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Elon Musk calls to 'delete' US finance consumer watchdog agency
- ggm 2y agoAn agency which has refunded $20b of consumer funds responding to 4m complaints, but he sees as wasteful. Be the billionaire Elon, live the dream.
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- smt88 2y agoHe doesn't see it as wasteful. He sees it as a threat to the wealthy screwing over consumers. He has the same hostility toward all regulators, including the NHTSA, which does an incredible job of keeping cars as safe as they are.
- d3vmax 2y agoHe was trolling SEC a few years back.
- 1oooqooq 2y agohow he's going to sell doge coins?
- jerojero 2y ago[flagged]
- consumer451 2y agoHe has made himself the ultimate unelected agency bureaucrat. I should add that while the above line might appear trite, it is not lacking in significance in recent conversations. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=unelected%20bureaucrat&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=unelected%20agency&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- anoperkl 2y ago[flagged]
- tredre3 2y agoThe difference being that not many HN posters have any power over others, so their (wrong) opinions are harmless in that context.
- 1oooqooq 2y ago[flagged]
- dang 2y ago"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- peutetre 2y agoHe's also calling for the deletion of people: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-elon-musk-vindman-treason-impeachment-b2655133.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic... The mask has really come off, if it was ever on.
- dialup_sounds 2y ago"In Russia, my act of offering public testimony involving the President would surely cost me my life." -- the guy Musk wants deleted
- moralestapia 2y agoIsn't there somebody who reads his tweets before they're published? Maybe he got fired at some point, lol.
- archagon 2y agoWhy even bother anymore? He's got all the money in the world and the incoming president's ear. This is simply who he is, and now he can rub it in all our plebeian faces without consequence.
- moralestapia 2y agoIIRC it was mandated by law after the "420 lol" tweet. But he's above the law anyway so you're right.
- know-how 2y ago[dead]
- nitwit005 2y agoAnd he's make another pronouncement in another couple of days.
- jarsin 2y ago> Musk’s post came in response to a recent podcast clip from the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, a significant Trump donor, who said the agency’s primary purpose is to “terrorize financial institutions”. > But it was soon reported that Andreessen’s venture capital firm, Andreessen Horwitz, was among other investors who had backed LendUp, an online consumer payday lender, that was shut down by the CFPB in 2018. There it is. One of his twitter buyout investors needs a favor.
- mandeepj 2y agoHe cried a lot when a twitter a/c was sharing his Jet's location, but recently he shared names and location of a lot of Feds employees. Doxxing is illegal only when it hurts me.
- Smoosh 2y agoWilhoit's law in action.
- robertlagrant 2y agoSometimes I'm surprised Elon Musk isn't on here.
- consumer451 2y agoI've thought about that before. If he posted here anonymously like he tweeted, he would have a -100 HN karma count real quick, wouldn't he?
- benreesman 2y agoIf we held any of the top ballers in 2024 to a standard even slightly more honest than the color scheme of the political party we’d apply that -100 to basically all of them, wouldn’t we? By all means hold Musk to account, it’s the right thing to do. But it’s borderline religious to duck the obvious corollary that this is a war for all the marbles. Blade Runner or TNG. Pick a side.
- consumer451 2y ago> Pick a side. Never, even if I disagree with one side 99% of the time, still never. Picking political sides is surrendering your agency to group think.
- benreesman 2y agoPicking a side on Red/Blue is like choosing a sports club. United United United. Picking a side on unchecked power for private individuals and companies? You get defaulted into the worst side of you don’t choose: dinner.
- consumer451 2y agoThat, I can agree with.
- benreesman 2y ago
- benreesman 2y agoElon Musk openly advertises and impulsively manifests all the same core beliefs of any of these kleptocrats, and in my opinion with a little humor to help my techno-totalitarian dystopian nightmare go down. Everyone from pg to Thiel to Bezos to Musk to pmarca to fucking all of them believe all the same stuff about the ability to do a thing is justification for doing it. They all rehash tired bankrupt Randian horseshit to create a tarnished aura around it. Thank you Elon for saying it out loud so that we know what we’re dealing with. See you in the trenches asshole.
- dzhiurgis 2y agopg remarkably stayed left
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- lawn 2y agoThere are more dimensions to this than left/right.
- Farfignoggen 2y agoWhat we need is a new round of trust busting, Teddy Roosevelt Style, and bring this new Guided Age of Technology Trusts to a close! Musk yearns for the days of Robber Barrons Past! And apparently the Congress is so very much "Citizens United" scared($$$$$) to fix that Egregious SCOTUS ruling that's made the politicians as overtly up for sale the average LA streetwalker!