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      Settlements are always necessarily dispositive of the truth. Sometimes it makes sense to just pay a settlement fee than to go through litigation if you expect your attorney fees to be greater than the settlement cost. Also it’s not uncommon for settlements agreements to not confirm allegations so as to not benefit future cases against the defendant.

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        “My commitment: We will never seek victory in a just case against us, even if we will probably win,” he wrote. “We will never surrender/settle an unjust case against us, even if we will probably lose.”

        Either he’s full of shit, he did after a horse for sex or both.

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        On one hand it might be cost effective but on the other its not like cost is an issue for someone with like ten zeoes in his account balance. Maybe he thought getting it out of the news cycle was more important then how it would look becoming a thing… too bad lol

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      Probably rationalized it as being cheaper than legal fees + additional damage to his reputation from a public trial.

      Or it happened and he’d have lost.

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    I’m not sure what’s more ridiculous, offering her heroin for sex, or giving her the financial liability of taking care of an equine in exchange for 10-20 minutes of disappointment.

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    No, see, the real mistake he made was being a cheapskate because she definitely had a price, and he thought it was too much. The richest man on earth wanted some ez pz ass and was too cheap to get it.

    So she gets a $250k settlement and he looks like a pervert. Real smart man there.

    The morale, to me, is that you don’t fucking sexually harass your employees, and if you do, you better fucking be ready to pay the consequences.

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          I think he has some kind of “positive eugenics” bullshit and it aligns with his narcissism where he thinks he and his genes are special. If he believed in “great replacement” and acted on it earnestly he’d give his workers time to leave work and have kids.

          Its clear like he saw “humans on mars” as catnip for futurists who will give him money he sees “great replacement” as catnip for racists who will protect his money pile from taxes.

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            he thinks he and his genes are special.

            Oh no question. He thinks that the reason he’s fallen upwards from Daddy’s emerald mine to Theil’s crush to king of the hill is because he is superior and not because he’s super lucky.

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      i think it is older than that now isn’t it? I happened in 2016, i thought it came to the news in like 2019 or 2020… then again, life is like a blur to me, so…

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    I’m going to be so happy to see his death caused by a likely drug overdose. Not because I take joy in his death, but we’ll finally be rid of having to hear about his stupidity and drama every day.

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    “No no, it’s all a big misunderstanding! I offered her the horse to have sex with! Who would exchange a horse for a woman? Do you know how expensive horses are?” - musk, probably

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    He had a bunch of horses that came with some land he bought he was trying to get rid of - jeeze

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    Imagine being so rich out-of-touch that you think offering someone something that will cost them a shitload of money to keep in exchange for sex will work with non-rich people.

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    Pocket change.

    as of June 2024, Forbes estimates his net worth to be US$210 billion.

    Link.

    Highest median house price by state in the US is $787,000. That’s the highest in the nicest place. Link.

    A total of…

    Brace yourself…

    Approximately one 250,000th of his wealth. (actual is higher)

    Edit: I apologise in advance for any maths fuck ups. It’s Friday evening where I am. You’re hearin’ me.

    Edit 2: Read on for some shenanigans

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        🐴🤦‍♂️

        I will leave my post as an acknowledgment of my wine based mistakes.

        On the other hand though… It just makes things worse by, like, several orders of magnitude.

        Edit; What’s worse is that I read the whole horse article before, set in my mind what a cunt he was for offering something he had an excess of (other than money, obviously), then promptly got outraged that he only offered a house.

        Kids, alcohol is a powerful drug.

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          Well, it’s implied that a house is part of the deal, since where else is the horse going to live? A flight attendant won’t have a horse house just sitting around.

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          I feel like a horse is more of a gift you give to people you hate. Now they’re stuck with a horse and they need to find a place to stable it and pay through the nose in maintenance.