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      10 months ago

      He leveraged his Tesla stock as collateral to buy Twitter. His antics haven’t just harmed Twitter but also Tesla. As the value of that stock drops the banks can force him to provide additional collateral or call in the loans. He would have to put up more stock or sell. Selling could create a spiral where the price continues to drop.

      As Jeremy Clarkson once said, “Oh no, anyway.”

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        So deciding to have Tesla leave the Nordics, some of the most EV dense countries, will not only hurt Tesla and give the competition an edge, it might actually cost him stock in spaceX? Is that the analysis here?

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        He isn’t overly leveraged on twitter, and it might actually be 0 leverage. He was leveraged and then he sold a shit load of stock so he wouldn’t be and that’s a huge part of what crashed the stock price.

        The only part I’m unclear on is who’s responsible for the 1 billion loan twitter has, twitter, or him.

        But 1 billion isn’t of any concern to him, its too small an amount, and there’s spacex he can get funds from too if he needed it.

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      He is bringing back a very carefully selected group of banned people, people he thinks caters to the only specific core audience which remains on twitter: hateful right wing bigots.

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      He doesn’t have money.

      Here’s a good comparison I’ve found: let’s say you have a company and issue one million shares. You sell just a single one for $1. Now “technically” you own $999,999 worth of shares, even though you actually have one dollar.

      His Tesla and SpaceX shares are worth a lot, but they’re not cash. If he started selling huge amounts, then the value would drop rapidly.

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      So why does he throw fits when he loses advertisers? A person who doesn’t care doesn’t comment on it and say “Fuck yourself” to Bob Iger and call for him to be sacked.

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      He is bringin back banned ppl psychopaths and bigots, he is showing he doesn’t care about hurt advertiser fifis and he has enough money not to care :P is a straight up bitch and wants all his incel followers to hate like he does.

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      Pissing off advertisers is not a great business strategy. It’s not that their feelings are hurt, it’s that ads for Pepsi and Apple were showing up next to neo-Nazi posts, giving users the impression that the advertisers actively endorse the posts. People generally don’t like being associated with Nazis. Maybe you’re comfortable with that association (if so, seek help), but most of us aren’t down with genocidal maniacs who want to purge the world of non-white citizens and rule with an iron fist. I know, we’re funny that way, not wanting to endorse and spread the sentiments of mass murderers.