Elon Musk bought Twitter.

[tabascoboy]

Still dropping as a trend

[sockwithaticket]

Xitter hacked and taken down for four times today. Anonymous claimed at least one of them.

[fishfoodie]

Xitter hacked and taken down for four times today. Anonymous claimed at least one of them.

Shame he sacked all those folks who made the platform secure & robust, but I'm sure as the great coder he is he'll be able to fix it before the weekend ........

[fishfoodie]

Still dropping as a trend

Now down -17% and still descending in after hours .... this might just be the end of the biggest Ponzi scheme of all, & unfortunately the end of millions of Americans & who knows how many millions others around the worlds hopes of a financially secure retirement !

[Guy Smiley]

US markets generally are taking a hit.

[sockwithaticket]

The prick's fuckin' trying to pin the Twitter hacks on Ukraine even though two separate groups who've nothing to do with Ukraine have claimed credit for different hacks.

Appropos of nothing...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... ay-reports

[tabascoboy]

How the hell do consumers "illegally" boycott something...?

[Biffer]

How the hell do consumers "illegally" boycott something...?

Not to mention the number of things he's encouraged people to boycott over the last few years.

[tabascoboy]

The prick's fuckin' trying to pin the Twitter hacks on Ukraine even though two separate groups who've nothing to do with Ukraine have claimed credit for different hacks.

Appropos of nothing...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... ay-reports

[Slick]

How the hell do consumers "illegally" boycott something...?

That comes over as quite panicky

[dpedin]

Great Free Market supporters dont like Free Markets when they go against them!

[Biffer]

Musk has lost $146billion since inauguration day

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... paign=copy

[Sandstorm]

Musk has lost $146billion since inauguration day

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... paign=copy

Almost like hitching your wagon to a shitshow was a bad business idea.

[tabascoboy]

Trump tries to inflate stock prices, which worked temporarily then spouted off about tariffs again and market says "GTFO"

[fishfoodie]

Nothing quite says a Board has confidence in the future of a Company like them exercising the Stock options the instance they vest !

Even Fredo Musk can see the writing on the wall & is selling

Code: Select all

Insider	Relation	Last Date	Transaction	Owner Type	Shares Traded	Price	Shares Held
TANEJA VAIBHAV	Officer	3/06/2025	Sell	Direct	2,672	$268.73	26,950
TANEJA VAIBHAV	Officer	3/05/2025	Option Execute	Direct	6,538	$0.00	29,622
DENHOLM ROBYN M	Director	3/03/2025	Automatic Sell	Direct	112,390	$292.75	85,000
DENHOLM ROBYN M	Director	3/03/2025	Option Execute	Direct	112,390	$24.73	197,390
TANEJA VAIBHAV	Officer	3/03/2025	Automatic Sell	Direct	6,000	$279.53	23,084
TANEJA VAIBHAV	Officer	3/03/2025	Option Execute	Direct	6,000	$18.22	29,084
MUSK KIMBAL	Director	2/06/2025	Sell	Direct	75,000	$367.87	1,463,220
DENHOLM ROBYN M	Director	2/03/2025	Automatic Sell	Direct	112,390	$375.06	85,000
DENHOLM ROBYN M	Director	2/03/2025	Option Execute	Direct	112,390	$24.73	197,390
TANEJA VAIBHAV	Officer	2/03/2025	Automatic Sell	Direct	7,000	$375.05	108,965

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ ... r-activity

[ScarfaceClaw]

Musk has lost $146billion since inauguration day

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... paign=copy

Almost like hitching your wagon to a shitshow was a bad business idea.

Space Karen will let Tesla go to the wall. He’s trying to replace all that wealth with US Govt contracts. High speed internet, nope. Here’s starlink, NASA shut down. Here’s SpaceX to replace it. He’s trying to get access to the gold reserves FFS.

[Hellraiser]

Musk has lost $146billion since inauguration day

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... paign=copy

Almost like hitching your wagon to a shitshow was a bad business idea.

Space Karen will let Tesla go to the wall. He’s trying to replace all that wealth with US Govt contracts. High speed internet, nope. Here’s starlink, NASA shut down. Here’s SpaceX to replace it. He’s trying to get access to the gold reserves FFS.

SpaceX is going to hit serious problems soon enough too, Starship is a dud. Notwithstanding all that, his true problems lie in the fact that all his nominal wealth is leveraged to the hilt. I saw one figure that he's personally on the hook for at least $72bn against his Tesla stock alone.

[Hal Jordan]

Hopefully Tesla will get taken over by someone with just the normal.level of corporate evil so that sane people can start buying them again.

