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EV industry watching Musk's role in tariff fixing (www.voanews.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The electric vehicle industry is closely watching to see how Tesla boss Elon Musk, who played a key role in the victory of Republican President-elect Donald Trump, will use his influence with the incoming president to steer the industry's future.

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[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 66 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"Use his influence" = get what he paid tens of millions in bribes for

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

You misspelled 44 billion dollar.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

It doesn't matter that he has several hundred billion more votes than anyone. Money is speech bro. Legalized bribery is democracy. Well it was. Now fascism and dictatorship are democracy. That's called Freedom™️!

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Money is power/influence, that has always been the case. Not sure why you felt the need to put that in quotes as if it wasn't universally applicable.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

I was quoting the article.