Interestingly enough, I had thought the rumour that his wealth came from an emerald mine his dad owned, but it does seem to be the case that that his dad only claimed to have part stake in an emerald mine, it was apparently in Zambia and not South Africa, and there doesn’t seem to be any credible evidence that Elon received any substantial money via this route or even any evidence of the existence of this mine. I think Snope’s investigation, which corroborates the aforementioned debunking of rumours about Musk, was done pretty well: https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-mine/

PS: Whether or not Elon Musk is a nepo baby born with a silver spoon in his mouth does not impact whether his propensity to say and do unhinged things and perpetually confabulate about the prospects of his companies. e.g. Thunderf00t’s many videos

Why martyr him when you can slowly turn him into Emmanuel Goldstein?

Ok, that was in March/June. What does that have to do with Israel now? Still not quite understanding how

“Israel is about to cause peace in the Middle East.”

is implied by

“Iran and Saudi Arabia normalized.”

This? or this? or something else?

Iran and Saudi Arabia normalized?

Haha true!

When people would do something then say “psych”

Twitter and BlueSky. Shifting more so to the latter the worse the former gets.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/debt-relief/how-to-file-for-bankruptcy/

https://www.scienceupfirst.com/debunking-resources/

Under Trudeau? Has this not been going on for longer than Justin?

Better late than never

Not much more satisfying than climbing a fence as a kid and then finding out that’s the reason they built the fence higher.