Well former Republican Candidate for governor of Georgia and well known right wing whack job Kandiss Taylor says god did it. I figured it was her at first based on the tweet she posted while campaigning. But apparently god must be losing some of his power if he's having to use explosives now instead of waving his hands or blinking his eyes or whatever they believe he does.
Deal wasn't done though.
You say that but uh...
Ya, it's all over every media outlet right now. He claims that Twitter has too many bots and spam accounts and doesn't believe the numbers Twitter is telling him. If Twitter can prove it though, it's not going to be good for Musk, and nor should it. Musk already has a track record of market manipulation so I can't imagine the courts going easy on him here.
Right...and Twitter wasn't falling over itself to sell itself in the first place, remember that they initially attempted to prevent the takeover. Elon initiated this almost like a hostile takeover. It's blindingly clear that Musk made a hasty, rash decision because it was kind of trolly & fun and he thought it would raise his stature but then immediately realized it was a tremendous mistake. I think backing out, if he can, is a really good idea for Musk but I do think it's pretty humorous that he did basically no due diligence before agreeing to buy a company for forty-four billion dollars.
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Very happy that twitter is not under his control.Ars Technica has a good write-up about it too:
Musk ends bid to buy Twitter [Updated]
Elon Musk’s buyer’s remorse could be very expensive.
Basically, it looks like Musk can break the deal, however, he'll be on the hook for $1 billion or more. I get that a billion isn't really that serious in the grand scheme of things to Musk, but it's still a pretty expensive lesson. I really do hope the courts stick it to Musk though because he does need to be put in his place if he's going to play in the realm of hostile takeovers. Maybe this will shut him up for a moment so he can focus on making expensive, yet poor-quality, cars and shooting rockets into space (which his company is rather good at).
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It's probably important to teach that not all German soldiers were actively against Jews and pro-Aryan. However, that needs to be coupled with the dangers of the military blindly following orders and why authoritarianism and fascism are so dangerous, and how they control the military for their own gains. I suspect that's not how it'll be taught though and in some backwoods areas, they'll probably teach that Hitler was just trying to make sure the "white race" continued to survive and that some of those ideas need to be put forth now so those "dirty brown people" don't take over. Having been lost in backwoods (ok there aren't woods in Ohio, but back-cornfields?) Ohio before, I can 100% see that happening.I did nazi this coming...
Ohio lawmaker says Holocaust studies can be taught from German soldier’s perspective
Amid the ongoing US debate on teaching critical race theory in public schools, Sarah Fowler Arthur defends teaching from 'multiple points of view,' misstates number of Jews killed
And also how soldiers and civilians came to be complacent of the Holocaust. A lot of German citizens were willing to give Hitler and the Nazis a pass on their atrocities because they had built Germany back up from the Great Depression and arguably turned the country into an actual superpower before the war. A lot of people were willing to feign ignorance because their lives had massively improved.