Although not.me, never considered one at any stage of choosing the 3 EVs I've had thus far.

[Hellraiser]

Hopefully Tesla will get taken over by someone with just the normal.level of corporate evil so that sane people can start buying them again.

Although not.me, never considered one at any stage of choosing the 3 EVs I've had thus far.

That's not going to happen. Tesla is a doomed brand, it's inextricably linked to Musk. Which is the ultimate irony given how much he fucked over the founders.

[Uncle fester]

Hopefully Tesla will get taken over by someone with just the normal.level of corporate evil so that sane people can start buying them again.

Although not.me, never considered one at any stage of choosing the 3 EVs I've had thus far.

That's not going to happen. Tesla is a doomed brand, it's inextricably linked to Musk. Which is the ultimate irony given how much he fucked over the founders.

Shame. Good friend of ours works for them as a mechanic and they've just had a kid.

[Biffer]

Hopefully Tesla will get taken over by someone with just the normal.level of corporate evil so that sane people can start buying them again.

Although not.me, never considered one at any stage of choosing the 3 EVs I've had thus far.

That's not going to happen. Tesla is a doomed brand, it's inextricably linked to Musk. Which is the ultimate irony given how much he fucked over the founders.

Also true of twitter, which he’s lost over thirty billion on. And is starship is truly a lemon, SpaceX takes a massive knock as well.

[Guy Smiley]

Hopefully Tesla will get taken over by someone with just the normal.level of corporate evil so that sane people can start buying them again.

Although not.me, never considered one at any stage of choosing the 3 EVs I've had thus far.

That's not going to happen. Tesla is a doomed brand, it's inextricably linked to Musk. Which is the ultimate irony given how much he fucked over the founders.

Shame. Good friend of ours works for them as a mechanic and they've just had a kid.

Evs won’t go away and expertise is a commodity, he’ll be fine. For kids aspiring to a trade now, anything electric is a good thing.

[Hellraiser]

Hopefully Tesla will get taken over by someone with just the normal.level of corporate evil so that sane people can start buying them again.

Although not.me, never considered one at any stage of choosing the 3 EVs I've had thus far.

That's not going to happen. Tesla is a doomed brand, it's inextricably linked to Musk. Which is the ultimate irony given how much he fucked over the founders.

Shame. Good friend of ours works for them as a mechanic and they've just had a kid.

He'll get a gig with VW or Toyota, or whoever. His skills are in demand so there's little to worry about.

[Kiwias]

I was sure this had to be an Onion article but, no, it seems to be legit.

https://electrek.co/2025/03/11/tesla-cy ... as-a-boat/

[Hal Jordan]

That's not going to happen. Tesla is a doomed brand, it's inextricably linked to Musk. Which is the ultimate irony given how much he fucked over the founders.

Shame. Good friend of ours works for them as a mechanic and they've just had a kid.

He'll get a gig with VW or Toyota, or whoever. His skills are in demand so there's little to worry about.

Toyota are pretty cunty, too, massive funders of fossil fuel boosting and slow walkers om the EV front with endless hydrogen bullshit and "solid state batteries are just two years away". And they've just announced they'll be dropping any sponsorship of LGBTQ+events and canning DEI. Fuck them.

[Slick]

Musk has lost $146billion since inauguration day

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... paign=copy

Almost like hitching your wagon to a shitshow was a bad business idea.

It will be interesting to see what he does. His incredible switch from left to hard right was presumably nothing to do with what he actually believes

[dpedin]

Musk has lost $146billion since inauguration day

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... paign=copy

Almost like hitching your wagon to a shitshow was a bad business idea.

It will be interesting to see what he does. His incredible switch from left to hard right was presumably nothing to do with what he actually believes

Trump is an unprincipled outright right wing racist. He yearns for the return of apartheid in SA and thinks he can create something similar in the US. His nazi salute wasn't something he hasn't practiced!

Musk and some of the other more 'extreme' tech bros, including PayPal, ex mining family and fellow SA Thiel, follow a guy called Curtis Yarvin and subscribe to his world views. Have a read, it's scary stuff!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

[Biffer]

Almost like hitching your wagon to a shitshow was a bad business idea.

It will be interesting to see what he does. His incredible switch from left to hard right was presumably nothing to do with what he actually believes

Trump is an unprincipled outright right wing racist. He yearns for the return of apartheid in SA and thinks he can create something similar in the US. His nazi salute wasn't something he hasn't practiced!

Musk and some of the other more 'extreme' tech bros, including PayPal, ex mining family and fellow SA Thiel, follow a guy called Curtis Yarvin and subscribe to his world views. Have a read, it's scary stuff!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

There's that and there's also the trigger of his trans kid as well. I don't think you can underestimate the way that drove him into a certain subset of thought.

