• kingthrillgore
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    1 year ago

    I have never in my life seen an interviewer try to get someone to save face like this. Elon has zero self awareness, and he’s basically behaving like a petulant child. Who the fuck sees this man as a genius?

    He needs to stop hitting the ke–actually, no. He needs to hit more of that shit. At least until the road dead ends.

    • @[email protected]
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      151 year ago

      At this point it starts to really look he wants X to bankrupt so he doesn’t have to pay

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        He never actually wanted it as a company, he only wanted to open it up because he had a misguided belief it was some evil corporation controlling what people can say and he wanted that control instead.

      • kingthrillgore
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        81 year ago

        His backers include the Saudis. If he doesn’t pay, they’ll whip out ol’ bonesaw on him

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Why wouldn’t he have to pay? He already had to pay when he bought it. He put in cash and took on debt. The only real benefit to this thing tanking is he can take a massive capital loss and probably never pay income tax again.

        The downside is he would owe a lot of money to people you don’t want to owe and he looks like a bigger moron by the day. Sooner or later, Tesla investors are going to get spooked by his deranged behavior and then he’s in a world of hurt. All his wealth is tied up in Tesla and he uses his position as CEO to pump the stock with all his bullshit lies. It’s like a giant Ponzi scheme. As soon as the value comes back down to Earth and the stock is priced like a normal company he’s in big trouble.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          probably never pay income tax again

          He doesn’t pay income tax now. He has no taxable income. The guy isn’t drawing a salary, his money comes from capital gains and he’s taxed on that.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Yes, that’s correct but a year or two back he did liquidate some of that money and to pay taxes. I thing he’s the record holder for having to pay the must taxes at once by a single individual.

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        1 year ago

        I would be willing to forgive a lot if he could give us all cat girls. Not all, but a lot.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        No, his more of a Steve Jobs, in that he knows how to get the right people in a room and get investors to invest in his companies.

        • kase
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          21 year ago

          Although I imagine if SpaceX does get to Mars, it’ll be in spite of Elon, not because of him