Maybe constantly belittling liberals, the core demographic for EVs, while shamelessly pandering to MAGA, a group that makes fun of people who buy EVs, wasn’t such a bright approach to boosting sales of your EVs.
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Twitter was instrumental in Musk winning the presidental election. He will reap enough rewards with Gov contracts and tax cuts to more than pay for his purchase.
Buddy let me drive his a couple years ago. Very cheaply made and not comfortable. Had to replace sunroof, entire front end suspension plus other computer stuff within first year. Regular techy glitches. I'd never buy one on quality alone nevermind being a Nazi.
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It’s also the risk of the owner of your company being a complete attention whore, being in the news a lot and then turning out to be a Nazi sympathizer/fascist.
That tends to put a damper on people wanting to buy your products.
Well, it seems the 80s lied to me once again. Turns out that being a narcissistic megalomaniac constantly amped up on recreational drugs DOESN'T make you a good businessman. Whoda thunk.
Just spitballing here… I’m thinking maybe having a ketamine addicted nazi mascot on your employment roles may just influence some folks to buy elsewhere…
Perhaps admitting that Ketamine was his drug of choice explains some of Musk's erratic behavior. Maybe Ketamine levels him out and Tesla's losses could have been much greater!
I take a battery pack EV and those all in for gas powered vehicles strapping into a car 16-18 gallon of explosive fuel! Thats cool too! I get your point though!
No one should buy a new Tesla. I'd be wary about a used one. You are pretty trapped into the ecosystem, with huge repair bills, and it all goes to support the end of democracies it seems, and not just here.
It sure would be awful if there was a scourge of swastika graffiti on the sides of cybertrucks. Just awful, and I do not encourage such awful antisocial behavior
Just awful. Do NOT do that at all. Such a terrible idea, Hitler mustaches on a car like that, right below the headlight band, ya know, like kinda just a big black stain on the front of the truly great, and amazingly engineered, cybertruck. Surely, don’t do that. Just say “don’t”
BUT, if it were just overt, that would truly be awful, ya know? Like, just a blazing hot red swastika on the hood of a cybertruck? Just don’t! Don’t even think about it! And if you see it, report it. But definitely don’t do it
I live in a neighborhood where the working class and biotech boys interact at the pub. The working guys are more left than the bioboys. "Does that T on your hood stand for Trump?" It's fun to watch them get mocked.
Really bad timing for musk when X is apparently “barely breaking even”
Maybe being a race baiting forced birth fascist isn’t as popular or profitable as he thought.
He never cared about Tesla. It was a clever way to get a buck from liberals and establish himself and then go after that sweet, sweet government money.
Awwww poor poor M-Elon head...lost some profits...wah wah wah..guess that's why you're defending on t-Rumps tax cuts to compensate!! But, your losses WOLL CONTINUE with or without them!! The public KNOWS where you're coming from now!!
Emo really is not a bright person. He is devious, a thief, and a manipulator and has been in the right place at the right time frequently, but his intelligence is vastly overstated.
In an economy worth trillions, it's nothing he can't fix with more handouts. Especially now that the DOGE started dismantling final traces of the welfare state and practically sentencing people to die from nutritional and medical issues the new gvt burdened them with.
California needs to step up. They comprise 50% of US sales and 25% of global sales.
If California stopped buying Teslas they would kill Tesla’s valuation and by default Musk’s net worth by tens of billions.
I was offered a position at Tesla about 4 years ago. I would have had to sell my home and move from Michigan to California. Thank GOD I passed on the offer, because I would have been screwed! I used to admire Elon. Now I have nothing but contempt for him.
Thankfully I did. They made an offer that was difficult to pass up, but after researching the cost of living in California, it was a no brainer. $5000 a month for an apartment!
He's counting on making more money from the govt. Like taking over NASA; or selling his crap to the govt. But scariest? Starlink. Just like bezos with amazon connect. Controlling communication and freedom information. Oh yeah, he also want to live forever, hence neuralink.
Daughter recently married & is an attractive flight attendant. When single, she said repub incels didn't get a second look from any women she knew. Joke among her cohorts is they could spot red hats & handmaids as they enter a plane.
It really doesn't help that they are THE worst cars in terms of build quality. They may not have had to worry about that when they were (almost) the only name in the game but now they're up against companies that have been building cars for a century and can do it right.
He intends to pocket trillions of US funds to do whatever he wants with, and it looks like he’ll be successful. His current assets are just toys he barely cares about.
Not too much, too soon, if you look at EV uptake around the world.
It's more down to the US restricting competition with the 100% EV tariff and self-reinforcement of letting Detroit and dealerships (service makes 50% of gross profit) slow-roll affordable EVs.
That, and we need to be honest, modern EVs were invented in the U.S.
Tesla exists because its founders and Musk drove Cocconi's t-Zero, Cocconi being the reason the EV1 worked. Ford had an EV ranger around the same time.
U.S. automakers have chosen time and time again not to lead, deliberately.