[Calculon]

Almost like hitching your wagon to a shitshow was a bad business idea.

It will be interesting to see what he does. His incredible switch from left to hard right was presumably nothing to do with what he actually believes

Trump is an unprincipled outright right wing racist. He yearns for the return of apartheid in SA and thinks he can create something similar in the US. His nazi salute wasn't something he hasn't practiced!

Musk and some of the other more 'extreme' tech bros, including PayPal, ex mining family and fellow SA Thiel, follow a guy called Curtis Yarvin and subscribe to his world views. Have a read, it's scary stuff!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

Musk is a cunt and his Canadian grandad on his mum's side was apparently a proper Nazi but Musk himself grew up in a wealthy liberal anti-apartheid family (who would have very much looked down on Apartheid supporting Afrikaners). As recently as 2020 he also voted for Biden. The idea that he is “yearning for the days of Apartheid” is pretty silly tbh. He left Apartheid SA as soon as he was old enough

[Guy Smiley]

Apparently it’s been labelled the Tesla Chainsaw Massacre.

[sockwithaticket]

It will be interesting to see what he does. His incredible switch from left to hard right was presumably nothing to do with what he actually believes

Trump is an unprincipled outright right wing racist. He yearns for the return of apartheid in SA and thinks he can create something similar in the US. His nazi salute wasn't something he hasn't practiced!

Musk and some of the other more 'extreme' tech bros, including PayPal, ex mining family and fellow SA Thiel, follow a guy called Curtis Yarvin and subscribe to his world views. Have a read, it's scary stuff!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

There's that and there's also the trigger of his trans kid as well. I don't think you can underestimate the way that drove him into a certain subset of thought.

Especially as he clearly has some bizarre thing about being a breeder with male heirs. A lot (possibly all?) of his kids are IVF babies and with IVF you can control the sex of the child. He chose male for every single one.

He's also chronically online on a platform that he turned into a hard right/far right safe space. That's got to create it's own sort of feedback loop.

To add to what Dpedin said, marry that libertarian 'don't tell me what to do' sensibility to being incredibly thin-skinned and an awkward dork who wants to think of himself as a respected thought and business leader and we get the current situation. He's leveraged the one thing he does have - money - to try and bring about a state of affairs where a fragile man-child who wants to do as he pleases can.

[dpedin]

It will be interesting to see what he does. His incredible switch from left to hard right was presumably nothing to do with what he actually believes

Trump is an unprincipled outright right wing racist. He yearns for the return of apartheid in SA and thinks he can create something similar in the US. His nazi salute wasn't something he hasn't practiced!

Musk and some of the other more 'extreme' tech bros, including PayPal, ex mining family and fellow SA Thiel, follow a guy called Curtis Yarvin and subscribe to his world views. Have a read, it's scary stuff!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

Musk is a cunt and his Canadian grandad on his mum's side was apparently a proper Nazi but Musk himself grew up in a wealthy liberal anti-apartheid family (who would have very much looked down on Apartheid supporting Afrikaners). As recently as 2020 he also voted for Biden. The idea that he is “yearning for the days of Apartheid” is pretty silly tbh. He left Apartheid SA as soon as he was old enough

Some would suggest he left SA for Canada in order to avoid subscription to the SA army. Whilst he didn't have bone spurs he did have his Mothers Canadian nationality and a rich father. His family benefited greatly from the great wealth generated from their mining and other businesses whilst paying barely subsistence wages to their black employees. Musk would sell his granny, or even use his child as a marketing tool/human shield, in order to get what he wants so voting for the then President Biden was hardly a reflection of his true colours more just a business decision. You are honestly suggesting that a man who openly did a nazi salute, threatens democratically elected politicians from other countries and is gutting US of all DEI policies and spending isnt an apartheid supporter?

[Calculon]

Trump is an unprincipled outright right wing racist. He yearns for the return of apartheid in SA and thinks he can create something similar in the US. His nazi salute wasn't something he hasn't practiced!

