Elon Musk buys and ruins Twitter

[TinFoilHat]

This is madness.

A man was shot in the back in cold blood.

As fucked up as our system is — and I could tell you a thing or two about UHC claims — this isn’t the answer.

There is no other human response.

Just shows you how social media has twisted the human psyche

 

[bluethrunthru]

He was at the opening of Notre Dame with Trump - an event to which only Heads of State were seemingly invited to

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

The law failed to hold him to account so a vigilante stepped in. If you setup a company to have values of the wild west don't be surprised when you meet your end at the hands of a bandit.

The world will not miss that man.

America's gun problem becomes the perfect real life buffer against its problem with endemic corruption in the healthcare insurance industry.

Jesus Christ.

And here we are, at the precipice of The Purge.

Monstrous.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Jesus Christ.

And here we are, at the precipice of The Purge.

Monstrous.

It's the natural consequences of letting corporations getting away with excesses.

It's not the solution, it's not a positive, it's the reality.

It may be amoral to post an emoji at someone's death but it's immoral to use AI to limit paying out legitimate claims.

Even multimillionaire CEOs who usually have bodyguards aren't immune from the consequences of pissing lots of people off, and pissing the wrong people off.

The reaction to the death should be a wake-up call for politicians. The democratic party aren't going to get back in power on status quo politics and delivering nothing.

It's not really surprising that Trump and Musk are so popular and successful when they have successfully managed to craft anti-establishment personas despite being archetypal robber barron Industrialists.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Here’s the state of America right now — re: the CEO of UH who was murdered:

In one stark example, a Facebook post by UnitedHealth Group expressing sadness about UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s death received 62,000 reactions – 57,000 of them laughing emojis. UnitedHealth Group is the parent company of UnitedHealthcare, the division that Thompson ran.

That’s what discourse has disintegrated into. Laughing at murder.

Musk can say and do whatever he wants with little consequence — same with Trump.

Would hazard a guess the vast majority of those emoji responses are from bot fake accounts - Russia/China usually have a hand in this sort of thing. It’s a messed up world.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

It's the natural consequences of letting corporations getting away with excesses.

It's not the solution, it's not a positive, it's the reality.

It may be amoral to post an emoji at someone's death but it's immoral to use AI to limit paying out legitimate claims.

Even multimillionaire CEOs who usually have bodyguards aren't immune from the consequences of pissing lots of people off, and pissing the wrong people off.

The reaction to the death should be a wake-up call for politicians. The democratic party aren't going to get back in power on status quo politics and delivering nothing.

It's not really surprising that Trump and Musk are so popular and successful when they have successfully managed to craft anti-establishment personas despite being archetypal robber barron Industrialists.

It's not the solution? You just called it a "wake up call". You just said this is the consequences of this guy's actions despite literally knowing nothing about him. Quite clearly you think it IS a solution.

Sometimes I wonder if some of you have ever held a fucking job, managed people, have families and children or have any responsibilities to anyone else whatsoever.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

It's not the solution? You just called it a "wake up call". You just said this is the consequences of this guy's actions despite literally knowing nothing about him. Quite clearly you think it IS a solution.

Do you think people just read snippets on twitter or memes? Or is it possible that we can find out how he ran the business and the fact that his company ranked number 1 for rejection rates and that it increased during his tenure? He had responsibilities but bore no responsibilities for the consequences of the decisions he made?

It's no more of a solution than shooting dead drug dealers is a solution to a drugs epidemic because someone will replace him. It's just reality.

Sometimes I wonder if some of you have ever held a fucking job, managed people, have families and children or have any responsibilities to anyone else whatsoever.

Christ. Just like none of the people that would call themselves victims of United healthcare group for rejecting valid claims.

None of those people have responsibilities either.

You frequently remind us that you live in a well insulated bubble.

 

[inbetween]

Tesla don’t have economies of scale. They’re a tiny car manufacturer. Even in the states they’re something like 10th in car sales. Worldwide they’re a minnow.

Removing EV subsidies in the USA would probably bankrupt Tesla by the end of Trumps next term.

As it stands Musk could raise enough equity to buy some of the biggest major car manufacturers twice over. Ford just for example Ford is worth $42bn whereas Tesla is worth $1.2tn.

Tesla therefore would not be bankrupted by any loss of subsidies because they don't even need to make money and until recently they didn't make money, they can always raise money through equity to finance the company. How else did City not go bankrupt in the early ADUG days given years of successive losses?

You also have to ask what do we have to gain from the legacy car manufacturers who are so dependent on oil? Similar to EV subsidies with Tesla, what would happen to them if the oil dependency was removed tomorrow? Why are European manufacturers fitting cheat devices during emission tests?

It is these legacy companies that have to do or die and not Tesla because Tesla is 10 years ahead of them, plus they have the equity backing to ensure they only succeed.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

You frequently remind us that you live in a well insulated bubble.

Huh. Well, what do you know? Seems as if the murderer has lived quite a bit more of his life in an insulated bubble than I have.

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

Not sure about that, I do think there’s quite a few that would be now put off getting a Tesla due to Musk.

Me included. Tesla seems like a nice brand (their Cybertruck fiasco notwithstanding), but no way in hell I'm gonna buy one.