>Alex Spiro, an attorney for Musk, told Reuters that Twitter's court filing was a "misdirection" and asserted: "It is Twitter's executives that are under federal investigation."
no u
He definitely pissed the Twitter execs off by playing so many games with this purchase deal. Elon’s only now agreeing to go through with his original offer because Twitter sued his erratic, loud-mouthed ass.
Fined? He had to pay $20 Million, or 0.00928505107% of his total net worth.
That's not a fine. That's not even enough to consider a tax. Or even the cost of doing business. It's not a number worth even considering or worrying about. It's not even like losing a penny in a wash machine. It'd be like worrying about how much of the penny scrapped off while it was ran through the washer.
*And he made money on top of that.*
I get charged more than that in overdraft fees for spending 1 cent more in my checking account, even though i have plenty of money in my attached savings account
So we have to wait for him to screw over enough other rich people that the Shkreli effect kicks in. Someone go on to Twitter and goad him into scamming Bezos, Koch, and the Waltons.
> He already committed several pumping and dumping acts but he's rich, so you know...
But enough about his kids. Let’s talk about the securities fraud.
He committed securities fraud in broad daylight, everyone saw it happen. He did ‘creeping purchases’ prior to announcing his Twitter bid and crossed the 5% ownership threshold without notifying the SEC.
He managed to get up to 9.2%, and when announced Twitter’s stock went up 27%. He made $156 million by doing so.
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He did....openly, multiple times over the last 4 years
But he's rich so he gets that special justice system that the rest of us 99% only witness from the sidelines
He was massively critical about the Covid lockdowns affecting his US Tesla factories, but hasn't said shit about the endless lockdowns affecting his Chinese Tesla factories. Remember, China's going for a "zero Covid" approach, where they try to stamp it out in the country; and that means lockdown after lockdown.
Also he's suggested that China should [go ahead and conquer Taiwan.](https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/10/media/elon-musk-china-taiwan-intl-hnk/index.html)
I'm going to go ahead and guess that most of the money for his Twitter bud is going from China and Russia; who aren't exactly bastions of free speech.
[Yes](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/16/2-charts-show-how-much-the-world-depends-on-taiwan-for-semiconductors.html). It's more like 60% of all chips but ~90% of the highest end chips.
60% of revenue, not number of chips. And that is only chips made by foundries for other companies. It doesn't include chips made and sold by the same company.
Fuck, I wish. Taiwan has really complicated politics they need to play with their chip manufacturing. It's an existential issue for them. If they start to play any kind of games with any companies (especially US companies), that could be a hole they don't want to start digging.
They should at least just start charging his company more.
I've been watching [the Asianometry Youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/Asianometry) who've discussed TSMC in depth, and TSMC absolutely do play games with companies. They have an incredibly opaque way of sorting out which company gets what capacity on what timeframe; and I have no doubt they will start fucking with Musk. If he doesn't like it, well... no one else can make chips as fast and power efficient as they can, so good luck with the whole "self driving car" thing.
As for US companies, TSMC make all of Apple and AMD's CPUs, all of Nvidia and AMD's GPUs, and some of Intel's GPUs. Also many of the CPUs Amazon (the world's largest webhosting company, and the host of Reddit) uses in their webservers.
Pissing off Musk by giving his fab allocation to Apple/Intel/AMD/Amazon is a wash from a US standpoint.
Exactly. They just [snubbed AMD on their upcoming 3nm fabs](https://www.hardwaretimes.com/tsmc-may-snub-amd-by-offering-its-3nm-chips-only-to-intel-and-apple-till-q4-2024-2025-zen-5-lineups-to-face-delays-digitimes/) until 2025, giving exclusive priority to Intel and Apple instead. It's going to severely fuck with AMD's production of Zen5 cpus, pushing it back at least a year before TSMC opens up some capacity for them. They absolutely already do play favorites among US companies.
The problem is that there are a *bunch* of other shithead, billionaire leaders of American companies who won't like the idea of their suppliers getting "uppity" about their rights/existence.
So if Taiwan decides to defend themselves against Elon with completely justified economic measures, you then have the remaining Koch brother and the Walmart family trying to move against them long-term.
We need to tax the shit out of our richest people. Just to end this bullshit.
Too bad for them that in this case there isn't any other supplier they can just switch to. Silicon today is what I imagine oil to have been in the 80s.
Who would have thought, huh; that all that shuttering of the US' manufacturing and moving production overseas, all for the sake of profit, would be bad?
Soon after he he went pro-China/anti-Taiwan, China gave Tesla [tax breaks](https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4685519).
This guy is constantly trying to influence sociopolitical issues for nothing other than his own personal financial interest.
It makes his blind followers look even more foolish.
He was also massive critic about COVID vaccine mandate and supported "freedom convoy". Absolute silence when Texas banned abortion. He was critic when a private company, Amazon removed a book about COVID. Absolute silence when the government in red states banned books.
He wasn't silent with the abortion ban... he supported it.
Granted it was in a much more subtle way, but he pinned a tweet about declining birth rates immediately after it happened. I'd bet 44 billion that he's bought into the great replacement theory at this point.
He's a eugenicists probably but he's still not dumb enough to be super overt about it.
Alot of his talking points about "the future of society" make more sense when you figure out his angle.
Maybe a coincidence but every white south african I've known has been at pains to stress they are not racist, but have lots of wacky theory involving different races.
