Elon Musk: Officially a fraud and piece of shit. Official or unofficial war criminal?

[Brisketexan 105139]

So, in this round of stupid shitty fascism….”assassination coordinates!” is gonna be the Reichstag fire?

God….this timeline transcends all known levels of stupidity.

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44 minutes ago, Captainant said:

I wonder why Elmo didn't buy Parler or Gab, it seems to have more of the userbase and audience he's looking for

Because Grimes wasn’t on those services?

[Pasken 1309]

2 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

😂 

 

Had no idea he went to Epstein's island 12 times.

[wildcat09 29354]

1 minute ago, Pasken said:

Had no idea he went to Epstein's island 12 times.

I'm pretty sure that's a joke. It's just a shame that it's so hard to verify on Twitter now, since he banned the account that could be used to verify whether it's true or not.

[Francisco 2.0 32393]

32 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

So, in this round of stupid shitty fascism….”assassination coordinates!” is gonna be the Reichstag fire?

God….this timeline transcends all known levels of stupidity.

 

When I saw "assassination coordinates" last night, the first thing I thought of was the phrase came from Call of Duty or something like that, and it sounds so edgy and omnious, and Elon had always wanted to use the phrase, but never had the opportunity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I was going to try and throw out some guesses as to what sets him off today, as well as how many people he bans, but given the past 2-3 days, he’s just way too erratic, insecure, and thin-skinned to make any guesses at this point, but I will still try.

The fact that he’s running polls about the bans at least means he’s caught some shit from the tech bros that he gets his validation from.

My two guesses are

1. he bans entire news organizations and not just one journalist
2. he bans people who say things he doesn’t like on other services.

[Francisco 2.0 32393]

Meanwhile, Tesla opened at 159 today...and it's close to 150 now.  

[Brisketexan 105139]

2 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Meanwhile, Tesla opened at 159 today...and it's close to 150 now.  

So, my idea for the Tesla Gigafactory building -- GIANT-ASS 70s-80s-STYLE ROLLER RINK!

[davidg 4038]

So, my idea for the Tesla Gigafactory building -- GIANT-ASS 70s-80s-STYLE ROLLER RINK!

Couple skate, couples skate only.

[Gatorubet 30238]

34 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

So, my idea for the Tesla Gigafactory building -- GIANT-ASS 70s-80s-STYLE ROLLER RINK!

Woman in dark blue on the right is rude.

If you enlarge the picture to see the young girl on her right, she is staring at the blonde in the pink tights and from her facial expression thinking “dat azz do”.

Elon on the far left in red. 

[Brisketexan 105139]

1 minute ago, Gatorubet said:

Woman in dark blue on the right is rude.

If you enlarge the picture to see the young girl on her right, she is staring at the blonde in the pink tights and from her facial expression thinking “dat azz do”.

Elon on the far left in red. 

And I presume you're the Melvin wearing a tie to the rink.

[F250 28775]

I've primarily used Twitter for industry related topics and it seems that things are now at a tipping point where most of the people I follow have bailed from Twitter. I am actually using Mastodon more than Twitter now because so many have migrated. LOL As people are announcing their departure and Mastodon info they are being shit talked by the Elon fan bois.

Kind of feels like the last days of Shaggy or the Fall of Saigon.

[Gatorubet 30238]

And I presume you're the Melvin wearing a tie to the rink.

While a great guess, I have far more hair now than he had then. So - no.  
He seems to be thinking, “I missed the Toys R Us IPO for this??????
Damn! They sell red pants?”

[Brisketexan 105139]

4 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

 

While a great guess, I have far more hair now than he had then. So - no.  
He seems to be thinking, “I missed the Toys R Us IPO for this??????
Damn! They sell red pants?”

 

 

All I know is that I had my birthday party at a roller rink in 1978, and one of the presents I opened was an X-wing fighter, so......winning.

 

Edited December 16, 2022 by Brisketexan

[dcbc 14484]

18 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Woman in dark blue on the right is rude.

The one behind them is the slow gazelle that is easy pickins for the lions (lionesses, technically, but work with me on this one).

3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

 

All I know is that I had my birthday party at a roller rink in 1978, and one of the presents I opened was an X-wing fighter, so......winning.

 

Carousel of I-10 (Old Katy Rd) in Houston, by chance?  That place was my jam in the early 80s. 

Edited December 16, 2022 by dcbc

[Gatorubet 30238]

1 minute ago, dcbc said:

The one behind them is the slow gazelle that is easy pickins for the lions (lionesses, technically, but work with me on this one).

