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    https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-business-b0a0f7e64c4616780459f012d172b1c9

    One reason why Musk bought Twitter this week is because he had little choice. The world’s richest man spent months trying to back out of the $44 billion purchase agreement he originally signed in April. But the uncertainty was so disruptive to Twitter’s business that it sued him in the Delaware Court of Chancery to force the deal’s completion, and a judge gave a Friday deadline to complete the deal or face a November trial that Musk was likely to lose.

    This is all bullshit. Self-aggrandizing lies to give the appearance that this massive failure was all in the plan. The guy was trying to play games with stocks and got caught. He’s a dumbass with no idea how the business he didn’t want to own but was forced to buy in the end works. It’s not deeper than that.

    I’m sure his daughter hating him is very upsetting but it’s not why he set 40 billion dollars on fire.

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      His daughter transitioning and being liberal drove him to the far right on Twitter, because he couldn’t accept it.

      Those people kept telling him he should buy it to “save” it.

      He started talking about it, and that’s where your article picks up.

      It wasn’t just a whim, he had reason to start talking about buying Twitter, then was forced to actually go through with it.

      He thinks he’s “saving” it because conservatives believe everyone thinks like them and are just scared to admit it, but his intentional actions are killing it.

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        because conservatives believe everyone thinks like them and are just scared to admit it

        just need to preserve this line because its so spot on

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          There’s actually science behind it.

          A brain scan can reveal a person’s political leaning with like 80% accuracy, and I can’t stress enough how crazy that number is, the remaining 20% usually just aren’t political or in the middle.

          It’s done by looking at the size/activity of the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex.

          A conservative will have more amygdala activity, which is our flight or fight response.

          A progressive will have a larger preferential cortex, the part that gives us logic and empathy.

          It’s always important to mention that this isn’t permanent, our brains are like muscles, use certain parts and they get more active and even physically larger (but obviously on a small scale).

          We know that because there’s been studies on London taxi drivers. Before training their brains are normal. But since they have to memorize every street in London, by the time they’re certified there’s a noticable difference in the part of the brain that handles navigation.

          So it’s not like theyre a lost cause.

          And why republican leaders are so hell vent on removing “liberal arts” from schools. The people leading aren’t idiots, they’re trying to make more conservatives

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              That’s nothing to do with it…

              You could just as well ask how it accounts for penguins riding unicycles.

              The only brain change with PTSD is the hippocampus, they’ve explicitly looked for changes to the amygdala and there isn’t any.

              https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3647246/

              If you want to split hairs, there is a statistically insignificant change, but that makes it smaller.

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                  Maybe you should have explicitly stated your point?

                  And I don’t see anything in your link about subsequent changes to size or activity of the prefrontal cortex due to PTSD.

                  Although I admittedly just skimmed it.

                  So if that links backs up your argument (whatever that was) please link the relevant part.

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                    Or maybe you should try engaging others in good faith instead of getting defensive someone challenged a notion that makes you feel superior to conservatives.

                    Come back when you’re willing to. Blocked.

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        That last point is really interesting. Conservatives and right-wingers can’t grasp that other people don’t think like they do. I remember during the January 6th insurrection how all the people doing it really seemed to believe they would be seen as heroes. It’s like they had no idea over half of the US didn’t agree with them.

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        “Why can’t I name them binary numbers or ‘techno’ and have them shut up?”

        “People are too woke”

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      Why not both? Because you’re absolutely right that he got fucked on a bad gamble and then tried to save face, but I can also easily see him trying to buy stuff just to stick it to the left. (But in all reality again you’re probably pretty solely right lol)

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        I question if he actually got fucked on a gamble or if he was just inept and all of his decisions were largely a whim rather than based on some true data and research.

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      Maybe a bit of an extreme comparison, but it reminds me of when Donald Trump, also in the US, actually got elected president there. I remember thinking he looked quite wan in those early news clips. Like he was shocked to have actually won, and was rapidly having to adjust his expectations of the future.