It is difficult for me to convey how profoundly unsurprised I was reading this article, which is about the world's richest and most famous entrepreneur threatening to deport his employees for pointing out a potentially fatal safety issue with his car company's brakes futurism.com/tesla-engine... - ThreadSky

bcmerchant.bsky.social • 7 hours ago

It is difficult for me to convey how profoundly unsurprised I was reading this article, which is about the world's richest and most famous entrepreneur threatening to deport his employees for pointing out a potentially fatal safety issue with his car company's brakes

https://futurism.com/tesla-engineer-elon-musk-deport-team-safety

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sinfoid.bsky.social•6 hours ago

This is why he wants H1Bs, while costs and working conditions are certainly a bonus the real money is in fucking over society and finding workers who cannot say no to help you do it.

wearelegion2025.bsky.social•7 hours ago

bulletwithwings.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Is it me or has he been rather absent from the news lately. I am not sure if the media just stopped covering him or he has slinked somewhat in the shadows so people will forget about him and Tesla stock can recover. Unfortunately for him, his name is synonymous with DOGE

pixelatedreality.bsky.social•3 hours ago

He's trying to scurry off into the darkness because he's just a smol innocent guy and everyone's being so mean to him for no reason.

sassi70.bsky.social•3 hours ago

This is why Elon eradicated the federal dept that was investigating Tesla & their safety issues. Elon is MOT an entrepreneur but more of a thief who stole others ideas or bought the idea.

clearcreek.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Not surprising for a guy who apparently bought Twitter to spread his seed.

suzypugs.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Evil doesn’t begin to cover it. Conditions at Tesla’s Fremont, Calif, assembly plant were so racist…

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/musk-tesla-fremont-california-lawsuit-discrimination-b2735810.html

kakistocracy-usa.bsky.social•3 hours ago

#teslatakedown

esedia.bsky.social•7 hours ago

It's so funny how the tech sector loves the rhetoric of "innovation" but it's always the same criminal grift

romeoavoid.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Innovation is ridiculously suppressed by corporate monopolization and closed source proprietary bullshit shenanigans quite a lot

I shopped the idea of car body panels that are also solar panels and are 3D printed in 2008 to every single major automobile manufacturer and not a single callback.

romeoavoid.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Myself and the girl who designed the basic functionality and manufacturing process even showed proven cases where manufacturing waste was next to none in production and a normal sized car could continuously power a portable charger to charge the car itself

romeoavoid.bsky.social•4 hours ago

No one gave a fuuuuuuuuck, didn't even take it seriously enough to try to plagiarize the idea later, as far as I know

pcmoffatt.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Were you only approaching US car manufacturers? I'm in Nice, France and the city has electric charging stations regularly about town, by 2030, as memory serves, gasoline cars in town will be banned. The city bus fleet is electric. I would try European car makers -- France seems eager to innovate.

argumentative.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Lmao

hrryan.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I have come to realize that "innovation" means breaking inconvenient laws and rules.

dylanger.info•5 hours ago

And "disruption" means "we're going to wreck a lot of lives on the slight chance we make a bunch of money"

wat3rm370n.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Stockton rush said he was "tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65998914

feminomenom.bsky.social•2 hours ago

ALWAYS!!!! that’s their only interest. That is the whole point.

srfbob1.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Its people like him in high places that make the world a bad place

zrcr.bsky.social•6 hours ago

This asshole thinks this will somehow make it so people won't die in his cars? I mean, I guess he will just be able to make some extra money before the lawsuits start and that's all that matters to him.

kestell7881.bsky.social•5 hours ago

absolutely, unsurprising! but very consistent!

cristinabalan.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Thank you Brian for making awareness of my story!

It was not easy to fight this Monster especially that in 2014 I was the first whistleblower Tesla had in a time when almost everyone was worship Musk…

You’ll be even more disgusted to actually see all the Facts Musk is trying to hide in my case…

klippenstein.bsky.social•5 hours ago

@cristinabalan.bsky.social

cristinabalan.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Thank you for making me aware of this article. 🫶🏻

abbeyarletto.bsky.social•7 hours ago

People call him a Bond villain, but he's worse. At least most Bond villains had some sort of warped philosophy behind their villainy. Musk is just a nakedly self-serving, narcissistic piece of shit - a thoroughly bad person.

falcoman13.bsky.social•7 hours ago

tonyhig67.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Let those shitboxes rot on the car lots.

iamcjohnson.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Both examples of being vindictive were when women confronted Musk. How Trump-like.

