Elon Musk now owns 9.2% of twitter...update.. will soon be the sole owner as Board of Directors accepts his purchase offer

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MrSquished

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Just for the record, I can be glad you're okay and still think you're arrogant. I've legitimately been concerned about you since you stopped posting around the time everything started tanking.

You were the one that gave everyone the impression you were married to Tesla/Musk and big on the coins, glad that wasn't correct.

I've never understood why you think you are the only well off person on this board and why that would make your opinion worth more, but I'm glad you find happiness in feeling superior about your wealth.
Ponyo is one step away from stopping on random corners and while entering grocery stores and just yelling 'I'm rich bitch!'
 

manly

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I feel bad for the guy, but he made many asshole comments about anyone that disagreed with him being upset they "missed out" and we're upset they were "poor."

Beyond Tesla he was heavy in Bitcoin too.
Although I'm no fan of his, I don't think we all need to dunk on him or feel sorry for him. At least some of his cost basis was pretty low IIRC; and although it's highly unlikely, maybe he took some profits off the table earlier this year when he should have. I would agree he was condescending in different threads (not just Tesla) so this is by no means a defense of his posting history.

If we had to guess, he still thinks Elon is god and Tesla will ultimately be a top 3 automaker in volume while dominating industry profits like Apple iPhones. I say let the man dream all he wants to. :p
 
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Here me out Bros,

Maybe the whole twitter plan is to appeal to Deplorable’s so that he may sell them solar panels, power walls and get them the fuck out of their coal rolling trucks and into electric cars to save the environment.
Just imagine all the guys who said fuck no to electric anything now buying all electric stuff to “own the libs”.
Whadda ya think?
 

MrSquished

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Here me out Bros,

Maybe the whole twitter plan is to appeal to Deplorable’s so that he may sell them solar panels, power walls and get them the fuck out of their coal rolling trucks and into electric cars to save the environment.
Just imagine all the guys who said fuck no to electric anything now buying all electric stuff to “own the libs”.
Whadda ya think?
Ha.

Those dbags dick sizes are tied to their trucks and loud cars. They probably think electric cars are for gayboys. Or whatever their demented minds think.
 
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uallas5

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Ha.

Those dbags dick sizes are tied to their trucks and loud cars. They probably think electric cars are for gayboys. Or whatever their demented minds think.
EVs are what the gubm'nt is gonna force us to buy before we know it!!!
 

cytg111

Lifer
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Ponyo .. I mean, its not like he was tossing grenades at children or anything. You cant always just go-to max(MAD). Well you can but, your milage will suck.
 

Zorba

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Here me out Bros,

Maybe the whole twitter plan is to appeal to Deplorable’s so that he may sell them solar panels, power walls and get them the fuck out of their coal rolling trucks and into electric cars to save the environment.
Just imagine all the guys who said fuck no to electric anything now buying all electric stuff to “own the libs”.
Whadda ya think?
Except these are people that booed Trump because he got a booster. They want confirmation, not to be lead to water. That's why Trump did so well with them, he was great confirming their biases.
 
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amenx

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2022, Musks annus horribilis.

Maybe you have not had the best year. But take some consolation from the fact that you did not YOLO yourself into overpaying for an unprofitable social-media platform, publicly try to wriggle out of the deal, get lawyered into ponying up, liquidate billions of dollars of stock in a down market to do so, take over a company you did not really want, shitpost your way into a revenue crisis, quit paying your bills, antagonize your super-users, wink-wink at Nazis, and decimate your staff, all the while damaging your other, more lucrative businesses. Or at least probably not, unless you are Elon Musk. ..... :p



 

Pens1566

Lifer
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2022, Musks annus horribilis.

Maybe you have not had the best year. But take some consolation from the fact that you did not YOLO yourself into overpaying for an unprofitable social-media platform, publicly try to wriggle out of the deal, get lawyered into ponying up, liquidate billions of dollars of stock in a down market to do so, take over a company you did not really want, shitpost your way into a revenue crisis, quit paying your bills, antagonize your super-users, wink-wink at Nazis, and decimate your staff, all the while damaging your other, more lucrative businesses. Or at least probably not, unless you are Elon Musk. ..... :p


Well, when you put it that way ...
 
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MrSquished

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Just for the record, I can be glad you're okay and still think you're arrogant. I've legitimately been concerned about you since you stopped posting around the time everything started tanking.

You were the one that gave everyone the impression you were married to Tesla/Musk and big on the coins, glad that wasn't correct.

I've never understood why you think you are the only well off person on this board and why that would make your opinion worth more, but I'm glad you find happiness in feeling superior about your wealth.

He is misrepresenting his positions. He states above that he only put $55K in crypto all told, yet here he is saying that Crypto is his 'insurance'. Insurance for what at 55K? Give me a break.

I don't remember you pounding the table and telling everyone to sellout of ETH at $4k.

I don't care if you were right or wrong. Broken clock is right twice a day. I have my own investing thesis and risk management. I don't pretend I'm smart enough to call the top or bottom. Cryptos are my insurance.

