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Someone toss his ass in prison already!

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[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

And who just holed that ship below the waterline?

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 points 19 minutes ago

He, Trump, and the Republicans.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 20 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

It's a single car company. World economy doesn't depend on Tesla's success. Not even the American economy. If Tesla dies, it's just a canary in the coalmine for much, much bigger economic problems. Like, you know, how they put dipshits in the White House, or something. So it's kind of interesting that Elon has a moment of lucidity here, because no one around him seems to realise how screwed they are.

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Reread that sentence there

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 hours ago

“If I drive us all off a cliff, I won’t be using my eject button”

Even in his expressed delusions, he continues lying to everyone else

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 25 points 14 hours ago

Fuck off and die Elon.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 30 points 15 hours ago

Just gotta love the sudden change in demeanor in the pictures of articles regarding him.

Destroying the country? Laughs and jumps. Losing everything he "worked" for? Serious face.

Bye Elon get out of here.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

a rat is suppose to flee a sinking ship, not sink with it. maybe if you wernt on drugs 100% of the time.

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 hours ago

The rat is trying to convince us it is the captain.

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 26 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

It's because the company is fully subsidized by carbon credits and government funding. The crazy brand valuation is based on fully autonomous driving and person less cabs which will never happen at Tesla.

[–] crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org 16 points 17 hours ago

And vibes, don't forget how the traders love their vibes!

[–] LaterRedditor@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

a.k.a government handouts

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

He’s like the bad guy from titanic

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't watch that movie was it the iceberg?

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 5 points 10 hours ago

There's the guy who urges the captain to increase the ship's speed, so they can arrive a day early and impress everyone that the "unsinkable" ship is also super fast. And then sneaks his way onto a lifeboat at the end, when they're only supposed to be taking women and children. Arguably a parallel to Musk in that he's partly responsible for the sinking of the ship.

Much more prominent is Rose's (Kate Winslet) rich scumbag fiance who refers to Jack (Leo DiCaprio) as a "gutter rat", responds to "half the people on this ship are going to die" with "not the better half", tries to bribe with cash one of the men loading boats in order to secure himself a slot, and ultimately manages to get on a boat by picking up a random crying child and claiming it as his own. Much more like Musk himself, but not really a parallel in having resposibility for the ship sinking.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 130 points 23 hours ago

Says the guy who helped drive the “Ship of America” into the iceberg.

[–] Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 140 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

This guy is so entirely up his own ass.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 34 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

My understanding is that's for warmth.

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[–] Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 18 points 18 hours ago

I wonder who’s fucking fault that is

[–] superkret@feddit.org 70 points 22 hours ago

What he actually means:

"If the ship of Tesla goes down, I will take America with it."

[–] Archangel1313@lemm.ee 90 points 23 hours ago

At this point, it's pretty obvious his entire goal with DOGE was to dismantle federal agencies that were either investigating him in some way, or were trying to regulate his companies. So, I guess this means Tesla can't survive without him actively gaming the system in his favor.

[–] LarryLurkman@lemm.ee 32 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sick of Elon's bitch ass face.

[–] MOARbid1@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly! I'm ardently waiting for someone to dirt nap this clown, so I never have to think about him again.

[–] LarryLurkman@lemm.ee 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

He's scared to take a shit without an armed guard. Aparently, conveying this information counts as inciting violence on reddit. I just publically imagined having to stand there and listen to that flabby windbag take a shit and declared he couldn't pay me enough. He thinks everyone else is as greedy as he is, and in his shitty vampire circle, he's pretty much right. You couldn't pay me enough to kiss that ass. My self respect is not up for sale

[–] AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I would genuinely rather live under an overpass than have such a horrible job as having to work directly for that monster.

Also, it makes sense he would have such a fear of the bathroom; rats, snakes, specialized robots, and tentacles (in Futurama) can all make their way up into a toilet through the sewer system.

Edit: I just realized elon's ketamine addled brain might genuinely worry that the sewer mutants from Futurama might pull him down there.

[–] Ilixtze@lemm.ee 13 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I was living under the idea that the Load bearing snake oil salesman of the American Economy was Sam Altman.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's surprisingly modest of him, I'd have thought he would have put it the other way around.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 18 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

He’s not going to get any help from China.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 28 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah they’ll probably just nationalize his factory over there at some point and hand it to BYD along with all of the software and IP they can snap up from any servers and devices that are in-country

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

From what I hear BYD is better than Tesla at this point. I think we've come to the time where China is reaching parity with us tech. I mean what do we have that they don't?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 15 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

It is very, VERY far from being that simple. They are several decades behind the US and EU in jet turbine technology, for instance. And their chip foundries are definitely not considered bleeding edge. You have to go to SK and Taiwan for that. And part of Taiwan’s publicized defense policy is “we will melt our chip foundries to slag if the PRC invades”. Them being basically the best in the world at chip fabrication was a strategic investment (in a very literal geopolitical sense) that they began in the 70s and 80s.

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[–] theotherbelow@lemmynsfw.com 28 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Funny how he's figured that out after it happens.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Are you maining with a lemmynsfw account?

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Thats some big dick energy, so...probably the right instance.

[–] theotherbelow@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 16 hours ago

100%, reddit with balls and other notable things.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 18 points 20 hours ago

Stop, I can only get so erect!

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Elon.

If you are on a ship... and there is some troublesome bullshit cargo that keeps throwing off the balance of the ship, in a storm, and that cargo is the property of an idiot who keeps trying to erect his own sail, despite have no clue what he is doing, no idea how sailing works...

You throw said dumbass and his bullshit overboard, so the ship and everyone else survives.

... Then, you mutiny against the idiot captain whos been bought and paid for by the other idiot who is currently fish food.

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[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 23 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

We bought a Hyundai EV. Would have seriously considered a Tesla, but.

[–] Tilgare@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Model 3 was my next car for years. Now it's the Ioniq 6. I'm just so grateful that we are only now able to plan a car purchase this year, and not in the last 2 or 3 years where we would now be stuck in a Tesla.

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[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

Tesla board is not doing it's job if they don't replace Musky

[–] TheDeadlySquid@lemm.ee 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry buddy, but the US has seen bigger industries rise and fall in its time and survive. Your one company will be a blip.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 18 hours ago

Other way around.

He didn't say that Tesla going down would bring the US down. He said that the US going down would bring Tesla down.

The context here was him saying that he couldn't justify spending all his time at Tesla, since his expertise was required to keep America from going down.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 28 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It is long past time for torches and pitchforks.

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[–] pomfegranate@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago

At least the converse isn't necessarily true

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago

Batshit druggie loser says some fucked up bullshit?

How odd

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