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      I don’t like Elon Musk, his buyout of Twitter was horibble and I don’t agree with many stuff he says, that begin said

      story about Musk’s father once owning an emerald mine evolved into a larger rumor that had no evidence to support its central claim. Source

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        According to the article, the “rumor” started in 2014 when Elon went on an interview tour and SAID that his dad had an emerald mine to multiple publications. He told an elaborate story to one about riding in his dad’s plane full of emeralds and ak-47s

        The research couldn’t find financial proof of any claimed debt, since Elon won’t provide any. But “hand shake” deals about illegal emerald smuggling tends not to have a paper trail.

        Then, a year after this article came out, Elon tweeted “I’ll give a million doge to anyone who can prove it existed” and his dad replied that it existed and that Elon had been there.

        Errol also went on an interview tour (after this article was posted) and told multiple publications that he did own a share of an emerald mining business. But Elon wasn’t lying because it technically wasn’t in a hole, but an outcropping!

        Since changing his mind on the subject, Elon had since only admitted that his start up was supported by selling his own PC for 2k, a 5k gift from his “bro” and 8k from some other guy. But later a SmAaLL LoAn (as they like to say) of 200k from his dad and others. But that was later, you guys.

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                Welp we had “Elon used emerald money” then “no evidence of that!” To “Here’s evidence” and your thought “Well is wasn’t much!”

                Very apologist.

                It’s never surprising to me when billionaires had wealthy parents. Hiding money is their jam.

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                    Hey Mr. “Everyone is stupid but me”,

                    1. “I don’t get why people focus on the emerald mine” and “Turning 200k into billions would be impressive no matter where the money came from” – both are things you said, both excuse the things we were talking about. Yes you called him a dip shit too. But apparently an impressive one.

                    2. I know you weren’t the initial comment, but this is a thread, which means you’re continuing a conversation. Away from the cruel exploitation of emeralds mines to who cares and he’s an impressive dip shit.

                    3. We’ll never know if 200k to billions is impressive because nobody else gets to have a 200k loan from their dad except wealthy people

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        Indeed, not a whole emerald mine, the same source:

        We located reporting from as far back as 2009 and 2014 that said when Elon Musk (“Elon” hereafter) was a child in South Africa in the 1980s, his father (“Errol” hereafter) at some point owned “a stake in an emerald mine” near Lake Tanganyika in Zambia, not South Africa.

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        I have a filter on Sync to not see Musk content, yet somehow he keeps leaking in.

        On Lemmy, it’s like a party game to see where you can get Musk into a thread.

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          I don’t think sync has filtered comments yet, which is annoying. I still see hexbear garbage in the comments sometimes.