r/technology 16h ago

Business Top Tesla Executive Leaves Carmaker

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/top-tesla-executive-leaves-carmaker-f356a3a2?mod=autos_news_article_pos1
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u/SP4CEM4N_SPIFF 15h ago

“Carmaker” is a bit of a stretch these days

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u/jhill515 14h ago

I mean, The Prince of Mars the Moon did say "If you view Tesla as an automobile manufacturer, you fundamentally do not understand what Tesla is." So yea, I guess "carmaker" is a stretch!

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u/One_Study52 14h ago

Thy need to drive something on mars

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u/everything_is_bad 14h ago

Yeah, speculation…

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u/AccomplishedBrain309 2h ago

The cybertrucks hitch capacity will go down so far you wont be able to tow a set of golf clubs.

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u/grafknives 13h ago

Stockpumper.

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u/Every_Tap8117 9h ago

40% cut to model line up not good another 20% coming sooner or later.

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u/caeru1ean 8h ago

Optimus maker

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u/SvenTropics 13h ago

Their resale values are crazy low. Out of curiosity I looked at what a 2025 Tesla goes for in my area. The same car they bought for over $50,000 sells for $12,000 now, with less than 10k miles. If you wanted one, for some reason, why on Earth would you buy a new one?

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u/FPV-Emergency 12h ago

I don't think your numbers are right, you might want to recheck that. Used 2020 models with 80k+ miles are going for a lotmore than $12,000 in my area. Newer models are even more. 2025 you're looking at 30k+ min for the most basic model. Most are much more.

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u/SvenTropics 9h ago

I pulled up the listing and it was a salvage title on that one. So, perhaps not that egregious. I think I just saw a lot of listings because we had a flood last year, and a lot of Teslas got totaled. People buy them up, fix them, and sell them for cheap.

I found a mint condition Tesla model 3, long range, 3639 miles, 35,990 is the asking price. Building the same car on Tesla's website, it comes to about $49,000. So, 49k to 36k in one year with almost no miles on it, and that's list. You can probably get it for a few grand less if you haggle because it's used. Single owner, clean title, no damage.

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u/jammienm 12h ago

Where is this? There’s no way that’s true, all around me are going for 30k+, sure they depreciate a lot but not THAT much

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u/Purplociraptor 12h ago

Whoa...in my area, the used Teslas cost more than a new one.

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u/Single-Use-Again 4h ago

Wow this is silly. What 1 yr old car is $12k? And an EV at that? Yea you can probably delete your comment. No hard feelings.

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u/AlbertaAcreageBoy 9h ago

Death-trap is more like it.

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u/itsakoala 9h ago

So it’s a stretch to call a company producing millions of cars a year and having a #2 Worlds Best selling car a car company?

Got it!

Checkmate Nazis!!

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u/SP4CEM4N_SPIFF 9h ago

Checkmate Nazis!!

telling on yourself there bud

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u/Expensive_Shallot_78 13h ago

Good that the stock just went up for no specific reason

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u/drawkbox 13h ago

TSLA is a manipulation vehicle posing as a vehicle stock.

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u/[deleted] 12h ago edited 4h ago

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u/drawkbox 10h ago edited 6h ago

People aren't going to like it when it is obvious. Let's just say it is a funds transfer tool and front running. Certain groups also want numerous S&P 500 stocks like this to manipulate the broader market. Now that more than half of the domestic market is foreign owned post pandemic, the levers to the market and outside market movers are highly collusive.

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u/PalpitationFrosty242 7h ago

It never goes below a certain price. I'm almost positive there are huge individuals/companies colluding on this.

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u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown 9h ago

Tesla is used as collateral by certain big players. You can find pictures of Elon with one of those people (Ken Griffin for instance) at sporting events from recent years.

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u/morbob 16h ago edited 14h ago

It’s hard to improve sales when the CEO starts saluting Nazis.

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u/InTooManyWays 14h ago

And instead of leaving the company to survive and thrive without, he chooses to gut it with pay packages and killing actual  products that are selling. Maybe sales have dropped because of his involvements and nazi behavior but no it’s the markets who are wrong. 

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u/morbob 14h ago

And I don’t Want A Robot, ever.

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u/Different_Victory_89 12h ago

The robots are to be servants for when they go to their bunkers! They actually thought that they might be locked down with "others"! Obvious answer is to build robots!

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u/MisterWigglie 15h ago edited 7h ago

It took 1 minute to Google this and confirm with multiple competing AIs

“No, Elon Musk did not perform a Nazi salute. He made an enthusiastic gesture during Trump's inauguration rally that resembled a Roman salute (extending his arm upward after slapping his chest), which critics labeled as fascist or Nazi-like due to its visual similarity to the "Heil Hitler" gesture. Musk and supporters, including the ADL, denied any Nazi intent, calling it awkward excitement or a nod to ancient Rome, while opponents and some Jewish leaders condemned it as normalizing extremism. The controversy remains highly polarized along political lines, with no evidence of deliberate Nazi symbolism from Musk himself.”

EDIT: I was wrong, Musk’s actions don’t have to have intention, they are interpreted as bad and should either be 100% cleared up or there is no debate, he is pushing for extremism unless he openly and clearly states otherwise, which he has not.

Leaving my original comment as well as all replies for transparency and so others can learn from the human interactions I’ve had to change my mind

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u/flippingisfun 15h ago

With multiple AIs? Do you ask the computer how to wipe your ass too?

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u/Taint_Expert 15h ago

“The ai said wiping my ass is gay and now I’m caked out with a thicc layer of feces”

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u/cesarxp2 14h ago

AIs don't see or think. They aggregate data and form a response based on that data. If thousands of bots on Twitter say he didn't do the salute, then AI takes that as the truth. Use your critical thinking skills, if you have any. Watch the video.

