[theanti9]

For me this was the final nail in the coffin for the "Elon's just playing 4D chess we don't understand" argument and really just shows that he's a dude that thinks he can do whatever he wants with no consequences, because so far there haven't really been any.

If there were a logic to it, I'd guess that it's more important he make the interest payments on the billions of dollars in loans he took out for the purchase than it is to not get sued for non-payment of a lease.

[JohnFen]

> he's a dude that thinks he can do whatever he wants with no consequences

That's been clear to me for many years, but for me, the nail in that coffin was the whole "pedo guy" thing. It was a great demonstration of what a despicable person he is.

[1270018080]

Being sort of forced to buy Twitter for 3x what it was worth was a consequence.

[rsynnott]

I assume the "4D chess magical supergenius" people have rationalised that as... having been the plan all along or something?

[rnk]

He wasn't really forced to buy it. There was a $1 billion buyout option of the contract apparently. I believe he paid 44 billion it, when it was clearly worth half that after the stock lost value, so he chose to waste 20 billion instead of 1 billion to save his ego. But instead he's destroyed whatever part of his reputation was left.

[yumraj]

He made the offer. No one forced him to make it.

He can’t cry if he made a bad business decision. Or well he can, but it has no legal bearing.

[noSyncCloud]

I mean I get what you're saying. But nobody forced him to sign his name on a piece of paper with that number on it.