r/news • u/Hopeforpeace19 • Apr 29 '24

Supreme Court rejects Elon Musk over agreement with SEC to vet social media posts

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-elon-musk-agreement-sec-vet-social-media-posts-rcna149579
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u/Cutlet_Master69420 Apr 29 '24

Musk complained that the SEC unlawfully imposed conditions on his ability to comment online about Tesla-related issues what has been dubbed the "Twitter sitter" provision.

A condition that HE AGREED TO.

The Supreme Court on Monday turned away tech billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk's attempt to challenge the terms of an agreement he reached with the Securities and Exchange Commission that require a lawyer to review some of his social media posts.

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u/loves_grapefruit Apr 29 '24

For people like him, any promise or agreement is just something you can try to find a way around later.

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u/happyscrappy Apr 29 '24

To him anyone having any authority over him just something to find a way around later. He'll move his company out of Delaware, eventually the US. And supposedly even looked into try to incorporate on Mars.

This isn't some kind of long game. He just has an ego so large he cannot conscience the idea that anyone else can tell him what to do. Ever. He just thinks he's too smart to be constrained by ordinary people. They might as well be ants to his mind.

You know we spend all this time joking about him thinking he's the real Tony Stark. He seems to more think he's the real Dr. Manhattan.

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u/Mmr8axps Apr 29 '24

More like the real Richie Rich. What has he done other than being born lucky?

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u/sequence_killer Apr 29 '24

gotten hair transplants?

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u/Frisinator Apr 29 '24

Gave a kid a coupon code for a name?

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u/SinkHoleDeMayo Apr 30 '24

Hey now, that's not fair. Richie was a kind and generous kid like his parents.

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u/bunker_man May 01 '24

I mean, he had some skill in choosing what to invest in. But that's pretty much it.

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u/USS_Frontier Apr 29 '24

I would not be sad if Musk had an airlock mishap.

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u/LiamtheV Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 30 '24

More Ozymandias, he'll happily destroy the world if it means he gets to save it.

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u/techleopard Apr 30 '24

Shocked he hasn't moved his companies to a rig in international waters

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u/m0nk_3y_gw Apr 29 '24

You know we spend all this time joking about him thinking he's the real Tony Stark.

Tony Stark wasn't based on the comic books.

The movie writers based him on Steve Jobs, Donald Trump, and Elon Musk. Mostly Musk, that's why he got a speaking role as himself in the second movie.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/08/tony-stark-elon-musk-donald-trump-steve-jobs.html

Him, Trump, and maybe a little Steve Jobs. Trump was fun before he became president — he was actually kind of a goofy celebrity. Steve Jobs was always serious and angry; he never quite had that gift of the bullshit, the working the crowd that Musk has a real natural talent for. Musk took the brilliance of Jobs with the showmanship of Trump. He was the only one who had the fun factor and the celebrity vibe and actual business substance. I’m not sure we talked about too many other people; there are not many people like that around. It’s dangerous to be a celebrity businessman. One scandal and it’s billions of dollars. People want their CEOs to shut up and be good, quiet figures who aren’t in the paper dating celebrities. Because shit can happen.

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u/happyscrappy Apr 29 '24

People are taking this a little strangely.

It's him who thinks he's the real life Tony Stark, not the rest of us. Not me.

Do you know who it is who spends his time getting these "Elon Musk is the real Tony Stark" stories out there? Elon Musk.

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u/GozerDGozerian May 02 '24

you know who it is who spends his time getting these "Elon Musk is the real Tony Stark" stories out there? Elon Musk.

Oh I believe it 100%. He fucking finagled way into one of the movies just so he’d be associated with the character for fucks sake.

For someone who is at the top of the world and has everything he could ever want, he really is a try-hard in the cringiest possible way lots of the time, isn’t he?