#apartheid billionaire

[joeywreck]

It is now against Twitter rules to link to alternate social media platforms or encourage alternatives. Oh my fucking god

[alwaysbewoke]

[thoughtportal]

price gouging medication that was paid for by tax payers

[good-old-gossip]

American business leaders and billionaires set up a Whatsapp group to shape public opinion on Israel's war in Gaza and urged New York City's mayor to use police to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University.

The contents of the Whatsapp group were reported by the Washington Post on Thursday. The group was set up on 12 October, days after Hamas's surprise attack on southern Israel, to "change the narrative" on Israel, including by conveying "the atrocities committed by Hamas... to all Americans".

Among the business leaders in the group were the CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, Dell CEO and founder Michael Dell, and Joshua Kushner, a financier and brother to Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.

The contents of the chat were supplied to the Washington Post by unnamed people with direct access to it. Last month, members of the chat, including billionaire Len Blavatnik, held a Zoom call with New York City Mayor Eric Adams, at a time when a pro-Palestinian encampment was taking place at Columbia University in the city.

Some members of the chat offered to pay for private investigators to help police during the protests.

According to the Washington Post, a member of the group wrote on the chat that such an offer had been accepted by Adams. New York's police denied using private investigators to manage the protests.

The Whatsapp group had over 100 members, and was titled "Israel Current Events". It was set up by real estate tycoon Barry Sternlicht, who was not directly a member of the chat but participated through a staffer.

The staffer said in October that the group's mission was to help "win the war" of public opinion in the US, while Israel worked to "win the physical war".

Source - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/business-leaders-chat-group-eric-adams-columbia-protesters/

Without Paywall -

[sordidamok]

Apartheid Clyde promotes nazis.

[mbrainspaz]

Finished filing my taxes and posted 'I wanna stab a billionaire and run away to become a nineteenth century pirate' on facebook and they warned me that my post might violate their policy. Oh... I also mentioned that Israel was committing a US funded genocide. Damn, it was probably that and not the stabby pirate part.

[agentfascinateur]

Billionaire-sponsored NYC cop campus crackdowns:

[lost-carcosa]

elon musk is not playing four dimensional chess.

He’s playing tic-tac-toe. Against himself. And losing.

[kaydub80]

Elon Musk's Dad Says His Son's Whole Career Was Funded by That Emerald Mine

What a shocker there (not)!

[commiepinkofag]

The Tech Bro Fascist Playbook

Buy the police, grey shirts, grey shirt parades, apartheid, “tech Zionism”

[ohello0]

I respect the wishes of Palestinian activists and hope it’s not them doing this rather but loud non-Palestinians with good intentions, to them I have just one ask: stop asking for elon musk’s attention on Gaza or Palestine in general.

He is a racist. A white supremacist. An antisemite that allows neo nazis to roam on the social media platform he’s running into the ground. He actively tries to silence Palestinian voices while amplifying racist, Islamophobic, genocidal rhetoric. He does not care about the lives of Palestinians or any oppressed people under occupation because their oppression is what makes him and his friends wealthy. He’s not the kind of person we want on our team

I kinda see why people are demanding he visit Gaza to see the destruction first hand but I have a sneaking suspicion that a man who grew up in apartheid South Africa in a family that owned a blood emerald mine won’t see suffering Palestinians as people but instead see their demolished houses as a real estate opportunity.

The ultra rich don’t fix problems, they create them, philanthropy is a scam. Gaza does not need dickheads like elon musk using their power and influence to encourage others to make exploitative decisions that ultimately lead to more ethnic cleansing.

STOP ASKING HIM FOR SHIT

[fffartonceaweek]

Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine rich guy Elon Musk with guest Karen Kilgariff ...

600 - Elon Musk with Karen Kilgariff

[thoughtportal]

Elon Musk is denying claims that his family owned an emerald mine, even though he was bragging about it less than a decade ago.

"The fake emerald mine thing is so annoying (sigh)," Musk tweeted over the weekend. "Like where exactly is this thing anyway!?"

