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    Short summary: Elon gives Elon some Elon and congratulates Elon for being such an Elon, that big money boy he is. Money!

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    Elmo finds yet another way to pad his perceived value…

    Sell shit companies (both of which you own) to yourself at exorbitantly inflated prices with “stock only” trades.

    And no accounting shall be had cause steal-ionnairs just can.

    🙄 🤦‍♀️ 🤡 🖕 🖕

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    If you don’t have a Twitter account there’s no reason for you to care about this at all.

    Spend your limited time on earth worrying about things that matter.

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        your government. We, as non-US majority users, are having struggles of our own. Your elected, fascist government isn’t anywhere near top priority for us and you should stop thinking it is.

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        I hate people that say, “I don’t care about politics, it doesn’t impact my life.”

        From federal to local politics impacts every single aspect of your life.

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    I have seen 3 different posts and each had a different value for X. The number sends arbitrary. Who gives a shit what he paid for his own company.

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      It’s not all him, several other people invested in both. According to some article Elon owns 79% of X, and only 54% of xAI (barely enough to control it). Since the valuation of X in the deal is about $20 billion more what others have estimated ($12.3 billion), it definitely seems like it’s a corrupt bailout 46% funded with other xAI investors’ money, basically netting Elon $8 billion overnight.

      That being said, the other investors in xAI are easy marks like Marc Andressen (famous for funding Adam Neumann’s project that came after WeWork) and various Saudi Royals who possibly were convinced that this is ok.

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    I’m not convinced bundling a losing business with an utterly inflated one is the right move to attract investors but then again you shouldn’t invest in an oligarchy in the first place.

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      The point is that he’s got too much exposure in Xitter, plus everyone’s tanking Tesla, so he’s moving stuff around to try to hang on to everything he can.

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    So the ridiculously overvalued pump-and-dump paid for the real assets that he then destroyed but will bail out with the magical cauldron of venture capital so everything’s just fine.

    Can’t see any problems here.