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he said. “We’ll be gone, and it’ll be gone because of an advertiser boycott.”... eeer, no.

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[–] barnaclebutt 8 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Do you have evidence of him committing insider trading?

[–] c0mbatbag3l 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well he's spent the last decade committing market manipulation, not that far of a jump.

[–] 5gruel 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Always a great sign if posts asking for evidence are getting downvoted.

[–] gmtom 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because its kind of pointless to the point t of sealioning.

Like take for example when the leader of Wagner group died in a plane crash and it was pretty obvious putin had him killed. Would asking a random lemmy user to provide proof of that claim add anything to thr discussion?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

In this case and the Wagner example, if the point isn't obvious it's reasonable to ask for some kind of proof to get a better understanding of the point. But I do agree that there's no reason to ask for proof in this case, because the conspiracy theory is already so nonsensical that any proof would just compound the nonsense.

People simply need to stop putting him on a pedestal and accept that he isn't some genius businessman whose inner machinations are an enigma. He made a stupid deal and bought a company he doesn't know how to run so he's running it into the ground, that's it. No grand conspiracy required. You need a grand conspiracy only if you can't accept that Musk is just an ordinary man whose biggest contribution to his success is having wealthy parents.

[–] barnaclebutt 2 points 11 months ago

Lol, I'm no fan of Elon either.

[–] gmtom 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah I find I hard to believe that this man that has constantly done illegal shit to maniuplate the stock market would go as far as to illegally manipulate the stock market.

[–] Crismus 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

He only bought Twitter because he was forced to or admit he was trying to manipulate the stock again.

He bought a much higher stake, used Twitter to telegraph a higher price than it was worth. Then he didn't use his own money when he was finally forced to purchase Twitter at the higher price he tweeted. The money he used to purchase Twitter came from countries who have stated they didn't want Twitter to be around because it hurt their public perception when they were caught doing shady things.

His Twitter gift started the same way the SEC sued him for market manipulation for his Tesla manipulation years before. Publishing his $420 price point then selling stock when the price goes beyond his tweeted price point.

He was never savy enough to use shorting like the Hedge funds do, but his reach among the idiot masses to cause jumps in price to artificially male a bigger profit.