You have more power to be a tremendous pain in the ass than you know. - ThreadSky

bencollins.bsky.social • 431 days ago

You have more power to be a tremendous pain in the ass than you know.

The lawsuit that cost Musk $56 billion in Tesla compensation was brought by a heavy metal drummer who owned just nine shares.

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jennaroutenberg.bsky.social•431 days ago

Can someone pls turn this into a motivational poster for my home office, tyia

avultink.bsky.social•431 days ago

But at very least Elon would have done the right thing then. Not his fault that IRS has more holes than a bloody collander ;) @bencollins.bsky.social

avultink.bsky.social•431 days ago

Would be Funny if Tesla would donate Elon is bonus to Ukraine ( Granted Elon could call it a donation, do a regift at the IRS and your US law would not even be able to do a damn thing against that )

avultink.bsky.social•431 days ago

I don't feel the need to be part of Elon's system; but no man should earn that much money. To visualise it; it took the entire EU MONTHS to secure 50 billion for Ukraine aid w/o Orban being a pain in the ass; Elon would still have 5 billion left. In no normal world should that even be acceptable.

avultink.bsky.social•431 days ago

The thing with politics and money is that arrogance lies in fact that most don't think people will not be bothered by fineprint; I did not even finished my highschool; If I can learn that suit his 'language'; anyone can. All that is needed is determination and a willingness to be part of that system

avultink.bsky.social•431 days ago

That's the beauty of law. Im not sure how much the state lost on finance here with our win against country's biggest manure factory; but given it was a ten year battle; Id say quite a lot. All you need is a motivated lawyer who will educate you on the proper procedure work.

jayinthesky.bsky.social•431 days ago

fake disruptor vs real disruptor

lawnerd.bsky.social•431 days ago

I love Delaware law

skleinedler.bsky.social•431 days ago

This is awesome regardless, but a tiny bit of me was hoping it was the drummer from the band Tesla. :)

msoares.bsky.social•431 days ago

A heavy metal drummer is a craftsman in the art of making the right noise at the right time. Valuable skill!

guttersharp.bsky.social•431 days ago

We are all Mr. Deeds

mrl53.bsky.social•431 days ago

Nice!

jeffbach.bsky.social•431 days ago

you sound like my parents

cdncarrot.bsky.social•431 days ago

I've said it once and I'll say it again:

The only way we are going to make it through the shit storm of a society we have created is through the courts.

Bankrupting billionaires and redistributing that wealth. People in the center-left and on the left need to start thinking more creatively 1/2

cdncarrot.bsky.social•431 days ago

In how to craft holistic, fleshed out unflappable arguments. It is possible.

arkancrow.bsky.social•431 days ago

Homeowners who can't insure their house due to more frequent climatic events sure could try to sue oil companies.
They have known since the 50s

gonebabygone.bsky.social•431 days ago

I think a lot about John Waters’ description of the Yippies as “humor as terrorism”

ouisequitur.bsky.social•431 days ago

panther moderns gotta start somewhere

obicynkenobi.bsky.social•431 days ago

I wonder if this approach can be used by shareholders against video game executives that take significant bonuses at the same time they lay off hundreds of workers..

chrisdburke.bsky.social•431 days ago

What is sad is that we the American taxpayers are paying for it!
How & why?
From the clean tax credits $ that the federal government gives musk for building electric vehicles,
Musk sells those tax credits to the biggest polluting corporations in America for billions of dollars!
This BS must 🛑, 🤬!

danielholznagel.bsky.social•431 days ago

Power on both sides in this case

babs05.bsky.social•430 days ago

Well now that's made me smile. 😊

dohowl.bsky.social•431 days ago

Now that I know this, I want to sue him!!

thatoldbear.bsky.social•431 days ago

and why not, the Musks of this world are practically bowel obstructions in all our lives

matthewsp.bsky.social•431 days ago

Become ungovernable

blopeep.bsky.social•431 days ago

Death Metal

badgertricia.bsky.social•431 days ago

This headline though 😂

itsgorain.bsky.social•431 days ago

Hell yeah

rhcmuts.bsky.social•431 days ago

I just had a thought. (Doesn't happen often ;-)

Would the amount be what he's on the hook for on twitter + some padding?

