Comment by rbanffy

2 days ago

> Just like economically infeasible Twitter, it has tremendous PR value

The power to shape governments to his liking is worth a lot more than what he paid for Twitter.

He got the power to shape the US government because he spent hundreds of millions to elect Trump through PACs and was Trump's single largest political donor by miles

The twitter purchase likely did little either way

The power to shape governments to his liking is exactly why we've got to demand those governments to rein him in.