mean, he did commit to buying them $44 billion. If he didn't want to buy them, he shouldn't have signed a contract agreeing to do so. You can't argue that Musk doesn't know what a contract is and can't get decent legal advice.

He signed the contract in a totally different market environment. Twitter's board knew this but still proceeded to sue him nonetheless. Did they understand the consequences for the company and the employees? Sure they did but went on anyway.

He made an unsolicited offer, the board didn't even want him to buy it and explored a bunch of options to prevent a hostile takeover, so he kept pushing, then they said fine, and then the market turned, and then he started walking it back trying to find any reason to back out, but eventually couldn't. This was 100% a self-inflicted wound.

Re: Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account

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Trump's gonna HAVE to start posting again because of the optics. The most recent tweets on his profile are the tweets from right before he got banned - the Capitol insurrection tweets. His profile is now just a glowing reminder of the Capitol insurrection. Terrible look for Trump. He's gonna need to either start deleting, or start burying these with new tweets, because the current situation is not exactly positive fo…

Isn't he proud of all that stuff?

Re: Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account

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This isn’t a surprise, part of the financing deal for truth was that Donnie would always post on truth first before any other social media.

And it is probably in his best interest as Truth hit 500k DAUs within three months of launch

That said, we'll see come election time, assuming the RNC chooses him

Re: Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account

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Uh, being able to change your mind and not limiting yourself to a pre-subscribed set of ideas is a good thing.

I mean there’s changing your mind through learning and growing, and then there’s spewing contradictory ideas as they pop into your head because they suit you in the moment. I may be proven wrong but this feels to me like the latter.

Sounds pretty human. We’re bundles of contradictions.
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