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EdmondDantes_

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8. No he did it by starting with an apartheid fortune

Sat May 30, 2026, 07:16 PM

11 hrs ago

Then benefitting from government tax credits for Tesla, way too many financial wizards believing in the great man of history theory thinking he was the magic, then rich government contracts for SpaceX, a financial system that rewards wealth, and then buying his way into Trump's good graces so he could dismantle the regulatory bodies investigating him.

Oh and regardless of what the lying racist twerp says, he didn't invent Tesla, he bought it and forced the original founders out.

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