Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44bn

[Doing it for the kids]

Elon Musk was not the inventor of PayPal, nor was he a part of the development of PayPal, we was involved as a shareholder of x.com, one of the companies that merged to create PayPal, and held a stake of PayPal because of that merger, and profited greatly when PayPal was sold to eBay

As for Tesla, you can read it all online how he acquired the business and part of the conditions of the take over was that he would be named as founder

Fair play the guy has made a lot of money, its from shrewd and ruthless acquisition not invention I am afraid

Folk like musk are unique. They don’t have to be experts anything.

They work by finding skilled people and sew them all together to produce very good results.

I suspect he is the kind of man that could turn his hand to anything and make it work better.

I would prefer him in charge of such an influential platform than mark zackelburg. He seems far more open book.

 

[bobk]

Folk like musk are unique. They don’t have to be experts anything.

They work by finding skilled people and sew them all together to produce very good results.

I suspect he is the kind of man that could turn his hand to anything and make it work better.

I would prefer him in charge of such an influential platform than mark zackelburg. He seems far more open book.

So apart from making expensive unpractical cars what other talents does he possess

 

[Doing it for the kids]

You don’t get to where he has got to in life without exceptional talent

 

[bobk]

You don’t get to where he has got to in life without exceptional talent

Bollox

 

[Doing it for the kids]

We will never agree on this one then

 

[bobk]

We will never agree on this one then

Not if you can't even press the fukin quote button , make me

 

[ollie989898]

GB news cuts out the middle man

May as well just call it the Nigel Farage show lol.

 

[bobk]

May as well just call it the Nigel Farage show lol.

Gone a bit left wing imo , very worried

 

[delilah]

Yeah but to be fair it was in the middle of a pretty heated argument that he, (the potholer), had started by calling Musk's involvement a PR stunt even though it was the rescue team who had asked him to...

Having no interest in electric cars, space travel or twitter, I guess I don't give a flying fudge what he gets up to business wise. However, if his idea of 'free speech' is to be able to accuse someone of abusing children with no fear of retribution, he doesn't seem the sort of person we need in a position of influence.

 

[bobk]

Having no interest in electric cars, space travel or twitter, I guess I don't give a flying fudge what he gets up to business wise. However, if his idea of 'free speech' is to be able to accuse someone of abusing children with no fear of retribution, he doesn't seem the sort of person we need in a position of influence.

And a free rein for IS and the like

 

[ollie989898]

Having no interest in electric cars, space travel or twitter, I guess I don't give a flying fudge what he gets up to business wise. However, if his idea of 'free speech' is to be able to accuse someone of abusing children with no fear of retribution, he doesn't seem the sort of person we need in a position of influence.

If twitter allowed that kind of conduct on it's website it would probably fall from grace, it may just do anyway- other websites exist and may well take its place in future. The bloke's conduct is a bit wayward to say the least. A guy used to getting his own way perhaps.

 

[wanton dwarf]

Billionaires need to be taxed out of existence I'm afraid.

At which point innovation ceases to exist because no one can afford to create the manufacturing plants and infrastructure to do major projects.

Billionaires are a fact of life but we need to get rid of those who don't pay tax and don't help society as a whole.

ie Bill Gates work against the common man and his desire for people to live of gruel in a pod.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Please, explain to me how it is morally right for individuals or companies to radically increase their new wealth during a pandemic and with most Western countries deeply in debt?

What fudging odds does it make how big your pile of treasure is? Is 1 billion not enough?

Given your performance on the "covid cure" thread - quite literally parroting the very narrative that facilitates individuals and companies radically increasing their wealth during a pandemic, while plunging most of the Earth's citizens into increased debt...

but sh!t yeah, what a hypocrite that Musk is

 

[bobk]

Given your performance on the "covid cure" thread - quite literally parroting the very narrative that facilitates individuals and companies radically increasing their wealth during a pandemic, while plunging most of the Earth's citizens into increased debt...

but sh!t yeah, what a hypocrite that Musk is

How big is twitter on the other side of the world ?

 

[ollie989898]

Given your performance on the "covid cure" thread - quite literally parroting the very narrative that facilitates individuals and companies radically increasing their wealth during a pandemic, while plunging most of the Earth's citizens into increased debt...

but sh!t yeah, what a hypocrite that Musk is

I have parroted no narrative. I have repeated what I have learned and had a great time on that thread.

If companies have made extraordinary profits from their covid activities, vaccines and the like then I expect them to be taxed on them. Simple as that. I still think big companies and billionaires should be taxed heavily, particularly during situations we have seen in recent years. These profits were generated from society at large and it's high time something was done to redress the balance and sort out ridiculous levels of government debt.

 

[Henarar]

The guy is a total hypocrite. Makes ridiculous claims about his planet-saving car company, claiming it will save the world etc, only to be in the business of fudging space travel as well

well not really, electric cars may well help save the world as we know it for some time but ultimately its doomed and the human race will need spacecraft to leave this world before it becomes un-livable

 

[ollie989898]

well not really, electric cars may well help save the world as we know it for some time but ultimately its doomed and the human race will need spacecraft to leave this world before it becomes un-livable

No no, it is a very good thing that Elon and Jeff are building rockets. Maybe one day we can shove them into one and fudge them both off into space? It's cheaper than the trans-dimensional teleporter I was planning to shove undesirables into.

 

[wanton dwarf]

I have parroted no narrative. I have repeated what I have learned and had a great time on that thread.

If companies have made extraordinary profits from their covid activities, vaccines and the like then I expect them to be taxed on them. Simple as that. I still think big companies and billionaires should be taxed heavily, particularly during situations we have seen in recent years. These profits were generated from society at large and it's high time something was done to redress the balance and sort out ridiculous levels of government debt.

Personally I'm a bit more interested in how Russia got hold of so much of the Western fossil fuel market and ended up with houses/palaces right next door to Westminster.

I doubt the Russians involved have ever paid significant taxes and I bet MPs & Civil Servants had lots of back handers.

 

[ollie989898]

Personally I'm a bit more interested in how Russia got hold of so much of the Western fossil fuel market and ended up with houses/palaces right next door to Westminster.

I doubt the Russians involved have ever paid significant taxes and I bet MPs & Civil Servants had lots of back handers.

I know the answer to this.

The answer is that most politicians are either dangerously inept or dangerously corrupt. Or both.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

How big is twitter on the other side of the world ?

Not too sure.
I don't use it and can't think offhand of anyone who does use it as much as instagram, facebook etc.
I certainly do see a lot of stuff pulled off Twitter and onto FB, but that's probably the groups I joined for laughs

"Millennials" seem to love the rate at which the likes accumulate on twitter, you know, they've been brought up on a diet of
"you can have/be/do anything you like"
"you're so special"
"you'll go a long way in life"
and when they discover life isn't like that, they gloss over their mental anguish by forming a social media addiction that helps them feel they're achieving what was promised to them?

Long way of saying "dunno, Bob, I'm not really in that crowd"