Is Elon Musk in Trouble?

[rareboy]

Besides being stoned half the time and over-promising and under delivering....there is some thought that as he Tweets his decision to vote Republican, and that there is going to be a politically motivated attack campaign against him by the Democrats (Most of us had no idea he wasn't Republican) he may be trying to deflect from some problem with the SEC that is going to erupt into the public forum and is trying to get ahead of it.

It could be the market manipulation from his on again-off again deal to buy Twitter bots for 44 Billion...or not.

OF course the main reason he is leaving the Democrats behind isn't because they are no longer the party of 'kindness' as he claims...it is because of unions and that they want to tax him more aggressively.

He should bear in mind though that it isn't the MAGAs who buy Tesla cars and that his millions of twitter bot followers don't vote.

He is rapidly becoming the Mike Lindell of the auto industry.

Part of it may be another investigation into the safety of the Tesla 2022 cars.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a special crash investigation into a fatal Tesla crash this month in California that resulted in three deaths, Reuters reports.

Why it matters: The crash, involving a 2022 model Tesla Model S, is one of more than 30 under investigation by the NHTSA involving the electric vehicle manufacturer's driving features, per Reuters.

Safety regulator opens probe into deadly Tesla crash (Axios; May 18, 2022)

 

[TX-Beau]

I had no idea he was a Democrat. I always just assumed he was some kind of Libertarian.

It's hard to tell when he's being shady, and when he's being greedy. That whole Twitter debacle has made him a bunch of cash.

 

[Alistair]

If Martha Stewart got jail time, Elon should be executed.

 

[rareboy]

Or maybe he knew this was about to go public?

Business Insider reported earlier on Thursday that the billionaire’s SpaceX paid $250,000 (£200,000) in 2018 in a severance settlement following a sexual misconduct claim to an unnamed private jet flight attendant who accused Musk of exposing himself to her.

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...lly-harassed-attendant-on-private-jet-in-2016

OF course.....it could be this....

The terms of Elon Musk’s margin loan are if Tesla's stock falls below $740, Musk must provide more collateral.
It’s at 709.
As a result, he’s frantically selling a a big chunk of his 47% of SpaceX valued at 55 billion.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1527341365142573064

His Twitter shenanigans, along with the safety investigations are driving Tesla stock down. I can't see how Tesla shareholders are going to tolerate much more of this.

From that thread...

 

[Alistair]

25% of Tesla’s twitter followers are fake. I wonder how much he paid for them?

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Guys like him can't escape trouble like they used to when they could just sequester themselves in their castles. Most of his obnoxious behavior seems reactionary for the purpose of controlling his narrative, which he isn't very good at. could be the sex harassment settlement, racism in his company, his wacky financial status (I've never even attempted to understand the convoluted ponzi scheme that is the financial market where people sell.... money? credit? ), men like him represent the worst of humanity, what we're capable of when we're not only above reproach but legal consequences. i'm sure what we've seen is tame compared to who he is behind closed doors. despite his groupies' constant reassurance that he's the noblest, smartest, most dignified human being that ever existed-- I'm gonna wait til the people he's been stepping on all these years get to tell their side of the story. It usually goes without saying, every rich white guy's autobiography is "Born, spread glitter and glory all over the world, died, buried in golden coffin atop slave graves so he can remain above them even in the afterlife."

 

[TX-Beau]

He has Asperger's so he really has no idea what any of the rest of us are going to think, and he doesn't really care. That, for once, isn't about white penis privilege.

He's still an asshole.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

He has Asperger's so he really has no idea what any of the rest of us are going to think, and he doesn't really care. That, for once, isn't about white penis privilege.

He's still an asshole.

Yeah, he meticulously controls what's talked about in the media cuz he's UNconcerned with public image. He blocks people who question his business practices and behavior because he DOESN'T care what people think, makes perfect (non)sense.

FYI "It's not about color" is redundant. It's more of a reactionary attempt to snatch control of the conversation from a black person. I guess when every application from employment to business loans asks "color" it's because it DOESN'T matter.

 

[TX-Beau]

He doesn't "meticulously control" what's said about him. He doesn't care about what you think about him.

Crazy people are crazy. I doubt that Elon cares much at all about any kind of racial strife. What he cares about is himself. Tbat's pretty much it.

People with his condition literally do not understand what other people care about or why, nor can they empathize or relate. He's going to go on being his odd self whatever anyone else does. That's pretty much the end of it for him.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

He doesn't "meticulously control" what's said about him.

But seriously

 

[Alistair]

But seriously

You’re correct

https://www.businessinsider.com/fre...lon-musk-censors-employees-critics-2022-3?amp

And have you ever heard about how Tesla owners that publicly criticize their cars have been having features disabled on their cars? One guy that reviews cars on YouTube has his charging completely disabled by Tesla. Anyone that doesn’t think this comes ordered directly from Musk is foolish.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

You’re correct

https://www.businessinsider.com/fre...lon-musk-censors-employees-critics-2022-3?amp

And have you ever heard about how Tesla owners that publicly criticize their cars have been having features disabled on their cars? One guy that reviews cars on YouTube has his charging completely disabled by Tesla. Anyone that doesn’t think this comes ordered directly from Musk is foolish.