Forgot about the EV1. Detroit had such a head-start on things, but instead of fostering the innovation, they quickly squashed it so they could rest on their gas profit laurels.
Like that fable goes: someone invents an engine that runs on pure water; powers that be make it disappear.
Volkswagen has less to do with Nazis in the modern age than Tesla does....hopefully.
Seriously at this point I'd rather go to the "Barbie Museum" and steal Hitler's car from the movie Rat Race than ever consider anything to do with Tesla.
He's a trust fund man baby who's been allowed to hide his loser persona behind other creative, successful people and take the credit himself. He fancies himself an entertainer, a bon vivant, when he's just another huckster who wants to steal your money....the more the better.
As someone who has ridden in many EVs the Tesla is not so great. The Mustangs are so much smoother and as a rear seat passenger I always hate the Tesla experience. Horribly bumpy and the car skids in the rear. There are better cars for you!
He’s a genius I’ve been told. But all I’ve seen of him is a blundering nazi who builds ugly impractical trucks and rockets that rapidly disassemble in an unscheduled way
AH but since he's made his solute who knows how many will by the Te-SS-la? I mean the rest of the thinking world is now torching his cars. But you know he now can get the alt right on board with electric.
Yeah and more and more alternative options. It's like the Chick Fil A people, or Home Depot who trash LGBTQ or support MAGA. I'll get my chicken and nails elsewhere. I also get my news from other than NYT, WAPO and LAT. I go for my arugula at Costco or Trader Joe's instead of Whole Foods.
If someone gave me a brand new Tesla for free I would send it back. Good news is there is a lot of other options out here now. At the end of the day all you truly have is your morals and values. Fuck everything else
Also no serious design changes in years, an aging tech stack that never worked as claimed in the first place, and real car companies figuring out how to make EVs that are better.
The numbers for the first quarter come out in April. That's this quarter, after he did his hand gesture(s). Those numbers are probably going to be very low. I can't wait.
“The value of Tesla's brand fell by 26% in 2024, a second straight annual decline, with factors including an aging lineup of vehicles, and CEO Elon Musk's ‘antagonism’”
Plus, of course, the offerings from China, Korea, and the usual European makers are really superior to Tesla in terms of price, style, and performance.
As long as he's allowed to manipulate the stock market what does Elon care? Tesla has a greater market value than the next 5 car companies combined despite never hitting the sales or profit of a single ONE of those other car companies...without manipulation, Tesla stock would be worth 20 bucks.
Yes. The South African Nazi Ketamine Freak needs much better marketing.
The bottom really falls out in 2025 when he decides that cutting entitlements is a really cool idea.
I would like our next car to be an EV or plug in hybrid. I would NEVER buy a Tesla. If I got it for free I would donate it to the ACLU just on principle.
That's the thing that I didn't understand in regards to his rightward lurch; MAGA for the most part either can't afford or wouldn't be caught dead in a Tesla or any other EV, parsley because of how Trump has mocked and demonized them… So who does he think is going to buy them?
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The $44 billion paid for Twitter is now almost worthless, with no chance of profitability.
Trusting military secrets and nasa tech to a traitorous nazi will also see SpaceX and Starlink government contracts awarded elsewhere.
#worldwakingup
Let’s say if I were a business, I would take my advertising elsewhere
His “creations” are ugly, he’s racist, misogynistic & authoritarian wannabe fascist nazi loving lunatic
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That tends to put a damper on people wanting to buy your products.
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They are the cheapest cars money can buy and the CEO fires Americans and hires H1B workers
It’s why Biden told him to F off
And every American should do the same!
Stop feeding the monster!
Maybe being a race baiting forced birth fascist isn’t as popular or profitable as he thought.
If California stopped buying Teslas they would kill Tesla’s valuation and by default Musk’s net worth by tens of billions.
I’m sorry. I’m nosy.
Musk was one of the reasons we did not consider a Tesla four years ago.
#Tesla.
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They’d better go all in on robots that can kind of fold a shirt.
So Musk is moving on, and is basically abandoning Tesla …
It's more down to the US restricting competition with the 100% EV tariff and self-reinforcement of letting Detroit and dealerships (service makes 50% of gross profit) slow-roll affordable EVs.
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Tesla exists because its founders and Musk drove Cocconi's t-Zero, Cocconi being the reason the EV1 worked. Ford had an EV ranger around the same time.
U.S. automakers have chosen time and time again not to lead, deliberately.
Like that fable goes: someone invents an engine that runs on pure water; powers that be make it disappear.
Seriously at this point I'd rather go to the "Barbie Museum" and steal Hitler's car from the movie Rat Race than ever consider anything to do with Tesla.
Don't let the "genius" in on the "secret"...
Completely offsets all green savings of his electric car company.
What a fraud.
The bottom really falls out in 2025 when he decides that cutting entitlements is a really cool idea.
Most importantly he now has a President willing to swap pardons for cash - very important to the future of his stock manipulation efforts.
Tesla has the highest fatality rate lf any vehicle on the road...
By more than triple the next closest "unsafe" vehicle make or model.