• @db2@lemmy.world
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    1061 month ago

    and a Boston man was arrested for slapping stickers of Musk making a Nazi-like salute on Tesla vehicles

    Better have him taken out back and shot, right? 🙄

  • @graycube@lemmy.world
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    631 month ago

    If those guys are supposed to be in uniform - no two are dressed the same. One guy didn’t tie his shoes, another’s jacket doesn’t fit. It is very sloppy and unprofessional looking.

    • @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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      I can’t even get passed how gross it is to see this many cops standing in front of a business where there is no visible evidence of violent activity where people might be harmed. It just looks like a statement saying this is our priority - corporate welfare for the Uber rich and worst possible human specimens at the cost of taxpayer dollars. It’s so gross I can’t even work my way to the nuances of how these slobs are dressed.

      • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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        131 month ago

        There’s a reason people say officers are class traitors. Policing has never been about protecting the public; It has always been about suppressing the masses and protecting the elite.

      • @Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world
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        31 month ago

        JFC, since at least that demented shit Reagan, corporate welfare for the Uber rich and suppression of workers rights have been American domestic policy. And since the early 20th century it’s been a goal of the GOP. Arguably, corporate welfare and worker suppression have been founding principles of the US.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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      101 month ago

      I burst out laughing at “heavy police presence”, those guys look heavy alright.

  • @oblabs@lemmy.world
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    Something that isn’t reported enough is that Elon borrowed heavily against his ownership of Tesla to buy Twitter. It is thought that at around $100 a share he will be margin called which will mean that Elon will have to pay the loan back in cash immediately which will bankrupt him completely and enact the rage of his handlers the Saudis and Putin as they are the ones who drummed up support for the deal in the first place by holding a majority of the non-institutional debt.

    • @Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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      151 month ago

      This sounds really interesting but I lack the necessary economics background to understand it. Instead of having to research for potentially hours, do you mind please dumbing it down a little for me? The parts I don’t understand are “borrow against an ownership”, “holding non-institutional debt”. You don’t have to of course

      • @cynar@lemmy.world
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        231 month ago

        The same way your mortgage is backed up by your house. If you default on your mortgage, the bank can take your house in foreclosure.

        Rather than sell shares to raise the money, Musk has backed his borrowing with Tesla shares. Basically, if he doesn’t pay back the loan, the banks get the shares. Unlike houses, shares can change value quite quickly. If the value of the loan exceeds the value of the shares, then the banks start to get VERY nervous. They will call in the loans to get what they can, before things get worse. This could crash the share price further, since they will want to offload the shares as soon as possible.

        Musk is extremely rich. However, like most extremely rick people, his money is tied up in shares. If Tesla falls fast enough, he could end up owing more than he has in assets. As soon as his creditors pull the plug, he becomes bankrupt.

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    • @cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works
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      91 month ago

      Russia does not give a single fuck about their assets getting burned. It happens all the time. It’s part of their playbook to make their assets more and more bold.

      • @uienia@lemmy.world
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        41 month ago

        They got more than their moneys worth in the form of the US crashing and burning like it is now.

    • @Hukapapa@lemm.ee
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      31 month ago

      Sorry to be that guy but can you give any sources for this? I would love this to be true and want to tell my friends but yeah a source would be nice…

  • @NeuralNomad@lemm.ee
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    381 month ago

    I think Musk is a red herring for the Trump administration to divert attention away from Trump. Keep the eye on the ball. If there was no Trump Elon wouldn’t have this power.

    • @vvilld@lemmy.world
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      511 month ago

      I don’t agree.

      These fascists are all following the political ideology and strategies laid out by Curtis Yarvin under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug. He’s been in the orbit of people like Peter Thiel for 10+ years and has been very influential among the tech oligarch crowd.

      His vision centers around creating a tech-oriented monarchy for America. At the top would be the president who would operate more like the Chairman of the Board in a corporate structure. Rather than governing on a day-to-day basis, this President/King would appoint a CEO to oversee the actual management of government. That’s the role Musk has taken on.

      Trump appoints Musk to do the actual running of the country to accomplish what Trump wants accomplished while letting Trump seem above the fray (at least that’s the intention, Trump is too incompetent to actually stay above the fray). Musk isn’t a red herring. He’s not diverting from anything. He’s just the guy doing the job so Trump can go golf all day.