He's the only person whose level of petty has me envious. Not that his groupies (can we call them Muskrats?) will ever see him as anything other than the messiah. If Trump can shoot somebody at Times Square and get away with it, Musk could livestream himself drowning a puppy. Not that he's privileged or anything, children of apartheid emerald mine tycoons are just like you and me if we got insanely rich exploiting African slave labor.

There's a curious part of my brain that wants one of the Muskrats to TRY to argue that working in a diamond mine isn't that bad. It's coming, we know it's coming. "Oh boohoo poor snowflake scared to work in a mine? So spoiled and lazy."

 

[TX-Beau]

Oh please Elon can't "meticulously control" crap said about him, It's fucking all over the net and all over the news, so much for that fantasy..

I'm seriously not feeling meticulously controlled when I say Elon is still an asshole.

Now let's all wait to see how long it takes for the meticulous control to kick in.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Oh please Elon can't "meticulously control" crap said about him, It's fucking all over the net and all over the news, so much for that fantasy..

Yeah a whopping 0 networks are talking about his settlement or Tesla's racism scandal. He's literally part of the news cycle every day, several times a day yet it's mostly about his tweets or how awesome he is.

When white men do the things he's done and it isn't mentioned in tandem with their name the same way black people's criminal records are, it's very deliberate. If you don't think this is going on, I've got some oceanfront property in Montana you might be interested in.

 

[TX-Beau]

Then you're not watching.

I've seen shit about him just about every day recently on the news both net and TV

Still not feeling meticulously controlled.

 

[Dominus]

I had no idea he was a Democrat. I always just assumed he was some kind of Libertarian.

It's hard to tell when he's being shady, and when he's being greedy. That whole Twitter debacle has made him a bunch of cash.

A lot of rich people were liberal democrats before they got rich. Once they became rich they became conservative Republicans for obvious reasons.

 

[TX-Beau]

... the same way black people's criminal records are, it's very deliberate. If you don't think this is going on, I've got some oceanfront property in Montana you might be interested in.

This is most certainly true, but it isn't Elon Musk that's the cause of that.

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A lot of rich people were liberal democrats before they got rich. Once they became rich they became conservative Republicans for obvious reasons.

Zuckerburg.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Then you're not watching.

I've seen shit about him just about every day recently on the news both net and TV

Still not feeling meticulously controlled.

Explore the idea that your own personal experiences =/= empirical data. Nothing is mappable or quantifiable by using one person as an example, though i'm aware some people are raised to believe they ARE the standard and be-all end-all. Probably the same kinda people who would gravitate towards a personality like Musk.

This is most certainly true, but it isn't Elon Musk that's the cause of that.

Is that how you interpreted my post? "White guy who wasn't a household name until 2021 invented white privilege?" Thank you for confirming that Elon Musk didn't patent WP, cuz I legitimately believed he did because I've never read a history book. I mean who has time to read when there's all those basketballs out there that need dribbling? WHO WILL DRIBBLE THE BALLS?!@

 

[TX-Beau]

Explore the idea that your own personal experiences =/= empirical data. Nothing is mappable or quantifiable by using one person as an example, though i'm aware some people are raised to believe they ARE the standard and be-all end-all. Probably the same kinda people who would gravitate towards a personality like Musk.



Is that how you interpreted my post? "White guy who wasn't a household name until 2021 invented white privilege?" Thank you for confirming that Elon Musk didn't patent WP, cuz I legitimately believed he did because I've never read a history book. I mean who has time to read when there's all those basketballs out there that need dribbling? WHO WILL DRIBBLE THE BALLS?!@

Explore the idea that if you bother to do a 2 second goggle search you'll find tons of news about Musk.

It's silly to claim he's in "meticulous control."

It still will be when you come back in here and pretend that all of that data doesn't exist

Elon Musk has been a household name long before this year and no, he didn't create race relations in the U.S. or anywhere else.

You have no point, just vitriol.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Elon Musk has been a household name long before this year and no, he didn't create race relations in the U.S. or anywhere else.

You have no point, just vitriol.

Distinguishing "created" and "profited from" is really cringe racial hair-splitting, like when people go "But Africans SOLD the slaves. They were sold. Soooooolllllllllllllllld. We bought em fair and square."

There's a point in here about a white South African getting insanely rich off African slave labor, but if people understood that point we wouldn't be having this conversation, would we?

Back to Elon, what's he up to now? Promising to buy the sun and move it 5 miles to the left to cool the planet? Backpack jetpacks for kids? Buying more people's ideas and hiring the best and brightest engineers and pushing them to the brink making unreasonable promises to the public cuz those twitter likes just feel so damn good, ability to deliver on these wild sci-fi claims is irrelevant. People just wanna hear a rich guy smooth-talk em with B.S. No judgment here though, we all have our escapes from reality.