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SportySaturn t1_iss7vnn wrote

Musk didn't buy TWTR in April, he offered to buy TWTR for $44 bn.

Musk declared the TWTR deal was on hold and said he was doing it because of spam bots. That's potentially very different from putting it on hold due to spam bots. You're making an unsupportable inference in that statement about Musk's mental state. Your animation strongly motivates a different interpretation for why Musk declared the deal was on hold, so you're sort of working against your point with that wording.

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Spillz-2011 t1_ist1f7g wrote

I think the use of buy isn’t that misleading. He signed a legally binding contract to buy twitter. When someone wins a bid to purchase a house they might tell friends they bought a house today even though there are still details to work out.

The on hold is probably wrong, but mostly because that isn’t a thing. Once you sign a legally binding contract you can’t put it on hold.

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SportySaturn t1_istl7ez wrote

>I think the use of buy isn’t that misleading. He signed a legallybinding contract to buy twitter. When someone wins a bid to purchase ahouse they might tell friends they bought a house today even thoughthere are still details to work out.

They might, and that'd probably be because they're a first-time home buyer who doesn't understand the process. When you submit an offer and it's countersigned, you are under contract, you haven't bought anything. Source: I was a real estate agent for years and I've owned many dozens of units. You brought up other people misdescribing a different purchase process. It doesn't support op's mislabeling.

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