• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Steal all Americans sensitive data using DOGE, no big deal. Manipulation the stock market and get caught, that’s a paddlin…

    Man we are so fucked as a species.

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      36 minutes ago

      First is a crime against the common folk. Second is a crime against other rich people. There’s a difference!

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    5 hours ago

    I’m convinced that some people who look up to the rich despite being dicks, secretly look up to them because they admire these rich individuals’ underhanded way on how to get rich.

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    I don’t have the most fantastic memory, but as I recall the stock went up very high after he said he was going to buy it the first time, and stayed higher than it was before he said anything by quite a bit up through his purchase.

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    I mean, he definitely did it. We all remember the breathless coverage of his 2am ketamine tweets to manipulate the market:

    Musk’s May 13 tweet — “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users” — was “false because the buyout was not, in fact, ‘temporarily on hold,’” the lawsuit says. That’s because Twitter did not agree to put the deal on hold, and there was nothing in the merger agreement the two parties signed that allowed Musk to put it on hold, according to the lawsuit.

    I wonder if he has enough clout left with the Trump admin to weasel out of this one, like he did with the Tesla deal.

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    7 hours ago

    He paid off the president and controls all the data he stole from social security admin etc.

    Nothing is gonna happen to him.

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      7 hours ago

      While that’s true, it seems as if Trump and Musk aren’t in the best terms after actually working together for a month or two.

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        Trump doesn’t really have friends anyway, so as long as they are ideologically compatible, Musk is safe.

    • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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      Trump doesn’t give one flying fuck what Elon does, as long as it doesn’t affect Trump, personally. This has nothing to do with Trump, be beyond that, Trump probably made a killing on the deal.

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      Those Social Security data are worthless as a bargaining chip because he would instantly go to jail if he disclosed that he actually had them.

      (Don’t mess with the Boomers)

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        And if you can’t think of a way of can be used, as if laws still matter to he wealthy, obviously, nobody else can…

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 hours ago

    Ah yes all his horseshit about the bot problem and how he needed concrete numbers to solve the problem or “die trying.”

    Since he still hasn’t even begun to solve it I really hope he just fucking dies.