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Re:Twitter Suspends PG's Account by chasil on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:50PM (#34044893)
I really don't know who he is.

I see him make "pedo" commentary and I cringe, but reusable rockets are an enormous achievement. I don't see any compelling reason to buy an electric car, but his execution of the Twitter buyout has revealed biased regulation in the extreme, perhaps by illegal proxy from the FBI.

These are important questions, and he has admitted that he is under stress and not completely stable.

I'm not sure what to think.

Re:Twitter Suspends PG's Account by andirk on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:01PM (#34045120)
You can think and believe both with no hypocrisy. It takes some insanity to successfully build a bunch of rockets to Mars or whatever. This is like a more intelligent version of Kany West's breakdown from idiot to straight up mental patient.
Re:Twitter Suspends PG's Account by yenda on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:23PM (#34045457)
It has to be a drug.
Re:Twitter Suspends PG's Account by WaxProlix on Sunday December 18, 2022 @07:01PM (#34046063)
Wealth, power, ... could be a blend of several.
Re:Twitter Suspends PG's Account by bsder on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:17PM (#34045358)
> These are important questions, and he has admitted that he is under stress and not completely stable.

Look, all Musk needs to do is stop digging.

Lots of people underneath him want to keep their nice, cushy, well-paying jobs and would do what needs to be done to keep the companies on an even keel.

If Musk could just sit down and shut the fuck up, things would start self-righting.

But he can't. Because of who he is.

Re:Twitter Suspends PG's Account by chasil on Sunday December 18, 2022 @07:31PM (#34046433)
Can this property not be harnessed for benefit?

The problem is... does he think he is doing so with every action that he takes?

Re:Twitter Suspends PG's Account by echelon on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:55PM (#34045019)
> he has admitted that he is under stress and not completely stable.

He owes allegiance to the Chinese for Gigafactory Shanghai, the Saudis for Twitter, the US DoD for SpaceX, the Russians for industrial inputs. And they all want very different things.

Then he gets goaded into buying Twitter in a botched attempt to manipulate its stock price, can't back out, and ultimately ties up a large percentage of his wealth in it.

Now he's having to play private equity turnaround while all of the metrics are going down and to the right.

I feel kind of sorry for him, but he brought it on himself.

Re:Twitter Suspends PG's Account by chasil on Sunday December 18, 2022 @07:34PM (#34046469)
This is the globalist that both George Bush one and two yearned for.
Re:Twitter Suspends PG's Account by shadowgovt on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:48PM (#34045886)
> the Twitter buyout has revealed biased regulation in the extreme, perhaps by illegal proxy from the FBI.

I haven't seen this; what does it refer to?

Re:Twitter Suspends PG's Account by chasil on Sunday December 18, 2022 @07:26PM (#34046392)
What? Really?

The House of Representatives controls the money for the FBI. The Senate, as you might know does not.

The FBI should be anticipating a haircut.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3770060-with-new-twitt...

Jack Dorsey can certainly be prosecuted for perjury.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-files-flashback-jack-d...

Re:Twitter Suspends PG's Account by shadowgovt on Sunday December 18, 2022 @09:34PM (#34047625)
Thank you. I haven't been following the Twitter files so I wasn't sure what your previous post referred to.

Unfortunately, I think neither of the scenarios you described are likely. The House proposes funding bills, it's true, but those bills don't pass without Senate and presidential sign-off. Similarly, if somebody lies to congress, Congress can refer them to the justice department, but it's the executive branch that would execute the prosecution. Even if one could pin Dorsey on a specific lie (and it would be really easy for him to claim that they don't silence conservative voices, just their perception of unfactual information), I doubt it's expedient for this administration to press the issue.