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[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Putting this guy’s shitty politics aside for a moment, Trump and the GOP have be shitting on EVs extra hard over the past year. Tesla is hurting right now, and if Trump wins the dead heat, that company could be fucked. Moreover, he also has a bunch of government contracts keeping Space X and Starlink alive.

If Musk doesn’t pay up and kiss the ring, he could be screwed if Trump wins.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Elon will be fine with his massive bonus that he totally earned for all the great work he's done for Tesla.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 5 months ago

The world will be much better off without these pieces of cum-flavored shit on the planet. I hope to see the day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't trump against musk?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Musk already was on 2 advisory boards in 2017, which he left over trumps decision to pull out of the paris climate agreement.

And a grifter like Trump never has any issues with taking money, no matter where it comes from.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Maybe...Dick to dick at Epstein's?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Even a shitstain like Musk has his worth: he made me recognize that there are no exceptions to the rule that there are no ethical billionaires.

i kinda liked him many years ago; a fact that makes me pretty unhappy with myself. I really thought that his push for wide adoption of EVs might be a sign of philantropy and a sense of ethics. i'm seldom THAT far off the mark, so i have to thank him in a kinda awkward way for dropping his act.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Fuckheads of a feather…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Insert Fry "I'm shocked" GIF.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 5 months ago (32 children)

At this point, how is owning a Tesla car not just like walking around wearing one of those stupid red hats?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I agree and I drive a Tesla, unfortunately it's paid off so for the time being it just makes sense to keep driving it because it costs me basically nothing.

But I feel like a POS in public and it sucks.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 months ago (9 children)

I’m sure there is a bumper stick that’s says “I got this before musk was crazy”

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

There are. I've seen them.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

He'll turn back to the left as soon as the he gets too clingy with his current audience and they turn on him.

Musk is worse, he doesn't care about his political leanings, he only cares about where he can have the most people simping for him.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

He's gone way too far down Trump's asshole for him to ever fool the left again.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Could say the same about any American made truck, except they've had the association with stupid rednecks for decades so it's just not talked about as much.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago

Musk is exactly the asshole many people figured him out to be. Such a gigantic man-baby.

[–] [email protected] 259 points 5 months ago (13 children)

Maybe his politics are complicated. Did y’all consider that? That a white South African industrialist who dabbles in eugenics, treats employees like shit, and thinks catturd2 is funny might be a complex enigma?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Did you consider that you might not have the deep insight of a guy in a k-hole who spent 44 billion dollars to run a successful social media company into the ground?

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Whatever could be the politics of the tech billionaire son of a South African apartheid blood-emerald baron?

I wonder

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[–] [email protected] 155 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Just pointing out that Musk is an immigrant.

Born in South Africa, immigrated to Canada to avoid military service, then used Canadian citizenship to apply for and obtain US citizenship.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He's the white kind.

Right, sorry. Right kind.

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 5 months ago (1 children)

New headline: Asshole shits on everything

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unwashed deviant asshole who Putin holds kompromat over forced to help another pedophile, who Putin also holds kompromat over.

Both met with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell…

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