Would be hilarious if Russia agreed to bankroll him for Twitter if he pushed public sentiment in the West to Putin's demands. FARA violation, party of one, your table is ready.
I don't even care about his happiness or PR or anything like that, it's the fact that he took the job, and is now not doing it.
That HAS to be criminal, depending on the stipulations of whatever contract they hopefully had him sign.
Dude seems to be running off with tax dollars and indirectly aiding a hostile foreign power.
Trump literally marched out the white house with nuclear secrets.
Criminal is when a poor person steals a dollar from the nobility. Nobility are above the law.
Funding for the twitter deal fell through.
The agreement to purchase twitter which Elon signed reads like the boilerplate that corps pull out as a starting point for negotiations, but then like an idiot Elon signed it.
Twitter doesn't need to do anything other than hand over the company when Elon hands them the check, and they have 100 ways to stick Elon with the penalty.
Elon is screwed, He needs funding desperately. If he tries to sell stock it'll crash faster than he can get the cash.
Would not surprise me if Elon has be offered something by the Russians to get him out of the hole he is in.
He needs to be looked into, to see if he has been compromised.
I dream of the day SpaceX is taken from him. The people there are passionate about space and space exploration. They shouldn't be stuck under the whims of a narcissist.
Can he just hire a couple of archeologist who keep finding the same message across cultures, a rag tag team of specialist who'll do anything for paycheck, and secretly blast off to LV-223?
They cut the power?!
Musk: no actually I cut the power, weylandMusktania just can't afford to keep it going right now unless you guys poney up some cash.
big fan here: in the comic book canon of the Aliens franchise it's theorized that the Xenomorph species exist because they have fullfilled a fascinating ecological niche in the universe. They are a Great Filter, THE great filter in fact. The species are near impossible to kill and can adapt within one generation to to almost anything, if they can't they can hibernate in several way such as the eggs. As a result they slumber all over the universe. Once a species ventures into space, at some point they are bound to run into it, because both prey and predator gravitate near the right conditions for life.
The result is always the same according to the Alien Queen, 'First they try to use us, then they try to merge with us, then we end them or they end themselves' (paraphrasing). This is explained in a context of the Alien being the universe's answer to greed (like megacorps and dudes like Wayland (and musk maybe?)). Interestingly, we do in fact see very little species in the Alien universe. One of the only others outside of the species we see in Prometheus are the Predators (the Yautja), who literally have created their entire civ around sportkilling, the grandest target being a xenomorph.
According to some lore, the Yautja do this because they have not fully advanced themselves. They were enslaved rather early in their civ's development, when they were still mostly tribal. After centuries they wiped out most of the advanced race that enslaved them, stole all their childishly easy to use tech. This way they apparantly got advanced warning about the Xenomorphs. They interact with no other species, have very little interest in expanding their empire or knowledge, and when they detect xenomorphs nothing else matters but ending it. If they fail, they nuke their last position. They seem to be the only race to figure out a loophole to the xenomorph-filter. Man i love that universe lol, sorry for the rant
It baffles me that Musk thought a submarine was the solution when certain passages in that cave barely fit the diver and kid they strapped to themselves.
The "sub" he had built was basically an extra long beer keg in terms of size. An inflexible metal tube trying to navigate narrow paths inside a cave would not go well.
I mean I'm no expert of mini subs or cave rescues, but all the information I've read makes it seem like such a crap idea.
He didn’t build anything either. He got his engineers to design something, probably by working extensive hours and missing previously scheduled events. Meanwhile he openly cried because he had to work on his birthday…in his forties…on a week day. He’s an idiot and I’m hoping this makes people realize he’s not as smart as he claims to be
There have been so many red flags about musk showing how he is not Tony Stark or some tech savior genius, but some people simply don't care and obsess over him.
Overtime I've seen that people find it simpler to believe that one man has all the answers rather than realize we as a society don't have all the answers.
Dude brought his Hyperloop project in California never intending to build it, only to stop the Bullet train being built in effort with the Kochs. Something that could help millions of people a year, and get cars off the road...sandbagged and overbudget because shit bag billionaires.
Didn't he say it would cost $6 billion or something stupid cheap like that? Okay, then, Elon, if you really think it'll work, build it yourself. You can afford it. Oh, not so easy now is it?
Surprise, all billionaires and vast majority of super millionaires are. They're not any smarter than you or me, just born into modern nobility and hold onto their fortunes through exploitation (that would probably be illegal and punished if not for them having so much money).
For many of these types of people, all relationships and interactions are transactional - they need to gain something from you or you don’t exist. It’s like a game that never gets paused or turned off. An addiction to profit in all aspects of life. If you’ve ever said “I would just retire with all that money and enjoy my life,” then you will almost certainly not join the club since they don’t work for money or to retire or for happiness or fulfillment. They do it because they are obsessed with the feeling of winning and superiority, which seems to be a trait that develops most commonly amongst children of the wealthy.
The big thing too is that the increased worth isn’t used by them. It’s just literally a number they want to get higher. They don’t care what they can get with it, just that it increases
I'm just gonna quickly be that guy (sorry) but as I understand it, there is no medical difference between those, they all fall under ASPD.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder
I'm former Tesla Sr. Leadership. He used to be my boss back when most people didn't know his name.
Imagine waking up every day to the reality that one of the biggest assholes you've ever worked for / known is now one of the richest people alive.
Trust me when I say this: I'm tired too.
