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Elon Musk calls to 'delete' US finance consumer watchdog agency (www.theguardian.com)
31 points by consumer451 2 hours ago | hide | past | web | 19 comments | favorite





He's also calling for the deletion of people:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

The mask has really come off, if it was ever on.


Isn't there somebody who reads his tweets before they're published?

Maybe he got fired at some point, lol.


An agency which has refunded $20b of consumer funds responding to 4m complaints, but he sees as wasteful.

Be the billionaire Elon, live the dream.


He 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.

how he's going to sell doge coins?

Elon 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.


Sometimes I'm surprised Elon Musk isn't on here.

I'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?

If 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.


Around here everyone puts in work, cliqued up or not. And we’re not talking about helping us with our computer skills (have you used Google or Facebook recently?).

https://youtu.be/Y-8Wc-1hWzE?si=_oQYfnDUWmopM2Cc

You can get the same outcomes you get from Mag7 and YC and shit by accident in a hypothetical prison with purely emergent properties.

By all means keep appeasing these cats, there’s always next batch. But sooner or later you’re next. 30% layoffs industry wide followed by a savage EPS beat. Someone call Lina Khan before she gets fired for integrity. Being the last sycophant to be eaten is a very weird strategy.


> 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.


Picking 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.


That, I can agree with.

Isn't he speedrunning diablo 4?

And he's make another pronouncement in another couple of days.

Elon Musk seems to believe himself to be an expert on absolutely everything.

He 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&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...


> 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.


He 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.



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