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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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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Go fash, lose cash!

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 83 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 211 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

Absentee CEO.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  1. Damage the brand by association.
  2. ???
[–] EisFrei@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  1. Get the president to advertise the brand
  2. ???
[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Get the president to advertise the brand

This is the same as "Damage the brand by association"

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] YamahaRevstar@lemmy.world 153 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (19 children)

I know this makes people happy and all that, but I won't be happy until his black heart stops beating and his cold, lifeless, Nazi remains are shot into the fucking sun. Fuck Elon Musk.

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[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

He wasn't close to tears, he just needed time to think of something to say that won't tank his wealth.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Has he tried saying nothing? That would probably work.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Little lte for that now, yeah? It definitely would've worked if he started 10-15 years ago.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 1 day ago

Maybe he was. Maybe Thiel had a conversation with him about drawing more of the wrong kind of attention.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yah everyone is reading way too much into this man, he's just a mentally unwell incel who figured out how to get money from people. His emotional state is probably a mess but it doesn't mean he's about to cave in. He has more money than God and he isn't going to crash out so easily.

Hot tip: it's a LOT easier to secure huge amounts of funding than you think, it certainly doesn't take intelligence, just good connections and a complete lack of self-awareness, I know from unfortunate experience that you can secure millions in financing simply by sounding sure of yourself and talking in ways that are too convoluted for everyone to understand... I have literally seen million-dollar checks handed over because everyone in the room didn't want to feel stupid.

[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Dressed in sunglasses, a gold chain, and a t-shirt proclaiming, “I’m not procrastinating, I’m doing side quests,” he paraded on stage.

What's the side quest for Elon; being on stage for the republicans or trying to get to Mars?

Each of his children is a side quest to him.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 1 day ago
[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago

Coming down from your nazi ketamine meth binge must be a hell of thing...

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 42 points 2 days ago

The ketamine ran out and reality rushed in

[–] Buelldozer 47 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Never would have happened if he'd stayed the fuck out of politics. Hope he has panic attacks every day.

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 48 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I hope he feels worse soon

[–] isles@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Well I wouldn't mind if he felt nothing at all

[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 43 points 2 days ago

This is all an act.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 107 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Men will literally do anything instead of going to therapy

[–] nanoswarm9k@lemmus.org 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Jinx@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 days ago

Crocodile tears 🙄

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 74 points 2 days ago
[–] kitmayfield@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago

Cry more you Nazi bitch

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

America has been a brand for the last century or so. A trademark, a copyright.

Nationalists are some of the dimmest people in the world. That said, we really need to take back our flag and our mottos and our dim, stupid, tribal traditions and markers, because most of the world is dim and primitive and despite hating it, we have to play the tribe game to survive. We can work on dissolving borders and all those lofty ideals quietly in the background, but we HAVE to not just squash fascism, we also have to manage the nation full of hateful idiots afterwards, and to do that, we have to appease their need to feel special and good because of where they were born.

There is a fine line you can walk to manage and maintain all of this while making real social progress, but we're nowhere NEAR that line. We keep falling for the same tricks so we don't unify into anything resembling a coalition for real progress.

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