I, for one, definitely won’t be buying another Tesla as long as Naziboy Musk has anything to do with the company.
I mean, yeah, all time high. They’re gonna go down.
I genuinely do not give a shit what Elon Musk is doing or thinking or saying or fucking.
I can’t block electric vehicles, but then I realized I can block OP! Bye bye american politics
“I don’t care SO much that I’m going to leave a comment about how much I don’t care! Feel bad, OP! Someone didn’t like this post!”
Said it dozens of times, Musk’s one and only true talent is, or rather was, pumping his stock value.
We done got smart, sumbitch!
What gives people the idea that Musk actually cares about Tesla stocks? His lifetime experience of failing upwards, perhaps?
What does Musk think Trump is going to do for him? Trump has said multiple times he wants to outright ban EVs and increase fuel production and sales. He hates public transportation, so he’s not going to support The Loop. He’s weirdly obsessed with space, sure, but Trump isn’t going to give him money for SpaceX. Is Musk looking for a cabinet position or something?
so he’s not going to support The Loop.
Neither does Musk, so same difference.
This is how Authoritarianism works. Trump will ban all EVs with the exception of ones made by his inner circle.
Yes, he already announced plans for a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
I fucking hate this timeline
Of course he did, the greasy bastard.
Crazy to think about how supremely fucked up musk’s deepest core beliefs must truly be, working from a base of growing up in South Africa on the PRO Apartheid sideb with those broken psychopath parents. Like we see plenty from him, but he’s aware enough to not say the absolute worst of it out loud.
He’s the evil foreign born person they’re terrified of. He just ran over to their side so he could point outward to redirect the fingers he feared would point at him. Evil divorced coward
I wonder if errol musk and fred trump would have been bros. They certainly seem similar from what i have read about them both
It definitely affected me. In retrospect I’m glad I bought a different EV.
I don’t think Elon is wrong. I went back stateside this summer after being away since 2020, and there were Tesla cars everywhere. My daughter and I made a joke about seeing a cyber truck in the wild thinking it wouldn’t happen, and we ended up seeing 3 of them.
I think most people don’t care about politics, and just want a decent EV. There is an old Mark Twain quote about someone who doesn’t read the news being uninformed, while the person reading the news is misinformed. I think in todays day and age, ignorance is bliss and uninformed may be the smarter option for your long term health.
If you’re uninformed and it doesn’t affect you, congratulations. The system is working for you. Unfortunately, that’s not the case for everyone.
imo if you want a functioning democracy most people should be informed of the events happening around them
Which do you think? Useful idiot or foreign actor?
If Musk wasn’t with Tesla, I’d consider Tesla an option. And, I’m definitely in the market, my lease runs out in January. But with that idiot, nope. No chance. Doesn’t even have anything to do with Trump support. So I guess he’s right in a way?
Ioniq, or wait for the solid state battery packs in 2026. That’s my dilemma.
Why not both?
Just the other day I saw a Tesla with a bumper sticker stating “I bought this before Elon went crazy.”
It sucks, where is the 2016 Musk. That dude seemed to really want to help the world.
Tesla was in a difficult position, but was really doing good things, SpaceX was just getting off the ground (pun intended), The Boring Company wasn’t a thing yet.
But post 2016, he just seems to get worse and worse, meme coins, weird birther shit…
I used to really want a Tesla, they seemed like a car for me, but now that I am getting close to being able to afford one…well no, I think I’ll probably get a polestar. Musk you went from what I would have called a visionary to a joke then kept sliding into actively dangerous. Shame really.
The fall from grace was both spectacular and stunning. I’ve never seen someone trash so much goodwill and in such a short time.
It sucks, where is the 2016 Musk. That dude seemed to really want to help the world
Knowing people who worked with him at the time, 2016 Musk was a PR illusion and nothing more. He’s literally always been a giant piece of shit, he just had much better handlers and was able to hide it a lot better so he could get all those sweet government subsidies and commit stock fraud. Literally everything he’s ever done has been in the name of gifting money from the government or shareholders in some form or another for personal enrichment. He’s never once cared about anyone other than himself.
Musk is now one of the wealthiest people in the world and our justice and financial system have made it clear he won’t be punished, so now he can be the same piece of shit he’s always been, just publicly, because it’s clear there will be basically zero repercussions.
I had a client in 2011 who had worked for tesla and said musk was a complete nightmare even then!
I’ve always told my friends and family that Musk needs a sassy black woman as a publicist and all communications should be filtered through her.
As a Tesla owner of 7 years, my next car will absolutely not be a Tesla and it is entirely because of Elon Musk.
I appreciate the company spurring competition to enter the market with EVs, but now I hope they crash and burn.
Whatever happens next month, I doubt Elon’s decision will age well. Even if Trump wins, I would be shocked if he doesn’t turn on Elon within a year.
This is the key takeaway, imo.
I mean they’re also really shitty cars. As much as the muskrat as poisoned the image of the company, I think a lot of the loss and sales is due to other competitors having caught up and being higher quality.
I don’t drive a Tesla because I have never liked Musk. Apart from that imo the only model that is somewhat good looking is the model S but still very overpriced for what you get.
Dude keeps surprising me with his stupid decisions. Can’t imagine the shareholders are happy with his newest pro Trump thing, once again showing he is a huge narcissist.
Ai art finally getting some proper use here
Off topic, but…
“AI art” isn’t a thing anymore than “motorsport” is: it’s not sport when you’re not the motor.
Okay fuck ai “art” but why you gotta do motorsport dirty, that shit requires skill, physical fitness, shitloads of practice, and raw talent
Oh, no question. It takes skills to drive a car well - particularly a race car. It probably requires you to be fit too. But you’re not doing the work: the car does.
I choose to draw the line of “sport” at physical performance, because if you start including fine motor skills and intelligence, then you have to include poker-playing, model-making and mathematics and then it becomes ridiculous. And I say that as a semi-professional pool player: whatever I’m doing when I’m shooting pool, it sure ain’t sport, despite my having to train and keep fit.
Similarly, I choose to draw the line of “art” as you doing the art. Asking an AI to come up with a picture, however skillful the prompt, clearly isn’t you making the art.
That’s my take. Feel free to disagree 🙂
Sport is literally any competitive game meant to entertain. Why do you think they use the term Esport? Sport comes from the same root as distract and deport (to get carried away) as in, a sport is entertainment.
Motorsport is absolutely a sport. It’s not just the driver either. Just like any sport, everybody’s got a job to do and the better they work together, the better the outcome. Id call pool a “skill based game”. You don’t have to be fit to be a top pool player, or darts, or bowling. You’re comparing being able to replicate good skill dozens of times over a period of 1-2 hours where motorsport is using your skills constantly over up to 12+ hours depending on the race. Some are over the course of days.
The cars aren’t driving themselves.
F1 drivers need to workout to be able to drive their cars with all the force it exerts on their bodies.
Also, pretty sure you need “fine motor skills and intelligence” in every sport.
I think saying “it takes skill” and “probably requires you to be fit” are contradictory to your point. I would also argue that billiards is technically a sport. Golf is technically a sport.
Is art about competition or is it the thing that is made?
Aren’t they releasing quarterly numbers tommorow? I guess we will see what “all time high” means very soon.
Edit: Earnings release today after market clothes. Earnings call tommorow.
Note, they won’t tell how many teslas they sold, but they will report how much their profit was.
