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>>prawn+(OP)
So this is how Twitter goes out: not with a bang but with a seemingly endless stream of stories about the little ways Elon is ruining the service each day.

Just staggers me that Elon could have just… not done any of this. And yet here we are. He’s had to sell billions in Tesla stock to finance this ongoing mayhem, this is surely going to be up there as one of the greatest examples of hubris in modern business.

>>afavou+n6
Elon is certainly awful for all that he’s doing, but couldn’t Twitter have simply told him to buzz off when he proposed buying the company instead of taking legal action to ensure he did it?

People up top were eager to cash out at the expense of all the employees under them. That’s equally disgusting to me.

>>pigsty+R7
The shareholders voted for it. The board effectively had to comply.

>>kasey_+s8
Not really, at least not within a reasonable amount of time to close the deal. Lots of Levine about how Musk couldn't really force the deal with a tender offer, right?

But, I mean, the board did the right thing; their obligation is to the shareholders, and the price Musk offered was absurdly high.

>>tptace+hH5
Once the vote happened I’m not sure the board could have stopped the deal without being sued forever. Rightly so, because it was such a high offer.