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> Elon calls them out on that ridiculously low number, says the deal is on hold until this fraud is verified.

This is a fantasy because that's not how any of this works. He can't put the deal on hold, the number of bots on twitter doesn't give him an out, regardless of wether it's five percent or 35 percent — in short, he doesn't have a position of leverage if twitter wants to pursue it legally. Read Matt Levine's latest columns for a complete and thorough breakdown.

This whole debacle is not some kind of '5D chess' move from Musk, it's just the inevitable outcome of a fickle, ego-driven billionaire throwing his money around, and possibly (deservedly!) losing a huge amount of his fortune.

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That is your working hypothesis? A fickle, ego driven person gives the world the first reusable rockets and electric cars? I hope you’re just speaking like this out of anger.

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> A fickle, ego driven person gives the world the first reusable rockets and electric cars?

I didn't assert that the aforementioned qualities are mutually exclusive with notable achievement, and I'd even argue that being ego-driven, in particular, would help with such efforts.

That said, did Musk bring us the first reusable rockets? Almost certainly not. He didn't even bring us the first commercial reusable rocket (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Shepard#First_vertical_sof...).

And you can't possibly think that musk truly introduced the world's first electric cars, can you? There were electric carriages as early as the 1830s, and quite a few commercially available electric cars in the 20th century.