Go fash, lose cash!
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
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He should list five things he's done for TSLA this week.
Absentee CEO.
- Damage the brand by association.
- ???
- Get the president to advertise the brand
- ???
Get the president to advertise the brand
This is the same as "Damage the brand by association"
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:
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Unless you're product is drama and intrigue, there is such a thing as bad publicity.
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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.
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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He wasn't close to tears, he just needed time to think of something to say that won't tank his wealth.
Has he tried saying nothing? That would probably work.
Little lte for that now, yeah? It definitely would've worked if he started 10-15 years ago.
Maybe he was. Maybe Thiel had a conversation with him about drawing more of the wrong kind of attention.
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.
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.
Mars.
Coming down from your nazi ketamine meth binge must be a hell of thing...
The ketamine ran out and reality rushed in
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.
Never would have happened if he'd stayed the fuck out of politics. Hope he has panic attacks every day.
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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I hope he feels worse soon
Well I wouldn't mind if he felt nothing at all
This is all an act.
Oh no, maybe he should've tried minding his own business instead of trying to destroy democracy in multiple countries at once!
Men will literally do anything instead of going to therapy
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.
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.
Crocodile tears 🙄
Such a shame the gov't of California made him go crazy during COVID. Without Elon's companies, we might not have transportation without relying on gasoline imports. EV's may have never taken off the way they have. We would still be relying on Russia to get to space without SpaceX. He has done some amazing things, but why did he have to turn out to be such a little bitch?
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America doesn't exist.
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.