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

41 minutes ago, davidg said:

Couple skate, couples skate only.

POUR SOME SUGA ON MEEEEEE

[Brisketexan 105139]

7 minutes ago, dcbc said:

The one behind them is the slow gazelle that is easy pickins for the lions (lionesses, technically, but work with me on this one).

Carousel of I-10 (Old Katy Rd) in Houston, by chance?  That place was my jam in the early 80s. 

Probably Great Skate, on the SW side somewhere (Stafford?)  Went to more than a coupla b-day parties there between 1976 and 1980.  The girls across the street were cool chicks who had moved to Houston from California, so the roller rink was their jam.

Turns out my now-wife did the same -- she had every birthday party there from 76 to the early 80s.  Guess I had a thing for the roller rink gals.

Also, as this thread derail distracts us from the feces-smearing idiocy that is Elon, I make no apologies.  We need more roller rink talk in our life, and much, much, MUCH less Phony Stark.

Edited December 16, 2022 by Brisketexan

[Francisco 2.0 32393]

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

So, my idea for the Tesla Gigafactory building -- GIANT-ASS 70s-80s-STYLE ROLLER RINK!

 

Telsa was 309 on Sept 19.  

In three months, it's half of that.

 

EDIT to add to roller rink discussion.

 

Couple of years ago, the boy child, for his 10th, had his party at a place  that has roller skating, laser tag, gokarts..everything.  Kids come in as a group,  get a wristband showing what attractions they can participate in, and off they go.

My wife, sister, etc...all the olds, so to speak, migrate to roller skates.  Now, from 78-82 or so, I skated a lot, but I've not laced up a pair since then.  I go get a pair of size 11's, sit down, put them on...hey, this feels like old times.  Moved around the carpet some and it all came back.

Stepped out onto the wood and holy shit; I was so damned scared of falling and breaking something.  It was very unpleasant.  It never did come back to me over that hour or so.  

Edited December 16, 2022 by Francisco 2.0

[Aqua Buddha 14596]

3 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

Telsa was 309 on Sept 19.  

In three months, it's half of that.

And still falling fast.

People forget it was $100 in the summer of 2020 and then went to $350 for really no reason at all.  It should easily come down to $100 again.

[GenXer 2877]

I’m at the airport. Should I be worried about my assassination coordinates?

[NoName 16351]

Another just direct spot on HN comment

Quote The absolute saddest thing in the world is that he spends any time at all on Twitter. My god, the field of possibilities for how to spend his free time is absolutely limitless - the man could spend a billion dollars a year on personal entertainment and growth, on doing literally anything his heart desires, and die the richest man on the planet. He could visit every corner of the globe, talk with anyone on the planet, see any performance up close and personal, he could build magnificent buildings, found incredible institutions, sponsor whole art movements. He could die on the moon. The possibilities for this man are limited only by the actual possible, and he’s got enough money that on a reasonable timescale even that’s malleable. But what’s he doing instead? He’s tweeting “my pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci.” He’s engaged in the shittiest, lowest quality, most horseshit expression of whatever passes for politics on Twitter, on which he spends a horrifying amount of time. Is this what it’s like to watch an artist die slowly from a heroine addiction? Just an incredible breadth of potential, slowly wasting itself in the most obscene and depressing fashion, and all that possibility dying with it. What a goddamn tragedy.

[HenryJames 66052]

9 minutes ago, GenXer said:

I’m at the airport. Should I be worried about my assassination coordinates?

[Francisco 2.0 32393]

Would you look at that.

 

 

 

[dcbc 14484]

2 hours ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

POUR SOME SUGA ON MEEEEEE

WELCOME TO THE STAGE . . . INNOCENCE!

 

Oh, wait, you're talking about skating rinks.

[Chopper 17235]

 

15 hours ago, Blotto said:

The idea that this narcissistic douchebag  buys Twitter for $44 billion and simultaneously destroys $500 million in TSLA market cap is f'n hilarious to me. TSLA may have come down some, but no way it loses 50% without this public display of dipshittery. Oh well....

 

Fully agree. I listened to the twitter space recording above and the motherfucker can't even spit out a cogent thought that isn't some predetermined talking point. 

6 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Has Elon ever seemed genuinely concerned about his safety before this week? I think there is a nonzero chance that getting booed broke his brain.

