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

He fuck around, and he's now of the find out phase

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

“Oh no, the consequences of my actions!”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

😭🎻

https://www.marinelink.com/news/elon-musks-firm-buys-two-offshore-rigs-484690

https://www.worldoil.com/news/2021/1/25/elon-musk-s-gas-drilling-plans-in-texas-meet-legal-resistance

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2025/03/17/power-hungry-ai-data-centers-seek-more-quick-and-dirty-mobile-gas-turbines/

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/11/nx-s1-5088134/elon-musk-ai-xai-supercomputer-memphis-pollution

🎻😭

I will say though, I've been suspicious he's had long standing plans to just dump Tesla at some point in the near future anyway. I'm hopeful the point he was planning to jump ship and sell off his stock has gotten beyond his control and he can't do it without majorly fucking himself over.

Aside from everything else he's done to get deeply involved in the oil and gas industry, what made me really suspicious was when DOGE removed all EV charging stations from federal buildings for not being "mission critical."

https://gizmodo.com/u-s-government-removing-ev-chargers-from-all-federal-buildings-because-they-are-not-mission-critical-2000566987

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

If he thinks civil war is necessary but doesn’t think corporations will be casualties… then what does he define as civil war? Where less important things die? you know, those umm.. soft gelatinous things. People, yes people are expendable.

This soft and gelatinous thing looks forward to a place to expend his umm, anger and frustration.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Common Sense Skeptic's videos sure are fun to watch again.

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

I'm still not convinced that isn't just insurance fraud to try to recoup some money for junky cars no one wants while pretending he's a political victim.

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

Good luck getting that proven in a court

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

Does any of court even matter anymore when the president is in your back pocket?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The best thing about this is that Tesla is massively overvalued. Like, the stock price is more than 20x what it should be based on Tesla's earnings.

If Tesla had a reasonable value, then hedge fund managers and other rich people would probably be buying it while it was temporarily down and getting rich as it went back up. But, with it so insanely overvalued, it's much more likely they'll short it or buy put options and hope to get rich when it finally crashes.

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

How the hell do Elon and other oligarchs feel so safe to call for a literal civil war? He thinks the other side cares more about fighting Joe Bob more than the billionaires? Such strange delusional behavior

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Historically, that is how elites have always maintained their power, so yes. It’s just a lot more difficult to 1) mobilize an overworked and comfort-seeking populace, and 2) we are more interconnected than ever before.

The power of propaganda is being seized by the people. We create the content. We cover current and localized events (in actual real time) because it’s our actual communities. We know who is who and what is what.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like it when Nazi man-children cry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What did he think was going to happen?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Like everyone down there, they feel it will happen to everyone else, not them.

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