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It's true. The only thing we can do to stop criminal gold miners is to segregate our society by race.

If we don't continue apartheid, where will we get billionaires to buy social media companies and run them into the ground as a political stunt?

I assume this is in reference to Elon Musk.

That story is bunk.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-min...

But his father did own an emerald mine. That's what the Snopes link says.

Are you saying that Musk somehow inherited $44 billion from his still-living father's stake in an Emerald mine said father bought for under a $100k?

Unless I'm missing an edit, that's not remotely what they're saying.

How would you interpret what their point is?

there isn't a point, it was a joke, apartheid was bad, but it gave us Elon Musk (who, is implied to also be bad).

The idea that we should continue apartheid, so that we can get more Musks is then ironic or sarcastic.

> Are you saying that Musk somehow inherited $44 billion from his still-living father's stake in an Emerald mine said father bought for under a $100k?

Are you trying to ruin someone's petulant rant with a simple statement of facts? But this is the internet!

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