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Someone toss his ass in prison already!

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[–] Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 149 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This guy is so entirely up his own ass.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My understanding is that's for warmth.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

I swear the way he stumbles around his words disarms people to the fact that he straight up lies all the time.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 138 points 1 year ago

Says the guy who helped drive the “Ship of America” into the iceberg.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's surprisingly modest of him, I'd have thought he would have put it the other way around.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He’s not going to get any help from China.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah they’ll probably just nationalize his factory over there at some point and hand it to BYD along with all of the software and IP they can snap up from any servers and devices that are in-country

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

From what I hear BYD is better than Tesla at this point. I think we've come to the time where China is reaching parity with us tech. I mean what do we have that they don't?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It is very, VERY far from being that simple. They are several decades behind the US and EU in jet turbine technology, for instance. And their chip foundries are definitely not considered bleeding edge. You have to go to SK and Taiwan for that. And part of Taiwan’s publicized defense policy is “we will melt our chip foundries to slag if the PRC invades”. Them being basically the best in the world at chip fabrication was a strategic investment (in a very literal geopolitical sense) that they began in the 70s and 80s.

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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

He probably meant to.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What he actually means:

"If the ship of Tesla goes down, I will take America with it."

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Elon.

If you are on a ship... and there is some troublesome bullshit cargo that keeps throwing off the balance of the ship, in a storm, and that cargo is the property of an idiot who keeps trying to erect his own sail, despite have no clue what he is doing, no idea how sailing works...

You throw said dumbass and his bullshit overboard, so the ship and everyone else survives.

... Then, you mutiny against the idiot captain whos been bought and paid for by the other idiot who is currently fish food.

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[–] LarryLurkman@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sick of Elon's bitch ass face.

[–] MOARbid1@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly! I'm ardently waiting for someone to dirt nap this clown, so I never have to think about him again.

[–] LarryLurkman@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's scared to take a shit without an armed guard. Aparently, conveying this information counts as inciting violence on reddit. I just publically imagined having to stand there and listen to that flabby windbag take a shit and declared he couldn't pay me enough. He thinks everyone else is as greedy as he is, and in his shitty vampire circle, he's pretty much right. You couldn't pay me enough to kiss that ass. My self respect is not up for sale

[–] AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would genuinely rather live under an overpass than have such a horrible job as having to work directly for that monster.

Also, it makes sense he would have such a fear of the bathroom; rats, snakes, specialized robots, and tentacles (in Futurama) can all make their way up into a toilet through the sewer system.

Edit: I just realized elon's ketamine addled brain might genuinely worry that the sewer mutants from Futurama might pull him down there.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Just gotta love the sudden change in demeanor in the pictures of articles regarding him.

Destroying the country? Laughs and jumps. Losing everything he "worked" for? Serious face.

Bye Elon get out of here.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] theotherbelow@lemmynsfw.com 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny how he's figured that out after it happens.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you maining with a lemmynsfw account?

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thats some big dick energy, so...probably the right instance.

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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is long past time for torches and pitchforks.

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[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's because the company is fully subsidized by carbon credits and government funding. The crazy brand valuation is based on fully autonomous driving and person less cabs which will never happen at Tesla.

[–] crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org 16 points 1 year ago

And vibes, don't forget how the traders love their vibes!

[–] LaterRedditor@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

a.k.a government handouts

[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We bought a Hyundai EV. Would have seriously considered a Tesla, but.

[–] Tilgare@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Model 3 was my next car for years. Now it's the Ioniq 6. I'm just so grateful that we are only now able to plan a car purchase this year, and not in the last 2 or 3 years where we would now be stuck in a Tesla.

[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's exactly what we got, an I6. Love it.

[–] couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

I have an ioniq 2017 hybrid and its still going strong. Have only done oil changes and tire replacements. Super happy with the car.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a single car company. World economy doesn't depend on Tesla's success. Not even the American economy. If Tesla dies, it's just a canary in the coalmine for much, much bigger economic problems. Like, you know, how they put dipshits in the White House, or something. So it's kind of interesting that Elon has a moment of lucidity here, because no one around him seems to realise how screwed they are.

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[–] Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I wonder who’s fucking fault that is

[–] TheDeadlySquid@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry buddy, but the US has seen bigger industries rise and fall in its time and survive. Your one company will be a blip.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 1 year ago

Other way around.

He didn't say that Tesla going down would bring the US down. He said that the US going down would bring Tesla down.

The context here was him saying that he couldn't justify spending all his time at Tesla, since his expertise was required to keep America from going down.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

“If I drive us all off a cliff, I won’t be using my eject button”

Even in his expressed delusions, he continues lying to everyone else

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

Stop, I can only get so erect!

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He’s like the bad guy from titanic

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't watch that movie was it the iceberg?

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

There's the guy who urges the captain to increase the ship's speed, so they can arrive a day early and impress everyone that the "unsinkable" ship is also super fast. And then sneaks his way onto a lifeboat at the end, when they're only supposed to be taking women and children. Arguably a parallel to Musk in that he's partly responsible for the sinking of the ship.

Much more prominent is Rose's (Kate Winslet) rich scumbag fiance who refers to Jack (Leo DiCaprio) as a "gutter rat", responds to "half the people on this ship are going to die" with "not the better half", tries to bribe with cash one of the men loading boats in order to secure himself a slot, and ultimately manages to get on a boat by picking up a random crying child and claiming it as his own. Much more like Musk himself, but not really a parallel in having resposibility for the ship sinking.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Batshit druggie loser says some fucked up bullshit?

How odd

[–] Ilixtze@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was living under the idea that the Load bearing snake oil salesman of the American Economy was Sam Altman.

[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Translation : "If I can't keep stealing US taxpayers funds and funnel them into my companies, they won't be able to exist on their own merit."

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Tesla board is not doing it's job if they don't replace Musky

[–] commitme@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that his first concern from said realization? Goddammit.

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a rat is suppose to flee a sinking ship, not sink with it. maybe if you wernt on drugs 100% of the time.

The rat is trying to convince us it is the captain.

[–] wiLD0@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What he really means is that if Tesla is going to go down, he’s going to take America down with it.

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