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RE: Elon Musk
March 21, 2026 at 9:13 am
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Quote:SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A jury has found Elon Musk liable for defrauding investors by deliberately driving down Twitter’s stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media company for $44 billion. But it absolved him of some fraud allegations, finding that he did not “scheme” to mislead investors.
The civil trial in San Francisco centered on a class-action lawsuit filed just before Musk took control of Twitter, which he later renamed X. Jurors were asked to decide if two tweets and comments Musk made on a podcast in May 2022 amounted to him intentionally defrauding Twitter shareholders, who sold their shares based on Musk’s statements.
The nine-person jury returned the verdict after nearly four days of deliberation, nearly three weeks after the trial began on March 2. They said that while Musk was liable for misleading investors with two tweets — including one said the Twitter deal was “temporarily on hold,” he did not do so with a statement he made on a podcast and that he did not intentionally “scheme” to defraud investors.
The jury awarded shareholders between about $3 and $8 per stock per day as damages, which the plaintiffs’ lawyers said amounts to about $2.1 billion in stock and another $500 million in options. Musk’s fortune is currently estimated at about $814 billion, much of it tied up in Tesla shares.
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twi...902fe42c5d
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RE: Elon Musk
March 28, 2026 at 5:15 pm
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RE: Elon Musk
March 28, 2026 at 7:54 pm
It's the end of democracy if we don't disenfranchise a shitload of voters and make it more difficult to vote. Right. How stupid does he think the rest of us are?
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RE: Elon Musk
March 28, 2026 at 11:44 pm
He needs a GOP victory. His opinions are tainted.
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RE: Elon Musk
March 29, 2026 at 1:00 am
He stands to lose quite a lot if a Democrat-controlled Congress starts asking pointed questions.
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RE: Elon Musk
March 29, 2026 at 1:21 pm
(March 28, 2026 at 7:54 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: It's the end of democracy if we don't disenfranchise a shitload of voters and make it more difficult to vote. Right. How stupid does he think the rest of us are?
He knows just enough of us are exactly that stupid.
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RE: Elon Musk
April 17, 2026 at 10:49 pm
Yay! I can't wait for billionaires to give me free money.
Quote:Elon Musk’s proposal of ‘universal high income’ to combat AI job losses baffles economists: ‘So wrong on this’
Elon Musk turned heads Friday when he suggested that the federal government paying citizens a “universal high income” is the best way to combat AI-related job losses.
“Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI,” Musk said in a post on his own X platform shortly after midnight Friday morning.
Many economists, however, disagreed.
“He is so wrong on this,” wrote Sanjeev Sanyal, the former top economic advisor to India’s Minister of Finance.
“AI will certainly cause dislocation, but like all technology it will also create new jobs and opportunities in the medium term. AI and robots will also not produce goods and services in excess of money or demand that there will be no inflation,” he wrote on X.
“Elon Musk’s universal high income will bankrupt any government that attempts it,” he concluded.
Another skeptic, Pratyush Rai, the co-founder and CEO of Merlin AI, concurred.
“The basic math on UHI (Universal High Income) doesn’t add up. If everyone gets a high income check, everyone’s competing for the same houses, land, schools, lifestyle,” he posted on X.
https://nypost.com/2026/04/17/business/e...conomists/
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RE: Elon Musk
April 18, 2026 at 12:43 am
I don't know economics well but some variant of this makes perfect sense in a post-scarcity world. Star Trek The Next Generation is such a fictional world where basic needs is simply not an issue. There are resources to sustain everyone in luxury with no stress on the system.
It's obviously folly in the scarcity world in which we live. Flat-out impossible.
The trick is in the transition. Will it be quick or agonizingly slow? I'm sure it will be a very turbulent transition either way and there are bound to be a ton of missteps along the way.
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RE: Elon Musk
April 18, 2026 at 8:40 am
Musk has the philosophical worldview of an 11 year old sci-fi nerd. No-one should take him or his projects seriously.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Elon Musk
April 18, 2026 at 10:00 am
Yeah, everyone knows electric cars and reusable rockets are impossible. 
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