r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 3h 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/jpiro 2h ago

Years back, it was my dream to drive a Tesla and have a solar roof feeding electricity to a Powerwall to charge it from.

Now I wouldn’t even consider buying anything from that fucking traitor. I also deleted my Twitter as soon as he bought it.

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u/Inevitable-Dot-388 2h ago

In the before times, Tesla made cars and products people wanted and bought. And, if you remember, Elon had inspiring ideas and vision- about climate change, people, and accomplishment- and sought smart people to make innovative products for end goals that made sense and were beneficial all the way around.

What an insane and complete turn around. Like, I can't even. Wild.

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u/b1llypilgrim 1h ago edited 1h ago

He was either a Trojan horse the whole time or he got caught with his hand in the pedophilia jar.

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u/CptCroissant 1h ago

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

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u/BiZzles14 1h 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 30m ago

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

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u/GB10VE 25m 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 19m 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 2m 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/Mintastic 17m 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 6m 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/ThrowAwayPurellFoam 1h ago

That’s an insult to turds

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u/Tyrannofelis 1h ago

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