Lmao, the guy got in the S&P500 by smoothing out deferred credits on his balance sheet, realizing nearly exactly what was needed to produce a profitable quarter due to the requirements of successive quarters to get in the S&P500.

and now what? Didn't he spaz out about not getting his 880 million dollars of funding from the Gov't for Starlink and that decision was appealed and now sits in front of a Republican review committee as he tries to get it back? Republicans being in his favour probing the FCC.

Look republican or democrat, dont care but Elon is a hack who's going to pander to whomever fills his pockets.

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You can check for yourself, Elon is even posting photos of him posing next to people that he has given checks for this effort

He has tons of pro Trump material on his X page

100% spot on.

Elon Musk literally made his fortune with the help of the Obama Administration. I posted this in another thread revolving around Musk and it brought all the libtards to silence.

I made more money in the stock market while a Democrat was POTUS because their moves go hand in hand with the corporate oligarchy that controls them in the US(Big tech, big banks, big energy, big healthcare, big war machine). It's not hard to anticipate democrats will bend over for certain policies.

Tesla was broke and losing money every year(never made a profit) until Obama bailed him out with his "green tax incentive" which basically gave anyone who bought one of the original 1st model Tesla's a $10,000-$15,000 "green credit". Funny how only wealthy people could afford a Tesla sports car in the first place so it's not like a low/middle class citizen got that "green tax break". Don't get a tax break on what you can't afford in the first place.

So for all you lefties out there just remember Elon Musk's company Tesla would've floundered if Obama's Administration didn't offer him a "life-line". He wouldn't have had $50,000,000,000 to buy Twitter in the first place(remember how he struggled to get all the backers??).

Therefore when he did finally gain ownership of Twitter and changed the name to X he changed very little but none-the-less it's HIS. If he wanted to put "NAZI's are cool" at the top of X there isn't a fucking thing anyone can do about it. If he wanted to make the color scheme of X to "rainbow road" he could.

It scared the living shit out of the Democrats that he can have him and Donald Trump talk for an hour about random shit and it hit a BILLION views quicker then they dared to imagine.

It scares democrats that there is but ONE UBER-RICH billionaire who isn't on board with the 99% of other billionaires and he gets more attention then all the others combined. Elon Musk much like Trump is just an ego-maniac but people like someone who tells it to you straight and is so pig-headed he's willing to lose billions just to make a right.

As someone who lives near Chicago 90% of all political adds you see are "Pro-democrat". You'll see 10-15x Harris adds before 1 Trump. My dad would always say whoever can pull more money(Democrats) can influence an election with just the bombardment of ads. Elderly population in Chicago and the suburbs only hears "Trumps the worst human being ever!" and NOTHING else. How can they generate a fair opinion of the nominees if one is shown exclusively to everyone and the other isn't shown at all.

My Grandma is a registered Republican but all she does is watch CNN and MSM so she just parrots things she "heard on the news". She doesn't know the news organizations are owned by Democrats and bankrolled by democrats. Just like with Covid which terrorized my Grandma(disgusting) she's been brainwashed into thinking Trump is going to ruin our country. He's not and Covid wasn't going to kill her and her family but they told her that too.

I'm also not a fan of Elon Musk. Punching holes in our atmosphere with each of his Starlink satelite launches/Space-X rocket launches(yes that's bad for our planet because the holes punched don't just close). Promoting the whole let's go to Mars while people are starving and dying here right now thing. "Oh we need to save the species but lose our humanity in the process!". Then his whole "I'll write a check to solve world hunger if you can show me how the money is spent/allocated". Doesn't do it just for the fuck of it to help the uber-poor and then buys Twitter as like a "cool rich kid flex. Hides the fact that his lithium is mined by kids in his native South Africa who if you type in some videos can see they are like 5-8 years old and their hands to their elbows are "bleached white" from digging in the dirt with their bare hands.

I did make a lot of money off my Tesla shares though......

That's all democrats/republicans in DC who made money off him. A lot of money. Does that make him a "good dude". Not necessarily just like Trump. You can hate Trump as a person but still like his policies.