rickspics.bsky.social•7 hours ago

We’re gonna burn Tesla and Musk to the ground. At the least he will stand trial for so many crimes.

hrryan.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Kind of a strange photo - like they tried to make him look like Al Pacino in "The Godfather" but he looks NOTHING like that.

gm0rk.bsky.social•3 hours ago

There are a non-zero number of people currently in the white house ready to suggest to Trump that Elon's assets could be seized should he take an unexpected trip to El Salvadore.

unhipcat.bsky.social•3 hours ago

greediest.
The world’s greediest man.

bonairevolt.bsky.social•2 hours ago

There were more problems with safety than just those mentioned in the story.

sloughhorse.bsky.social•2 hours ago

This grifter would not be where he is without a government handout!

23brett.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Who would have thought a white supremacist would turn out to be not a nice guy?

ubik12.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Elon Musk is like the Icarus of failing upward.

Or alternatively, he’s an example of the Peter principle, where co-president is his point of incompetence. Except, he was always an incompetent asshole, just not enough people noticed before.

crackerjackson.bsky.social•5 hours ago

And being able to hold this level of threat over his workers is precisely why he loves the HB-1 Visa program. Just one more step closer for him to be a slave owner.

oregonoldster.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Because we all know that brake safety is evil. Clearly they must be members of MS-13.

morey000.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Well, they’ll definitely be deported now

ignu.bsky.social•7 hours ago

"If you can't see it, it's not there"

Which is the same philosophy Tesla's FSD has about children in fog.

hikepc.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Musk and Trump are twins in this regard.
Trump has tried to scapegoat Fauci (w/success among MAGAs).
Trump is now trying to blame Jerome Powell for stock market drops simply
b/c Powell points out fact.

memeperfect51.bsky.social•5 hours ago

And this was in 2014, "before Musk went crazy" according to the dubious claim of stickers on the bumpers of liberal Tesla-owners.

monsata.bsky.social•5 hours ago

"On the level of individuals and civilizations, personality predates ideology. Meaning, before you were a fascist, you were a bully and an asshole."
-Brennan Lee Mulligan

Musk has ALWAYS been an irritating little shit, and the second he had enough money to become the Bully, he never looked back.

memeperfect51.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Always, always.

hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Musk has BEEN "crazy" since at least 2009.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/03/elon-musks-got-beef-a-time-line.html

hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•3 hours ago

How else can you categorize his "I'm the Founder now" lawsuit?

profbobhowarth.bsky.social•1 hour ago

"Pure evil" sounds about right. Future generations of mental health specialists will investigate and debate what mental demons led to this state.

byroya.com•4 hours ago

He’s a piece of shit. He’s always been a piece of shit. He just hid it better before he bought Twitter.

materialmatters.bsky.social•5 hours ago

understand most of the twitter survivors are H1B visa holders and the Muskrat frequently uses deportation as a threat

indynet.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Regardless of his government job, he has no legal authority, but who will prosecute, since this country is now run by criminals and Nazis much more obviously than ever before.

alexcartaz.bsky.social•7 hours ago

cc @niedermeyer.online

koboldstyle.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I know that probably most of human literature attempts to address how abstracted power creates cycles of amoral contempt and misanthropy but it would be kind of nice to imagine one of these bozos not going for the absolutely most cartoonishly evil option in all of oligarchical actions.

karmasdad.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Criticism is anti-me.

prettygothmachine.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Scumfuck.

olivekosheluk.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I wonder if this will come up in the earnings call tomorrow

isheoughtto.bsky.social•6 hours ago

nonono you gotta stop this he quit politics

gigi-emmy.bsky.social•7 hours ago

He's pure evil.

rationalpear.bsky.social•4 hours ago

i’m begging ppl to study up on psychopathy. they have no conscience, no empathy. he told joe rogan empathy is a weakness, which to psychopaths it is. they only see other ppl as objects in the quest to fulfill their wants. 1-4% of the population are born this way. their brains work differently.

byroya.com•4 hours ago

He told his first wife that she wasn’t allowed to cry when they lost their first kid. He’s a psycho.

rationalpear.bsky.social•3 hours ago

yes. absolutely. trump is also clearly a psychopath. these are predators walking among us. most ppl just can’t believe ppl like this exist. they are the definition of evil. we should probably teach about them in high school to protect society from them.

thebearjieux.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Imagine what he will do to the people who own his cars.

idoamir.bsky.social•6 hours ago

The reason Musk and Trump and so many Republicans are in power is that so many Americans simply lack the imagination to understand that there are people who really don't care AT ALL about anyone but themselves.

