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Comment He doesn't sell his shares (Score 1) 224

He borrows hundreds of millions of dollars off of them at below market rates that you and I cannot access.

The entire premise of your post is based on a misunderstanding of how billionaires control and allocate and access their wealth. They do it by borrowing money below market rates which they were allowed to do ostensibly because they are such great lending investments but in practice because they are members of the Epstein class and it's a big club and you ain't in it.

And literally everything you just listed out is complete bullshit for obvious reasons that are so staggeringly obvious I'm not going to list them here. If for some reason you don't know what they are Patrick Boyle has a video on it over on YouTube.

Elon Musk is the greatest crook in American history and that's an achievement given what Trump's doing. He is also the greatest mass murderer in the 21st century. Thanks to his USAid cuts and the children it has murdered.

It is extremely concerning that you are defending him at this late in the game.

Comment Crypto is money laundering (Score 1) 224

That and drugs and crime. But mostly large scale international money laundering often by established governments. That's where the value of crypto comes from. Crime of one sort or another.

There is literally nothing to justify the valuation here. Satellite internet is never going to beat wired internet. If you start to get enough customers that satellite internet could be very profitable the end result will be somebody runs a wire to that City and you lose those customers.

The current valuation is based entirely on the understanding by everyone involved that the money is eventually going to come from all of our 401K plans. That's 10 trillion dollars that the top 0.1% can steal from us.

What's amazing is the number of people who think that because they can check off a couple of boxes on a form every other year that they can somehow outmaneuver somebody like Elon Musk who has entire teams of lawyers figuring out how to rip them off.

That is one of those, pray thee Mr babbage, moments. As in, I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas.

Comment As long as he didn't rip off the Epstein class (Score 1) 25

He can just buy a pardon from trump. The going rate seems to be somewhere between 1 million and 2 million dollars which his parents can easily afford. After that he will be allowed back into finance because of course he will.

This assumes he didn't fuck with anyone important. There was this congressman who kept telling these ridiculous lies but for some reason people fucking loved him. He was on track to be a big star in the Republican party until he fucked with Mitch McConnell's money people. I think he is still in prison.

On the other hand we have a multi-trillion dollar IPO about to rip off everybody's 401ks. Which is perfectly acceptable because it's not going to hit the money of people who actually matter. And yeah if you're reading this you don't matter

Comment Re:Of course they did (Score 1) 21

Yep let somebody else take a crack at it if they're going to fail

Everyone acts like if a company goes out of business no other company could ever try to start up a business. And strictly speaking that is true but only because we stopped and forcing antitrust law so the moment you try to start up a business you're going to get run out of business.

Comment Re:Like A Crypto Billionaire (Score 1) 224

He bought Twitter with (mostly) other people's money. Including big piles of Saudi royal money and Qatar's sovereign fund. And of course, Andreesen Horrorwitz.

Indeed, welcome to my point. His paper wealth is precisely what gives him access to other people's money. Do *you* think you could convince the Saudi royals to loan you a few billion?

Comment Re:Queue the jealousy and entitlement (Score 1) 224

Musk has risked almost every penny he has on multiple occasions.

The rich only pretend to risk every penny in the eyes of the poor. In reality they have ample opportunities to bail themselves out. (e.g. note how he doesn't own Twitter anymore, despite never having $44bn to pay for it in the first place and it tanking double digit billions in value).

Comment Re: Congrats to Mr. Musk (Score 1) 224

The only reason he has these companies is because of socialism. He has received billions in taxpayer money to keep his companies alive.

You say this as if it is a bad thing instead of what it actually is: A very normal way for government to enact policy. There's virtually no industry in any nation that wasn't built on the back of some of this "socialism".

Comment Re:Raises hand ... (Score 1) 18

Does your software engage a robotic arm to reach out and touch the buttons for you?

There's many reasons why you want to automate the control of display brightness. Enough reasons that windows even has an API for it. https://learn.microsoft.com/en...

Which ultimately also makes you wonder what the fuck copilot was doing probing UEFI with python scripts.

Comment Re:Amazing... (Score 1) 18

but the fact the first answer is not "Well, find the brightness buttons and press them" is telling.

Until we install USB robotic arms into our laptop, AI software isn't pressing any buttons. It seems quite dumb for software to suggest that as a response to an request for automation. Presumably if you're using AI for anything you're not trying to manually do shit like your granddaddy did.

Comment He's also the greatest mass murderer (Score 1) 224

Of the 21st century. His cuts to usaid will kill 8 million children and that's if the Democrats win in 2028 and can't stop them. I'm not counting the midterms because even if the Dems win they just aren't going to win by the kind of margins they need to overcome a trump veto

It is weird to think that he is probably a bigger mass murderer than Joseph Stalin if you look at real numbers and not that 100 million figure that got pulled out of somebody's ass. Hitler has him beat but only if the Democrats win in 2028.

Comment Re:Don't forget your 401k (Score 1) 224

It's a 2 trillion dollar valuation so no. Also assuming America doesn't get a third term of trump which is a distinct possibility but assuming we don't then the next administration will be doing everything in its power to cut musk off from any further government contracts.

I wish I could say that was about politics because I wish the Democrat party, my party, would play politics that dirty. LBJ would have had the mob giving muskrat chats... But Hakeem jeffries? Oh fuck no.

However muskrat directly interfered in a war. We all kind of just forgot that he did that but he directly interfered in the Ukraine war. He is a national security risk and I guarantee you the next president will be taking steps to eliminate the ability of the muskrat to interfere in geopolitical events like that... Again assuming America is a democracy in 2029 which is a kind of a long shot.

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