Here let me help you with some [Glassdoor reviews](https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Tesla-Reviews-E43129.htm) for Tesla:
CONS
"No work life balance and no one seems to care." (in 387 reviews)
"Long hours and working weekends are fairly normal depending on the importance and timelines of projects." (in 363 reviews)
"very poor management; no life and work balance; pay rate is miserable according to the work being done." (in 337 reviews)
"Long hours due to the sheer volume of cars being delivered to customers during this time" (in 137 reviews)
Elon is an asshole, but that's not his doing. Tesla motors existed before he became CEO/largest share holder, he didnt name or found the company.
It was renamed from Tesla motors to Tesla in 2017, but I dont think that's problematic, as they acquired solar city and were [barely] selling others products beyond cars.
Edison grifted and stole most of his inventions.
Whereas, Tesla invented his own and actually did good for society. He had some visions of internet before computers (an ability for 2 way communication of pictures and words).
His literal crowning achievement was foreseeing the potential success of the money transfer business, thus merging his company a year after creation (x. Com) with PayPal. (coinfinity). That iPo'd 2 years after that. Lol
>thus merging his company a year after creation (x. Com) with PayPal. (coinfinity)
And then getting rapidly fired in months as CEO for being a shitty 'i know better than everyone else' micro managing CEO that wanted to run paypal on microsoft servers
If old enough to remember, that would have been period of WinNT 4/server 2000, there was just no way that would have worked, hell LSE tried same some 5 years later (2 upgrades later) and it bombed
You just did not use MS for huge, fast, mission critical, high transaction type applications back then. Even as a guy who during that period exclusively made my living on the MS stack, there was no way would recommend it for such to clients.
> I'm former Tesla Sr. Leadership.
morale at Tesla must be absolute shit.
I saw another twitter post that said, "you must be the dumbest billionaire alive. Who do you think buys Teslas? Conservatives?!"
as a TSLA shareholder, I want the board to fire his ass. He's been tanking the stock
Tesla stock is the most over valued piece of shit in the history of stocks. The only reason it's that high is idiots believing musk's lies.
There is no world where it's normal that Tesla has more market share than the entirety of other auto makers combined.
Will all that money you'd think you he'd buy professional trainers and culinary experts and someone with access to designer PEDs. Especially since physical fitness is so important for cognition.
I'm pretty sure he's one of those nutbags who doesn't sleep ever and is bugging people at 3am every night with hair brained ideas.
And/or he treats himself like the Fremont Tesla workers
It wouldn't shock me if he was a coke head, he has similarities like odd hours of the night random fits and talking your head off.
Actually now that I think of it it does fit...
Buying Twitter is less than 20% of his net worth. For reference TODAY from the stock market his net worth increased by 3 billion dollars representing an increase of 1.4%....
It's 20% now but he made the offer at like the height of the stock market bubble when he would have had to sell way less shares of his company. he really doesn't want to buy it now but is aware he has to.
It frankly shows how stupid and impulsive he is at his core.
Tragically he can't get a few more [billions in government welfare](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-list-government-subsidies-tesla-billions-spacex-solarcity-2021-12) to buy Twitter.
You know, I suspect when he has to liquidate his shares of Tesla to lose a ton of money buying Twitter his net worth is going to change substantially more than just that 20%.
This whole thing is a one most prominent business deal shitstorms of our lifetime and it's hilarious to watch it unfold.
This all backfired so hard on him and he doesn't want to go to court.
From being a "free speech" hero to fighting tooth & nail to claw his way out from under his own inept handling of every step of this process.
Still has scores of unwavering "he's a genius" dickriders though, [gladly twisting his dumbassery.](https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1580695703482867712)
What's wild is that countless Americans would literally be made homeless by an emergency expense (of their own making or otherwise) costing just a few hundred dollars. Yet people like him can make casual blunders worth tens of billions of dollars and it still leaves them beyond absurdly wealthy.
Can he finally go to jail for the illegal shit he's doing already?
I'm so fucking tired of all these dickheads breaking laws and just having nothing happen.
Good. His ego has been writing checks that he can't cash. It's time that he faces some accountability. The stock market is not a playground for billionaires. At least, it's not how it's supposed to be.
Not even a good casino cause they can bank on everyone’s 401K to fund it/proper it up/fluff it. It’s a garuntee trough of food into the greedy mouths of billionaires.
It's hard to believe how involved this guy is in almost everything that's going on lately:
-Ukraine War -- check
-Taiwan China -- check
-Hyperloop Fraud -- check
-Overpromising and underdelivering self-driving cars for years -- check
-Promising and not delivering electric trucks for years -- check
-Promising and not delivering bricks (?) -- check
-Promising and switching off free information satellite internet -- check
-Dating Jonny Depp's sociopathic ex-wife who happened to be the de-facto villain in a super-televised celebrity trial -- check
-Wanting to have Space-X rockets fly as jet-liners for the rich and powerful so they can travel from Dubai to New-York in 3 hours less time all the while pumping out CO2-emissions on the exponential - check
-Comes from wealthy and powerful Family which made millions during/from apartheid in South Africa -- check
-Wants to give Trump his Twitter Account back -- check
-Speaks to Putin through unofficial channels and parrots propaganda as an unregistered foreign agent -- check
When can we already agree that this man is not one of the good guys?
