While Elon indulges in political theater and self-aggrandizing quips, Tesla is experiencing an unprecedented slump in both sales and stock value.

  • Vari@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    So… stop? You have more money than anyone could ever spend. Just fuck off already. Stop being so fucking evil.

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      He can’t. He’s all in for fascism. There’s no going back to the shadows for him, he’ll always be known as a Nazi oligarch. He said he would be going to jail if Trump didn’t win. We know he’s got ties with Putin so he might be being blackmailed into being the bad guy [not that he was good before, but at least he l wasn’t toppling democracies before].

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    1 month ago

    With the way things are going for Tesla, he should probably consider collecting and selling his crybaby-bitch tears.

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      1 month ago

      America has been a brand for the last century or so. A trademark, a copyright.

      Nationalists are some of the dimmest people in the world. That said, we really need to take back our flag and our mottos and our dim, stupid, tribal traditions and markers, because most of the world is dim and primitive and despite hating it, we have to play the tribe game to survive. We can work on dissolving borders and all those lofty ideals quietly in the background, but we HAVE to not just squash fascism, we also have to manage the nation full of hateful idiots afterwards, and to do that, we have to appease their need to feel special and good because of where they were born.

      There is a fine line you can walk to manage and maintain all of this while making real social progress, but we’re nowhere NEAR that line. We keep falling for the same tricks so we don’t unify into anything resembling a coalition for real progress.

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    Such a shame the gov’t of California made him go crazy during COVID. Without Elon’s companies, we might not have transportation without relying on gasoline imports. EV’s may have never taken off the way they have. We would still be relying on Russia to get to space without SpaceX. He has done some amazing things, but why did he have to turn out to be such a little bitch?

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        1 month ago

        Little lte for that now, yeah? It definitely would’ve worked if he started 10-15 years ago.

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      Yah everyone is reading way too much into this man, he’s just a mentally unwell incel who figured out how to get money from people. His emotional state is probably a mess but it doesn’t mean he’s about to cave in. He has more money than God and he isn’t going to crash out so easily.

      Hot tip: it’s a LOT easier to secure huge amounts of funding than you think, it certainly doesn’t take intelligence, just good connections and a complete lack of self-awareness, I know from unfortunate experience that you can secure millions in financing simply by sounding sure of yourself and talking in ways that are too convoluted for everyone to understand… I have literally seen million-dollar checks handed over because everyone in the room didn’t want to feel stupid.

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      Maybe he was. Maybe Thiel had a conversation with him about drawing more of the wrong kind of attention.