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Re: Musk’s Money Mystery Intrigues SEC

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Post by TooBrokeToBeg »

propman wrote: post #27
TooBrokeToBeg wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe the "hero" shouldn't be throwing insults on twitter like a child. I thought the insult was well considered because, in context, the diver was going after kids. It's a sly kind of funny that someone from another country might think is very funny.

This is the first comment I’ve seen approving that tweet and it’s every bit as deluded and cringeworthy as I’d expect. Musk never even apologized for that one did he?

> it’s every bit as deluded and cringeworthy as I’d expect.

Not deluded at all. Sorry if you didn't get it. It's very strange that puritanical adherence of America has been rolled back (mostly) but the pedo label is still so toxic in American culture that it's assumed that other cultures share the same values.

Re: Musk’s Money Mystery Intrigues SEC

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Post by AlexeyBrin »

eanzenberg wrote: post #9
matthoiland wrote: post #5

Is Musk constantly inside-joking himself? Why $420 a share? Why do his car models spell S3X? Is his internal email bong69@boring.com? I love this guy.

Do you think calling heroes "pedos" is funny too?

Do you think it make sense to judge the entire work/life of someone by an affirmation made at some point in the past on a public forum ? From a moral point of view people are not black and white, there are infinite shades of grey in between.

If you dig deep enough you will find morally questionable things in everybody's past.

That being said, that tweet was a bad idea.

Re: Musk’s Money Mystery Intrigues SEC

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Post by atombender »

davesque wrote: post #28

The problem, at this point, is that I think the average person must find all this very tiresome. Let's set aside all the theories about whether or not Musk is actually a stable genius for doing everything he's done lately (including calling one of his critics "pedo guy"). With everything that's going on in the world today, I just don't have the energy to keep up with all this grandstanding. The result? I'm sick of he…

I don't think that's "the problem". There's plenty of demand for the cars. Elon Musk fatigue may be a real thing, but that's more related to the news cycle (and the Twitter cycle), in my opinion, than Musk himself.

Re: Musk’s Money Mystery Intrigues SEC

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Post by eanzenberg »

dragontamer wrote: post #16

> Of course the SEC is looking into this. I can’t think of a thing that the SEC would look into more. If Warren Buffett was giving insider tips about accounting fraud at the Fed to Lloyd Blankfein so that he could help Donald Trump and the pope insider trade against the Illuminati, the SEC team investigating that would be scheming to get transferred to the Elon Musk team. Obviously, this is a silly article. But the p…

Probably because it's not quite an opinion piece. A buyout at this massive scale would've been rumored by now by the potential suiters. The only other alternative is single-buyers who are willing to put up that much personal capital, also highly unlikely.

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Post by sfarnan »

davesque wrote: post #28

The problem, at this point, is that I think the average person must find all this very tiresome. Let's set aside all the theories about whether or not Musk is actually a stable genius for doing everything he's done lately (including calling one of his critics "pedo guy"). With everything that's going on in the world today, I just don't have the energy to keep up with all this grandstanding. The result? I'm sick of he…

How’s this Elon’s fault? He’s endlessly criticized in unjustified ways. That guy didn’t reasonably critize Elon’s plans, he instantly attacked his motives and said to stick his submarine up his rearend.

And 10% of Thailand’s GDP is based on the sex industry or $6.4 billion a year. “Pedo” is kind of a misused connotation but when people get attacked their impulse is to respond with a personal attack.

It’s not a “meltdown”. It’s just human nature magnified by Twitter.

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Post by [deleted] »

propman wrote: post #27
TooBrokeToBeg wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe the "hero" shouldn't be throwing insults on twitter like a child. I thought the insult was well considered because, in context, the diver was going after kids. It's a sly kind of funny that someone from another country might think is very funny.

This is the first comment I’ve seen approving that tweet and it’s every bit as deluded and cringeworthy as I’d expect. Musk never even apologized for that one did he?

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Re: Musk’s Money Mystery Intrigues SEC

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Post by theDoug »

atombender wrote: post #33
davesque wrote: post #28

The problem, at this point, is that I think the average person must find all this very tiresome. Let's set aside all the theories about whether or not Musk is actually a stable genius for doing everything he's done lately (including calling one of his critics "pedo guy"). With everything that's going on in the world today, I just don't have the energy to keep up with all this grandstanding. The result? I'm sick of he…

I don't think that's "the problem". There's plenty of demand for the cars. Elon Musk fatigue may be a real thing, but that's more related to the news cycle (and the Twitter cycle), in my opinion, than Musk himself.

I wonder why the media new cycle keeps making him say outlandish stuff! What do the majority of other company CEOs have over the entire industry and Twitter to somehow appear to be quietly doing their job?

Re: Musk’s Money Mystery Intrigues SEC

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Post by eanzenberg »

AlexeyBrin wrote: post #32
eanzenberg wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you think calling heroes "pedos" is funny too?

Do you think it make sense to judge the entire work/life of someone by an affirmation made at some point in the past on a public forum ? From a moral point of view people are not black and white, there are infinite shades of grey in between. If you dig deep enough you will find morally questionable things in everybody's past. That being said, that tweet was a bad idea.

That's just the tip of the iceberg for Elon. He has a lot to answer for Tesla including the "self-driving" claim fiascos and all this erratic behavior. He puts video games into the center console of the Model 3 while also claiming that drivers need to pay complete attention during operation.

Compared to Sergey, Besoz or Tim Cook and I'd rather have them as CEO than someone interested in "memes".

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