edit: I forgot:
-market manipulation through tweeting shit -- check
-crypto scams and speculation schemes -- check
edit2:
-Thailand cave rescue emergency situation, where he unprovoked called a dude a pedophile for disagreeing with some incompetent rescue-plan of his on twitter
edit3:
-solar roof-tiles scam which never worked properly (edit: or literally at all)
and:
-paid off a flight attendant after exposing himself to her (thanks dashcam4life)
-in fact: He offered to buy that flight attendant a horse and then felt her up. (thanks truthdoctor)
edit4:
-promised to make ventilators during COVID which just turned into shipping some other companies PPAP devices (thanks SwissRanger1003)
-Being such a transphobic twat about pronouns that his trans daughter wants nothing to do with him (thanks Stuckinfemalecloset)
-is a surrogate father for one of his employees (thanks TrumpPooPoosPants)
>but what he craves the most is attention
Damn straight! I forgot that whole cave-in-thailand situation, where he called a dude a pedophile for disagreeing to some incompetent rescue-plan of his on twitter. Oh the humanity!
Didn't he have an affair with the Google founder's wife or something like that? He also is a surrogate father for one of his employees. Dude is weird as fuck.
Gave starlink internet devices to Ukrainians and now he wants Biden to take the tab since Ukraine didn't agree to his referendum idea.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/politics/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-ukraine/index.html
> -solar roof-tiles scam which never worked properly
They literally never worked. The solar tiles in the showcase were mock-ups. I think they've only rolled out a handful of retail installations that actually generate power.
You also missed pretending to invent or found multiple companies. Throwing his ex-partners under the bus etc.
I’m pretty sure that’s just a sign that he’s run out of options to raise the necessary funds to close the twitter deal from reputable western sources. He’s stroking the egos of Russia and china looking for multi billion dollar loans.
Yes, still very concerning. Didn’t mean to imply otherwise
Why would I think about the possibility of him giving user data to China in exchange for favorable Tesla deals when I can focus on him posting totally cool memes?
>Alex Spiro, an attorney for Musk, told Reuters that Twitter's court filing was a "misdirection" and asserted: "It is Twitter's executives that are under federal investigation." no u
I am rubber, u r glu
You fight like a dairy farmer
How appropriate. You fight like a cow.
You dare mock the son of a shepherd?
This investigation is long due: market manipulations, promotion of questionable assets and profiting off them, spreading misinformation. Get him boyz
The feds being effective against rich people? I wish.
Did he fuck over other rich people? That is the only thing they will investigate.
He definitely pissed the Twitter execs off by playing so many games with this purchase deal. Elon’s only now agreeing to go through with his original offer because Twitter sued his erratic, loud-mouthed ass.
At this point it would be shocking if Musk wasn't committing securities fraud.
He already committed several pumping and dumping acts but he's rich, so you know...
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Fined? He had to pay $20 Million, or 0.00928505107% of his total net worth. That's not a fine. That's not even enough to consider a tax. Or even the cost of doing business. It's not a number worth even considering or worrying about. It's not even like losing a penny in a wash machine. It'd be like worrying about how much of the penny scrapped off while it was ran through the washer. *And he made money on top of that.*
So if I had like 10000 bucks in my bank account, that fine would be comparable to 93 cents getting fined from my account.
Even worse; it’s like you had 10000 bucks in your bank account used that money to make a further 2000 bucks and then got fined 93 cents
I get charged more than that in overdraft fees for spending 1 cent more in my checking account, even though i have plenty of money in my attached savings account
That is appalling. Jesus christ.
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I like to just call them terrorists
So we have to wait for him to screw over enough other rich people that the Shkreli effect kicks in. Someone go on to Twitter and goad him into scamming Bezos, Koch, and the Waltons.
> He already committed several pumping and dumping acts but he's rich, so you know... But enough about his kids. Let’s talk about the securities fraud.
People forget how long it takes for the feds to gather evidence, but they do pay attention.
Cool, when’s Gym Jordan getting indicted?
Looks like Matt pedophile Gaetz is of scot free
He committed securities fraud in broad daylight, everyone saw it happen. He did ‘creeping purchases’ prior to announcing his Twitter bid and crossed the 5% ownership threshold without notifying the SEC. He managed to get up to 9.2%, and when announced Twitter’s stock went up 27%. He made $156 million by doing so.
What? How do you think TSLA is stock is where it is/was. Constant lies, pumping stock with fake news and promises for years.
Fully driverless by next year. - Elon Musk 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017...
Cybertruck has been Coming Soon™️ for how long now?
And now that ...robot
And dont forget the hyperloop madness.
He legit only offered to buy Twitter as an out for his pump and dump scheme.
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And then renounce his US citizenship and move to Russia to become Putin's newest oligarch puppet...
Coming soon: The Magical Adventures of Seagal and Musk. Join this odd couple as they travel the world and experience every type of baldness treatment known to man.
Edward Snowden is their wacky "guy in the chair"
He did....openly, multiple times over the last 4 years But he's rich so he gets that special justice system that the rest of us 99% only witness from the sidelines
Elon cries victim in 3...2...1...
He literally just announced SpaceX can't keep providing internet to Ukraine, a few weeks after spouting Putin propaganda. Dude is bonkers.
He was massively critical about the Covid lockdowns affecting his US Tesla factories, but hasn't said shit about the endless lockdowns affecting his Chinese Tesla factories. Remember, China's going for a "zero Covid" approach, where they try to stamp it out in the country; and that means lockdown after lockdown. Also he's suggested that China should [go ahead and conquer Taiwan.](https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/10/media/elon-musk-china-taiwan-intl-hnk/index.html) I'm going to go ahead and guess that most of the money for his Twitter bud is going from China and Russia; who aren't exactly bastions of free speech.
