Elon Musk
Elon Musk
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- jagara0
- Lefties drive Teslas.
- Elon goes righty, which might hurt leftie Tesla sales.
- But righties might be into Teslas now, which might boost rightie Tesla sales.
- Jeep wrangler is the most popular car amongst right wingers... Rivian seems to be moving serious units in California right nowjonny_quest_lives
- i drive a Toyota so it's all abstract to me... but that Rivian R1S is really pretty.jonny_quest_lives
- Donald wants to eliminate the electric vehicle tax credit as well.evilpeacock
- I see more and more Rivian's every day. Kinda surprising, but they are definitely selling.formed
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Elon has demonstrated, notoriously with Twitter, that he can ruthlessly cut expenses even when his top advisors tell him that it will destroy the company. He ruined twitter, gutted it, lost a ton of value, hasn’t recovered from it. Twitter costs far less to run, and is far less valuable to society. He failed but he did cut the costs.
In short, Elon has demonstrated that his ego is strong enough to ruthlessly cut even when painful and unpopular.
Trump is appointing him because he’s looking for a scapegoat, a ruthless bastard that can take the criticism and push forward even if it’s a massive failure.
Agree or disagree, America has a massive debt addiction that WILL sink the country if not addressed. 13% of all tax revenue goes only to paying interest. At current levels, this will rise to over 20% in ten years. For every $10,000 you pay in taxes, $1,300 gets us nothing.
If left unchecked, it is only a matter of time that that would rise to 50%, then 75%, etc. That’s how debt works. Spend more than you have, endlessly, and you go bankrupt. Simple.
The only way out of this problem is massive cuts to govt spending, or printing money, or kick the can down the road. The US has been kicking the can down the road for decades.
I’m not saying Trump and Elon will succeed. It’s possibly a problem destined to be met with failure. I’m just telling you what is happening. The stock market agrees, but it also can be wrong.
And by the way, both political parties are well aware of this problem. They just don’t talk about it much. Most politicians would prefer to kick the can.
It is the biggest problem facing America. Trump is going to try something different. It could end in disaster, but I’m guessing trump knows that doing nothing is also disaster. And he seems to be the kind of guy that would rather do something and fail spectacularly than to do nothing.
- One will surely sink the other. We tried something similar in the UK with Cummings + Boris. Unstable genius / narcissistic man-child combo. Not a natural fit.Fax_Benson
- Yeah might happen. Could be catastrophe.********
- But kicking the can forever is guaranteed eventual catastrophe.********
- And of course like most things in life, we’ll end up somewhere in the middle.********
- Users can flock to competing platforms but Twitter will always remain relevant as long as it champions uncensored informationhotroddy
- Anyone with even a hint of insight understands that big government often leads to the downfall of nationshotroddy
- A twat on QBN argued that Milei was a bad choice for Argentina because of 'LGBT' rights. Not high inflation, declining real wages, not currency devaluatiohotroddy
- is that the same free speech champeen who has complied with more government requests to remove information from Twitter than the previous owners?face_melter
- or the same free speech wunderkind who bans accounts because they post publicly-available information about his pedo friends?face_melter
- dunno man, something makes me think this Musk fella ain't on the up-and-up.face_melter
- Don’t know why you’re talking about free speech. Irrelevant to this post.********
- If your argument is “Elon lost a ton of value but retained free speech” that really has no bearing on the economics of American foreign debt********
- Btw most of that debt is to China. Americans paid about $600 Billion JUST IN INTEREST. Just handing money to China.********
- Yes, we should increase taxes on the wealthy. But it won’t be enough. Americans simply cannot afford these interest payments. Simple as that.********
- Imagine if we didn’t get involved in every war and just kept our $$$.monospaced
- Raising taxes is not the solution—money will simply flow elsewhere. The most effective way to address debt is by eliminating government corruption + bureaucracyhotroddy
- how's your 401k doing QBN?hotroddy
