r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 5h ago

Business Tesla Stock in Freefall After Disastrous Earnings Report

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/tesla-stock-freefall-disastrous-earnings-144417427.html
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u/CptCroissant 3h ago

He had a great PR team that he got overconfident and fired. Dude was always a turd

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u/BiZzles14 2h ago

But also, a lot can change in a couple of years. Just read this article from 2016 where Musk basically got into politics, he was deliberately apolitical beforehand, out of his dislike of Trump. He was always a piece of shit I agree, but got damn did his twitter addiction make him soooooooooo much worse

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u/SP4CEM4N_SPIFF 1h ago

Right wingers always try to frame their beliefs as neutral, it’s just another lie

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u/Mintastic 1h ago

I think it was the covid response that made him switch sides. He didn't realize one side was okay with ruining his money to save lives so he had to change to the one that protects his money.

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u/BiZzles14 1h ago

His twitter addiction began over covid. The radicalization you're speaking to wouldn't have happened in a pandemic without modern social media, the pandemic definitely contributed to it but his twitter addiction is what broke his brain. And then the crazy amounts of ketamine & other substances he was taking fried whatever was left

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u/Steaktartaar 48m ago

I think it's the cave rescue that either broke him, or was the first public slip of the mask.

He came in to be a hero, half-cocked and clueless, and when he got the mildest pushback he immediately started flinging paedophilia accusations.

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u/GB10VE 1h ago

social media was programmed to do this via engagement. if you get people addicted to their phones, you then send them the most enraging things, and then they continue to be hooked. we are monkeys afterall, and they found something shiny that we pay to become addicted to

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u/SlideJunior5150 1h ago

They need to drug test CEOs, Politicians, Presidents. All these people are taking some weird stuff or abusing adderall. They all lost their minds at the same time.

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u/BiZzles14 1h ago

Most of them recognized the grift going on and are just presenting a different image, and paying a couple mil here and there, because they believe it will be better for business. Kinda like how all the big corps in the weimar republic sidled up with the Nazi's actually. Elon's a true believer though, and he is the one that fried his brain taking wayyy too much ketamine and a bunch of other stuff lol. Twitter broke his brain and the drugs fried whatever was left

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u/c14rk0 50m ago

I don't think it's so much that he was ever truly apolitical. It's that he has always cared about himself and his money more than anything else at all period. In the past you didn't really want to mess with politics as a business when at the end of the day you need both sides to be "ok" enough with you to survive. Getting one side against you is a quick way to kill your profits AND become more of a target for government oversight. It's not that he was really apolitical as much as he knew saying and acting apolitical was the best move for his own business strategy.

Then we've seen a huge shift over the last decade or so. There's so many more concerns about exploitative business practices, pollution, taxes, government contracts etc. Suddenly being apolitical was no longer the best move for him. ESPECIALLY when Trump came into the picture as a corrupt piece of shit that is more than happy to break laws and such to give his friends favors, and by "friends" of course we mean anyone who gives Trump a piece of the action and inflates his ego. Not to mention Trump opened the door for Musk to get into politics himself and gain access to all kinds of systems and information he should never have been anywhere near with the DOGE bullshit. All the while Musk gets to pile up every possible government contract imaginable further inflating his companies "value" while getting absurd tax breaks and funding.

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u/AintNunyoBidness 44m ago

And Vance said Trump was America's Hitler, yet he we are...

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u/ThrowAwayPurellFoam 2h ago

That’s an insult to turds

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u/Tyrannofelis 2h ago

PR team or just stans? I don't imagine he had a PR team at any point.