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Watch how Tesla goes bankrupt because of one CEO's idiocy and greed and then blame unions for it. Tale as old as time.
Thanks, Elon. You've convinced me. I won't vote for Joe Biden in November.
Look at all this Republican propaganda working! First I refused to vote for Hunter Biden for President in November, and now I'm not even voting for Joe Biden in November. I'll go even further, there is not a single man on the Democratic or Republican tickets I'm planning to vote for for President in November.
Yes, it was Biden and the Unions that made your stupid ass build that pedestrian death trap with sharp edges that breaks down when you wash the car without putting it in a certain mode and dozens of other stupid specific to that one vehicle rules.
no, that was little Timmy, he can't draw too well yet.
Timmy, how could you?
(Trump vowing to crush electric vehicles)
Musk: Why is Kamala planning on ruining Tesla?
While bankrolling him. Maybe it's ma$o¢hism
For those just joining us, Elmo has driven the car company Tesla into a smoking hole in the ground. Stand by for further incorrect statements and wild assertions of blame.
I'm really not sure his play. Like even he should realize that directly supporting the guy that has stated multiple times that any transportation outside of big oil is bad, alienating himself from the side that would most likely actually buy his technology due to the "green" aspect of it is insane.
Fortunately at this point it no longer matters if Tesla is dead or not. All car manufacturers caught up. Genius Musk singlehandedly destroyed the biggest Tesla fan base and opportunity to capitalize on being first.
Just yesterday, on Twitter, I saw a guy selling his Tesla because of Elon’s anti-trans moves. Actively asking for other EV recommendations, and getting a ton.
yes, he already got his bonus, but he will never let a good catastrophe go to waste and use it to discredit unions.
why does elon think people will agree with him that unions are bad? Arent super rich the only ones who agree with that opinion?
I grew up in a blue collar area and the normal lines that get repeated over and over is that unions prevent hard workers from standing out and excelling. They reward and promote laziness. They make the labour so expensive the business cant survive. And on and on.
I'm all for unions even though I was fucked over by Pepsi's union. Just make sure your union leaders aren't company men or women.
Sounds like nom union corporate software development.
I guess anyone who believes that thinks that they are and always will be in the 90% performance bracket who will get rewarded.
You'd be shocked how much anti union hate is alive and well in impoverished Republican areas. The propaganda succeeded.
this right here, I live in a predominantly blue district and the amount of people that believe that unions are the worst thing that can happen to a worker is insane. I have to give it to the anti-union propaganda, it was efficient and it worked.
The super rich a disturbingly uneducated
Shhh...he's campaigning for Harris in the rust belt at this point and doesn't know it 😉 #galaxybrain
If we could stop giving him tax breaks and government money, that would be good.
Fun fact about that:
Tesla has won $17 million to build a total of 41 charging stations. The next-biggest winner of grants, Oklahoma-based Francis Energy, was awarded much more money — almost $30.4 million — to build just 37 stations. (source
If anyone else in the industry could step up to make them less relevant, that would be awesome.
It's because they need to use pure gold for the cables it's the only thing that can deliver the 1.21 jiggawatts the cars need.
Or a clock tower at precisely 10:04pm next Saturday night.
...but who knows if those stations will still work 10 years from now if he fires the whole charging team on a whim to prove a point?
IDK if you have an electric car or not, but in case you're unaware, the non-tesla charging infrastructure is abysmal in the U.S. It makes Tesla chargers look as ubiquitous and easy to use as gas stations. All of those companies together have failed to even accomplish parity with Tesla. It's sad.
Now I'm imagining that the entire Tesla charging system is run manually by a cadre of switchboard operators plugging giant cross-connect cables in to a massive patch board.
:) it's set and forget, that's how elon's infra works
Reminds me of another grifter who built a real estate portfolio with tax breaks.