- cart before the horse... Elon hasn't been appointed to ANYTHING... it's a press releases from someone who hasn't taken the oath of office...jonny_quest_lives
- for a department/role that only exists in their minds at this point. and what authority would it have? super easy to say the government is wastefuljonny_quest_lives
- In 2023, around 19.58 million people worked for the US government start randomly laying those people off and see what it does to inflationjonny_quest_lives
- also the guy who just got elected plans to raise national debt to fund tax cuts which will saddle the United states with an estimated $5.8 trillion debtjonny_quest_lives
- his oll Alma Mater crunched the numbers not me: https://budgetmodel.…jonny_quest_lives
- The price of goods today is probably closer to the actual true cost than it has been in decades.jonny_quest_lives
- Sadly we have practically squeezed the last few drops out of the Earth System to fuel the last American Century... Figure we are all on borrowed timejonny_quest_lives
- @mono, I agree about not spending money on war. And so does Trump.********
- spending money on war? That money goes to American companies that create jobs and distribute profits to shareholders. That's actually good for the country LOLgrafician
- Do people think the US sends money to UKR directly?! I guess they do, no wonder half the country is low IQgrafician
- Inflation has delay, high inflation started with the pandemic, then the war in Ukr
All good done under Biden admin will be seen during Trump admin ironicallygrafician - And you think you have high inflation? 3% is high? We still have 6% with a GDP the size of Space X valuation lolgrafician
- Trump will most probably DESTROY the economy which just got back on track under Biden.
Lord have mercy, as they say...grafician - Also why discuss debt? Debt is good. Discuss the deficit - look into Chynas surplus before even starting a real discussion lol
China crashed their economygrafician - The US has a good economy now, just that many have no clue how an economy works
Handing the keys to the country to a dumb orange man because egg prices too highgrafician - will guarantee the US will suffer in the coming years. A lot of cleaning up to do after Trump again...
And no Elon won't get shit, they already fightinggrafician - You’re right, grafician, half of America must be low IQ — after all, it takes real genius to make sweeping, baseless generalizations.canoe
- grafician-3
What will he cut?
- renderedred-3
The X exodus - could Bluesky spike spark end of Elon Musk's social media platform?
- no, because he'd buy it for billions a nd run that into the ground as well_niko
- LOL totally!renderedred
- No********
- I like that he’s doubled down on making it even worse content wise. Guys a fucking geniusPhanLo
- x will always remain relevant for those looking for uncensored informationhotroddy
- We'll see which platform remains relevant during the next 'global pandemic'hotroddy
- uncensored and unverifiedd_gitale
- verified by? World Health Organization? WHO? WHO?hotroddy
- If you want 'verified info' tune into Corporate media. No point in blue skyhotroddy
- Verified Botsutopian
- verified by 50 FBI agentshotroddy
- Why do you say uncensored? Reddit is moderated, not against free speech, but against people being cunts.Ianbolton
- What about the pile on, for the paediatrician, who was bullied and abused because people couldn’t read and thought she was a pedophile?Ianbolton
- And the amount of Bots on Twitter is obscene. Elon could stop them, but I think he likes muddying the water - to encourage freedumb. Hotroddy, you’re a dick!Ianbolton
- The Founding Fathers understood the dangers of government overreach, especially when it comes to controlling information.hotroddy
- You might dislike it, but as long as legislators (Democrats) are perceived as attempting to impose 'guardrails' on free speech..hotroddy
- The other side will be seen as the defenders of free speech.hotroddy
- Kamala has more in common with authoritarian gov't (Maduro, Ortega, Lula, JingPin) than you think. They all shut down twitter in the name of promoting 'hate'hotroddy
- be careful who you insult online Ian. You may get a knock from the crown police.hotroddy
- Yeah but being anti-vaxx, flat-earth, racist, religious zealot, sandy hook hoaxer, pro gun fucking Karen isn’t free speech it’s idiocy._niko
- Idiocy at best, dangerous at worst. Just because you voted in a complete moron and he appointed slightly less moronic idiots in all important posts doesn’t mean_niko
- ...that reality will have to shift to accomplish their fucked up perception of it. They tell us that the sky is chartreuse because they say so and a hundred_niko
