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

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    He should list five things he’s done for TSLA this week.

    Absentee CEO.

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          Get the president to advertise the brand

          This is the same as “Damage the brand by association”

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            FR idk why they thought it would help them at all.

            Basic economics for anybody with the initials E.M. and a net worth in the billions:

            1. Unless you’re product is drama and intrigue, there is such a thing as bad publicity.

            2. Exposure can only increase demand with diminishing returns up to a asymptotic threshhold. A brand that everyone already knows about won’t see increased sales from promotion.

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    Oh no, maybe he should’ve tried minding his own business instead of trying to destroy democracy in multiple countries at once!

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      Oh no! Fantasy business failing just like those fired engineers with safety concerns said it would!

      Too bad the rare resources are already wasted!

      Let me… finish writing out… this reality check for… 0 fucks.

      Liquidate that shit into individual gardening grants and public train money.

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      The dumbest part is, he absolutely could have gotten involved in politics and still been fine. Zuckerberg and Bezos have both publicly supported fascism and not seen nearly as much backlash. All Musk had to avoid was making two brazen Nazi salutes on national television and then becoming the face of the most moronic, questionably legal, regularly reversed (by both the courts and DOGE itself) funding cuts in the history of our nation.

      But billionaires are actually narcissistic and lucky, not smart and hardworking, so here we are. The richest man in the world, probably high most of the time, crying on TV. If someone had written a novel with this plot 20 years ago I would’ve dismissed it as too stupid.

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        becoming the face of the most

        Exactly why he’s doing it. The details matters less to him than beating other billionaires you mentioned at something, even if that something is abhorrent.

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    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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        He can’t. He’s all in for fascism

        Nah. He has no interest in fascism. Fascism would hurt his bottom line immensely. He just tries to use his government position to give his companies, and by extent himself, more money.

        The dude is motivated by money, not morals or his political compass.

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    Awww widdle Nazi is all sad! :(

    Maybe follow Daddy-Hitler’s example and eat a bullet - then you won’t be sad at all!!

    Piece of shit.

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      Stupid shit like this does more damage to conservative shitheads than any amount of “intellectual dismantling” of their ideology. This is their level of petty attacks on appearances, this is all they really know.

      The left needs to get a lot stupider and a lot more superficial a lot faster if we hope to beat them.

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        The problem is, being petty is against lefty values. Take King Charles and his fat fingers. When lefty’s were making of him, there were probably a few fat fingered innocents out there with the same condition who felt self conscious. And that’s unfair. Making fun of appearances is untargeted and hurts those in the crossfire. But the problem is IT’S SO EFFECTIVE FOR OPTICS AND MORALE.

        So either we give up that effective campaign for ethical reasons, or we just collectively let some people take the L for the advancement of leftist morale and publicity. It’s a doozy!

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          I mean, at this point you get to choose between hurting the feelings of innocent bystanders or we get to be the smuggest people in the camps who feel great about ourselves for not “stooping to their level.”

          Consideration and care is great when you have the stable society that allows you to take that time and care. It’s arguable if we ever really had that stability, but we definitely do not right now. This is just like the people who couldn’t vote for Harris because of her position about Israel. Yes, you’re ethically correct in the linear little world of your own feelings about doing the right thing, but would those people make the same decision now?

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            There’s a saying where I’m from “You can be the last righteous man or the last man standing” mind you this in context to killing Mormons but still I think the Left as a whole needs it etched in their fucken skulls. Is there really a point in holding punches if the other person has a knife, id say no since they aren’t holding back. Don’t hold your tongue when dealing with fascists just make sure it bites, throw a couple slurs around if ya have to.

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              I’m saddened but also unsurprised that so many of my countrymen would rather the nation fall in flames to fascism than “sink to their level.”

              There are at least a couple slurs I readily fall back on when dealing with these… people, but I routinely am attacked by my so-called-allies for not being “civil.”

              It’s a real testament to the effectiveness of KGB social disruption tactics that our whole nation is so afraid of being accused of being bigoted that we have allowed bigotry to not only flourish, but install itself in the highest seats of power.

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    Behaving like a shithead has consequences. Hanging out with corrupt shitheads has consequences.

    Welcome to the real world Elon. Now cry me a river and get the fuck over it.

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    I hope elon musk dies alone and unloved in tremendous pain. When he dies I will be throwing a party. Him and Trump.