Someone toss his ass in prison already!

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    So he’s trying to kill his own company? I feel like Elon more than anyone bought the lie that the us government was universally overgrown and bloated and could easily withstand being stripped, which is obviously not the case

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    It’s a single car company. World economy doesn’t depend on Tesla’s success. Not even the American economy. If Tesla dies, it’s just a canary in the coalmine for much, much bigger economic problems. Like, you know, how they put dipshits in the White House, or something. So it’s kind of interesting that Elon has a moment of lucidity here, because no one around him seems to realise how screwed they are.

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    “If I drive us all off a cliff, I won’t be using my eject button”

    Even in his expressed delusions, he continues lying to everyone else

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    2 days ago

    a rat is suppose to flee a sinking ship, not sink with it. maybe if you wernt on drugs 100% of the time.

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    2 days ago

    Just gotta love the sudden change in demeanor in the pictures of articles regarding him.

    Destroying the country? Laughs and jumps. Losing everything he “worked” for? Serious face.

    Bye Elon get out of here.

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        There’s the guy who urges the captain to increase the ship’s speed, so they can arrive a day early and impress everyone that the “unsinkable” ship is also super fast. And then sneaks his way onto a lifeboat at the end, when they’re only supposed to be taking women and children. Arguably a parallel to Musk in that he’s partly responsible for the sinking of the ship.

        Much more prominent is Rose’s (Kate Winslet) rich scumbag fiance who refers to Jack (Leo DiCaprio) as a “gutter rat”, responds to “half the people on this ship are going to die” with “not the better half”, tries to bribe with cash one of the men loading boats in order to secure himself a slot, and ultimately manages to get on a boat by picking up a random crying child and claiming it as his own. Much more like Musk himself, but not really a parallel in having resposibility for the ship sinking.

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    2 days ago

    I was under the idea that the Load bearing snake oil salesman of the American Economy was Sam Altman.

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    It’s because the company is fully subsidized by carbon credits and government funding. The crazy brand valuation is based on fully autonomous driving and person less cabs which will never happen at Tesla.

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    Well yeah, it was the US that put 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs and demanded allies also slap high tariffs on Chinese EVs. Without this, Tesla would be more than trampled in those markets. Also, the only reason why Tesla turned a profit in Q1 2025 is because of the carbon credits that the US government gives it. Without billions upon billions in US government subsidies, Tesla wouldn’t exist.