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    It’s not like it’s a surprise. Remember how he did a photoshoot with a can of beans, because the owner of the brand said he liked him?

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    They literally just notified 32% of the Department of Education last night that they were being fired.

    Fuck these assholes and anyone who voted for them can fucking drop dead.

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      i mean, who needs Education anyways? in the future, when machines take all the jobs, there’s no point in having an educated workforce. so better cut down on that money that schools are spending today. (/s)

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        I can’t wait until the ultimate karma when they try and actually replace everyone with AI and it all fucks up. Everyone who is ever tried to do that is always ended up in trouble.

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    Do these idiots not realize that it’s Tesla’s association with nazis that’s killing sales? How did they think this was going to help, Republicans are suddenly going to start buying electric vehicles?

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        Honestly they may just ignore this one, as much as I hate it there’s a decent bit of overlap between the car community as a whole and MAGAts. Though it’s also possible they could interpret it as “get electric cars” at which point we may see more EV converts which I would love. The mere concept of an electric 1995 Toyota 4runner makes me harder than the Rock of Gibraltar.

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      It definitely won’t help. “The most unlikable person on earth being associated with our brand is tanking our stocks, what do we do? I know, well ask the second most unlikable person on earth to help.”

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    It has to be bad if they resort to trying to sell EVs to climate change deniers.

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      Maybe this is secretly how they save the environment. Coal rollers switching to EVs. And Putin launching the nukes causing a nuclear winter. Global warming solved.

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    Tesla sales are tanking because of Elon’s embracing fascism and this is the best they could come up with to fix it

    Just lean harder into it and hope the guy who hates electric cars can sell electric cars

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    This gives me major late night car dealer commercial vibes. My English to Trump is terrible however I have faith that someone write Trump doing the narration for this commercial.

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    It’s insane that both of them think this will help…

    They truly don’t understand that the vast majority of Americans fucking hate them. And the ones that do like one of them, already like both.

    Zero people will have any change of opinion because of this.

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      They truly don’t understand that the vast majority of Americans fucking hate them.

      Do we know this for sure?

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      Oh, it will help. Elon can afford to tank the losses from share price fall, then he’ll grab loads more with a discount and there will be an eventual rebound. And then we will have the very first trillionaire in the world.

      I guess one of the reasons for Musk to murder Twitter shares was to test how effectively he can tank the financial damage and still ride it out before going full nuclear on his companies.

      Reminds me of one British twat called Humphrey Smith, who owns all companies as unlimited and tanks all legal expenses himself so he can do whatever the fuck he wants with them and with staff. Oh, he also owns a town and does whatever the fuck he wants there too.

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          Oh please. Ford was an anti-Semite and a Nazi with a Grand Cross of the German Eagle, people were staging boycotts, he went on trials and yet a century later his company absolutely dominates the US car market.

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      I’m still wondering, do they have an advicing team or something like that or do they just always act on their own, on instinct ?

      Because if they do, it’s either they never listen, either the advisers are at least as delusional and that’s even more baffling.

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    There’s no pretending who’s calling the shots anymore. The monkey was asked to perform. He is giving his best performance and everyone is watching the (shit)show.

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    Why is musk standing like his feet are afraid of each other? He looks like a proper ninny.