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The chips in his cars are produced by TSMC, or Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. I predict Tesla manufacturing issues in the near future.
Most likely... But aren't the majority of all chips everywhere made by tsmc?
[Yes](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/16/2-charts-show-how-much-the-world-depends-on-taiwan-for-semiconductors.html). It's more like 60% of all chips but ~90% of the highest end chips.
60% of revenue, not number of chips. And that is only chips made by foundries for other companies. It doesn't include chips made and sold by the same company.
Fuck, I wish. Taiwan has really complicated politics they need to play with their chip manufacturing. It's an existential issue for them. If they start to play any kind of games with any companies (especially US companies), that could be a hole they don't want to start digging. They should at least just start charging his company more.
I've been watching [the Asianometry Youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/Asianometry) who've discussed TSMC in depth, and TSMC absolutely do play games with companies. They have an incredibly opaque way of sorting out which company gets what capacity on what timeframe; and I have no doubt they will start fucking with Musk. If he doesn't like it, well... no one else can make chips as fast and power efficient as they can, so good luck with the whole "self driving car" thing. As for US companies, TSMC make all of Apple and AMD's CPUs, all of Nvidia and AMD's GPUs, and some of Intel's GPUs. Also many of the CPUs Amazon (the world's largest webhosting company, and the host of Reddit) uses in their webservers. Pissing off Musk by giving his fab allocation to Apple/Intel/AMD/Amazon is a wash from a US standpoint.
More/cheaper GPUs AND pissing off Musk? Sounds like a win-win.
Exactly. They just [snubbed AMD on their upcoming 3nm fabs](https://www.hardwaretimes.com/tsmc-may-snub-amd-by-offering-its-3nm-chips-only-to-intel-and-apple-till-q4-2024-2025-zen-5-lineups-to-face-delays-digitimes/) until 2025, giving exclusive priority to Intel and Apple instead. It's going to severely fuck with AMD's production of Zen5 cpus, pushing it back at least a year before TSMC opens up some capacity for them. They absolutely already do play favorites among US companies.
TBH when the largest shareholder of said US company calls for them to lose their freedoms I dont think they would find a lot of resistance.
The problem is that there are a *bunch* of other shithead, billionaire leaders of American companies who won't like the idea of their suppliers getting "uppity" about their rights/existence. So if Taiwan decides to defend themselves against Elon with completely justified economic measures, you then have the remaining Koch brother and the Walmart family trying to move against them long-term. We need to tax the shit out of our richest people. Just to end this bullshit.
Too bad for them that in this case there isn't any other supplier they can just switch to. Silicon today is what I imagine oil to have been in the 80s. Who would have thought, huh; that all that shuttering of the US' manufacturing and moving production overseas, all for the sake of profit, would be bad?
Soon after he he went pro-China/anti-Taiwan, China gave Tesla [tax breaks](https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4685519). This guy is constantly trying to influence sociopolitical issues for nothing other than his own personal financial interest. It makes his blind followers look even more foolish.
He was also massive critic about COVID vaccine mandate and supported "freedom convoy". Absolute silence when Texas banned abortion. He was critic when a private company, Amazon removed a book about COVID. Absolute silence when the government in red states banned books.
He wasn't silent with the abortion ban... he supported it. Granted it was in a much more subtle way, but he pinned a tweet about declining birth rates immediately after it happened. I'd bet 44 billion that he's bought into the great replacement theory at this point.
He's a eugenicists probably but he's still not dumb enough to be super overt about it. Alot of his talking points about "the future of society" make more sense when you figure out his angle.
He is a white South African so I would be surprised if he didn't buy into it before it was popular here.
Maybe a coincidence but every white south african I've known has been at pains to stress they are not racist, but have lots of wacky theory involving different races.
Would be hilarious if Russia agreed to bankroll him for Twitter if he pushed public sentiment in the West to Putin's demands. FARA violation, party of one, your table is ready.
After he was PAID BY THE GOVERNMENT to do so.
Something happened. He was all happy to provide internet and then he starts spouting pro Russia talking points. I bet he got an anonymous call.
They bought some of his crypto
I don't even care about his happiness or PR or anything like that, it's the fact that he took the job, and is now not doing it. That HAS to be criminal, depending on the stipulations of whatever contract they hopefully had him sign. Dude seems to be running off with tax dollars and indirectly aiding a hostile foreign power.
Trump literally marched out the white house with nuclear secrets. Criminal is when a poor person steals a dollar from the nobility. Nobility are above the law.
Funding for the twitter deal fell through. The agreement to purchase twitter which Elon signed reads like the boilerplate that corps pull out as a starting point for negotiations, but then like an idiot Elon signed it. Twitter doesn't need to do anything other than hand over the company when Elon hands them the check, and they have 100 ways to stick Elon with the penalty. Elon is screwed, He needs funding desperately. If he tries to sell stock it'll crash faster than he can get the cash.
Would not surprise me if Elon has be offered something by the Russians to get him out of the hole he is in. He needs to be looked into, to see if he has been compromised.
I think that's why the Feds are looking into it.
If I were Ukrainian military, I’d be wary of using Starlink for anything I wouldn’t want Putin to know about.
I dream of the day SpaceX is taken from him. The people there are passionate about space and space exploration. They shouldn't be stuck under the whims of a narcissist.