And if this parachute doesn't deploy for him, he's in deeper trouble?

carolinefan.bsky.social•431 days ago

Aspirational nuclear revenge

monsignorerasmus.bsky.social•431 days ago

Truly some of the best news.

rassbariaw.bsky.social•431 days ago

Thank you for sharing this

ehusman.bsky.social•431 days ago

But in a good way

joekatz45.bsky.social•431 days ago

...huh

captainfart.bsky.social•431 days ago

I wish journalists were as good at afflicting the comfortable as this guy is

melissa13mw.bsky.social•431 days ago

Based on what I know about heavy metal drummers, this phrase is not that good of a descriptor - "an unlikely opponent"

This is metal as hell.

joqatana.bsky.social•430 days ago

Then why din’t I already have $58billion? Oh right. My billionaire is only worth 2.
I’ll take 5.8 million, tho

daddeh.bsky.social•431 days ago

Also, as anyone who has ever been in a band can tell you, don't fucking piss off your drummer.

kithrup.bsky.social•431 days ago

You still need money to be such a tremendous pain in the ass.

hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social•431 days ago

You call it pain in the ass I call it damned hero

jpoulos.bsky.social•431 days ago

It's also way easy to make yourself a target for harassment. His brownshirts are out there. He just hasn't given them a name.

interjention.bsky.social•431 days ago

damn, I mostly hold on to my Tesla shares to vote against keeping his dumbass brother on the board and like 90% of the stuff the board suggests voting 'No' on. I should be doing more.

simonee.bsky.social•431 days ago

i'm finding this to be much more motivating than many of the motivational speeches i've gotten

anubisthejackal.bsky.social•431 days ago

Life is getting to the point where it's no longer motivational to say you, personally, will get rich if you work hard (lol, no you won't). More motivational to say "if you buy a few shares of a corporation, you have a chance to make a CEO get a big sad."

tylik.bsky.social•431 days ago

This might be the most important bit of political advice ever.

miatadork.bsky.social•431 days ago

Hold people accountable. And corporations like to say they have the same rights as people.

wrygrin.bsky.social•431 days ago

They HAVE to write a kickass song about it, right? With a long drum solo.

flytyingguy.bsky.social•431 days ago

angelozanola.bsky.social•431 days ago

Heavy metals have proved to be Musk’s weakness.

jeromenicolas.bsky.social•431 days ago

thedarkestwave.bsky.social•431 days ago

I sincerely miss those heavy metal bands….

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•431 days ago

we all were thinking it

we = Gen X dudes

melissa13mw.bsky.social•431 days ago

GenXers, generally

viridiandragon.bsky.social•431 days ago

Thank you. I hate how women become fucking invisible.

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•431 days ago

Mea culpa, did not mean to erase anyone. Just doing a cheap joke. I've known lots of women who were Wilco fans. They're just extremely dad-coded to the point where it's a cliche.

viridiandragon.bsky.social•431 days ago

The whole problem is that NOBODY means to do it. But it still happens a lot. On BlueSky.

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•431 days ago

And yes, that's part of how rock in general is dude-coded and I'm playing into that so yes, my bad.

grooveholmes.bsky.social•431 days ago

Odds I get arrested if I stand outside Elon's house with a boombox Say Anything style blasting this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl3u-rcVgVs

johnwashburn.com•431 days ago

that was right where my head went!

tursulowepress.bsky.social•431 days ago

Me too!

ajlzarychta.bsky.social•431 days ago

This is the kind of legal trolling that I agree with.

dmitrimavra.bsky.social•431 days ago

that's a drummer for ya

michwatsonoz.bsky.social•431 days ago

I million grains of sand can grind any machine to a halt.

policyg.bsky.social•430 days ago

Seems like 9 grains was enough to do the job here!

trevorcavanagh.bsky.social•431 days ago

The worst people in the world already have this figured out, so I guess it's time to just unleash all the hounds and make some awful people feel it

mnance.bsky.social•431 days ago

Put this on a t-shirt, please.

jiminyspigot.bsky.social•431 days ago

Never go in against a metal drummer when stress is on the line.

wasape.bsky.social•431 days ago

Tesla gave out partial shares to people via some CashApp giveaway at one point so there are a lot of latent fun-havers that could do some jokery on Musk if they upped their stake enough

natanael.bsky.social•430 days ago

The real proof of stake

(obscure cryptocurrency joke)

midnightplat.bsky.social•431 days ago

giantpainintheass.bsky.social•431 days ago

That's my daily affirmation

bodhizen.bsky.social•431 days ago

Couldn't have happened to a bigger piece of shit.

deweycat.bsky.social•431 days ago

There are a number of companies I've thought about buying 5 shares so I could attend board meetings. But I haven't, because I know I'm too lazy (and broke) to travel for the meetings.

brunhilde2525.bsky.social•431 days ago

If we’re doomed to be small cogs, the least we can do is maximize the amount of grit in the gears

kirkmurphy.bsky.social•430 days ago

Ruckus Society ED/staff I served in late 90/00s did this to defeat WTO &then w ACLU/NLG got US Federal Court to enjoin LAPD from raiding Convergence Space from which Pico Union peeps (many undocumented) took garment district streets, humiliated LAPD's deadly Ramparts, & joined RATM outside DNC 2000.