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So he just sold himself a company he already owns for a valuation that he himself assigned to that company but that was less than what he paid for it, and he paid entirely using “money” that has a made up value and which he issues himself? Wild.
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Yeah these fantasies where musk would somehow go bankrupt by tanking Tesla and overpaying for Twitter were also wild He’s literally the richest person the earth has ever known. He’s never going to suffer financially. He has countless levers of power he can pull. The same fantasy applies to any past or current president ever spending a day in jail. He literally commands the most powerful military apparatus the world h…
South Korean president is jailed for trying to coup, no? So there’s precedent.
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South Korean president is jailed for trying to coup, no? So there’s precedent.
I mean this is exactly the reason why they won't want to put Trump in jail - so that it doesn't turn out like in Korea. After all, where you can put one president in jail, you can put a next one in jail too.
This is called upholding the constitution and it’s fundamental for a democracy. If you say president is immune, you get current US.
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>> He literally commands the most powerful military apparatus the world has ever seen. > That’s also disputable Why? Which military has ever existed that would have a chance against the current US military?
Taliban. Conventional armies have a hard stand against partisans. The US in Vietnam and Russia and the US in Afghanistan.
> Conventional armies have a hard stand against partisans.
No they don't. Its just not worth doing in the long run.
And whatever you may think of the US military forces, they have the ability to do lots of things.
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No X shareholder in their right mind will object to getting a $45 billion valuation (including debt) when their latest valuations have the company at <$10 billion.
Twitter still has a lot of users and if they stopped being used by offensive at times racist and awful, then Twitter could get more users, sell advertising and make money probably. Now that's all gone because Twitter could investors need w own a small piece of the giant over inflated Xai, which has value because of AI hype but it's future actual value is questionable. There are so many other AI companies, so what is…
Crush every competitor through regulation?
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That military apparatus is sworn to uphold the Constitution, not support the current president.
I really wish for this theory to be tested TBH. Martial law in US would be a great thing. US economy tanks, rest of the world like Europe is forced to pick up the slack, the world gets a refresh on what conservative "small government" brainrot does to countries.
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He only holds ~15% of Tesla. His real money is in SpaceX... 50% ownership there. I wish people would think just a little before parroting the "hit Musk where it hurts" drivel.
At the rate he's going, SpaceX is probably on its way to being nationalized within the next few elections. And that would make sense totally aside from punitive response: it is pretty dangerous to have such vital defense infrastructure controlled by such a mercurial personality.
So the government has spend the last nearly 50 years completely failing in building rockets or sats the way SpaceX did. SpaceX with little money did it in less then 20 years.
And now you think its smart to have have the government taking over again? Do you want the government to run the global Starlink network, dealing with costumer complains?
What part of NASA or any part of the government in the last 20 years convinced you that they could operate SpaceX?
DoD tried to make space good and literally created ULA and after 10 years they often paid 300+ million for a launch?
And just FYI, Starshield is Starlink for the government and the government already controls those themselves.
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My quick search is showing Tesla is worth some $800B. 15% of that is real money.
15% of that is paper money, heavily levered against. If he tries to sell even 2% of that in order to turn it into actual real money, the remaining 13% will be worth less, because a sell-off will lower the stock price.
I feel like you used 'worth less' to imply 'worthless'. But this is far from the case, 13% would still be a gigantic pile of 'money'.