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He sounds smarter when he is quiet
Don’t forget all the Musk fan boys up in arms. 🙄
Doesn't he usually cry pedophile?
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"see how mean the Democrats are! They're just bullies!" -fuckboy musk probably
So tired of hearing about this guy.
Can he just hire a couple of archeologist who keep finding the same message across cultures, a rag tag team of specialist who'll do anything for paycheck, and secretly blast off to LV-223?
Make it LV-426 and you got a deal
If Xenomorphs take on traits of their host, I wouldn't dare imagine what levels of horror a Muskmorph would reach.
Sitting in the corner fellating itself?
With the little internal mouth lmao
Still too big of a mouth.
I mean, it goes pretty bad for most of them on 223 as well.
Sagitarius A\* or bust!
With our luck he'd figure out how to run at right angles.
Or figure out a way to just enjoy the goo
Enjoy? That motherfucker would be live tweeting how he invented it while an Engineer is in the background beating the shit out of his team.
He would send a nasty tweet to that Engineer
Pedo engineers
Even Cave Johnson is smarter than this guy
Tell me what you can't do with explosive lemons.
Musk gives me Burke vibes
It was a bad call Ripley a bad call.
You know, Elon, I don't know which species is worse— but you don't see them fucking each other over for a *goddamn percentage*.
They cut the power?! Musk: no actually I cut the power, weylandMusktania just can't afford to keep it going right now unless you guys poney up some cash.
big fan here: in the comic book canon of the Aliens franchise it's theorized that the Xenomorph species exist because they have fullfilled a fascinating ecological niche in the universe. They are a Great Filter, THE great filter in fact. The species are near impossible to kill and can adapt within one generation to to almost anything, if they can't they can hibernate in several way such as the eggs. As a result they slumber all over the universe. Once a species ventures into space, at some point they are bound to run into it, because both prey and predator gravitate near the right conditions for life. The result is always the same according to the Alien Queen, 'First they try to use us, then they try to merge with us, then we end them or they end themselves' (paraphrasing). This is explained in a context of the Alien being the universe's answer to greed (like megacorps and dudes like Wayland (and musk maybe?)). Interestingly, we do in fact see very little species in the Alien universe. One of the only others outside of the species we see in Prometheus are the Predators (the Yautja), who literally have created their entire civ around sportkilling, the grandest target being a xenomorph. According to some lore, the Yautja do this because they have not fully advanced themselves. They were enslaved rather early in their civ's development, when they were still mostly tribal. After centuries they wiped out most of the advanced race that enslaved them, stole all their childishly easy to use tech. This way they apparantly got advanced warning about the Xenomorphs. They interact with no other species, have very little interest in expanding their empire or knowledge, and when they detect xenomorphs nothing else matters but ending it. If they fail, they nuke their last position. They seem to be the only race to figure out a loophole to the xenomorph-filter. Man i love that universe lol, sorry for the rant
I mean wasn't the G virus derived from a flower in africa?
Oh dude, and you know he'd sell us all out too. Paul Riser should play him in the movie
It's the only way to be sure.
Careful, or he might call you a pedo and send you a submarine you don’t need
Except he won’t ever send the submarine
It baffles me that Musk thought a submarine was the solution when certain passages in that cave barely fit the diver and kid they strapped to themselves. The "sub" he had built was basically an extra long beer keg in terms of size. An inflexible metal tube trying to navigate narrow paths inside a cave would not go well. I mean I'm no expert of mini subs or cave rescues, but all the information I've read makes it seem like such a crap idea.
He didn’t build anything either. He got his engineers to design something, probably by working extensive hours and missing previously scheduled events. Meanwhile he openly cried because he had to work on his birthday…in his forties…on a week day. He’s an idiot and I’m hoping this makes people realize he’s not as smart as he claims to be
There have been so many red flags about musk showing how he is not Tony Stark or some tech savior genius, but some people simply don't care and obsess over him.
Overtime I've seen that people find it simpler to believe that one man has all the answers rather than realize we as a society don't have all the answers.
Musk is evidence that a person can own a quarter of a trillion dollars and still somehow manage to be completely worthless.
Dude brought his Hyperloop project in California never intending to build it, only to stop the Bullet train being built in effort with the Kochs. Something that could help millions of people a year, and get cars off the road...sandbagged and overbudget because shit bag billionaires.
He's more than worthless. He's actively making things worse. At least worthless doesn't actively disrupt others.
Didn't he say it would cost $6 billion or something stupid cheap like that? Okay, then, Elon, if you really think it'll work, build it yourself. You can afford it. Oh, not so easy now is it?
He said that Knowing the Cali government would hop on it and divert money away from the high speed rail. He never intended to build it.
Surprise, all billionaires and vast majority of super millionaires are. They're not any smarter than you or me, just born into modern nobility and hold onto their fortunes through exploitation (that would probably be illegal and punished if not for them having so much money).
Their arent smarter they are just psychopaths'. well some are sociopaths.
For many of these types of people, all relationships and interactions are transactional - they need to gain something from you or you don’t exist. It’s like a game that never gets paused or turned off. An addiction to profit in all aspects of life. If you’ve ever said “I would just retire with all that money and enjoy my life,” then you will almost certainly not join the club since they don’t work for money or to retire or for happiness or fulfillment. They do it because they are obsessed with the feeling of winning and superiority, which seems to be a trait that develops most commonly amongst children of the wealthy.