Haven't checked this thread since yesterday but didn't someone post a geolocation photo that proved whatever pic or vid he was claiming to be a stalker due to the flight tracker was total bs, miles from the airport? If it wasn't here, it was on Post News.

4 hours ago, Captainant said:

I wonder why Elmo didn't buy Parler or Gab, it seems to have more of the userbase and audience he's looking for

All he wanted to do was flex. It was a spontaneous move made by a complete moron who receives only positive reinforcement by a bunch of others with whom he's in contact.

Came across this live link look at elron

[HenryJames 66052]

 

[Hefeweizen 5321]

How much longer do we give Twitter?  I think writing is on the wall at this point and once these banned accounts move on there won’t be the breaking news aspect to draw people in.  I always thought the one advantage TWTR had was immediacy.  If it loses journalists that will quickly change.

[DigglerontheHoof 21199]

would love some couch time w/ Andrea

[Francisco 2.0 32393]

6 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

How much longer do we give Twitter?  I think writing is on the wall at this point and once these banned accounts move on there won’t be the breaking news aspect to draw people in.  I always thought the one advantage TWTR had was immediacy.  If it loses journalists that will quickly change.

There's a lot of journalists covering every topic we can think of worldwide, so until the majority of them migrate, it's going to be around for a while.

If only there had been some kind of competing platform (Twatter, for instance) up and running and whatnot.  But Twitter never really had a competitor; no one knew what to do with microblogging and until people started using it as an outlet for their comedy and journalists started using it to break news instantly, it kind of floundered.

Now, it really is essential for information, because if you curate what you want to get informed on, or to laugh at, there's nothing like Twitter.  Sadly, those days are coming to an end.

Edited December 16, 2022 by Francisco 2.0

[Celery Man 20950]

imagine being the richest person one of the richest people in the world and it's a twitter account repeating publicly available information about the location of your jet that causes you to understand that you are potentially a target

[Covri 6249]

5 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

How much longer do we give Twitter?  I think writing is on the wall at this point and once these banned accounts move on there won’t be the breaking news aspect to draw people in.  I always thought the one advantage TWTR had was immediacy.  If it loses journalists that will quickly change.

It'll be interesting to see if sports twitter and black twitter start to leave, so far it's mainly people who take the site more serious than those groups, but those groups are what keep me on twitter. NBA/NFL twitter mainly, but lots of crossovers between those two larger groups. 

[Firemans4Horn 18049]

29 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Would you look at that.

 

 

 

 

[Francisco 2.0 32393]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-stock-price-history-worst-ever-drawdown-191436942.html

 

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Tesla stock is in the midst of largest drawdown since the company went public back in 2010.

Shares of the EV maker are down 64% from a peak last November, marking the stock's largest drawdown since its market debut, according to data from Compound Capital.

The recent 407-day stretch of selling pressure has eclipsed the 60.6% drop from a peak seen over the 28 days from Feb. 19, 2020 to Mar. 18, 2020 (chart below), when the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic rocked markets worldwide.

More recently, Tesla stock is down 22% in December alone.

 

 

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The declines for the once-bankable automaker reflect several factors.

First, the risk of operational miscues at Tesla has grown as Musk focuses on restructuring Twitter.

"Musk has gone from a superhero to Tesla’s stock to a villain in the eyes of the Street as the overhang grows with each tweet," Wedbush Managing Director Dan Ives, who has become increasingly critical of Musk in 2022, told Yahoo Finance.

 

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Concerns also remain around manufacturing issues and the pace of sales for Tesla in China amid an uncertain approach to the country's COVID-19 policies.

Finally, competition in the EV space in the United States has only intensified this year — raising the risk of slowing growth for Tesla in 2023 and beyond.

On the first and most immediate issue, others on the Street agree with Ives that the debacle at Twitter is the most pressing issue for the stock right now and will likely remain that way well into 2023.

"Tesla’s brand has become more polarizing," Goldman Sachs analyst Mark Delaney said in a note this week. "We believe that Tesla’s brand has significant value related to the company’s leadership position in clean energy and advanced technology. Having consumer focus related to Tesla shift back to these core attributes of sustainability and technology will be important in our view if Tesla is to meet or exceed long-term investor expectations for Tesla."

 

Edited December 16, 2022 by Francisco 2.0

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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Couple of years ago, the boy child, for his 10th, had his party at a place  that has roller skating, laser tag, gokarts..everything.  Kids come in as a group,  get a wristband showing what attractions they can participate in, and off they go.

