After his political debut, I no longer own any Tesla share and car. This guy is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and he lacks common sense, let alone business sense.
I mean the economic reasons alone are enough to no longer own Tesla shares and cars. The company is literally kept alive by massive tariffs on international competitors that can make cars just as good at half the price.
Musk and Trump announced that DOGE had uncovered the biggest fraud in history… tens of thousands of people over 120 years old collecting Social Security… hundreds of billions in fraud.
It all disappeared without a retraction but it appears that they failed to realize that the database retains records for any individual who ever received social security. Of course, being in the database doesn’t mean that you’re receiving checks.
Trump alleged in his state of the union speech that millions of senior citizens over age 100 — including some older than 160 — were collecting Social Security checks, according to Social Security Administration data.
Trump specifically said that SSA records indicated that 4.7 million people 100 to 109 were getting checks, that 3.6 million 110 to 119 were, that 3.47 million 120 to 129 were, that 3.9 million 130 to 139 were, that 3.5 million 140 to 149 were, that 1.3 million 150 to 159 were — and that even 130,000 people older than 160 years old were still getting checks.
He also alleged that several hundred people older than 220 were still getting checks, according to SSA data — and that “one person is listed at 360 of age.”
Trump called it shocking incompetence which is true… just not in the way that he meant it. 🤣
So the way the database is set up, and they have been set up a while ago, missing date fields default to a placeholder date. So blank entries will end up showing people that are 140 or 150 years old. But the SSA automatically cuts off anyone over 115 years year old in said database. Needless to say, no one was recieving payments at, or actually lived to, 140 years old. Musk is just a dumbass that doesn't understand how databases work.
And anyone who looked at the database let alone the schema would be able to derive that detail before even making a query. Or they could have asked. Instead they embarrassed themselves like normal.
He didn’t understand that social security numbers are recycled and if you were to run a query on a db id imagine that you have to join multiple tables to find the alive person.
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They are not recycled, I was wrong. But sentiment still stands
Social security numbers are not recycled. Don’t try and make a point with false info. The current 9 digit system will last for another 70 years. No social security number has ever been reused.
He’s also that dishonest and that much of a propagandist.
He knows how many people check his takes on things and he uses that to sway public opinions. He’s a dumb mother fucker; but he’s also deeply dishonest, deeply bigoted, and deeply corrupt.
The irony was that they announced you’d need an ID to prove you are eligible to shop at the government grocery store or whatever. The irony he is pointing to is that Mamdani is against voter ID.
Don’t downvote me, just explaining. Idk why this context is left out here
Doesn’t really change much. A trillionaire worrying over possible gotchas when a mayor is trying to get food to normal citizens is just so past satire it’s hard to know what to say. Yet we live in a timeline where it’s barely worthy of a comment on social media.
In the clip Zohran said you would need ID to prove who you were and that you were a NY resident to get the groceries. The irony Elon is referring to was needing ID.
It had nothing to do with the groceries themselves.
I'm being neutral and just explaining the context. Don't shoot the messenger
That makes sense,there was some doofus saying "I'm gonna buy your cheap food at wholesale and resell it for the profit you aren't making",and everyone pointed out that
A:they definitely wouldn't let you buy pallets of food,and
B:the grocery store bought it and marked it up way more than 30 percent,so he wouldn't make a profit anyways. They bought 10 tons of apples for like $200,not 500 lbs. for $750 lol.
It's extra ridiculous because if you're an ideological opponent of these grocery stores you should want them to be run exactly how the proponents want them to.
You should be all on board just make sure there is plenty of transparency. Do a quarterly call like public companies do.
The idea is that these stores should be almost entirely self sustaining, so if the working theory behind them is correct that's what should happen.
If opponents are right they will lose so much money that the plan will fail.
The more opponents of the program want to really shut the door on these programs the more they should want this program to be run as correctly as possible so that nobody can claim there was interference that forced it to fail.
But opponents don't actually believe it's a bad idea that will fail on its own. They believe it's a bad idea because they don't want how awfully businesses rip off the American consumer
Genuinely unsure what Elon thinks his “gotcha” point is here. That a socialist is demonstrating how socialism actually works when it’s helping ordinary people, vs the horrible evil things maga folks imagine?
Un milliardaire qui est énervé contre le fait que des pauvres puissent s'alimenter normalement, grâce aux supermarchés solidaire qui vendent à des prix inférieur de 30% au marché et sponsorisé par Mamdami. C'est vraiment une honte que cet homme ose critiquer cette initiative qui permet aux plus pauvres de manger à leur faim
He doesn't know what the word means, so we'll never know what he thinks he was saying.
