Elon Musk reveals Twitter takeover driven by hatred of 'woke mind virus that infected trans daughter

[usonian]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/09/01/elon-musk-reveals-twitter-takeover-hatred-woke-mind-virus/

If you get a paywall, https://archive.ph/6zoBd

Elon Musk was driven to take over Twitter after fearing his transgender daughter had been infected with a “woke mind virus” incubated on the social media platform.

Mr Musk had initially rushed to embrace the news when Jenna, formally known as Xavier, transitioned at age 16.

But when she later cut him out of her life entirely, he knew he had a fight on his hands, a battle which would eventually culminate in the world’s richest man buying Twitter for $44 billion.

The Tesla owner believed his child had been radically transformed by the $50,092 (£39,500) a year liberal school she attended in California. “She went beyond socialism to being a full communist and thinking that anyone rich is evil,” Mr Musk said.

[Walleye]

1. I hate people who bring their family fights out in public, I don't care how rich they are

[struggle4progress]

2. Translation: "I got sued when I tried to back out"

Musk Completes $44 Billion Deal to Own Twitter

By Kate Conger and Lauren Hirsch
Oct. 27, 2022

... Mr. Musk ... In April ... struck the deal to buy the company for $44 billion ...

But, within weeks, he began questioning the deal ...

By July, Mr. Musk had decided that he no longer wanted to own Twitter ... He announced his intent to abandon the acquisition.

Twitter sued Mr. Musk to force him to carry out the agreement ... Mr. Musk had agreed to personally provide roughly $33 billion of the $44 billion deal ...

But facing days of depositions and an uncertain outcome, Mr. Musk reconsidered ...

The judge overseeing Twitter’s lawsuit agreed to put the case on hold ... giving Mr. Musk three weeks to close the deal ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/technology/elon-musk-twitter-deal-complete.html

[2naSalit]

3. Anpther excuse to...

Be an absolute prick to the whole world because someone told him "NO".

Fuck that manbaby and his billions.

If we changed what the currency is, they wouldn't be rich anymore.

[TSExile]

4. Next to T****

Musk is easily the public figure that sickens me most. They are both cut from the same hateful, whiny cloth.

[2naSalit]

11. They are indeed.

And it's a shame we can't really DO something about them in an expedient manner.

[getagrip_already]

5. Your family knows you better than you do piggy......

It wasn't Twitter. It wasn't private school. It is you and your hateful intolerant bigotry that drove her away.

I bet you ket calling her by her birth name and insisting on "treatment" to cure her.

Face it. You are the cause.

[wcmagumba]

6. He is a total man-baby spoiled by riches jerkwad....

I hate that he owns and controls SpaceX...

[tinrobot]

7. I think he falls into the trap of thinking a school will do the parenting for him.

If he stepped back from his empire and actually spent time with his 10 children, maybe some wouldn't think he was evil. I suspect she thought he was evil because of his actions as a parent, not because of the school she attended.

Buying Twitter to hide the fact that he's a bad parent is pretty much peak narcissism.

[usonian]

8. Yes, it seems like RW's like to project personal fears, weaknesses and failures on others.

And like the “religious” right which has steadily lost influence as they fight progress, try to use secular/media and government power which they hypocritically condemn and try to stifle at the same time as they seek to use them to get what they fail to get when persuasion fails with a thud.

Echo chambers like “the new twitter” don’t persuade anyone. They just make bigots feel more comfortable with their intolerance.

[LiberalFighter]

9. Any way we can permanently get rid of him? Send him to the Sun or another universe?

[usonian]

10. One can hope that he sleeps on a mars rocket and forgets the launch date, or

one of his cars drives him into the swamp.

Karma works in mysterious ways. In the meantime, the lawsuits for his failure to pay creditors and former employees (severance and more) are piling up.

Keep hope alive!

[scipan]

12. Enlightening.

It would explain a lot.