My wife, sister, etc...all the olds, so to speak, migrate to roller skates.  Now, from 78-82 or so, I skated a lot, but I've not laced up a pair since then.  I go get a pair of size 11's, sit down, put them on...hey, this feels like old times.  Moved around the carpet some and it all came back.

Stepped out onto the wood and holy shit; I was so damned scared of falling and breaking something.  It was very unpleasant.  It never did come back to me over that hour or so.  

Had to go to one of my kid's classmates's birthday part at a roller rink earlier this year and holy fucking shit I somehow lost the roller skating ability I had in the late 1980s through the early 1990s.

I wanted to get one of those "walkers" they have for learners, but couldn't embarrass myself so instead I did an ass plant right in front of a group of moms.

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7 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

imagine being the richest person one of the richest people in the world and it's a twitter account repeating publicly available information about the location of your jet that causes you to understand that you are potentially a target

And don't forget how many selfies you had posted on the internet as well.

7 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Now, it really is essential for information, because if you curate what you want to get informed on, or to laugh at, there's nothing like Twitter.  Sadly, those days are coming to an end.

And the shitty thing is that curation is not working out well - I'm getting way too much bullshit that I am definitely not following, and I don't know if they are having coding problems or they really are promoting the paid-for blue checks above everybody else.

But I'm fucking one with a lot of this.  I've made a nice bookmark list of everybody's/every company's accounts I care about, and I just load it a few times a day, because Musk has wrecked my feed.

[Francisco 2.0 32393]

1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

I wanted to get one of those "walkers" they have for learners, but couldn't embarrass myself so instead I did an ass plant right in front of a group of moms.

 

My daughter was 8 at the time and had never skated.  So, they had a walker for her. The two of us "skated" along together while holding the damned thing.

My wife, sister, etc were all laughing their asses off at my efforts.  They had absolutely no trouble skating like they were 14.  I, on the other hand, was wondering what a knee replacement was gonna run.

 

 

[NoName 16351]

35 minutes ago, Chopper said:

Haven't checked this thread since yesterday but didn't someone post a geolocation photo that proved whatever pic or vid he was claiming to be a stalker due to the flight tracker was total bs, miles from the airport? If it wasn't here, it was on Post News.

i posted it from Bellingcat discord. its like 20 min / 11 miles away from the closest airport. the two spots identified in red on the map closest to it are heliports.

 

 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13512]

I'm predicting that Elon's vindictiveness begins to reach outside of Twitter. I'm assuming that Tesla owners have an email account somehow associated with their ownership, registration, updates, etc. If that email address is somehow associated with a banned Twitter account, maybe just maybe your Tesla may not operate tomorrow.

And if the US govt does something to piss off Elon, maybe SpaceX isn't available for ISS trips.

[dcbc 14484]

21 minutes ago, Covri said:

 I always thought the one advantage TWTR had was immediacy.

While we've gotten used to immediacy of news, apart from news items that convey "take shelter" measures and some other exceptions, we don't really need immediacy.  If I had found out the Queen croaked a few minutes later than I actually did, it wouldn't have made that much of a difference for me (or the Queen for that matter).

[Neonmoon 38129]

5 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I'm predicting that Elon's vindictiveness begins to reach outside of Twitter. I'm assuming that Tesla owners have an email account somehow associated with their ownership, registration, updates, etc. If that email address is somehow associated with a banned Twitter account, maybe just maybe your Tesla may not operate tomorrow.

And if the US govt does something to piss off Elon, maybe SpaceX isn't available for ISS trips.

The negative impacts of his narcissism has already spread to Tesla stock and Tesla sales. I don’t know how it would affect SpaceX since there isn’t another alternative at the moment, but I guess SpaceX could kick him off the board or something 

[Chopper 17235]

4 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I'm predicting that Elon's vindictiveness begins to reach outside of Twitter. I'm assuming that Tesla owners have an email account somehow associated with their ownership, registration, updates, etc. If that email address is somehow associated with a banned Twitter account, maybe just maybe your Tesla may not operate tomorrow.

And if the US govt does something to piss off Elon, maybe SpaceX isn't available for ISS trips.

I think you may be right. He certainly has given no indication that he's above that sort of behavior. Fortunately, I haven't had an account there for multiple years and I barely knew who Elron was until this year. I own 2 properties with tesla solar panels so the thought that they could be vulnerable to his vindictiveness has crossed my mind, esp. if I had maintained a twitter account.

Less than a year ago the Tesla brand was strong enough that I threw it into the description of my rental listing instead of the generic "solar panels" for the added glamour. Gonna have to keep the brand on the downlow should I have to re-lease the same property next year.