- ...million people blindly believe them because they’ve got their heads so far up their asses they refuse to search out the tiniest morsel of truth and fact._niko
- “Go fash, lose cash”PhanLo
- i don't understand what you mean about guardrails on speech. The only time i see that are from 10 year old being silly.Ianbolton
- Yesterday Elon reposted about how the UK is now a police state. It's bullshit, and he know's it. If you go out into the streets, most people are just getting onIanbolton
- The media and Elon are both wanking themselves into a frenzy of illiberal nonsense. In real life, there is no mental breakdown just people trying to get onIanbolton
- grafician-1
- "America’s future in one photo"grafician
- This gives me the sads.mg33
- L A D S !PhanLo
- The Healthy Threadutopian
- RFK keeping it real lolAQUTE
- Weekend at Bernies?MrT
- wow! just wow!renderedred
- how much is mcdonald's paying for all this?renderedred
- Corporations don't even hide the fact that they run shitYakuZoku
- Practice what you preach.ApeRobot
- Make American Healt—ah, never mind.Continuity
- Someone slip that pilot $50 and ask him to parachute out like in the Temple of Doom.elahon
- I swear RFK is looking at that thinking 'what the fuck guys'Ianbolton
- Aw, bless the Doanal's wee pots of ketchup.Nairn
- It’s so fitting they would appropriate McDonald’s as theirs. MAGA and McDonald’s are made for each other.monospaced
- https://www.instagra…jbasnight
- McDonald Trump is looking particularly bald here.scruffics
- https://i.imgur.com/…Gardener
- Don Jr. sitting there all happy that daddy let him have his own fries this time.Akagiyama
- RFK has surprisingly basic shoes.Nairn
- _niko2
this one's for hotroddy and all the freedom loving magatards out there
- Oh and should have added freedom to assemble and freedom to vote_niko
- I guess he pines for the beautiful and innocent days of his early childhood but instead of uttering rosebud in his sleep he utters “Verwoerd”_niko
- "Freedom of Speech" as long as you agree with me.formed
- "Rules for thee but not for me"PhanLo
- uniformity of press
uniformity of thought
uniformity of education
uniformity of language
uniformity to aborthotroddy - Medom of Speechdbloc
- freedom from borders
freedom from securityhotroddy - war is peace
freedom is slavery
jibber jibber piss flapsPhanLo
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Freedom of speech my ass.
This fuckin guy bought a major global publishing platform, took it private so he could be in control over shareholders, then forced the engineers to push notify his tweets to all users so that they would get more reach.
Freedom of speech my ass. Laughable. You’re an uneducated fool if you buy that line.
- Does the US government still have control over what appears/doesn't appear on X? Are dissenting posts...or people...silenced or removed?MondoMorphic
- Being from the Left, seeing his or Right-centric posts might be unusual, but that's just because they were previously being silenced.MondoMorphic
- You’re an idiot********
- Musk has turned Twitter into a blatantly political, biased site...exactly what he was supposedly complaining about.yuekit
- The app triggers a push notification to me for most of his tweets even though I don’t follow him.********
- That’s not me being over-sensitive to opposing views. It’s just him turning up his own voice over others.********
- I have a tight curated twitter, I don’t follow anyone who drifts into politics — right, left or center. I don’t find twitter to be useful for that.********
- But since he bought twitter, the app pushes me about 1/3 right-wing tweets, 1/3 bot follow requests, and 1/3 Elon’s posts.********
- You can mute him. Blocking doesn't help :))grafician
- lol people talk about this guy like he’s a tech genius. He’s just a rich dude with tons of confidence********
- BusterBoy3
I give it 6 months...max.
- sted2
- Projectile-3
I now understand why he "fucked up " Twitter.
He didn't. He bought the most powerful political propaganda tool, and pushed right wing MAGA ideology. In a really blatant way.
Next thing you know, Trump gets reelected, in my opinion largely because of Twitter pushing scaremongering hateful shit onto everyone's phone multiple times a day, for a couple of years.
He basically used Twitter to buy Trump the election, and if the platform was destroyed in the process, so be it. An election is worth a lot more.
Now, surprise surprise, he's riding around with Donny Tramp and being given power to make policies that will very obviously suit him.
