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Washington Post contrasts the episode with the South African multibillionaire’s anti-immigration views

Elon Musk briefly worked illegally in the US after abandoning a graduate studies program in California, according to a Washington Post report that contrasted the episode with the South African multibillionaire’s anti-immigration views.

The boss of Tesla and SpaceX, who has in recent weeks supported Donald Trump’s campaign for a second presidency while promoting the Republican White House nominee’s opposition to “open borders” on his X social media site, has previously maintained that his transition from student to entrepreneur was a “legal grey area”.

But the Washington Post reported Saturday that the world’s wealthiest individual was almost certainly working in the US without correct authorization for a period in 1995 after he dropped out of Stanford University to work on his debut company, Zip2, which sold for about $300m four years later.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only moral immigration is my immigration

[–] FlyingSquid 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only moral squid is Flying Squid.

[–] FlyingSquid 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Dainterhawk999 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The only squid that endangers other is flying squid

[–] MutilationWave 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Diablo Roja might disagree. Terrifying beast.

[–] Dainterhawk999 2 points 1 month ago

Release The Kragon Mr Jones.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 month ago

True. I have the ability to summon Cthulhu.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 month ago

This is the illegal immigrant ruining America.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago

As expected nothing but a criminal. Deport now!

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] RagingRobot 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah I could have been the richest man if he didn't come over here and take the opportunity away

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

What's absolutely hilarious is that this news made the rounds on twitter 3 years ago.

This has been known for a long time before that.

Yet with barely a week left to the election, being a national security issue on many fronts, and a few conversations with Putin later, it is finally being reported.

Absolute farce.

Deport or eat the fucker and the billionaire "free press" owners.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

Rules for thee, but not for me...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] InverseParallax 13 points 1 month ago

Actually technically he committed a felony, lying on federal forms (they specifically ask you).

So lock him up, then deport him.

[–] acosmichippo 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"immigration" is just the euphemism they use for racial and cultural contamination.

[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's okay to be here illegally if you're above a certain level on the brownness/pinkness scale.

[–] InverseParallax 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Born here but brown while my wife is blond but Swedish.

Fucking southerners, if Jesus came back right then they'd be less shocked. It's like it's impossible for me to have a more American accent than her or them (northeast/Californian), it just makes no sense.

[–] SeattleRain 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's okay for whites to do it. We are a white supremacist country after all. Before a bunch of liberal get their panties in a bunch we literally jail the most people on the planet. We practice de facto Jim Crow but just call it drug enforcement and other flimsy pretextes.

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

"You're not supposed to go around saying that we're 'white supremacist', it de-legitimises our white supremacy!"

[–] bamfic 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now the wapo starts doing journalism that exposes the crimes a billionaire, after getting pressured by the rival billionaire who owns them not to endorse a non-criminal and non-rapist for president? Trying to win back the people who cancelled their subscriptions?

[–] vxx 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Nah, Bezos would take every chance to shit on competing billionaires. He wants to be number one.

Bezos wants his dick rockets to succeed or something, and his ego is bigger than trump and tax credits.

I wonder how Bezos isn't staunchly anti trump since musk got offered a job that takes control over bezos companies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Because the democrats have been giving the FTC and Unions more teeth lately. And Harris is pointing towards tax hikes on Bezos. So, both Trump and Harris are bad from Bezos point of view.

[–] Sludgehammer 9 points 1 month ago

Haven't we known about this for years?

[–] xc2215x 6 points 1 month ago

The extreme irony here.

[–] uebquauntbez 5 points 1 month ago

Counter question: When did he work legal in the past decades?

[–] PriorityMotif 2 points 1 month ago

This was already well known