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Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by Workaccount2 on Friday March 28, 2025 @06:46PM (#43510707)
Trump pardoned Trevor Milton today, who scammed investors out of millions doing things like his now infamous "rolling a truck down a hill to make it looks functional" demo.

Milton donated $1.8M to Trump, and Miltons lawyer's sister is Pam Bondi, the Attorney General.

This is nakedly corrupt and a strong signal that you can get away with all manner of financial fuckery if you are on Trumps "good list".

Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by miohtama on Friday March 28, 2025 @06:48PM (#43510722)
Every democratic country deserves the government they get.
Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by Workaccount2 on Friday March 28, 2025 @06:51PM (#43510741)
At least we don't have to worry about trans kids swimming on the girls swim team.

/s

Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by DecentShoes on Friday March 28, 2025 @08:01PM (#43511268)
Just say you hate women bro. If you're campaigning to have men in women's sports you're just campaigning to have women's sports banned.

And if you're campaigning to have women's sports banned you are NOT THE GOOD GUYS.

Women's rights matter and are worth caring about. You can care about two things.

Men shouldn't be in women's sports. EVER. If you think they should you're evil.

Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by sapphicsnail on Friday March 28, 2025 @08:23PM (#43511468)
For how big of an advantage trans women supposedly have, they don't seem to win very often. People have been discussing this issue for decades but all of a sudden people are freaking out about it without doing any research or having any level of nuance.
Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by dzhiurgis on Saturday March 29, 2025 @02:20AM (#43513236)
Same can be said about Trump government
Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by conicsl on Saturday March 29, 2025 @03:09AM (#43513454)
More often than you might think: https://www.shewon.org
Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by zahlman on Friday March 28, 2025 @09:39PM (#43511954)
>Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

Comments like these are wildly off the original topic and practically invite the dead replies. As a rule of thumb, if you're about to put "/s" at the bottom of a post on an even remotely political topic, please reconsider. Especially if your sarcasm is already quite obvious, and obviously being used to bash a political outgroup.

Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by jfengel on Friday March 28, 2025 @09:27PM (#43511882)
Good and hard.
Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by jimt1234 on Friday March 28, 2025 @07:57PM (#43511210)
Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by jimt1234 on Friday March 28, 2025 @07:08PM (#43510862)
Is it corruption if it's done publicly and no one gives a fuck? ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by Alive-in-2025 on Friday March 28, 2025 @08:08PM (#43511344)
Absolutely..and people care.
Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by libertine on Friday March 28, 2025 @07:22PM (#43510950)
"But that guy George Soros surely is up to no good!"

It's probably being spoken by some podcast that helped get Trump elected.

When they have an actual conspiracy, with actual billionaires paying the president and getting full access to the government, while getting public contracts... all of this being live streamed... they're still stuck in George Soros and the Deep State lizard people fantasy.