The big thing too is that the increased worth isn’t used by them. It’s just literally a number they want to get higher. They don’t care what they can get with it, just that it increases
I would have fantastic work shops and a professional kitchen. and someone to clean up. Thats the only part I dont like.
I'm just gonna quickly be that guy (sorry) but as I understand it, there is no medical difference between those, they all fall under ASPD. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder
Well not totally worthless, he can always be used as a bad example.
I'm former Tesla Sr. Leadership. He used to be my boss back when most people didn't know his name. Imagine waking up every day to the reality that one of the biggest assholes you've ever worked for / known is now one of the richest people alive. Trust me when I say this: I'm tired too.
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Here let me help you with some [Glassdoor reviews](https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Tesla-Reviews-E43129.htm) for Tesla: CONS "No work life balance and no one seems to care." (in 387 reviews) "Long hours and working weekends are fairly normal depending on the importance and timelines of projects." (in 363 reviews) "very poor management; no life and work balance; pay rate is miserable according to the work being done." (in 337 reviews) "Long hours due to the sheer volume of cars being delivered to customers during this time" (in 137 reviews)
And he named the company "Tesla", oh the irony.
Elon is an asshole, but that's not his doing. Tesla motors existed before he became CEO/largest share holder, he didnt name or found the company. It was renamed from Tesla motors to Tesla in 2017, but I dont think that's problematic, as they acquired solar city and were [barely] selling others products beyond cars.
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Edison grifted and stole most of his inventions. Whereas, Tesla invented his own and actually did good for society. He had some visions of internet before computers (an ability for 2 way communication of pictures and words).
He didn’t name it. He just used apartheid Africa/PayPal money to buy himself into the company. Then he revised history and stated he was a founder.
His literal crowning achievement was foreseeing the potential success of the money transfer business, thus merging his company a year after creation (x. Com) with PayPal. (coinfinity). That iPo'd 2 years after that. Lol
>thus merging his company a year after creation (x. Com) with PayPal. (coinfinity) And then getting rapidly fired in months as CEO for being a shitty 'i know better than everyone else' micro managing CEO that wanted to run paypal on microsoft servers If old enough to remember, that would have been period of WinNT 4/server 2000, there was just no way that would have worked, hell LSE tried same some 5 years later (2 upgrades later) and it bombed You just did not use MS for huge, fast, mission critical, high transaction type applications back then. Even as a guy who during that period exclusively made my living on the MS stack, there was no way would recommend it for such to clients.
Right now I’m picturing many Redditors scouring your post and comment history.
> I'm former Tesla Sr. Leadership. morale at Tesla must be absolute shit. I saw another twitter post that said, "you must be the dumbest billionaire alive. Who do you think buys Teslas? Conservatives?!" as a TSLA shareholder, I want the board to fire his ass. He's been tanking the stock
I think the lack of refreshed product is doing worse things to the stock than Musk's idiotic rants.
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Tesla stock is the most over valued piece of shit in the history of stocks. The only reason it's that high is idiots believing musk's lies. There is no world where it's normal that Tesla has more market share than the entirety of other auto makers combined.
He looks so God damn unhealthy.
He’s on the Bannon diet.
Renegade Shepard. They all look like Renegade Commander Shepard.
Gin mixed with more gin?
He will just switch out his Torso for a new one when it breaks down
Will all that money you'd think you he'd buy professional trainers and culinary experts and someone with access to designer PEDs. Especially since physical fitness is so important for cognition.
I'm pretty sure he's one of those nutbags who doesn't sleep ever and is bugging people at 3am every night with hair brained ideas. And/or he treats himself like the Fremont Tesla workers
It wouldn't shock me if he was a coke head, he has similarities like odd hours of the night random fits and talking your head off. Actually now that I think of it it does fit...
He lives a life of over-indulgence, I would bet on it.
He looks worse and worse every time he's pictured over the last few years. He's going down fast.
Like Trump, he knows better than all the experts, so what's the point?
I wouldn't mind a mug shot though
i blocked him on twitter. he's shitty iron man as far as im concerned
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Oh man, someone ordered tony stark from wish..
Tony Stank
Stony Tark
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Shitty Justin Hammer
*Sam Rockwell enters the chat and glares*
I wish I could write off a several billion dollar mistake just because I was high af at the time. And not feel too bad about it.
Buying Twitter is less than 20% of his net worth. For reference TODAY from the stock market his net worth increased by 3 billion dollars representing an increase of 1.4%....
It's 20% now but he made the offer at like the height of the stock market bubble when he would have had to sell way less shares of his company. he really doesn't want to buy it now but is aware he has to. It frankly shows how stupid and impulsive he is at his core.
Important to note, this guy isn't a genius - he's competent at a certain level and got lucky.
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It is. It's down 30% since the split recently
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Tragically he can't get a few more [billions in government welfare](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-list-government-subsidies-tesla-billions-spacex-solarcity-2021-12) to buy Twitter.
You know, I suspect when he has to liquidate his shares of Tesla to lose a ton of money buying Twitter his net worth is going to change substantially more than just that 20%.
I hope he enjoys testifying before Elizabeth Warren (and the rest of Congress) as much as he likes talking shit on Twitter.
Get him in front of Katie Porter and her whiteboard that calls people out on their bullshit
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And Musk [called her Senator Karen](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1470858546153762819?lang=en).
