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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago

Lol get fucked you dumb cunt.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Karma, he made so many people cry and bankrupt by firing them through DOGE.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago

Cry harder, little bitch. Hope you get fired the same way you fired thousands of federal workers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Should I play something on the world's smallest violin ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

How does this thread have so many comments and upvotes without a single critique of the source? "TV Fandom Lounge" sounds like some weird AI blog site, and the headline claiming Musk was "close to tears" (in quotation marks, so apparently someone said this...?) has nothing to do with the rest of the text. Nowhere does it clarify who said this about the interview, nor does it even mention crying or tears once outside of the clickbait title. And if you actually bother to watch the interview where he is supposedly "close to tears", he looks completely normal (by his standards). Media literacy is completely dead it seems, people are happy to mindlessly circulate complete garbage as long as it fits whatever political narrative they are trying to push.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

There are multiple "reputable" news sites that reported the same using similar headline:

Eyeballs grabbing, and probative headlines are not exclusive to "weird AI sounding blog site[s]".

P.S. I have nothing to do with the site.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If I had five cents for every time I've seen a comment talk about 'weird AI' and I've read it as 'Weird Al', I would have ten cents.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Weird Al always deserves a shoutout!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Not close enough. I want to see tears of blood after what I've seen him put our country through. Fuck this neo-Nazi chucklefuck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

I've been calling him the 'knob job nazi' after hearing about his fucked up wang

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Oh I see, suddenly when it's your income getting shitcanned we're all supposed to care.

Nah, fuck off you twat, no one cares about you.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

"I am close to tears. That is a human reaction, right?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

crocodile tears, of a Felon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago

It is. Which is why I doubt its true.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago

Oh no. Let me cry for the richest person in the world who also happens to be a fascist and spent the last few months posting on Twitter and running around the US president instead of doing his job as a CEO of a company. Total crocodile tears for this guy.

You reap what you sow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Just die already

[–] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

If he really cared maybe he should stop stretching himself thin, get out of DOGE, and stick to selling shitty cars

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

He needs to retire back to SAfrica.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The earlier Tesla's weren't so shitty. Not more than your average Kia/Hyundai EV anyhow in terms of being a car. The self-driving shit is another story.

Cybertruck has been a dumpster fire since inception though.

Yeah, if Elon could drop the politics, hand off X, and go back to just being a major investor in tech companies that actually have some pretty cool ideas, that's be great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Don't you want justice or revenge?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Revenge is overrated, and justice against the mega rich is rare.

If guy could cut down on the K, learn to not be such a dick and go back to being the figure behind businesses that actual did have good overall intent (electric vehicles, global Internet access, etc) instead of bullshit politics or seig-heils that'd be good for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I admire your willingness to forgive or at least forget.

I'm not going to be satisfied until the power he's been abusing is completely taken away

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Oh he absolutely needs to be stripped of that and barred from any association with politics, just to make sure that if he goes away he stays away

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

I think the damage is done even if he were to backtrack. People will just assume he's backtracking because of money and that's it. Not because of his actual ideals

[–] [email protected] -1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Haw Haw ^16

Edit: This was supposed to be a reply to the post, but I'm lazy so I'm not changing it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

That’s just a reaction his body makes on its own. He is incapable of human emotions.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Then just fucking die already. Bitch ass.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Boo hoo hoo poor wittle musky

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Holy shit, that little thing is playing a cello !

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Damn, did they up the size of his sympathy violin again?!?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

I love watching Nazis cry.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So… stop? You have more money than anyone could ever spend. Just fuck off already. Stop being so fucking evil.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He can't. He's all in for fascism. There's no going back to the shadows for him, he'll always be known as a Nazi oligarch. He said he would be going to jail if Trump didn't win. We know he's got ties with Putin so he might be being blackmailed into being the bad guy [not that he was good before, but at least he l wasn't toppling democracies before].

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

He supported the coup in Bolivia

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

For cheap lithium that he could have paid for anyway.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

He can't. He's all in for fascism

Nah. He has no interest in fascism. Fascism would hurt his bottom line immensely. He just tries to use his government position to give his companies, and by extent himself, more money.

The dude is motivated by money, not morals or his political compass.

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