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Ricki Tarr

The entire Star Wars Franchise was purchased for 40 billion dollars less than Twitter. I think about that sometimes.

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Extinction Studies

@RickiTarr

Think of the merchandising opportunities Twitter will never ever ever have!

Claire-hime

@RickiTarr the key thing to remember is that Disney wasn't forced to buy Star Wars at an inflated price because they were making a weed joke

Ham on Wry

@RickiTarr

Fear not ... Twitter is now worth $20 Billion less than it was last November.

toxtethogrady

@RickiTarr Think about the fact it was worth that much until Musk got hold of it. Now it's worth half. Should I care?

toxtethogrady

@RickiTarr Whatever it was, Musk paid it. THEN Twitter lost half its value...

JanosSitar

@RickiTarr Disney values franchises, Musk values disenfranchisement

Ubermarionette

@RickiTarr and yet they also destroyed what they bought

hex

@RickiTarr ...and Musk buying Twitter to make it *more* full of Nazis is like buying the Star Wars franchise to make reboots and spinoffs of the holiday special.

Florencio 👓

@RickiTarr Lucas habló pestes en su momento de la Disney
Eso sí mientras contaba los dólares

aburtch

@RickiTarr Everything tech is extremely overvalued these days. Wait until climate change renders vast areas of the planet unlivable. Then we’ll find out how many tweets you can actually eat.

dominiquec

@RickiTarr and in both cases the value dropped to less than what they were bought for

#starwars #lucasfilm #twitter

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@dominiquec @RickiTarr And both went downhill in most respects under new ownership (i like Rogue One, Andor and Mando most)

Ricki Tarr

@dominiquec I'm pretty sure Disney has more than made their money back at this point

Bryan Duke

@RickiTarr I just talked about that with my brother at dinner. Baffling.

Staid Winnow

@RickiTarr Twitter is the real Death Star of propaganda, though.

SearingTruth

@staidwinnow @RickiTarr

"We were numb, and void.

It worked.

Small splinters and sparks and supposition.

So that in the end smoke would only have occluded victory."
SearingTruth

AT-AT Assault :verifiedtrans:

@RickiTarr

Honestly though, the management about the same. Both Star Wars and Twitter are managed by people who don't know what the fuck they're doing.

AT-AT Assault :verifiedtrans:

@RickiTarr

I only consider 2 to be actually bad. 1 has its own thing. It's not great, but it's not bad. It's excellent exposition. 3 is objectively good.

Ricki Tarr

@atatassault Oh no we gonna fight lol, You would seriously rather watch Episode 1 than Mando?!

AT-AT Assault :verifiedtrans:

@RickiTarr

I did not say that. Also, even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

Ricki Tarr

@atatassault George Lucas is fine if he has people to tell him no, but he's not the end all be all. I've enjoyed a lot of the Disney stuff, but I get not everyone does, so love what you love.

bassplayer

@RickiTarr And Disney ran it into the ground. Musk is the deranged owner driving his company into the ground, disney is the souless corporate entity doing the same by hiring talent challenged people.

Ricki Tarr

@bassplayer I'm pretty sure Disney has gotten even more ridiculously wealthy from buying Star Wars, Musk on the other hand...

Orin

@RickiTarr @int0x80 Somethings cost isn't necessarily indicative of its value.

Ricki Tarr

@auroran @int0x80 Well of course not, but I'm pretty sure they bought it to make money, and they got a way better deal than Ole Musky

Theosoreass

@RickiTarr but the result is the same value wise🤔

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