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Must be nice just dropping (what he claims is) important work on the ground when you need a nap.
He's really demonstrating his famous work ethic. Maybe that sleeping on the factory floor legend was not about work ethic but about spontaneous napping when he feels a tantrum coming on.
Bullying works.
In all honesty, if he left politics and stayed out of it I wouldn't my just leaving him to his harem and 40k.
America's democracy is in dire enough straits that we don't need to be stuck fighting the world's richest man on top of the whole mechanism of government. If he'll get and stay gone, I say leave him to it.
On the other hand, he's rich enough that he can jump back in at any time and go back to fucking our democracy and he's proven to be impulsive and mercurial, willing to throw his lot in with fascists because he got trolled on Twitter over how skin deep his progressive credentials are.
BYEEEEEE!
I can't wait to check TSLA stock tomorrow morning
It's up, despite them completely shitting the bed on earnings. We'll see if it stays that way. Having traded stocks as a hobby, the market can be stupidly irrational sometimes. I believe it's up because he said he was going to distance himself from doge a bit, and do more for Tesla. Imo the damage is done, and he has done irreparable harm to the brand. Working less days for Doge doesn't change the fact that he founded Doge and pissed a lot of potential customers off in the process.
I don't think he will. I think he's trying to get people to sympathize with him.
Please don't take my last bit of hope with your realism
This better not be like the time he said he was gonna step down from running Twitter and then he didnt. He better follow through on his promise. And take his tech bros trying to shut everything down with him.
This is just posturing to make people feel like we're not speed running towards fascism. I doubt that there will be any slow down behind the scenes
Not going to change my mind. He’s for Donald.. I’m against him.
If he leaves that means the autocrats are ready to complete their coup. Then our only chance will be the military.
Does he need help packing his shit?
We should totally all agree that we will leave Musk alone and start treating him nicely if he leaves politics wink wink nudge nudge
He should just focus on making rockets fly and cars self-drive.
They like to flout the law in real time because they know there are no real consequences, but Musk still doesn't want to leave an opening for a federal or state DA to sue him for financial disclosure and conflict of interest, if only to avoid the PR scandals from discovery.
He's probably going to 'officially' bow out, but maintain a totally-not-suspicious amount of digital communications with the army of fuckup loyalists he installed.
You know, just like that time the fuckup in chief relinquished control of his extraordinary number of conflicts of interest.
Is this the same fatigue that Trump feels when fact checkers are present? He's always annoyed because the fact checkers frequently pipe up to correct him, but apparently it hasn't occurred to him they would be silent if he told the truth.
I hope that Musk leaves politics in a wooden box.
I don't want to wait until he's in a box. I want him to leave politics now.
He's a vampire so only if he leaves during the daytime.
Even the hat in that picture is looking to escape that douce.
Please leave your billions too, or the attacks will continue
Damage done. It's not even good news at this point.
"Elon Musk is reportedly set to leave his government role because he’s tired of the what he sees as a litany of vicious and unethical attacks from the left..."
OR...hear me out...Trump is sick of him and wants him gone (because two egos that large cannot coexist in the same space indefinitely) and this is the cover story.
OR...Elon has already accomplished 99.9% of what he wanted by gaining access to all the data he wanted and further embedding SpaceX, Starlink, etc., into government contracts.
OR...some mix of all of the above.
Like that will save him. He has always been a dickbag and will always be one. Just took a lot of people way too long to realize it.
Maybe get back to Tesla, I hear it’s stock is tanking.
Fuck this guy forever.
Excellent, please do, Elon. Arguably he has never been in politics, he just bought off Trump to get a job.
Keep up the bullying, it's working.
Politics is a form of negotiation with other elements of leadership to make a nation's major policy decisions.
Musk, you never DID get involved in politics. You hired a private army and got involved in criminal intimidation.
Consequences? Me? But I'm rich and cool!
We did it Lemmy