Musk and some of the other more 'extreme' tech bros, including PayPal, ex mining family and fellow SA Thiel, follow a guy called Curtis Yarvin and subscribe to his world views. Have a read, it's scary stuff!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

Musk is a cunt and his Canadian grandad on his mum's side was apparently a proper Nazi but Musk himself grew up in a wealthy liberal anti-apartheid family (who would have very much looked down on Apartheid supporting Afrikaners). As recently as 2020 he also voted for Biden. The idea that he is “yearning for the days of Apartheid” is pretty silly tbh. He left Apartheid SA as soon as he was old enough

Some would suggest he left SA for Canada in order to avoid subscription to the SA army. Whilst he didn't have bone spurs he did have his Mothers Canadian nationality and a rich father. His family benefited greatly from the great wealth generated from their mining and other businesses whilst paying barely subsistence wages to their black employees. Musk would sell his granny, or even use his child as a marketing tool/human shield, in order to get what he wants so voting for the then President Biden was hardly a reflection of his true colours more just a business decision. You are honestly suggesting that a man who openly did a nazi salute, threatens democratically elected politicians from other countries and is gutting US of all DEI policies and spending isnt an apartheid supporter?

At the time he left he was at no risk of being conscripted since military service was easily deferred

I don’t think you really understand the context Apartheid and Musk. Apartheid was borne out of working-class Afrikaner opposition to British capital and the fear of being replaced by black labour. It resulted in government owned para-statals that guaranteed employment to working class Afrikaners and also codified repressive measures against black South Africans - to prevent their ability to compete in the labour market against Afrikaners. It was a sort of anti-capitalist , Afrikaner socialism with racism. It led to a stagnant economy with high levels of government control and interference. Also repressive and oppressive societies, that would have been resented by most young, educated whites, including I’m pretty sure Elon. So, I genuinely don’t think Elon yearns for that particular system.

Of course, he voted for Biden in 2020 because he thought that was best for his businesses, but I think you are ignoring the very public change in his political POV since, where he is now supporting the likes of the AFD and posting conspiracy theories. Although I’m not sure if he believes a lot of the shit he posts. Anyway, he is a total cunt so I don’t want to come across as defending him.

[Biffer]

Musk is a cunt and his Canadian grandad on his mum's side was apparently a proper Nazi but Musk himself grew up in a wealthy liberal anti-apartheid family (who would have very much looked down on Apartheid supporting Afrikaners). As recently as 2020 he also voted for Biden. The idea that he is “yearning for the days of Apartheid” is pretty silly tbh. He left Apartheid SA as soon as he was old enough

Some would suggest he left SA for Canada in order to avoid subscription to the SA army. Whilst he didn't have bone spurs he did have his Mothers Canadian nationality and a rich father. His family benefited greatly from the great wealth generated from their mining and other businesses whilst paying barely subsistence wages to their black employees. Musk would sell his granny, or even use his child as a marketing tool/human shield, in order to get what he wants so voting for the then President Biden was hardly a reflection of his true colours more just a business decision. You are honestly suggesting that a man who openly did a nazi salute, threatens democratically elected politicians from other countries and is gutting US of all DEI policies and spending isnt an apartheid supporter?

At the time he left he was at no risk of being conscripted since military service was easily deferred

I don’t think you really understand the context Apartheid and Musk. Apartheid was borne out of working-class Afrikaner opposition to British capital and the fear of being replaced by black labour. It resulted in government owned para-statals that guaranteed employment to working class Afrikaners and also codified repressive measures against black South Africans - to prevent their ability to compete in the labour market against Afrikaners. It was a sort of anti-capitalist , Afrikaner socialism with racism. It led to a stagnant economy with high levels of government control and interference. Also repressive and oppressive societies, that would have been resented by most young, educated whites, including I’m pretty sure Elon. So, I genuinely don’t think Elon yearns for that particular system.

Of course, he voted for Biden in 2020 because he thought that was best for his businesses, but I think you are ignoring the very public change in his political POV since, where he is now supporting the likes of the AFD and posting conspiracy theories. Although I’m not sure if he believes a lot of the shit he posts. Anyway, he is a total cunt so I don’t want to come across as defending him.

I'm unconvinced that his parents would have been very liberal minded anti apartheid types tbh, given some of their public actions. And his Dad is a complete piece of shit.

[robmatic]

Some would suggest he left SA for Canada in order to avoid subscription to the SA army. Whilst he didn't have bone spurs he did have his Mothers Canadian nationality and a rich father. His family benefited greatly from the great wealth generated from their mining and other businesses whilst paying barely subsistence wages to their black employees. Musk would sell his granny, or even use his child as a marketing tool/human shield, in order to get what he wants so voting for the then President Biden was hardly a reflection of his true colours more just a business decision. You are honestly suggesting that a man who openly did a nazi salute, threatens democratically elected politicians from other countries and is gutting US of all DEI policies and spending isnt an apartheid supporter?