Both their "dirty laundry" gets aired for the world to see but you rarely see the dems leadership have their "dirty laundry" aired because they own the media companies themselves. Why do you think Trump is behind Truth Social and Musk X. Leveling the playing field that's always been rigs towards the dems. That's why they are panicking so bad.

this is an incorrect take.

trump wanted twitter's policies and enforcement to be unbiased. that doesnt apply to his posts, at all.

the correct approach is to point out that rather than making twitter policy and enforcement unbiased, as he promised, he just swung the pendulum. now on twitter calling someone "cisgender" is a post that will trigger automated action on your account. his bias isn't the issue, on his posts, at all, but him applying his bias to the actual nuts and bolts programming in twitter is a serious issue that people often ignore because elon personally is a flame for moths.

the entire endeavor was always silly, twitter was in decline and in the process of getting taken over by bots and porn content. it would be like buying myspace to revitalize it after it had it's exodus and was mostly a 2nd rate music platform akin to soundcloud.

Prior to Elon's acquisition Twitter had an extreme staff bloat, focused on either doing nothing (company throwing money away) or enforcing the regime's censorship dictat. Now that X is private, we are not privy to it's financials, it could only be doing alot better after Elon trimmed something like 80% of the entire staff. The platform is just as popular as ever with far less overhead.

Trimming the fat was the correct move, it was an overbloated company.

but i dont see a way they've possibly come out ahead. ad revenue has dropped from 4.4b$ to about 3b$ in 2 years. even with the staff cut i dont see that as in the black, although not nearly as far in the red as people pretend.

i think elon's play is more aimed at a break even, maybe even running at a loss, with future plans to expand the site and make a lot of money. if he can add shopping and payments to the site it will explode in revenue, so short term doesnt matter as much imo.

He's played both sides of the aisle like a fiddle and even got a foot in China through the Biden admin. Pure definition of a capitalist as now he'll benefit off his association to Trump who is a good "brand builder" despite people's denial of it "Trump" is a brand name.

I've been more interested of his talks about the "X everything mega corp" which would combine all/most of his companies(Tesla/X/SpaceX/Boring Company) as well as their subsidiaries into one entity. I'm all about making money off Elon Musk he's the retard savant that the younger generation puts their money on and the big names normally get behind him. Very few made money "shorting his companies" but a lot of people got rich off just getting on his bandwagon. He's turning electric cars(Tesla) that will be running an "X interface" similar to what Apple wanted to do with their Apple car, a mining company(Boring) which can build underground tunnels for the military industrial complex and other mining operations, launching satellites into space to give people around the world access to the internet including Ukraine's military which directly connects them to "X" internet/phone(he's talked about an X-phone and X-wireless plan).

Now after saying that doesn't it seem pretty obvious Elon Musk is working more with/for the government then anyone else. He is a DARPA puppet just like Zuckerturd, Sergei Brinn, Bill Gates, and all these other "billionaires". They all had to make a deal with the US government/military first mainly in the form of giving them access to all the data they collect.

So as much as people root for Elon to succeed the military industrial complex wants him to succeed even more. That's the dangerous line he's walking right now. Do I play it safe with the people who got me rich or do I go against the entire system and risk getting killed/slandered/etc.

I think it's really funny he said he would make the platform better than it was and remove bots, but bots are stronger than ever, post retention is worse than it's ever been for non famous people, and rampant racism and hate of all kinds plagues the platform on levels never before seen, Elon is also using these bots to his advantage to make it seem like there is more traffic than there actually is lol. Train wreck

Don't go on "X" kind of simple isn't it? You'll get offended anywhere if you can't handle words so don't go there someone might hurt your feelings.

Do you like to report people on "X" for trans hate??? Seems like a job you'd take.

You know there are pro/anti-trans bots too so kind of hard to make your mark there. You can get 5 of us banned from posting here for a month before any mod on "X" gives you that type of attention.

Must be why you are still here.

imagine for a second, hate or racism being not protected by free speech.

Now imagine transgenderism being not protected by free speech.

hmmm

Will the chickens come home to roost?

This post was edited by Mondain on Oct 10 2024 07:35pm