Yeah Ponyo the man who's entire identity is his money and how rich he is, $55k is his big crypto investment. As he says 'A lot of doge' not to mention part of that 55K went into bitcoin. . Yeah right lol

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I bought more DOGE today on Coinbase. And my Robinhood account will soon have lot of DOGE as well.



and posted in October. Coinbase has halved since then in price. And it's not looking to get any better as crypto's scam has been revealed.

I'm very bullish on Coinbase. It's my second largest position after Tesla. I really like Brian Armstrong and how he has grown Coinbase. I believe they have unbelievable growth opportunities ahead of them and Brian is the right guy to lead the company. I think my Coinbase position will eventually turn into multi bagger and make me millions. I'm holding 1,500 shares of Coinbase and sold bunch of puts. I haven't sold any covered calls because I think Coinbase is going to explode up one of these days, and I don't want to lose my shares for cheap.


The guy is totally downplaying his losses because money is his primary identity.

I don't mind calling him out because all he did was be an arrogant prick and demean everyone else here because they couldn't be as rich or as smart as him about money. One of the single most terrible things about a society is that too many people only place a person's total value on their wealth. He contributes to that horribly.

He lost a shit ton of money and while I'm sure he is fine, his portfolio crashed quite a bit and quite hard.
 

cytg111

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Posting this for when Elmo dumps more TSLA in January

Well, by the choice of words it certainly sounds like he understands the severity of the situation he has managed to “engineer” himself into. Problem is he is sort of caught in his own net isnt he? Tf is he gonna do when Twitz needs cash again?
 
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Vic

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I know this is going to be unpopular but IMO it was inappropriate to call out ponyo in this thread.
First, because there used to be a rule here that it wasn't allowed to call out/at-mention posters who had not already posted in a particular thread. Not sure what happened with that.
Second, because while I'm not interested in defending ponyo, I do recall posts from him months ago acknowledging that he thought he got lucky with TSLA but did not consider it a long hold.
And finally, because I personally go to great lengths to avoid personal financial discussions on anonymous internet forums and encourage others to do the same. And that's because such discussions are pointless. Little different than an e-peen contest. Nothing can actually be proven, and as such no reasonable person should accept any claims as credible.
 

Zorba

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I know this is going to be unpopular but IMO it was inappropriate to call out ponyo in this thread.
First, because there used to be a rule here that it wasn't allowed to call out/at-mention posters who had not already posted in a particular thread. Not sure what happened with that.
Second, because while I'm not interested in defending ponyo, I do recall posts from him months ago acknowledging that he thought he got lucky with TSLA but did not consider it a long hold.
And finally, because I personally go to great lengths to avoid personal financial discussions on anonymous internet forums and encourage others to do the same. And that's because such discussions are pointless. Little different than an e-peen contest. Nothing can actually be proven, and as such no reasonable person should accept any claims as credible.
Not sure who was actually dunking on him. Talking about him and things he's post isn't really dunking on him.

But he posted in this thread many times and was a dick to many people in the process.

As an example:
Elon fucked your mom and killed your dog.

The guy bragged about how rich he was and how smart he was with Tesla and Coins all the time, and constantly went on and on about how great Elon was and if you disagreed it was because you were poor. Including in this thread. He's entitled to his opinions, but we can also point out how wrong he ended up being.
 

cytg111

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Agreed, for me its like, its one thing to scrap when we’re both standing up, however to imagine someone on his knees and still wanna kick him in the face… I mean we’re having a heated debate here with some choice words mixed in, but we’re not actually in it to watch and cheer each other bleed are we? Are we?
 
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WelshBloke

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I know this is going to be unpopular but IMO it was inappropriate to call out ponyo in this thread.
Totally this. Its OK to mention someone or disagree with someone that's posting. Just bitching about someone that isn't here isn't OK.

Threads about Musk not Ponyo.
 
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[DHT]Osiris

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If you guys need someone new to dunk on, I'm still holding some TSLA. Not so much that I'm depressed, but enough that I'm annoyed I didn't sell earlier.

In my case at least it's because I legit believe that the tech they've got is worth the higher market cap. Just wish musk would shut his dumbass up.
 

trenchfoot

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Somehow I get the inclination that Musk isn't going to be holding on to Twitter too much longer. Don't know what kind of a loss he's going to take on the sell but I think he's getting excessively tired of being the source of so many acidic jokes about how he's taking a soaking on the deal and what an ass he's made of himself for straying out of his lane.
 

Fenixgoon

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Somehow I get the inclination that Musk isn't going to be holding on to Twitter too much longer. Don't know what kind of a loss he's going to take on the sell but I think he's getting excessively tired of being the source of so many acidic jokes about how he's taking a soaking on the deal and what an ass he's made of himself for straying out of his lane.
disagree. his narcissism runs so high he will burn it to the ground first. because if he were "smart", he never would have bought twitter in the first place.