• ZeroCoolOP
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      1 year ago

      Can we stop posting this fucking douche?

      Feel free to ignore news you aren’t interested in. The sad reality is that Elon Musk is relevant and his actions have real effects on people. Bury your head in the sand if you like but don’t expect me to join you.

      • @cabron_offsets
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        -51 year ago

        And here you are making him more relevant. If people ignore twitter, it fucking dies.

        • Flying Squid
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          181 year ago

          What makes you think talking about him on Lemmy will have any effect on Twitter? Most of us aren’t even on Twitter.

          • @[email protected]
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            -21 year ago

            Things that are only relevant, because they are relevant, are not actually relevant. It’s fluff dressed in a suite.

            Like they say, fashion is only fashionable because others thinks others thinks it’s fashionable.

            As long as everyone keeps talking about Musk all over the place, he’ll keep coming out at top.

            • Flying Squid
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              81 year ago

              I’m pretty sure he’s on top because he’s the richest man in the world and ignoring him won’t change that.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                he isn’t the richest man in the world. his “wealth” is stock. not actual money. and he can’t actually use that for anything but leverage.

                he is small fry in the world of the actually rich; people just give him the limelight because of notoriety.

                • @assassin_aragorn
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                  11 year ago

                  I’m pretty sure that’s how it goes for most wealthy people. It’s all tied up in assets, not liquid cash. Investing your money is always better for growth in the long term.

                  He’s in the news because he’s become a laughingstock. All news isn’t good news. I certainly don’t think he wants news that continues to convince people that he’s an utter idiot and waste of space.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    11 year ago

                    tying up in assets such as property, land, etc. has real value though. you can sell a huge amount of land without the land losing value because of the sale, but you can’t sell a huge amount of stock without the value collapsing while selling it off.

                    any exposure is good exposure. investors don’t normally run away just because you earn yourself notoriety, they usually do the opposite - because the market is entirely made of make belief and fairy dust.

            • meat_popsicle
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              He’s so wealthy he could personally go to your neighborhood and “Mansa Musa” your place into inflation. He could just drop $10,000,000 per person to get up and leave whatever square mile surrounding your residence right now.

              Assuming avg population density for a city in the US that’s only $2.8billion (~280 ppl/mile in cities). Not even a scratch to his total net worth.

              A single person with that much wealth and power doesn’t require any attention to retain it. He’ll keep coming out on top because it’s nearly impossible not to when you reach a large enough number.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                he doesn’t actually have his wealth. it’s estimated stock value; which would cascade to nothing the minute he tries to extract it. all he can do is borrow with stock as leverage; which would net him a lot of money sure; but there is no way they would approve billions in a loan unless he is very very specific on the investment goal.

        • DessertStorms
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          31 year ago

          Imagine thinking this is still (or ever was) just about twitter, or that if you simply starve the richest fascist on the planet of attention he will just go away… 🤦‍♀️

          • @toasteecup
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            01 year ago

            I don’t know if he’ll go away but he is showing alot of attention seeking behavior and admittedly we’re giving it to him.

        • ZeroCoolOP
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          Okay we’re done here. You’re contributing nothing to the conversation and I wasted enough time arguing with fools on reddit, I’m not going to do it here.