What do y'all think? Am I nuts? Should this be posted in the conspiracy of the day thread?
- Nah, not really. Sort of but not really. He bought twitter for many reasons. It’s not much different than any billionaire buying a newspaper. Typica playbook.********
- He bought twitter because A) he didn’t like the way it was going, and his ego told him he could fix it and probably turn a profit.********
- B) he’s a bit immature, terribly insecure and addicted to admiration. To him, owning Twitter is like being king of the internet. And C) he could afford it.********
- Erm, so you don't think being king of the internet, per se, can give you more of a platform to promote Trump than legacy media outlets?Ianbolton
- He keeps spouting how Twitter is the Town square where anything goes while adding a shit ton of bots. There are thousands of Elon Musk-esque bots on thereIanbolton
- Spunking out disinformation and misinformation every single day now. And then there's the "look at all the libtards leaving'. He knows what he's doingIanbolton
- Online speech should be moderated. If you wouldn't say it to someones face in real life, then you shouldn't typing it. But ya know, cunts love free speechIanbolton
- meh - no-one is forced to read twatter - those that do deserve / want everything they gethans_glib
- it used to be a decent community website where i could follow a ton of things here in Leeds as I never used Facebook. It still is, but it's difficult to ignoreIanbolton
- the political shouting of MAGAIanbolton
- I have left Twitter almost completely, because of him. But I can't ignore the fact that there are still a LOT of people on there, daily, getting pushed MAGAProjectile
- People who didn't give a F about womens sports or young people transitioning, but now believe it's the reason their kids is a brat and their wife hates themProjectile
- its just one piece of a larger puzzle, its not the only reason Trump wonHAL9001
- Let's all be honest, Trump won because he loves MacDonald's. The dinner of champions. Usain Bolt won gold medals on chicken nuggetsIanbolton
- I think you are nuts. Twitter purchase more likely about: 1) everything app to copy WeChat. Critical mass of users already. 2) owned training data for AI.monNom
- 2024 votes for trump were comparable to 2020. So unlikely twitter made any real difference. There’s probably a starlink play in the future somewhere as well.monNom
- IE a global payment and communication platform that is accessible anywhere in the world through a dedicated satellite network. Probably with its own crypto coinmonNom
- Oh and robo taxis, maybe with Optimus delivery robots... I don’t think anything he does is disconnected.monNom
- Yeah he knows what he’s doing but I don’t think it was a master plan from before he bought it********
- Nah, not really. Sort of but not really. He bought twitter for many reasons. It’s not much different than any billionaire buying a newspaper. Typica playbook.
- grafician-1
- 8) Rename country to X.gov********
- Yikesinstrmntl
- these are the kind of plans that sound smart to really stupid people...jonny_quest_lives
- https://democrats-bu…jonny_quest_lives
- for the sake of argument let's say you reduce a headcount of a government agency by 80%...jonny_quest_lives
- "The largest department in the federal government is the Department of Veterans Affairs.This department comprises about 16% of the total federal workforce"jonny_quest_lives
- next highest?jonny_quest_lives
- Department of the Army, Navy, and Air Forcejonny_quest_lives
- next highest?jonny_quest_lives
- Department of Homeland Securityjonny_quest_lives
- Next Highest?jonny_quest_lives
- Department of Justicejonny_quest_lives
- Next Highest?jonny_quest_lives
- Department of Treasuryjonny_quest_lives
- Practically untouchables
They won't succeed with this plangrafician
- 8) Rename country to X.gov
- renderedred1
Elon Musk is directing harassment toward individual federal workers
- sted0
lol the cheater.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/18…- out of interst, how is he cheating? (I've never played Diablo)Nairn
- from what I understand he's exploiting a bug in the build, it's still a valid WR... just maybe not one that competitive speed runners would try to achieve.kingsteven
- Ok, that sounds about musk then. The usual lying, bullshit, obliviously self- unaware self-aggrandisement.Nairn
- I can't wait 'til the deep state offs him.Nairn
- after reading a little more, it seems the top players were achieving 90 second runs before the bug was patched so it's not impressive at all. he's just trollingkingsteven
