• eestileib
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    1 year ago

    You think Saudi Arabia is just going to let their toy collapse? They shit the money it takes to run that site every day.

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      1 year ago

      I’m of the opinion they want it dead. Twitter was used to organize protestors during The Arab Spring. The House of Saud hasn’t forgotten that. 40 billion is a small price to pay to keep the peasants in their place. They gave Musk the money knowing he would drive it into the ground, intentionally or not.

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      1 year ago

      Great. Let them continue to waste their money as they sink into irrelevance in a petrochemicals less dependent world.

      They should put that money into r&d and education instead. They won’t, though. They will build vanity projects.