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[+] 308 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (25 children)
  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (17 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).

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 107 points 2 years ago (16 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.

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  • [–] 101 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    Not everyone's wallet has that kind of pull.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 103 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

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    [–] 95 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (6 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.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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    [–] 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I love to see Musk get punched where it counts!

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    [–] 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sauce please? Because that is fucking amazing!

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 40 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 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.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    Musk is a deranged idiot

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 25 points 2 years 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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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    You love to see it

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

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

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Edit: Lemmy has trouble with gif?

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Pot calling the kettle black, eh?

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