Cheered me up too. Thanks for posting. But the fact that they composed this letter in a cheeky conversational tone, rather than no-nonsense legalize, makes me think they wanted this mainly for public consumption to get their firm’s name out there, rather than an actual notice of intent. But, like you, I’m not a lawyer, so who knows.
Some lawyers who seem to know say it’s a pretty damned good letter, and they seem to think it conveys serious intent.
I mean, it’s obviously for public consumption, the guy posted it on Twitter.
Public consumption and serious legal intent don’t have to be mutually exclusive, especially when the whole question involves social media and very public events I suppose.
Yeah, I think a good lawyer might take stock of the current climate and decide that perhaps they can use a snarky public demand to sway / intimidate Elon into backing down, when “backing down” is just paying what you agreed to pay. OTOH I don’t that will work, and I suspect a good lawyer wouldn’t either, so maybe it’s about making your client(s) feel good, which is also important.
Correct, but eventually this could end up before a judge, and my experience* is that judges often don’t look kindly on snark and sarcasm in legal notices. This, of course, is not a formal filing, but it is a letter threatening litigation and would likely become part of the court proceeding.
*not an attorney, but was a reporter for 35 years and covered many court cases, civil and criminal.
It won’t end up before a judge, it will go to arbitration. This sort of mass arbitration campaign has been very successful in the past. I think Twitter has to take the letter seriously.
(gesticulates at everything Elmo has done the last few months) Heh.
Also, assuming Twitter still has a legal department…
I feel like I need a popcorn dependency hotline. Veins are pumping straight butter now.
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Here in Europe he will have trouble with his email firings and poll ultimatums. You don´t fire people on a whim here without following proper procedure, and firing everyone is way more bureaucratic than just individually firing every single person. A Spanish Labor Court judge could have lots of fun with someone trying to fire everyone without filing a very onerous, detailed and thoroughty negotiated special procedure first.
I think Kanye is just lobbing grenades to see what happens. He still, for some reason, has amazing access to hugely influential figures and he’s just acting totally batshit and making those people look terrible for even talking to him.
Dude went on Alex Jones in a gimp suit and said he liked Hitler. He got back on Twitter then immediately did the worst possible thing he could to embarrass Elon. He brought a Nazi to dinner with Trump.
Like… he can’t actually be a Nazi. Nazis don’t like black people. Even he must know that. Is he trying to expose white hypocrisy? Is he really this crazy, or is he trolling the fuck out of everyone right now for laughs?
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He’s already had some pushback.
Thrag
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The Clayton Bigsby sketch was so very close to reality.
ShivaX
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Rest assured that doesn’t matter and most Nazis are fine with it. After all it proves they aren’t racist.
Once they’re in power people like Kanye and Ben Shapiro will be dealt with at a later date.
Pretty much. Uncle Ruckus exists for a reason.
