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Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law (www.cnbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 438 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Because schools cannot forcibly out students to their parents SpaceX is now incapable of working there? Seems like there's something else going on.

[–] [email protected] 261 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He has a BS cult of personality like trump. And has learned he can distract from his real scandals by causing an overload of stupid shenanigans. That will capture the media focus. And keep it from where it should be.

[–] [email protected] 178 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In the UK we call it a dead cat strategy.

There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table – and I don’t mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted. That is true, but irrelevant. The key point, says my Australian friend, is that everyone will shout, ‘Jeez, mate, there’s a dead cat on the table!’ In other words, they will be talking about the dead cat – the thing you want them to talk about – and they will not be talking about the issue that has been causing you so much grief.[1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 months ago (1 children)

elon despises his daughter.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

I don't know how much it's he despises her, vs how much he despises what he thinks woke people and the woke education system did to her.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Bullshit.

He just threw down big support for trump, he knows trump cant win CA so this could be a ploy to help him in TX.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elon-musk-goes-all-in-on-donald-trump/ar-BB1q5TOi

Additionally, musks good friend Ken Griffin of Citadel Securities alongside Blackrock are opening a rival to NYSE in (you guessed it) Texas. Whether or not its related, idk.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/caileygleeson/2024/06/05/a-billionaire-backed-texas-stock-exchange-is-in-the-works-heres-what-to-know/

[–] Voroxpete 31 points 4 months ago

Yeah, his daughter is trans and publicly disowned him. The dude has basically quadrupled down on his transphobia ever since just to prove how totally not butthurt he is over this.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nope, I think Elon is really onto something. Woke schools means we can't go to space anymore!

LOOK WHAT WE MADE HIM DO!!!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. But who the fuck knows what planet trans people are from?!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Uranus obviously.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

according to Hedwig, they're the Children of the Moon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Pluto, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Uh shouldn't it be Earth?