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Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by kjs3 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @04:06PM (#33085970)
Spot on...the first thing I thought was 'really...he started listening to his lawyers?'.
Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by bena on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @04:19PM (#33086174)
Yeah, isn't this effectively a complete win for Twitter concerning the lawsuits?

If you're Musk or an apologist, how do you spin this in a way that doesn't say "Yeah, they were completely right and I had no basis for my claim"?

Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by kjs3 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @04:22PM (#33086231)
Probably something like "I no longer have time to fool around with trivial things like Twitter. Ignore it ever happened, since I'm now using my vast intellect teaching world leaders how to end their wars".
Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by phatfish on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @04:42PM (#33086501)
He's already ruled out shoehorning in Dogecoin due to scalability concerns, so there is nothing else left apart from more shitposting.
Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by LiquidSky on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @04:16PM (#33086131)
He was set to be deposed this week. I'm guessing his advisors finally got through to him that he's fucked and dragging out the trial will only further publicly humiliate himself and potentially open him to even more consequences. Musk finally has to face reality, for once.
Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by LightG on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @04:21PM (#33086212)
Yup, take a $44b tesla share price and/or reputation hit, or pay $44b and at least have an asset to show for it.

Actually, scratch the reputation bit. That's already toast.

Kudos to Twitter.

Checkmate.

Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by rchaud on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @04:59PM (#33086788)
More like kudos to Musk's lawyers for creating several months' worth of billable hours out of trying to poke holes in a "I agree to buy it sight unseen, no refunds" contract.