Elon Musk now owns 9.2% of twitter...update.. will soon be the sole owner as Board of Directors accepts his purchase offer

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MrSquished

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Yes, the only requirement being that you be born heir to one or more emerald mines.

I would enjoy seeing you try to explain the machinations of class mobility and how it can be very restricted here in the US to Greenman, and include some wealth inequality trends in that as well.
 
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fskimospy

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Has anyone even been able to attach a dollar figure as to how much Musk received from the emerald mine(s) in Africa?
I don't think so - he has begun lying about it, saying his family never had one. This is of course awkward because he publicly stated in the past that they did so he was lying then or he's lying now.

I really don't care either way though, I was just cracking a joke.
 
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Greenman

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It's not so much that you're indifferent or dull, its your exceptional lack of vision that throws people off.
Thank you for noticing.
I just mowed my lawn for the first time and realized that I need a better weed eater, though my new mower is a hit. I also found ants near my house. These are far more pressing issues to me than whatever some rich clown does with his new toy.

Vision is for the things I design, or build in my shop.
 
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Vic

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Thank you for noticing.
I just mowed my lawn for the first time and realized that I need a better weed eater, though my new mower is a hit. I also found ants near my house. These are far more pressing issues to me than whatever some rich clown does with his new toy.

Vision is for the things I design, or build in my shop.
So why then do you waste all your time here defending that rich clown if you have so many far more pressing issues to attend to?
 

MrSquished

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Thank you for noticing.
I just mowed my lawn for the first time and realized that I need a better weed eater, though my new mower is a hit. I also found ants near my house. These are far more pressing issues to me than whatever some rich clown does with his new toy.

Vision is for the things I design, or build in my shop.

This is the perfect answer than encapsulates everything that was just said about you lol

You got more in common with Red Squirrel the clown than you probably realize.
 
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Dave_5k

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Expect to see more of this. Reputable organizations will not tolerate Musk's manchild actions. NPR is not state owned, controlled, nor funded, and has a legitimate defamation case against twitter should they choose to pursue it.
It would be more honest to label Elon Musk's personal account as "state-funded" than NPR (as far more % of his wealth has come via government subsidies, as compared to NPR funding)
 

MrSquished

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Elon is in esteemed company these days. I gotta gloat a little for calling this guy a POS when there were just a minority of us actually realizing what he was, not just an eccentric billionaire. He is exactly who we thought he was, and people called us a little extreme for calling it out that early.

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cytg111

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Elon is in esteemed company these days. I gotta gloat a little for calling this guy a POS when there were just a minority of us actually realizing what he was, not just an eccentric billionaire. He is exactly who we thought he was, and people called us a little extreme for calling it out that early.

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Nope. Still no medals. Give it up.

Anyhoo, Elon is defunding NPR all on his own, so there is that. And getting cozy with one of the dumbest Karens to walk the earth is... is exactly the trajectory he's been on for a while.
 

MrSquished

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Nope. Still no medals. Give it up.

Anyhoo, Elon is defunding NPR all on his own, so there is that. And getting cozy with one of the dumbest Karens to walk the earth is... is exactly the trajectory he's been on for a while.

It's ok. Us in the minority there know we were onto something before many and that it is good to be able to recognize evil than recognize it too late or not realize the true corruption.
 

cytg111

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It's ok. Us in the minority there know we were onto something before many and that it is good to be able to recognize evil than recognize it too late or not realize the true corruption.
Yea that, or its nostrabullcrap:). To my mind something recently radicalized Elon from eccentric to full scale asshole, was it Covid, the divorce, his trans kid? Dont know. Something. Maybe it was Amber Heard.
Anyway, maybe I can search my posts on this site ~10 years ago and find a prediction I made that came true. Then I too can put on a nostra badge. *SEE* *I WAS RIGHT* ... about something.
 
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MrSquished

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Yea that, or its nostrabullcrap:). To my mind something recently radicalized Elon from eccentric to full scale asshole, was it Covid, the divorce, his trans kid? Dont know. Something. Maybe it was Amber Heard.
Anyway, maybe I can search my posts on this site ~10 years ago and find a prediction I made that came true. Then I too can put on a nostra badge. *SEE* *I WAS RIGHT* ... about something.

it's ok, don't feel bad. I didn't call Elon what he was 8 years ago, but I started to truly see it at least a couple years before we got to truly see what he is this past year. And I was not the only one by far. Many of us saw the signs. Plenty of people said we were alarmists then.

I fuck up plenty. But I'm more right than wrong about right wing loons. My calm chill intellectual liberal friend Chris said no way they would overthrow Roe when that leak came out of the Supreme Court. He still could not see the true evil that a majority of the GQP is now. I said oh fuck yeah they will, it's happening. Now we have women almost bleeding to death from forced miscarriages, and teenage rape victims having to flee states to get an abortion. This has happened numerous times on various issues.

The GQP is in a race to the bottom. It's not hard to predict what they will try to do and try to get away with.
 

Ajay

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So why then do you waste all your time here defending that rich clown if you have so many far more pressing issues to attend to?
Eh, this is the majority of Americans. Allot of people have busy, stress filled days. The 30 minute evening news shows are almost useless. People don’t read the newspaper any more. People get their news from Facebook, Twitter , MSN, etc. We've let this happen to ourselves. Seems as though each time human civilization reaches some peak, an invisible pendulum swings back and knocks us onto our collective asses.