• li10@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Still can’t believe that some people thought this was possibly going to happen.

    Can you get a more obvious publicity stunt?

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        1 year ago

        Idk, he really just woke up one day and was like “let me pay a shit ton more than Twitter is worth so I can run it into the ground” and then woke up a year later and was like “all that goodwill in the accounting books? Let’s throw it away with a shitty rebrand”

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        1 year ago

        Should have made him sign a contract that says if he doesn’t fight he has to pay a billion dollars

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      1 year ago

      Especially since Elon backed out like a month ago. Unless he waffled on it.

      And even if it did happen, it wouldn’t have been the ultra violent bout between billionaires that (IMO) made the idea popular. There’s a good chance it would have just ended up being two champions both guys hired going through the motions to get a ridiculously large paycheck (that was still ridiculously trivial for either one of them).