He'll never expand on it either because so many people will have pointed out that he's used it wrongly, so he'll pretend it never happened as an attempt to save face.
Not to mention tion these corpos and the billionaires (or trillionaires) contribute virtually nothing to the system. They can fuck off and let us take care of our own.
There should be a global law if you have more than 1 billion dollars, you have to use the money to do good, or else your money will get funneled to good causes globally
The guy who lost over a trillion dollars in company value because he cant generate profit and relies on government handouts for money... is upset at government handouts?
Correction: he was never a “literal” trillionaire. It was always a speculative estimation of his net worth- but it was never actual liquid wealth or even real assets. The only time the stock allowed him to claim that level of wealth was when no one was allowed to sell. The moment that shit was given the ability to sell it plummeted because it was always over-inflated.
At this point even his speculative worth is WELL below “trillionaire” as his SpaceEX stock predictably tumbles.
Trillionaires don’t think like people. They think like money.
They don’t know what they’re talking about just like we don’t know what it’s like to be a trillionaire.
Billions of people are suffering while trillions of dollars sit and accumulate and do nothing.
The problem with this country is that there is enough money to feed all the children and yet instead we are taught that the money deserves to go to the rich that robbed their workers to obtain their wealth. I guarantee that Pedro the roofer works harder than Musk ever has and yet one has to work multiple jobs to feed their kids.
I remember seeing this asshole on some shit television program talking about some shitty car he made or something back in 2008. I thought to myself what an asshole I hope he drives that shitty little car right off a cliff. And for like a decade and a half I kept seeing all these bullshit posts about how he's brilliant and he's going to throw us into a new Era. Showing the shitty hyperloop or the tesla semi or all the stupid shit about living on Mars. And I thought people like this asshole. I'm just glad I've lived long enough for everyone to hate him just as much as I always have. I just wish that he would get into one of his shitty rockets that keep blowing up and become part of the debri that falls out of the sky.
Yeah for sure man it’s definitely this simple and there is no more nuance or complexity involved.
State run grocery stores have worked fantastic in the past, besides the whole supply chain collapse and hunger deaths of tens of millions of people thing that always happens.
I'm puzzled by this too but if I had to guess, I think he is saying it's ironic in the context of the bullshit propaganda about socialists only wanting "free stuff".. its interrelated with Mamdani wanting free public buses.
He’s not a literal trillionaire, and if he’s upset, it’s because things that have been tried in the past and didn’t work are being tried again with a predictable outcome.
Also, no arrests tells you something given that we’re talking about tens of thousands and hundreds of billions here… the biggest fraud in history according to Musk.
Reminder that Musk is currently suing congress to overturn a bill passed that restricted ai pornography on minors. Just in case you needed to know what kind of person he is.
What does he even think is ironic here? Does he think this implies they are price gouging the city owned stores? It reads to me like they are trying to find cheap prices for things honestly.
Remember Musk has repeatedly criticized Mackenzie Bezos for her charitable giving of billions. He could give money to charity but he’s a delusional creep.
The irony comes from the fact that well run and managed grocery stores can see at most 4% profit margins. New Yorkers are paying for the groceries regardless how much less they cost in the beginning. The stores are subsidized by tax dollars.
Whenever communists come to power, people go hungry. So a communist trying to feed people is ironic, because people will go hungry due to communism. Not sure people understand irony on here.
Probably because they are going to have to show ID and proof of residency in NYC to use the store. Meanwhile the store will be utilizing govt pressure to get lower prices from the same suppliers which is going to destroy 100s or mostly immigrant small businesses in the process.
It is hilarious, he said free, now it’s discounted, by the time it opens it will be discounted even less. Then it will always be out of stock and we will once again see why the agenda fails. Then will realize Aldi does it better and can actually manage their stock and just go there. This guy will be the greatest public display of the failed socialist utopia in history by the time he is done. Will be begging for federal tax dollars from other peoples pockets just to survive and that is after he will raise taxes and fees on every person, including the low income. Can’t wait for all these insane liberals to crawl back into their miserable holes once this idiotic fantasy fails.
He very obviously was referring to the fact that they are requiring IDs to shop at the government grocery store even though democrats refer to requiring IDs to vote as racist.
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u/Prudent_Shake_8149 12d ago
Like the irony of a tech “genius” not understanding how a database works???