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[–] [email protected] 251 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Nationalize his assets and deport him to South Africa

[–] CryptoRoberto 125 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Tesla was built off the backs of the US taxpayer. It's so crazy to me that he's too dumb to realize being a toxic right winger is bad for business. He gets tax payer funds from the Democrats, his customers definitely skew left of center. I always thought Tesla was insanely over valued, but with all his bullshit and the major car manufacturers giving them competition now Tesla is bound to collapse...

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Xesla has shaved $40k of the MSRP of their top end models since January.

I wonder why that is?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean aside from them literally losing features over time, adding bullshit recurring payments for basic technologies, and promising for like a decade that every year was THE YEAR full auto pilot would come out? Well aside from that stuff, it's probably all that stuff the guy above said.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, my distrust of autopilot lies in the competency of the surrounding Human drivers. They cray-cray. Not that I own a Tesla, mind. I don't, and won't.

But autopilot on these streets? Pass.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I trust a well-programmed computer with decent sensors more than an ad hoc chemical computer with mediocre and limited sensors hauled around in a meatbag. And when we have one of those, I will get it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They do it to get under the new lower tax rebate limits for cars. Luxury cars are (rightly) getting less tax breaks than they used to. And Tesla is lowering prices to make sure their customers still get the rebates (which is still a huge reason anyone buys electric cars at this stage).

The irony is that Muskrat was railing against rebates and wanted them to be cancelled, but when sensible lowering of limits made his cars uncompetitive, he could magically lower the price to keep the competitive.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Yeah but in the era of supply side economics, selling bullshit to shareholders is what matters. The product is unimportant, what the shareholders think other shareholders think about the future of the product is what's important to a business now.

Shareholders skew right (some psychotically so when you consider the Saudis), and that's who Musk is selling bullshit to.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

He did it to shore up support from manchildren since like 3 of his sex scandals hit the news in one week.

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

I wouldn't be opposed to a law change where if a company that takes subsidies breaks the law, the state can nationalize it at no cost. That would solve a lot of issues.

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

why only when they took subsidies?

Companies that violate laws repeatedly or in particularly grave cases should always bs subject to seizure, if the management and bodies representing the shareholders did not adress the issues as soon as they had to know about it.

For publicly traded companies it is a bit tricky, but if the sourxe of problems is a majority shareholder then they should just seize his stocks.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

South Africa is where his families money is from and he can still have power there.

Guantanamo Bay is where he belongs

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Send him to that big garbage island in the Pacific.

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

When was UK in Pacific?

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

Nah, we don't want him either

[–] captain_aggravated 3 points 1 year ago

Or extradite him to Ukraine.