When they finally understand, it's always too late.

badscientist97.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Nah, they understand on a fundamental level at least, because so many of them also only care about themselves. But they lack self-reflection just as much as they lack empathy.

coconutlizard.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Out of control. Megalomaniac.
Psychopath.
Get away from him!

forgivemess.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Scum

bcmerchant.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I can muster not even a solitary iota of shock or outrage, that this man would threaten to deport his own employees for pointing out safety flaws just comports entirely and wholly with who we know Elon Musk to be

idoamir.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I've said it many times, I'll say it again: To Elon Musk WE ARE ALL EXPENDABLE LAB RATS. He cares about us like you care about a banana peel you threw in the trash.

archlichen.bsky.social•3 hours ago

I'm sure Elmo doesn't even care enough that we get composted properly.

idoamir.bsky.social•3 hours ago

😂🏅🙏

mom2yellowlabs.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Same. OF COURSE he did that.

wat3rm370n.bsky.social•1 hour ago

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-sues-customers-journalists-china-defamation/

bluefoxmoon.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Owned a Tesla (sadly). Sold it last year (yay!) and can verify her concern! The floor mat WAS a safety hazard! It constantly slipped and rolled up under the pedals! We actually took the mat out and never used it for this exact reason.

goodgryphrev.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I survived coloncancer, and I said I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Needless to say, I added an asterisk to that statement.

tom2050.bsky.social•5 hours ago

brianstorms.bsky.social•5 hours ago

It is impossible for me to convey how profoundly unsurprised I am at how easily folks believe whatever article comes out about Tesla. This particular case? Ugly 100% but there's a lot more to the story. And dammit NO I am not defending Tesla or effing Musk. Journalism on Tesla is an unreliable mess.

wenleh.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Not surprised

gloloh.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Rot in hell

travbot.bsky.social•6 hours ago

This is exactly why he loves H-1B visas

toobiefrank.bsky.social•6 hours ago

He’s such a prick. On the one hand he wants more visas, on the other, he wants to send them home if they talk back. What a 9 year old. Dija ever see that Twilight Zone episode where the child has total power over the adults?

moxieonabeach.bsky.social•6 hours ago

This is precisely why he held on to green card holders when he took over twitter. Leverage. Yes, he is a monster.

lucastosborne.bsky.social•5 hours ago

📌

lpdoak.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Well, Tesla stock is sorta his self-marketing cachet. Considering the precipitous decline I'd say Ole Elmo is going to go through some things....like his melting wealth meal ticket.

rockwils1.bsky.social•1 hour ago

writeone.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Megalomania combined with dubiously acquired wealth..

lavndrblue.bsky.social•7 hours ago

entrepreneur? He purchased every company he owns.

ncshusterman.bsky.social•1 hour ago

It's like the guy watched Schindler's List, saw Goth order the engineer's murder, and thought "someday, I too..."

gloriasin.bsky.social•5 hours ago

There was a time when BigTech tried to lead on helpful immigration reform...

monsata.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Aaaaaaaaand now we know WHY.

gloriasin.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Not deportation threats like Elno. Like expand the number of h1b visas and standing up for legal immigrants.

byroya.com•4 hours ago

They want those visas so they can abuse their employees more.

monsata.bsky.social•4 hours ago

The purpose of a system is what it does, not what it claims.
Looks to me like tech bros just wanted a bunch of slaves.

Wait no, not slaves, I meant: "workers they could: pay unfairly, coerce, harass, and threaten with total legal impunity".

Not one of them gets the benefit of the doubt these days.

kersplort.bsky.social•4 hours ago

They like the H1B program because it gives them a pool of workers they can arbitrarily threaten with deportation.

wat3rm370n.bsky.social•1 hour ago

they always tried to lead on controlling immigrants who work for them

phildethrace.bsky.social•1 hour ago

It’s not a contradiction. They want us to be disposable. So they can pick us up when they need, and toss us away when they dont.

corsayr.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Is this the flaw where the regenerative brakes in one pedal driving mode don't activate the brake lights of the vehicle? Because that IS very dangerous.

thegriffindoor.bsky.social•3 hours ago

He should deport himself.

atlantagaog.bsky.social•4 hours ago

The dude is a total con artist. Nothing more. Fuck this guy.

witchfinding.bsky.social•6 hours ago

This is the same guy who wanted to remove painted safety lines in Tesla factories because he hates the color yellow.

borne81.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Some o the smartest people I’ve met in aviation have worked for Musk, and just as many have said “no way” after having met him.

bjabuckeye.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Oh, I definitely believe this.

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