      • @MehBlah@lemmy.world
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        161 month ago

        No corporation has ever been anything other than a dictatorship. They are the least democratic of institutions. Why do people think any differently?

      • @whaleiam@lemm.ee
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        111 month ago

        This is it! I think the problem the are facing is musk thought he was way more popular than he was( started believing his twitter bots)

        • @vvilld@lemmy.world
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          51 month ago

          I do agree that he is incredibly detached from reality and probably overestimates his support, but I don’t think that’s a factor in what he’s doing to destroy/fleece the government. I think he overestimated the competency of himself and the kids he’s having do all the coding work.

    • @zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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      91 month ago

      Kind of, but not really. It’s more like Musk is doing Trump’s dirty work for him so that when the shit hits the fan, he gets the blame instead of Trump.

    • @bingBingBongBong@lemm.ee
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      211 month ago

      There is a small, but not completely minute, chance that SpaceX employees may be on this.

      These people have a brain, and are only in the company to gain experience. Who knows, maybe one or two engines may get damaged in the process.

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        Duuuude. The enslaved Jews were pissing on the V2 avionics causing the missiles to crash. You could be right. Fuck Elon.

        • OneMeaningManyNames
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          Actually resistance in concentration camps is an untold saga. The most famous example is the inverse “B” in “Arbeit Macht Frei”, but there where more examples, and less subtle too, like full blown antifascist banners in barracks, even sabotage and espionage in the gas chambers. Never give up!

      • @whaleiam@lemm.ee
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        51 month ago

        Networking is tough but not impossible, signals can be jammed, as long as it’s not reliable it’s as good as useless

        • @uis@lemm.ee
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          Sounds nearly impossible. Not sure about satelites, but ground stations use phased antenna array, which makes filtering out jammer easy.

    • @AidsKitty@lemmy.world
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      61 month ago

      It’s no longer about convincing people to stop buying a Tesla, it is now about destruction.Everyone knew this is where it would lead.

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    It’s worse than that. Trump is a figure head, Elon is ceo and Peter Theil and his ghouls are board of trustees. Butterfly revolution, Curtis yarvin. State as a company.

    • @Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      111 month ago

      Yeah just like thousands of civil servants are “embarrased” of losing their jobs. Just like judges are “embarrased” that the executive branch is ignoring their rulings. Just like millions of Ukrainians are “embarrased” of losing their home. Get over your fucking self… we are at war.

    • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      I saw my first tesla a few weeks ago. I was walking in a target parking lot, and it passed by me to get to the other end of the parking lot, which is a strip mall.

      I felt it was my civic duty to go laugh at what I THOUGHT was going to be a 50 year old white guy with a red hat. I was going to go walk up to him, point, and laugh. Calling him a pussy free loser for driving that car.

      I was not prepared for what happened next. I see the car circling around, like it can’t find a spot, even though 90% of the strip mall was empty. Finally, he pulls up right next to the spot I was standing near. I was like “ooooooh, here we go!”

      Door opens on the passenger, and 3 little Asian kids get out. Followed by an Asian woman in her 30s. Then the driver side opens. And a blind Asian man gets out.

      Now what the fuck am I supposed to do??? I’m still trying to figure out if/how he was driving. I’m not saying being blind is a coverall for shitty behavior like driving a tesla…but I just couldn’t bring myself to call a blind guy a pussy free loser in front of his wife and kids.

      NONE of it makes sense. And I feel dumber for having experienced my first tesla.

      Seriously though, does ANYONE have any context for how a blind man with seeing stick can drive a car? It’s been driving me crazy, because I know what I saw…I just can’t explain what I saw.

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        NOt entirely blind so a stick helps with curbs and stuff, similar to how there are people who can walk, technically, but benefit from a mobility device.

        No one took away his license when they should have, and full self driving helps him appear to function

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        It’s almost as if regular people buy cars that fit their lifestyle and not their politics or something.

      • ThePowerOfGeek
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        Isn’t driving around in one of those poorly-made death trap vehicles enough then?..

        …Nah, probably not.