At the time he left he was at no risk of being conscripted since military service was easily deferred

I don’t think you really understand the context Apartheid and Musk. Apartheid was borne out of working-class Afrikaner opposition to British capital and the fear of being replaced by black labour. It resulted in government owned para-statals that guaranteed employment to working class Afrikaners and also codified repressive measures against black South Africans - to prevent their ability to compete in the labour market against Afrikaners. It was a sort of anti-capitalist , Afrikaner socialism with racism. It led to a stagnant economy with high levels of government control and interference. Also repressive and oppressive societies, that would have been resented by most young, educated whites, including I’m pretty sure Elon. So, I genuinely don’t think Elon yearns for that particular system.

Of course, he voted for Biden in 2020 because he thought that was best for his businesses, but I think you are ignoring the very public change in his political POV since, where he is now supporting the likes of the AFD and posting conspiracy theories. Although I’m not sure if he believes a lot of the shit he posts. Anyway, he is a total cunt so I don’t want to come across as defending him.

I'm unconvinced that his parents would have been very liberal minded anti apartheid types tbh, given some of their public actions. And his Dad is a complete piece of shit.

Do people inherit conservatism from their parents or something?

[Biffer]

At the time he left he was at no risk of being conscripted since military service was easily deferred

I don’t think you really understand the context Apartheid and Musk. Apartheid was borne out of working-class Afrikaner opposition to British capital and the fear of being replaced by black labour. It resulted in government owned para-statals that guaranteed employment to working class Afrikaners and also codified repressive measures against black South Africans - to prevent their ability to compete in the labour market against Afrikaners. It was a sort of anti-capitalist , Afrikaner socialism with racism. It led to a stagnant economy with high levels of government control and interference. Also repressive and oppressive societies, that would have been resented by most young, educated whites, including I’m pretty sure Elon. So, I genuinely don’t think Elon yearns for that particular system.

Of course, he voted for Biden in 2020 because he thought that was best for his businesses, but I think you are ignoring the very public change in his political POV since, where he is now supporting the likes of the AFD and posting conspiracy theories. Although I’m not sure if he believes a lot of the shit he posts. Anyway, he is a total cunt so I don’t want to come across as defending him.

I'm unconvinced that his parents would have been very liberal minded anti apartheid types tbh, given some of their public actions. And his Dad is a complete piece of shit.

Do people inherit conservatism from their parents or something?

People very often end up with similar views to their parents, although obviously not always. But very often pieces of shit raise pieces of shit.

[Sandstorm]

People very often end up with similar views to their parents, although obviously not always. But very often pieces of shit raise pieces of shit.

[Kiwias]

People very often end up with similar views to their parents, although obviously not always. But very often pieces of shit raise pieces of shit.

Or this

[Calculon]

Some would suggest he left SA for Canada in order to avoid subscription to the SA army. Whilst he didn't have bone spurs he did have his Mothers Canadian nationality and a rich father. His family benefited greatly from the great wealth generated from their mining and other businesses whilst paying barely subsistence wages to their black employees. Musk would sell his granny, or even use his child as a marketing tool/human shield, in order to get what he wants so voting for the then President Biden was hardly a reflection of his true colours more just a business decision. You are honestly suggesting that a man who openly did a nazi salute, threatens democratically elected politicians from other countries and is gutting US of all DEI policies and spending isnt an apartheid supporter?

At the time he left he was at no risk of being conscripted since military service was easily deferred

I don’t think you really understand the context Apartheid and Musk. Apartheid was borne out of working-class Afrikaner opposition to British capital and the fear of being replaced by black labour. It resulted in government owned para-statals that guaranteed employment to working class Afrikaners and also codified repressive measures against black South Africans - to prevent their ability to compete in the labour market against Afrikaners. It was a sort of anti-capitalist , Afrikaner socialism with racism. It led to a stagnant economy with high levels of government control and interference. Also repressive and oppressive societies, that would have been resented by most young, educated whites, including I’m pretty sure Elon. So, I genuinely don’t think Elon yearns for that particular system.

Of course, he voted for Biden in 2020 because he thought that was best for his businesses, but I think you are ignoring the very public change in his political POV since, where he is now supporting the likes of the AFD and posting conspiracy theories. Although I’m not sure if he believes a lot of the shit he posts. Anyway, he is a total cunt so I don’t want to come across as defending him.

I'm unconvinced that his parents would have been very liberal minded anti apartheid types tbh, given some of their public actions. And his Dad is a complete piece of shit.

His dad is a soutie that ran as a candidate for the PFP, which was the liberal anti-apartheid opposition (Helen Suzman’s party). As big a piece of shit as he might be, he didn’t support apartheid

[Calculon]

Not had a chance to listen to all of this but sounds interesting