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Jul 8 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I'm kidding of course. There was nothing special about seeing from the start that he didn't really want this deal. And it was just an excuse to unload #TSLA.

It's people who actually believed him that need to introspect. Have y'all forgotten FIN101, ACC101, MKT101?
Wait, a company whose management, employees, and board was continuously attacked and trashed by Clyde wasn't nice to Clyde? I'm shocked! 😂😂

Twitter board totally turned the tables on him.
Dear SEC,

This company that I tried a hostile takeover of was hostile to me! 😭😭😭

- @elonmusk
There was nothing wrong with the sentiment that Twitter is best taken private, and made immune from advertising revenue constraints, given the unique role it plays in the world.

What was ridiculous was the notion that Elon Musk was the guy for doing that. 😂😂😂
When I called BS on the Musk offer from day 1, a lot of Muskboi trolls flooded my mentions & QTs with "he's being paid to say this".

And I was like, yeah, every month! I'm paid by my university & students for facts-based long term analysis of business and society. 😎😎
I would not be earning my salary if I didn't offer my students sane fundamentals based analysis & didn't teach them systematic skepticism. The flavor-of-the-month shallow overly dramatized hype they can get from media & podcasts chasing an audience.

I already haz audience. 🤓
That said, if there is someone actually willing to offer me money for calling out Emperor Elon's wardrobe, do send me a Venmo. All above board, of course. Nothing in my employment contract forbids it. 😂😂😂

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Jul 10
Indeed! There isn't even a pretense of intellectual rigor anymore. Whatever sounds like the right narrative to bring up a grievance against dead guys and alive Muslims is now history. Even if actual history says something completely different.

#PostTruthIndia
Independence didn't happen in ancient history. It was all in modern times and extensively documented. Patel being denied PMship is literally complete fiction. The reality is that Patel never coveted the PMship. He & Nehru were never rivals! They were always colleagues.
Within the Congress leadership, there was always general consensus that Nehru would be the PM. Not Gandhi having sole authority. Patel was 15 years older than Nehru, had health issues, and didn't even live to complete his 1st term as Home Minister.
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Jul 10
Some of us have been raising an alarm about the horrible #Sec295 for decades.

Back then, even the police saw it as an annoying distraction. And these were fringe cases.

With the police, government, AND courts now weaponizing it against Zubair and others, Dystopia is here. ImageImage
A friend of mine in publishing was once the target of this. Back then, one of the cops called saying "this ridiculous time wasting case has been filed against you. Legally we have to come question you. Just leave town for a couple of days. We will come, say you weren't there.."
"The complainant just wants media coverage. Once he gets it, he will forget about you. And we can focus on actual police work."

That was when these were really fringe type cases filed purely chasing headlines. And the police sided with the innocent, like they are supposed to.
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Jul 10
Hehehe "Happy Ekadashi" it seems. There are 24 in a year. Sometimes 26.

Dude doesn't know what Ashadhi Ekadashi signifies I'm sure. Just covering all bases.
This. First of all, no one really "wishes" each other on Ashadhi Ekadashi. It just *is* Ashadhi Ekadashi and it is observed. 🤷🏽‍♂️

And even if you were wishing people for Ashadhi Ekadashi, why a generic Krishna image? Very superficial!

This wishing each other on every single festival is a WhatsApp era thing. Happy Diwali, Happy Dussehra, Happy Eid, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, okay, were always there.

Happy Ram Navmi? 🤷🏽‍♂️ Happy Ekadashi? 🤷🏽‍♂️ Happy Engineers Day 🤷🏽‍♂️🧐 It never ends!
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Jul 9
As the tiny nation struggles with the resurgence of separatist movements in the North, widespread shortages, and a rotating cast of ineffective leaders, its troubled citizens find scant solace in a surprising string of unlikely wins by its national team in a local sport.
(it's fun to write about Britain the way Britain writes about the third world)
Sectarian conflict isn't new to this proud but anachronistic society where the ruling monarch is also thought of as divine and is the head of their primary pastoral organized religion. Subjects pay obeisance to the ruler spiritually and monetarily.
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Jul 8
A 🧵 about activist & author Upton Sinclair's campaign for California Governor in 1934 and how its failure was caused by the use of willfully dishonest use of mass media by billionaires who hated Sinclair, his work, and his policies.

Sinclair was the original "muck raker".
Though it now is thought to have negative connotations, the term originally referred to Upton Sinclair type investigative journalism about how the oppressed are systematically oppressed by the wealthiest. Which was just taking off with the explosion in newspapers early 1900s.
His novel The Jungle shed light on the meatpacking industry's horrors and sanitary conditions cos owners just chased profits without regard to worker or customer. It caused such an uproar that it led to the first "consumer safety regulations" in history through acts of Congress.
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Jul 7
Does drastic action mean that @elonmusk will stop pretending that he ever really wanted to buy Twitter in the first place?

I've said from day 1. He never wanted it. And he's too cheap & ungracious to just pay the 1 bn kill fee he impulsively agreed to. 😂😂
Funny how the Musk camp and Musk media are pretending like he's a reluctant buyer walking away when in reality he's an impulse buyer trying to return something even when the store EXPLICITLY said no returns. 😂😂
Musk was so shocked when the Twitter board accepted his offer that I think that's the longest he's gone without tweeting. Almost a whole day. Cos he was pissed off that they thought he'd want the same toy two weeks later.

He's been throwing tantrums since.
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