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    Tesla Investors Call for Musk’s Suspension

    They’ll quickly find themselves in the same position as the GOP with Trump. Where they want to replace him and cut their losses but the cult of personality is around that one person and nothing else. That’s what happens when your audience is so cult-like and fanatical. Not that I feel bad for either the GOP or Tesla obviously, it’s still their fault for cultivating these bastards and they don’t deserve the slightest sympathy.

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    Republicans flock to buy racist cars, only find electric. Confusion sets in.

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    I’m waiting for Apple and Google to pull the X client from their app stores.

    Then the fun really begins.

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      Not going to happen as all these companies work together. these companies are notorious to trick regulars into thinking they are helping the society.

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        1. SocialMediaPlatform™ does something horrible

        2. Make a huge deal about pulling ads from SocialMediaPlatform™ to get consumers on your side

        3. Quietly return ads to SocialMediaPlatform™ after PR team determines everyone has forgotten

        4. SocialMediaPlatform™ does something even worse

        5. GOTO 2

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          Lol so true. Its not just Twitter though, most of the companies do the same thing. However its on us to not make noise and boycott the shit outta these companies.

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    Shares of Tesla rose approximately 10% this week

    Clickbait headlines. A few investors threw lip service but money talks and it seems most of them don’t care too much.

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            Well yes, but it’s more about what it doesn’t say than what it does. If “investors” in general we’re all so upset they would pull out their investments and the price would crash. But that’s not happening.

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              Why must someone upset at potential losses turn them into actual losses? You can’t think of an alternative, like pushing articles on some mouthpiece publication, maybe Gizmodo? Nope, if anyone cared they’d all show it by losing money and influence, obviously

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                Why must someone upset at potential losses turn them into actual losses?

                …if they were concerned about “actual losses”, they would be selling their shares so they would not turn into actual losses. But they don’t care, and they know no one else does either, beyond complaining about it on Twitter.

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                  Sorry, I forgot that when you want to sell a bunch of stocks everyone just buys them all at your preferred high price, and then the price magically goes down after

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      this is one of the few levers of power we have. remember that every nickel they have comes from us working and us buying.

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        I think what you’re saying is either inaccurate or excessively vague. Many ultra rich people got money by inheriting it, through the stock market, and to a much lesser degree, through government spending programs.

        The way you framed the issue is a classic one, and it’s essentially blaming us, the consumers, for creating the problem that we are facing. First of all, that would simply be inaccurate because there are many causes, and second of all, it doesn’t really matter who you blame. The question is how we can fix the broken situation.

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          I love how you protest blaming consumers and then in the next sentence say “it doesn’t matter who you blame”. The answer to “how we can fix the broken situation” starts with identifying the problem (AKA laying blame).

          In reality, there is no shortage of people to blame. You can blame the corporations, the stock market, politicians, nepotism, capitalism AND consumers, and none of that would be wrong. The only wrong thing to do is to remove blame from any of them.

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          blame, responsibility, and the ability to do something are three interrelated but distinct concepts. the ability to force bad actors to change by refusing to reward them for bad actions does not put the blame on us for failure to do so. If you forget to lock your front door and someone robs you, there was something you could have done to prevent the robbery but only the thief carries the blame.

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      These people have money for blood, what makes you think their ethics are any different? I don’t care what sets the face eating leopards off so long as they get to eating faces.

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    BirdChan is turning into a shit show and the blast radius is very large. When you pretend to be smart and savvy catching up to you in a very large and glaringly painful way.

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    Musk going down in history as the person removed from leadership in the largest number of billion dollar companies ever.

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    Musk finally end that step too far. Dude forgot there’s a world out there beyond the weird right-wing bubble he’s created for himself on X.

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    I’m sure his response will be doubling down and turning away more investors. But if that goofy fucking truck being shit, delayed, and possibly a scam didn’t dissuade them…

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    Let’s not bag this guy just yet, he may be a bit of a loose cannon but if there’s one thing that’s kept China from descending into a hot war with Taiwan ironically it’s not politics, it’s this guy’s charisma.