What I really need though is an insider's account of Elron trying to calculate how far his <2000 new twitter blue checkmark accounts at $8 per month go toward paying off $1.3B in annual debt.

Also this link will tell you where Elron's jet is anytime you click it. Don't tell elron I told you!

[Sawbonz 27562]

8 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

So basically when Elon wants to ban an account, he will create a rule and then suspend them.

his anger is with the US govt allowing real time tracking of planes. I can understand the potential of that system being used by a crazy person tracking a private plane but then again it could be used by a crazy person who targets someone on a United flight from LAX to Chicago. Banning accounts isn’t going to make him any safer as that info is still out there. 

[Francisco 2.0 32393]

Now Twitter is recruiting outside investors at the low, low price of $54.20 a share.

But I was told this wasn't about money.

https://www.semafor.com/article/12/16/2022/elon-musks-team-is-seeking-new-investors-for-twitter

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The managing director of Elon Musk’s family office is seeking new equity investors for Twitter as users revolt, advertisers flee, and debt payments loom, according to two people familiar with the fundraising effort.

Musk’s money manager, Jared Birchall, reached out to potential investors this week, offering shares of Twitter at the same price, $54.20, that Musk paid to take the company private in October, the people said.

 

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“Over recent weeks we’ve received numerous inbound requests to invest in Twitter,” it read, according to a copy reviewed by Semafor. “Accordingly, we are pleased to announce a follow-on equity offering for common shares at the original price and terms, targeting a year-end close.”

Ross Gerber, a Tesla investor who said he put less than $1 million in Musk’s original takeover of Twitter, confirmed that he was contacted Thursday evening about another funding round at the $44 billion valuation.

 

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Gerber said he’s considering it but wants to get a clearer idea of what the plan is. “One could argue he has created value or destroyed value at Twitter. It’s hard to tell at this point,” he said.

 

 

[G650 14256]

Loooooooooollllllll

[Foosters 17856]

1 hour ago, NoName said:

i posted it from Bellingcat discord. its like 20 min / 11 miles away from the closest airport. the two spots identified in red on the map closest to it are heliports.

 

 

haha holy shit. my wife works like 200 yards from this location

oh shit I just doxxed her

[Chopper 17235]

47 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

The negative impacts of his narcissism has already spread to Tesla stock and Tesla sales. I don’t know how it would affect SpaceX since there isn’t another alternative at the moment, but I guess SpaceX could kick him off the board or something 

It would be hilarious if he fucked around at spacex and Bezos were able to hire away their CEO. Although I don't even know if spacex is a profitable company as opposed to one that has been subsidized by the escalated stock price of tesla. It seems like tesla's stock price went so high that when people came to elron with ideas he was able to jump in without even a second thought. He's never received blowback before afaik, except when he was removed at paypal so the co-owners could sell it instead of allowing him to run it. 

[DixonHur 11304]

12 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Now Twitter is recruiting outside investors at the low, low price of $54.20 a share.

But I was told this wasn't about money.

https://www.semafor.com/article/12/16/2022/elon-musks-team-is-seeking-new-investors-for-twitter

 

 

 

 

Who would be dumb enough to buy into a failing company at the same inflated price paid when it was "successful"?

[Pods 7552]

4 minutes ago, Chopper said:

It would be hilarious if he fucked around at spacex and Bezos were able to hire away their CEO. Although I don't even know if spacex is a profitable company as opposed to one that has been subsidized by the escalated stock price of tesla. It seems like tesla's stock price went so high that when people came to elron with ideas he was able to jump in without even a second thought. He's never received blowback before afaik, except when he was removed at paypal so the co-owners could sell it instead of allowing him to run it. 

It's ludicrous that we rely on any billionaire for a national security asset like spaceflight. We now have a Space Force, but rely on some fickle dickbag to launch anything. It's absurd and reckless.

We need to refund and reinvigorate NASA. 

[Chopper 17235]

4 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

Who would be dumb enough to buy into a failing company at the same inflated price paid when it was "successful"?

The same reason he was dumb enough to buy in when elron was raising money for the initial purchase? That's all I've got.

The way elron's FA jazzed up the letter is kind of funny. " numerous inbound requests to invest in Twitter " okay.gif

If you didn't click through the twitter link that @HenryJamesposted you missed seeing this, her pinned tweet, from 2018, 4 years before her account was suspended today. Another red flag.