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What was Elon Musk’s strategy for Twitter?

A year after the world's richest man acquired the social media platform, a game plan published by a fired Trump White House staffer provides a clue.

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What was Elon Musk’s strategy for Twitter? A fired Trump White House staffer offers a tantalizing clue

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What was Elon Musk’s strategy for Twitter? A fired Trump White House staffer offers a tantalizing clue

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What was Elon Musk’s strategy for Twitter? A fired Trump White House staffer offers a tantalizing clue

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He's a stupid cunt with too much money. There wasn't a plan.
- You had me at "He's a stupid cunt"

There isn't any. He didn't even want to buy twitter. It was only a stunt to jack up his Tesla stocks but his mouth ran faster than his lawyers.
- Pretty sure his burning rage about trans people and liberals in general was part of it also.

Yep, there we go. I've thought since the start his goal was to make twitter a more useful political tool for conservatives and less effective for everyone else. And if he couldn't do that, just burn it down.
- I'll be honest, that theory didn't make sense to me, because who in their right mind would knowingly burn 44 billion dollars (and their reputation), but this article makes me reconsider.
  
  He'd be the perfect person to do it as he has a cult of personality, likes being controversial, is so wealthy he never would need to work or start a business again, is a committed ideologue, and could afford to lose $20 billion. I don't really think he had a solid plan, though. Musk said recently that basically he was up all night at Ellison's house (who put up $10 billion of his own - out of his net worth of $150b) and made the twitter offer. And of course, he tried to back out of it for several months.

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