Comments by "Plato\x27s Cave alum" (@platoscavealum902) on "SpaceX: A Grift Of Planetary Proportions" video.

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  2.  @Grand_Edict  1) Elon made the overvalued offer for Twitter in the first place. 2) Elon knew about the bot problem at Twitter before he made the overvalued offer, and is in fact still incapable of getting rid of the bots on Twitter to this day, himself. What you wrote in your comment doesn’t make sense because Musk is the one who made the overvalued offer in the first place, then he tried to back-out. He made an offer and was willing to pay the price to promote free-speech. Later he decided that free-speech wasn’t worth that price? It sounds like he didn’t care about free speech until the court forced him to buy Twitter. After overpaying for Twitter, Elon wanted to minimize looking incompetent in valuing businesses. As such, he has been attempting to spin his terrible business decision as way to save free speech.
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  3. Enron Musk
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  4. 📉 The perfume would be called: eXLon smeLL
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  5.  @Grand_Edict , if Elon Musk bought Twitter to promote freedom of speech, why did he try to back-out of his purchase — until the courts forced him to buy Twitter?
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  7. I believe you may be confusing spending with investing. Spending diminishes your wealth, while investing aims to grow it: • Spending is a cost, while investing is an allocation of resources for future benefits. • Spending provides gratification with no future returns, while investing delays gratification for potential long-term gains.
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  9.  Trizzer89 , why did Elon Musk try to back-out of buying Twitter?
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  10.  @Grand_Edict  While Elon Musk claimed he wanted to buy Twitter to promote free speech, one other potential underlying reason was that it gave him an excuse to sell a large amount of his Tesla stock without raising red flags with investors. Normally, if Musk sold a huge chunk of his Tesla shares for no apparent reason, it could make Tesla's investors nervous and drive the stock price down. They might think Musk is losing confidence in the company. But by using the Twitter acquisition as the public justification, Musk could sell billions of dollars worth of his Tesla stock under the pretense that he needed cash to finance the $44 billion Twitter purchase. So the Twitter deal provided a plausible cover story that allowed Musk to cash out a significant portion of his Tesla holdings without directly signaling to the market that he was losing faith in Tesla's future prospects. In simple terms, the Twitter bid gave Musk an opportune excuse to sell some of his Tesla stock without causing investor panic about his reasons for doing so.
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  11. 💸 Musk's Twitter bid provided cover to sell a large stake in Tesla without raising huge alarms for $TSLA shareholders. 📉 Tesla’s growth and stock price has declined significantly since Elon began selling his $TSLA shares. ✅ 🎯 Twitter acquisition gave him a plausible excuse to cash out billions from Tesla under the pretext of financing the Twitter deal — rather than signaling doubts about $TSLA stock.
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