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The mental gymnastics going on in this thread is crazy.

Let's separate two concerns:

1) Belief system – whether you philosophically support Elon's take over or not

2) Objective facts, corporate finance and legal aspects of what's going on

All I can see in this thread is 1) masquerading as 2).



>All I can see in this thread is 1) masquerading as 2).

Indeed. One would have hoped that Hacker News would be immune from Reddit/Twitter-style "Anything I don't like is illegal/unconstitutional", but apparently not.

"Someone buying up shares of a company before he announces a hostile takeover is inside information and thus illegal!" Good grief.


Depends if the offer is made in good faith. If not, this would really look like market manipulation.




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