• corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]M
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    2 years ago

    I'm not gonna lie, this is my joker moment.

    44 BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS WE COULD HAVE JUST ENDED HUNGER FOR EVERYONE IN THE WORLD FOR A LONG FUCKING TIME BUT NO ITS THE FUCKING BIRD WEBSITE INSTEAD WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHY

      • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]M
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        2 years ago

        I mean yes, and I fucking HATE saying this, but - at least that is a real world material military conflict that is being contributed to. While it sucks and is wrong, this particular 44 billion is just....

        The fucking bird website. I hate it.

        • blobjim [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          It's just a transfer of money. Stuff like this is a lot better than making bombs because it's just rich people power politics. Buying Twitter is probably the least harmful thing Musk could do with money. I like it when rich people spend money to do nothing.

      • ObamaHamburger [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Pretty sure that was just one package. They’ve seen like 200 $50 billion packages over there afterwards

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Well the amount of money is kind of immaterial because it's just stocks or something. There's no actual labor being done because of the "acquisition". It's not like Musk buying Twitter is diverting resources from building housing or something lol. Of course rich people's other projects often do. But I feel like saying that amount of money could do such and such thing isn't really true.

    • OfficialBenGarrison [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Imagine if he did. Or even used that wealth to do exactly what he had going for him: he would be the tech guru that saved climate change! Sure, he is seen as this already, but if he pulled a Carnegie and used his immense wealth to permanently solve climate change: he definitely would have gone down in history as a hero and served as the inspiration for a generation to get into science.

      Instead, we got a fucking manchild redditor who then bought Twitter because he wanted to make the "le epic trolls" of the world happy.