• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    it is impossible to operate in San Francisco if you’re processing payments

    Is it though? He talks like he still runs PayPal. All Twitter sells is adverts, blue ticks and hate.

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        Yeah I wonder how many billions of dollars in incentives did Texas Republicans promise that douchebag in order to get him to move to their State. And how many Texans are going to have to foot that bill.

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          Typical Elon, vaunting libertarianism while paying himself with Government payouts.

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            “Privatize the profits and socialize the risks.” (for billionaires)

            “But we can’t let poor people get handouts. That’s socialism.”

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          As of 2020, all of his companies had received around 5 billion in subsidies, tax credits, and the like.

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            Yeah that’s what we call corporate welfare. What exactly did that 5 billion buy anybody? All it did was make that fucking asshole richer.

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      He wants to turn twitter into Wechat, which is used for paying basically everything in China. In San Francisco you can’t just get rich by funneling money, you have to pay taxes on it.

      You would still get rich but he wants it all for himself and doesn’t want to pay his debt to the United States.