@mcfate One of the most obnoxious downward spirals ever. If he's smart, which he isn't, he'd sell Twitter for cheap. But then he wouldn't be able to keep people from making fun of him so he won't. He let the ding dongs over at 4chan convince him that he's the Da Vinci of our time and he is in for the rudest of awakenings.

@Tail

The problem with "selling Twaffle cheap" is that it's worthless to anyone now, and he owes people money they lent him to buy it.

@Tail

Twaffle's value at this point is what you can sell its shit for at auction, in my estimation.

@mcfate As far as stock value it might not be worth much but as far as platforms go it's still very much a useful, powerful tool to have. I have a number of tin foil hat theories behind why the Saudis helped him buy it.

And he keeps selling off Tesla stock presumably to pay them back.

@Tail

So, he'll destroy Tesla AND his reputation on behalf of the Saudis because WHY, exactly?

My theory is he signed a contract thinking he was making a hilarious joke and was shocked and stupefied to discover the Chancery Court has no sense of humor at all.

@mcfate I agree, however I don't think the Saudis are stupid enough to help bankroll his vanity purchase while expecting to somehow profit from it financially.

But knowing how childish he is, they've gotta know he'd tank it, and that Tesla's stock would suffer for it.

Saudis have oil and oil's biggest threat is cars that don't use it, so spending a few billion to tank their biggest competitor seems a smart move. They've shown themselves adept at capitalizing on our weakest links before.

@Tail

Even if the Saudis bombed every factory Tesla has from Texas to Shanghai, and went after Elmo with a bonesaw, they're not going to be saving internal combustion engines, come on.

@mcfate oh I know, but they stand to do a lot of damage for relatively little investment. Musk and Tesla have both lost far more than what Twitter was bought for. The Saudis wouldn't have helped pay for Twitter unless it was for something that couldn't be bought.

Twitter is probably the biggest platform the left can utilize to spread real news and information and to coordinate and all of America's enemies benefit from seeing it fail.

@mcfate @Tail Destroying it as a site where people can network for actual good causes was always the point of buying it, and reaching that goal would have been worth far more to them.

@lovesdaryl @Tail

You'll need to show your work. How's it worth $44 billion to anyone and why would Elmo be willing to destroy himself to accomplish this supposed "goal"?

What's he GET out of this deal?

@lovesdaryl @Tail

And who's this "them" that this is "worth far more" to?

@mcfate @Tail Putin, Saudi Arabia, not least of all the GOP. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@lovesdaryl @Tail

And which "actual good causes" are they destroying Elmo to impede?

And why is Elmo willing to destroy himself for the Russians, the Saudis, and/or the GOP?

"He's an idiot" has a LOT fewer moving parts, Occam's Razor favors MY explanation.

@mcfate @lovesdaryl well given their close ties to Trump via Kushner, it's in their vested interest to dismantle any platform that serves as a major tool used to keep corrupt Republican politicians from power. They want Trump and they want Kushner. He certainly is an idiot but it still begs the question, why would the Saudis bankroll this thinking it's a solid investment.

@Tail @lovesdaryl

Honestly, this is just making me laugh. This is so convoluted, it's ridiculous.

@mcfate Is it really so unbelievable that a hostile nation would make a small monetary investment to cause considerable damage to one of their enemies? They'd be stupid not to.

@Tail @mcfate This damage via radicalizing bots is being done not just in the US. They are fundamentally opposed to human rights for all people and to democracy as a whole, anywhere, because they don't want it to spread to their countries, and they have invested in Twitter as one step toward this goal. We'll see how this turns out. I won't fight you over this. 🤷

@lovesdaryl @Tail

Smart move.

@Tail @mcfate They want their women hidden at home and veiled in public, without rights. They want to keep democracy out. And toward that end, 44 billion is cheap for them.

@lovesdaryl @Tail

Okay, this is officially nuts. There's NO bright line between wanting women veiled and the existence of not of Twaffle. This is just unmoored wailing now.

Twaffle a shithole. It's never NOT been a shithole. Twaffle brought you GamerGate and other noxious culture war battles.

@mcfate @Tail Organizing to get people with just one polling place per thousands of Black voters to that polling place is a good cause that the GOP is opposed to. Organizing for sending cards to get voters to register to vote (since the GOP is opposed to automatic registration at age 18). Organizing marches for human rights, sometimes worldwide. Iranians letting us know about their protests, arrests, and executions. Ukrainians exposing Russian war crimes. Good causes that they hate. 🤷 .

@lovesdaryl @Tail

And it's impossible to do any of this anywhere but Twitter?

I see.

This is nonsense, but you're going to go right ahead and believe it's real, sigh.

Knock yourself out, but NOT in MY notifications, please.