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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] [email protected] 308 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Really glad to see Elon Musk getting absolutely fucked. Let's have more of that.

[–] [email protected] 151 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Let's be clear: he's the one fucking himself

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Even more beautiful.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Thing is, he's not. He can, and has, lose more money than I'll ever see and not have any change in lifestyle.

It simply doesn't effect him. All of his companies could collapse completely tomorrow and he probably wouldn't even notice (financially speaking).

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (13 children)

He may not notice the financial loss but at the amount of money he's trying to amass money isn't the point. Power and control are the point. If his companies go under he'll loose a lot of power and influence and I'm not sure his ego could handle that. He seems to crave attention of any kind. I'd be happy if he were reduced to a regular very rich guy with nothing of consequence to say anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s America getting fucked, not him.

Keep in mind he might be working for them doing this on purpose to us.

We just know he doesn’t care about America.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Might? Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years

However, he's obviously destroying the US government and bureaucracy right now, but I don't think he's destroying his own businesses on purpose. He's just dumb.

[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's called "voting with your wallet". Everyone should do that! Here in Europe we tanked Tesla sales. Rich and poor - everyone can do what's right.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Not everyone's wallet has that kind of pull.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Here's the thing... there's more of us than there are of them. That's why they're so desperate to keep our collective attention elsewhere and to cause division or people might recognize just how strong they could be collectively.

Even collectively we might not have billions of dollars, but it doesn't take billions to crater a company or an industry. Just takes not paying into the system; it'll collapse on its own.

I get you can't boycott everything because you need food and water to survive, but people aren't helpless.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Elon musk must have read Art of the deal recently, it’s obvious in his recent business dealings

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

this is what happens when you run a government the way you're used to running the monopoly you own. "hardball" doesn't work on the global stage.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That must count as the most financially ruinous tweet ever. Serves Elon right for being a total prick.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wasn’t president Musk’s announcement that he was going to BUY twitter a tweet? Seeing as it’s worth fuck-all now that’s in the running.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah though his total demolition of the company wasn’t done by that tweet. He had to keep making bad decisions for that!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

To be fair, buying Twitter was instrumental in him getting Trump to the presidency.

Like any Billionaire, he needed a media outlet to manufacture consent with - I'd argue that him buying Twitter wasn't as stupid a move as it initially seems.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Buying the company was the decision to take over the communications channel by dictators worldwide. It wasn't an accident and he doesn't care about the value of shitter in the long term.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sauce please? Because that is fucking amazing!

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I love to see Musk get punched where it counts!

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago

"Dear Slim, I wrote you, but you still ain't callin'..."

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Musk will most likely blame it on South African apartheid and him being discriminated against.

Keep it up world. Bankrupt Musk. Let’s make the world’s richest man, the poorest. Rob him of absolutely everything.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't have a business degree, so can someone help me understand if this is how you win at stonks?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I can but first I'm going to need you to wire me $150 usd.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

He must have checked his list of criminal dealings, saw that Musk was on it, and decided to correct it.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Slim might be one of the coolest rich guys around. He put up a museum in Mexico city and it's free. For everyone, all the time.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Billionaires used to do that kind of thing all the time when they knew they could either walk the street a hero or a target. Mexican billionaires still live in reality it seems.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Musk is a deranged idiot

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Good. Unfortunately, it just means Elon will be enraged to decimate America further.

Really hoping for a Player 2. I'd do it myself but I'm a terrible shot.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Fuck all billionaires. Including this Mexican one idfc what he did to musk

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I would hesitate before judging someone purely on one statistic but it's difficult to imagine how one amasses that sort of money ethically. If I asked you to think of a billionaire that you would leave in charge of children, who would you pick? Bill Gates perhaps, Warren Buffet? It's slim pickings.

Jon Ronson advanced the idea that psychopathy is over-represented in the CEO class and presented some compelling examples in his book, The Psychopath Test.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

It’s sad how happy this makes me…. Oh well.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

You love to see it

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Jesus dude... if you want to piss away your money, I'd take a couple hundred million

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

He's a billionaire, of course he has some relations with crime, Musk is just dumb enough to say the quiet part out loud.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Edit: Lemmy has trouble with gif?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pot calling the kettle black, eh?

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