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San Francisco to Elon Musk: Goodbye forever


San Francisco to Elon Musk: Goodbye forever

San Francisco authorities are bidding farewell to Elon Musk and his companies with the kind of rude “Goodbye!” for which he is known.

An angry Musk has announced that he is packing up and moving X headquarters from San Francisco to Austin, Texas, and moving SpaceX from Hawthorne, California, to the Longhorn State.

Musk is leaving the state out of anger, he says, because of a new law in California that prohibits schools from notifying parents when their children express a desire to change their gender identity.

Musk called the gender identity law “the straw that broke the camel’s back,” saying it and other state laws “attack both families and businesses.”

So he’s leaving now.

No problem. “I share the view of most San Francisco residents and it’s good that we’re rid of them,” city attorney David Chiu told the New York Times.

Mayor London Breed met with Musk but said she did not offer him any deals to get him to stay. “I’m not going to beg,” she said.

X is a shadow of its pre-Musk Twitter self, founded in 2006 and employing only a fraction of the staff it once did in an area now teeming with high-tech companies.

“It’s like a zombie version of the old Twitter, and I think a lot of people are thinking, ‘Just put this bird out of its misery,'” Yao Yue, a software engineer who was laid off after Musk’s takeover, told the Times.

Even outside of business, the transgender issue is a matter close to the heart of the right-wing tech mogul. One of Musk’s dozen or so children with three different baby mamas is transgender and has disowned his father.

As for “family,” Musk’s daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson, 20, said her father was barely around during her childhood and when he was there, he “bullied” her because her voice was too high. He was unloving, narcissistic and “cruel,” she said.

Musk complained: “My son,” now Vivian, is “dead, killed by the woke mind virus,” adding: “I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after this.”

He also complained about government taxes.

The Times reported in August that X CEO Linda Yaccarino told X employees that Bay Area workers would move to another existing office in San Jose and a new engineering-focused office in Palo Alto.

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