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[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago

Guys, he's not that bad...

He's only a money hoarding billionaire who came from a glut of generational wealth obtained through other's suffering via his father's Emerald mine, which Musk vehemently denies exists in order to build up his image of being self-made.

I mean it's not like his father used that wealth to boost him up by being among the first angel investors in his first company, ZIP2, something else which he vehemently denies to keep up his self-made image.

It's not like he went on to use the money he got from selling ZIP2 to become an ~~early angel investor~~ "co-founder" of X.com, which he then essentially forced the actual founders out of before selling that onwards as well.

It's not like he then went onto use almost the exact tactic to force/sue his way into being a "co-founder" of Tesla.

And it's definitely not like he had a friend get appointed Administrator of NASA, who conveniently decided to award SpaceX almost $300 million, despite them not having flown any rockets yet.

His daughter is obviously worried about nothing, and he just needed to prove her wrong by cack-handedly buying out the platform she used to speak out ~~in order to control her~~ in the name of free speech.