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yep, seems like their modus operandi.
Society/Culture Elon Musk - Takeover of Twitter?
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I mean, that's kind of the point: republicans haven't believed in the virtue of charity for a very long time. It's a tax writeoff for them, not a means by which they enrich the society around them.
This is behaviour long encouraged and abetted by the system they live in. If you're only noticing it now, you've been living in a dream world for a while.
Is it? I always thought the traditional (ie not MAGA) right-wing belief in small government argued that providing for the less well-off was the role of charity, not government.
Of course, that encompasses a form of power - the needy have to rely on the largesse of the more fortunate.
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it applies in every capitalist society though. charitable tax deductions can be a device to limit tax. that said, taylor swift gave i think, $10m. just cos you’re rich doesn’t necessarily switch off your humanity.
I cringe whenever I read headlines of celebrities (or other rich folk) donating to causes, disaster relief or otherwise. To me, such donations should be made because you want to donate, not because you want to be slapped on the back for being so generous. Particularly when the amounts they donate are equivalent to finding the loose change that has fallen behind the sofa cushions.
So maybe Musk and Zuckerberg have made generous donations but just not bragged about them?*
*No, I do not think this is likely the case.
i posted a K-hole gif on a Elon tweet and within seconds got a bot warning, and had to verify my email. Same with a replied to a trump post, got a limited visibility notification
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in terms of priorities, i’m far less fussed about the donations being public than you are. it’s of more moment to me that the money flows so long as it’s a worthwhile cause.
as far as billionaires go, i’m a fan of warren buffett. much of his charitable work is well known, although i’m confident not all. including his huge charitable trust, which he set up with gates. berkshire hathaway also gives to charities.
in some ways, i like knowing where the donations go as it can in itself tell a tale
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But ever since the Rockerfellers and Vanderbilts - which is a bloody long time ago now - the wealthy used charitable causes for things other than altruism or charity. One takes leave to question precisely how charitable you're being when on one hand you break unions and viciously apply scientific management wmin your factories and use your wealth to purchase political clout and on the other give significant amounts in charity that you can then recoup as a tax expense.
That last one is Henry Ford, btw.
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A Neo-Nazi Helped Incite U.K. Riots. Elon Musk Criticized His Sentencing.
Andrew McIntyre, a British extremist who played a key role in fomenting last summer’s unrest, was sentenced last week to seven years in jail.
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And people question me online why I say, “I’ve never heard Elon say anything that has ever impressed me”.
Prime example this is, he’s fools gold and nothing more!
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A billionaire taking credit for other's work. Who would have thought?
So strange. Insecurity on the level of the orange one. Lying about the most inane stuff just for the sake of it.
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U.S. securities regulators sued Elon Musk in federal court in Washington on Tuesday in an enforcement action arising from his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, now called X.
The lawsuit against Mr. Musk, who has become a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, is likely to be one of the more contentious final acts of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the direction of Gary Gensler, its departing chair.
The S.E.C. contends that in buying Twitter in 2022, Mr. Musk violated securities laws by amassing a large stock position in the company without filing the proper notification. The complaint said he had waited 11 days before filing the required disclosure with the S.E.C.
This will die next week
The lawsuit against Mr. Musk, who has become a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, is likely to be one of the more contentious final acts of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the direction of Gary Gensler, its departing chair.
The S.E.C. contends that in buying Twitter in 2022, Mr. Musk violated securities laws by amassing a large stock position in the company without filing the proper notification. The complaint said he had waited 11 days before filing the required disclosure with the S.E.C.
This will die next week
I giggled like a school girl when I saw this one, interesting name to tweet correlation.
Elon must read bf about welshing on bets
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The Trouble with Elon
I didn’t set out to become an enemy of the world’s richest man, but I seem to have managed it all the same.
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Chucking another tanty over being exposed as cheating in a video game.
Chucking another tanty over being exposed as cheating in a video game.
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Does Musk actually think this is a “gotcha” moment?
It’s funny because if he just owned the fact he brought a boosted account or paid someone to boost it for him no one would of given the slighted ****
But the fact that he keeps trying to double down on the lies and go scorched earth on the people calling him out just highlights what a petulant loser he really is
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I said this in the Trump thread last week
So now Asmongold's followers all think Elon's a fool, and the curtain has come down.
Some of the comments make me laugh like "this is Elon's Stalingrad."
Ironic when you think about it.
RWNJs comparing him to Hitler as a slander, then his POE2 account on permadeath dies with his IP address in China, while he's was live face to face with a Neo-Nazi party in Germany on X.
He lied about being one of the best players in Diabolo 4
He lied about being one of the best quake players in the world
He lied about being good at Overwatch
He lied about how he received his break in the US
He lied about his contribution to PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX.
He lied about his contribution to OpenAI and now he's salty and trying to sue them. Meanwhile his companies have been propped up by billions of government funding, with no short term benefit to humanity, and no long term guarantee that they will either. All they have done is make him more wealthy.
The question needs to be asked, is Elon Musk they greatest conman in the history of the world?
If you ask me, I'd say yes.
The moment he tweeted that "Covid is stupid" back in 2020 showed what uneducated shill he was. Only caring about Tesla losing production values, rather than the tens of millions of people dying from a virus, he played his card completely wrong in that instance.
Of course there are still people who believe Covid is stupid, vaccines are bad and pharmaceuticalicals don't want you to find out how "animal dewormers" are the REAL wonder cures. And that's why Trump got reelected and Elon got a cult following. Now that cult following has diminished significantly because he bought his account in Path of Exile 2, and played it on stream on his provste using Starlink, as an advertisement for Starlink, only showing his complete noob behaviour in the game.
He should live stream his buddy Trump play golf, and show us how he doesn't cheat as well.
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It’s crazy the egos these people have (Trump and Musk) its as if despite being financially successful (plenty of questions about how much of their wealth they actually earned but that’s besides the point) the stories are similar to the shit that Kim Jong Un lies about
Both these men for all intensive purposes shouldn’t be concerned at all by what anyone thinks of them and just live in their rich personal bubble of privilege but for some reason that’s not enough
They feel the need to make grandiose claims about their achievements in order like a child would in order to impress others in a short sighted attempt to make others “like” them
It’s ****ing wild to me how these successful people are still so uncomfortable with their own self value