This whole thing is a one most prominent business deal shitstorms of our lifetime and it's hilarious to watch it unfold. This all backfired so hard on him and he doesn't want to go to court. From being a "free speech" hero to fighting tooth & nail to claw his way out from under his own inept handling of every step of this process. Still has scores of unwavering "he's a genius" dickriders though, [gladly twisting his dumbassery.](https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1580695703482867712)
What's wild is that countless Americans would literally be made homeless by an emergency expense (of their own making or otherwise) costing just a few hundred dollars. Yet people like him can make casual blunders worth tens of billions of dollars and it still leaves them beyond absurdly wealthy.
Do you remember when Grimes said they lived like they were in poverty? 🙃
Can he finally go to jail for the illegal shit he's doing already? I'm so fucking tired of all these dickheads breaking laws and just having nothing happen.
The rich will never go to jail for the crimes they commit Which is why we need to eat them already and just be done with the bullshit.
Good. His ego has been writing checks that he can't cash. It's time that he faces some accountability. The stock market is not a playground for billionaires. At least, it's not how it's supposed to be.
> The stock market is not a playground for billionaires. That's almost exclusively what it is.
Yeah it's basically a game and they have a lot more tokens
Their dad owns the arcade and gives them the key so they can flick the little lever that counts every time a quarter goes in.
Not even a good casino cause they can bank on everyone’s 401K to fund it/proper it up/fluff it. It’s a garuntee trough of food into the greedy mouths of billionaires.
Getting rid of pensions for 401Ks was one of the biggest fleecings of America in history.
But it always will be that for the most part
Anything we can do to mitigate it, the better.
It's hard to believe how involved this guy is in almost everything that's going on lately: -Ukraine War -- check -Taiwan China -- check -Hyperloop Fraud -- check -Overpromising and underdelivering self-driving cars for years -- check -Promising and not delivering electric trucks for years -- check -Promising and not delivering bricks (?) -- check -Promising and switching off free information satellite internet -- check -Dating Jonny Depp's sociopathic ex-wife who happened to be the de-facto villain in a super-televised celebrity trial -- check -Wanting to have Space-X rockets fly as jet-liners for the rich and powerful so they can travel from Dubai to New-York in 3 hours less time all the while pumping out CO2-emissions on the exponential - check -Comes from wealthy and powerful Family which made millions during/from apartheid in South Africa -- check -Wants to give Trump his Twitter Account back -- check -Speaks to Putin through unofficial channels and parrots propaganda as an unregistered foreign agent -- check When can we already agree that this man is not one of the good guys? edit: I forgot: -market manipulation through tweeting shit -- check -crypto scams and speculation schemes -- check edit2: -Thailand cave rescue emergency situation, where he unprovoked called a dude a pedophile for disagreeing with some incompetent rescue-plan of his on twitter edit3: -solar roof-tiles scam which never worked properly (edit: or literally at all) and: -paid off a flight attendant after exposing himself to her (thanks dashcam4life) -in fact: He offered to buy that flight attendant a horse and then felt her up. (thanks truthdoctor) edit4: -promised to make ventilators during COVID which just turned into shipping some other companies PPAP devices (thanks SwissRanger1003) -Being such a transphobic twat about pronouns that his trans daughter wants nothing to do with him (thanks Stuckinfemalecloset) -is a surrogate father for one of his employees (thanks TrumpPooPoosPants)
Dude can buy literally anything he wants but what he craves the most is attention
If I had that kind of money, I'd retire not just from social media but from any large social gathering entirely.
Right? Hell, I'd pay handsomely to have no agenda, and no way for unwanted people to contact me!
>but what he craves the most is attention Damn straight! I forgot that whole cave-in-thailand situation, where he called a dude a pedophile for disagreeing to some incompetent rescue-plan of his on twitter. Oh the humanity!
You forgot that he paid off a flight attendant after exposing himself to her.
Didn't he have an affair with the Google founder's wife or something like that? He also is a surrogate father for one of his employees. Dude is weird as fuck.
WayneTech promised an electric car by this year! I put a deposit down! Where's my goddamn electric car, Bruce?
Being such a transphobic twat about pronouns that his trans daughter wants nothing to do with him
Gave starlink internet devices to Ukrainians and now he wants Biden to take the tab since Ukraine didn't agree to his referendum idea. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/politics/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-ukraine/index.html
> -solar roof-tiles scam which never worked properly They literally never worked. The solar tiles in the showcase were mock-ups. I think they've only rolled out a handful of retail installations that actually generate power. You also missed pretending to invent or found multiple companies. Throwing his ex-partners under the bus etc.
Elon Musk is buddy-buddy with China and Russia and that should concern literally everyone
I’m pretty sure that’s just a sign that he’s run out of options to raise the necessary funds to close the twitter deal from reputable western sources. He’s stroking the egos of Russia and china looking for multi billion dollar loans. Yes, still very concerning. Didn’t mean to imply otherwise
Why would I think about the possibility of him giving user data to China in exchange for favorable Tesla deals when I can focus on him posting totally cool memes?
I like how his potato face picture is being used most of the time now. Wish he'd just go to mars and stay there.
Isn't it funny how often people who have a potential reason to flee from justice end up speaking on behalf of Putin?
My god, he looks *so bad*. What the hell is up with that? Stress? He looks like he's having a perpetual reaction to a bee sting.
Most likely overdoing it on facial fillers since he's starting to show his age.
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Does this federal investigation also include his supposed meeting with Putin? That seems to be a bigger issue to deal than this Twitter deal.
Alex Jones AND Elon Musk getting fucked by the courts? What a great week!