As many pointed out, the mine was in Zambia — at least, according to Musk himself back in 2014.

"Musk and his family seem particularly sensitive about shaping the narrative about their history lately, especially around the emerald mine," tech critic Paris Marx tweeted in response. "They act like they’ve never heard of it before, even though he bragged to Forbes about it in 2014."

Included in the post is a screenshot a 2014 Forbes interview conducted by freelancer Jim Clash in which Musk, then more broadly considered a wunderkind, shared an off-handed anecdote about his now-estranged father Errol Musk's alleged mine.

"This is going to sound slightly crazy," the multi-hyphenate billionaire is quoted as saying, "but my father also had a share in an Emerald mine in Zambia."

Curiously, the interview in question is no longer live on Forbes' website, though it is backed up by the Internet Archive. There's no note explaining why it was taken down, and the original link leads to a 404 error page — though Futurism has reached out to Forbes, the freelancer, and Musk himself for further details.

The open question surrounding the alleged existence of the elder Musk's Zambian emerald mine is made all the murkier by the way it's spun out of control online, with dubious takes claiming the mine existed in the neighboring country of South Africa (where the Musks are from) or that the money gained from those "blood" gems acted as seed capital for the younger Musk's many business ventures, or at least paid off his student loan debt.

As the conspiracy-debunking site Snopes reported back in November, many of those claims don't hold up. But reporting over the years does seem to corroborate that the mine existed, contrary to Musk's latest claims.

Among those many mine mentions is the infamous anecdote from another Insider piece in 2018 about Elon and his brother Kimbal pocketing some of their father's emeralds before walking around New York City with the gems in their pockets, where they sold them to Tiffany & Co. for a couple thousand dollars.

In response to Snopes, the Forbes writer Clash said that he was unsure why the magazine had taken the interview down. That response, like everything about this story, just serves to further complicate the whole debacle, though if we were to wager a guess as to why Musk now claims his family never owned any mines, it would be similar to Marx's: that he thought it was cool to brag about it back in 2014, but it's significantly less politically expedient to do so now.

As with other outlandish Muskian claims, there is, of course, another possibility: that he (or his father) completely or partially made it up for clout, and Elon is now backtracking because the concept of a white South African co-owning an emerald mine has the stench of apartheid regardless of the specifics.

[sordidamok]

Apartheid Clyde lays off workers because his company is losing money because he is in charge.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

BECAUSE ONLY STUPID, AIRHEAD, BIMBO BASTARDS ARE COMPLICIT IN HELPING THE GENOCIDE.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on pro-Palestine/Celebrity Blockout 2024-themed artwork by @epistlestogrief, for @calaverapunks, with specific aim at rich arseholes Taylor Swift and Spanish multi-billionaire Amancio Ortega, published in June 2024.

Source: www.picuki.com/media/3377804552796505998.

[xtruss]

Disgusting Boak Bollocks, Senile Oaf, Weasel Billionaire Kenneth Griffin urged his Old University Harvard to focus on "Western Values," saying college campus chaos is part of a "Cultural Revolution" in US education. Griffin, the Founder of US Hedge Fund Citadel, told the Financial Times that US education has drifted away from its goal of seeking truth and knowledge in the past decade.

"Harvard should put front and centre (that it) stands for meritocracy in America," Griffin said, adding that schools should "embrace Western values that have built one of the greatest nations in the world."

He has previously stopped donations to Harvard due to dissatisfaction with its handling of Anti-Semitism Issues on Campus.

He also mentioned that the current campus protests are the result of a major shift in American education, framing it as a battle between oppressors and the oppressed. He described these protests as almost like "Performative Art."

Griffin's remarks come as many Pro-Palestinian 🇵🇸 Student Activists have been arrested for demanding a Ceasefire in Gaza and urging schools to cut ties with companies linked to “The Terrorist, Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, The Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell.” Since April 18, over 2,600 Protesters have been detained in more than 100 Protests across 39 States and Washington DC.