Musk denies impact on Tesla stock price in case over false "funding secured" tweet.
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This excuse might work in a "pedo guy" case where it's about free speech, but in a case where you've set yourself up as the spokeshole for the company, and your spokeshole duties are carried out on Twitter... it seems extremely reasonable for people to make trades based on those tweets.
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I wonder if the IRS would let me out of paying taxes if I use short numbers. I mean, according to the worlds second richest man in sworn testimony, that's not misleading.
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Tell enough lies and no one will believe you, but hopefully you’ll find out the hard way.
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I literally can't believe that Musk's whole schtick lately is "I'm a very unserious person who you should not take seriously."
That... seems like a pretty bad strategy, when you're the CEO of multiple companies. "Don't believe anything I say ever at all," seems like a bad place to end up.
That... seems like a pretty bad strategy, when you're the CEO of multiple companies. "Don't believe anything I say ever at all," seems like a bad place to end up.
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yes, precisely. there is precedent for these sorts of locutions in tech, like if that camera is "off", or really-really-pinkie-swear off, which is something entirely different.
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“Smart people know that what I’m saying is bullshit” is not exactly how I expected this to go… but it’s not worse, especially in entertainment value.
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Except the judge already ruled that they aren't truthful.
Oh, like you attempted to do to Twitter, huh? I seem to quite clearly recall you spouting very loudly all these wild, negative stories about Twitter online in an effort to drive their stock value down.
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Yeah, that's BS. "The price is too high" is an opinion, "Funding secured" is a statement of fact.
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Not even with rented genitals, thanks very much. He's probably terrible in bed (narcissists usually are, it's all about them) and, well, you couldn't believe anything he said.
Ever.
At all.
I wouldn't even do it for money, he's also acquired a reputation as someone who doesn't pay their bills.
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So you only reported $500 in income instead of $50,000! You were just using shortened numbers! Trying to save taxpayers money by not having to store those extra electrons! You're a goddamn national hero is what you are!
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He chose the means to communicate his company statement, so was responsible for being aware of it's limitations, and was responsible for ensuring that his communication took into account such limitations.
Good god, if this is his best defence, the guy is supremely dumb.
Then again, that's not exactly news.
Good god, if this is his best defence, the guy is supremely dumb.
Then again, that's not exactly news.
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ubercurmudgeon
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The really bad news for Musk is that he got his loyalty cards mixed up, so instead of getting free representation in his tenth trail from his lawyers, instead all he got was one free flat white.
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Meanwhile, Tesla claims in their new heat pump video that it doesn't fall short when temps drop because it can "generate its own heat."
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Plutocrats and people who identify as sovereign citizens have very similar mindsets it seems.
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I don't use Twitter and don't have an account, but even I know this statement is pure bullshit. I've seen plenty of Twitter posts that span multiple tweets, with the author typically adding numbers etc. that help to identify the order & length of the overall message.
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Seriously lame excuses. Twitter users know that they can create Twitter threads for longer explanations, and they can post an image with longer text. His excuses fail on so many levels. And it isn't even as if he maxed out the character limit with his false tweet. Good grief he is a pathological liar.
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Yeah, I'd really like to hope that the lawyer followed this up by asking him if he was unable to write follow-up tweets that would have expanded on what he was trying to say.
Or, you know, if you find the medium too restrictive in being able to convey a complex message, you could, and I'm just spitballing here, not tweet it. I know this is crazy talk to someone who absolutely has to be calling attention to himself. But maybe sometimes don't tweet everything that your clearly superior brain fires out?
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Exactly this. It’s all fun and games when being the vocal jackass, but as the ceo of the company that just paid you… what 44 billion last year, your words about that company have to matter. You can’t make shit up without consequence. Not “funding secured“ and hopefully not fake automatic driving videos. Lies should not equal him making more billions, but so far they seem to.
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My man has always kind of been weird looking, but I'm starting to agree something's off.
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https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Flayed_One
Or if that's a little too close to home for you, maybe something from Archer.
The end game for people addicted to plastic surgery.
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The narcissist is always trying to find the lie/excuse that will work: “it was true… well, it was mostly true… OK, it wasn’t true, I’ll sign a consent decree… they badgered me into signing a consent decree, even though what I said was actually true… there’s only 240 characters in a tweet, so I couldn’t be more specific… no one believes what I tweet anyway, so no harm no foul…”
Also, the whole time there are lawyers whispering “shut up, shut up, shut up….” in their ear. Because a narcissist thinks they are so fucking clever that they can lie their way out of anything. And why do they believe that? Because of the vast number of times in their life the narcissist was trying to lie there way out of something and the other person thought “who wants to deal with this liar”, and dropped the subject. A narcissist totally misinterprets that as “hah! They bought my lie.”
Also, the whole time there are lawyers whispering “shut up, shut up, shut up….” in their ear. Because a narcissist thinks they are so fucking clever that they can lie their way out of anything. And why do they believe that? Because of the vast number of times in their life the narcissist was trying to lie there way out of something and the other person thought “who wants to deal with this liar”, and dropped the subject. A narcissist totally misinterprets that as “hah! They bought my lie.”
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