Elon Musk -- against freedom?

[BeBMan]

"Tesla opposes 'decoupling and breaking chains', and is willing to continue to expand its business in China," Musk was quoted as saying.

https://www.dw.com/en/china-urges-mutual-respect-as-tesla-ceo-elon-musk-visits/a-65770307

My totally not-out-of-context quoting proves it, and all my sources agree with me!

[Dinner]

He obviously has a lot of exposure to China because his current largest factory is in China. If he doesn't play nice with the CCP then they could just seize his assets. It is a real problem.

[Berzerker]

"In November last year, US President Joe Biden told reporters that "Elon Musk's cooperation and/or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at."

He said "Whether or not he is doing anything appropriate — I am not suggesting that — I'm suggesting it's worth being looked at. And that's all I'll say."

Joe Biden is concerned and wants to look at Musk, not that he's suggesting anything inappropriate was done. Maybe Musk didn't donate enough to Dems. Maybe he should make electric weapons and hire generals to sell them to the Pentagon. I dont see why Musk would join the neocon drum circle around China.
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[Dinner]

That was back when Dems were upset at Elon for exposing their government directed censorship campaign to target conservatives and promote radical leftists.

[Bereta_Eder]

Elon musk is your average neoliberal nazi.

He has no problem with dictatorships as long as they serve his outwordly dehumanizing and attrocious policies.

He hates democracy

[Bereta_Eder]

He is one of the most evident manifested examples of the disease of the present financial system.

Like a big pimple on one's diseased behind that is shining

As long as musks exist we have work to do

[N35t0r]

He is one of the most evident manifested examples of the disease of the present financial system.

Like a big pimple on one's diseased behind that is shining

As long as musks exist we have work to do

He's not even close to being the worst among his ilk, he's just very broadcasty.

[Dinner]

Yesterday they were a bit of a hubbub on Twitter when several leftist employees of Twitter initially refused to allow Daily Wire to stream for free Matt Walsh's documentary "What is a woman?". The raging leftists infiltrators claimed because it called biological males "he/him" it was somehow "hate speech". The reql reason is because the leftists simply want to censor political speech they dislike. Fortunately Elon intervened, repeated that all free speech with in the law needs to be equally protected at Twitter so the ban would be removed, immediately after all this Twitter's Health and Safety VP announced she was leaving the company. Skuttle butt is she got fired for directly violating the CEOs orders.

So Elon did great there.

[Dinner]

It seems Elon is once again the world's richest man. It is pretty amazing that he can spend $44 billion on Twitter (a company which has net lost money for its entire existence) yet a year later bounces back to regain the richest man spot. This was mostly driven by Tesla's stock going up 68.9% in the last 12 months.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/05/31/business/elon-musk-worlds-richest-man-intl-hnk/index.html

[Geronimo]

He is one of the most evident manifested examples of the disease of the present financial system.

Like a big pimple on one's diseased behind that is shining

As long as musks exist we have work to do

It will probably be people like Musk that ever actually make your socialist utopian economy technically and globally viable.

[Broken_Erika]

Elon Musk is an investor, he provides money to people that actually do stuff, when he tries to run things himself, it doesn't go very well.

[Geronimo]

Elon Musk is an investor, he provides money to people that actually do stuff, when he tries to run things himself, it doesn't go very well.

source? I wouldn't be surprised if that's what we are hearing about his work at Twitter, but the guy was extremely hands-on top level engineer for PayPal, Tesla, and Space-X.

[EPW]

source? I wouldn't be surprised if that's what we are hearing about his work at Twitter, but the guy was extremely hands-on top level engineer for PayPal, Tesla, and Space-X.

I used to believe this until he started spouting absolute non-sense about computers and tech at twitter. Coupled with some other disasterous decisions he's made at Tesla(auto-pilot) and Spacex(not wanting to wait for a flame-diverter, firing an engineer who predicted the disaster at the starship launch) I now believe he's lied about all of that. I give him a lot of credit for hiring smart people and getting lots of investors and taking the risk to create spacex. (Oh, I should mention that he is an established liar. Look up he's said about his physics degree and his dad's emerald mine compared to what he says now, for some well known examples. Not mention the endless false promises)

Edit: It's also possible his drug use and/or work ethic has caught up to him and he's on a mental decline.

[Dauphin]

Short history on PayPal:

Musk founded x.com, and was quickly kicked out as CEO by its shareholders. x.com merged with Confinity (which later became PayPal), but x.com's services were discontinued after/ as part of the merger as they were not commercially successful. Musk was brought in as CEO of the new company, kicked up a stink and forced others out. He was then sacked as CEO due to these technological / ideological differences. Although Musk was ousted, as a large shareholder got a lot of money from the sale of the now rebranded PayPal when it was sold to Ebay.

I don't know whether Musk's time at PayPal's predecessor can be considered a success, other than he personally made money out of it. His baby was not seemingly the driver of profit and the people there didn't seem to like him or the way he was running the place.

Happy to be disabused of these notions if anyone has a different version of history.

[Broken_Erika]

source? I wouldn't be surprised if that's what we are hearing about his work at Twitter, but the guy was extremely hands-on top level engineer for PayPal, Tesla, and Space-X.

From what i heard, He can't code efficiently, most of his code was rewritten by other Paypal coders, and Space-X and Tesla had whole layers of management made exclusively to keep him away from the workers.
Apparently he had great ideas but no ideas how to make them work.
As for the money part, his daddy owned an emerald mine in South Africa.