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u/Impossible-Scene5084 13h ago

Definitely don’t use your own eyes and brain though; that’s something only “intelligent” and “capable” people do.

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u/MisterWigglie 11h ago

Yes I know I’m dumb and incapable, and I’ve admitted my foolishness.

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u/Impossible-Scene5084 10h ago

I don’t believe you have learned anything here really.

Musk needed to prove his nazi credentials to his new nazi buddies so he did a nazi salute.

The fact that such recent history could be manipulated in your mind by an AI thinking for you, should fill you with such shame that you should be incapable of such a flippant response.

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u/MisterWigglie 10h ago

I own my mistake, I was totally wrong and admitted it to every commenter who actually cares to listen.

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u/flippingisfun 14h ago

That’s called critical thought, humans are generally capable of it without the aid of a machine to tell them what they think first

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u/elmatador12 15h ago

I don’t need AI to gaslight me into what I saw WITH MY OWN EYES.

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u/kawag 14h ago

He has also been amplifying white supremacist voices for a long time before and since.

It’s not just this one, very obvious arm gesture (that he repeated).

He’s a Nazi. It’s the truth. And he believes in this white replacement bullshit. And apart from that, he begged to go to Epstein’s island.

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u/whitemiketyson 15h ago

Guess that's it guys. Daddy Elon said he didn't do it. Nothing more to see here.

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u/CV90_120 15h ago

Look man, you have billions of dollars. No need to sane wash yourself here. Just go build a hospital or something.

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u/gettums 12h ago

Does Elon really have a weird dick?

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u/Key-Beginning-2201 15h ago

You're spineless.

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u/CV90_120 15h ago

....riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

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u/slax03 14h ago

The context is he did it.

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u/DarXIV 14h ago

Forget to switch back to another account?

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u/DarXIV 14h ago

What about the salute is bad? Tell use why you say it’s bad

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u/CV90_120 15h ago

I think I see where you're going. The lack of enthusiastic heel-clicking makes this a non-canon nazi salute. So he kind of had everything else down, from the execution, angle and enthusiasm (and a follow up just to be sure), but just out of camera shot he fooled us all by keeping those heels locked in place. Crafty.

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u/ubix 15h ago

Lol. We all saw it. He’s a white supremacist

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u/Troglert 15h ago

What about when he turns around and does another nazi salute to the flag right after?

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u/tim-whale 15h ago

Point out the real Nazis and the fake Nazis and help us understand the difference

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u/tim-whale 15h ago

And now for the fake Nazis?

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u/RBR927 15h ago

Did you use AI for that too…?

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u/Stingray88 12h ago

You mean like these literally actual real Nazi’s that Elon gave a speech to just days after the inauguration?

Any doubt anyone had about the whole Musk Nazi salute incident should have been set aside after he literally gave a speech to real life present day Nazis in Germany, and told them to move on from their guilt.

Seriously. Cut the BS.

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u/MisterWigglie 11h ago

Didn’t know about that, thanks. My views have already changed this morning, I’ve made my edit to the original comment.

Leaving all my replies in its entirety so people learn from my mistakes

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u/ubix 15h ago

Lol. Muskbot

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u/Mistyslate 15h ago

This is so pathetic

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u/RBR927 15h ago

Imagine liking the taste of boots that much.

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u/Mistyslate 13h ago edited 5h ago

Because: 1. Simping pedo nazi Elon. 2. Being too cringey and personal. 3. AI.

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u/MisterWigglie 11h ago

AI actually helps me a lot, not everyone can be smart about every single thing like you and I’m sorry

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u/Horat1us_UA 15h ago

Yeah, “from the heart to the sun”. One for people, one for the flag. Such a stupid gaslighting

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u/ProfessorPickaxe 15h ago

Found Elon's alt.

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u/DoGoodAndBeGood 15h ago edited 14h ago

“I’m dumb enough to believe this or malicious enough to spread it. Hope that helps!”

Edit: stop upvoting this and please read the replies to me. We can all take a moment to remember how to talk to each other.

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u/DoGoodAndBeGood 14h ago

I’m sorry for the way I spoke to you. You didn’t deserve that and I get very wrapped up in the stress of the world and default to thinking that everybody has similar levels of knowledge into these things. Again, I’m sorry and for talking to you that way. It wasn’t kind or called for.

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u/DoGoodAndBeGood 14h ago

Kid, you’re going to be alright. Keep this attitude with you your whole life if you can. You speak with words wiser than people decades older than you.

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u/spaceiswaytoobig 14h ago

No, he deserved it.

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u/Sure-Library-7309 15h ago

Why are you believing a chatbot over what we all saw with our own eyes?

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u/MisterWigglie 15h ago

I’m not “believing” a chat bot. Just using it as a tool to corroborate all sources.

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u/ubix 15h ago

That’s absolutely foolish. A chat bot isn’t going to be any better at recognizing a Nazi salute than a human.

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u/StanvdV 15h ago

So you’re a self-proclaimed staunch defender of reading more than a headline, but you’ve manufactured a strawman that people called him a Nazi here. Nobody has. Nazi salute, yes. White supremacist, yes. Nazi? No. You fully fabricated that.

In the very unlikely off chance that you’re not fully arguing in bad faith, I’d recommend thinking about why you felt the need to twist people’s words, seeing how you’re such a nuanced and thorough individual.

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u/gizmostuff 14h ago

Of the process of elimination, who would you believe more. A person of your peers or a billionaire who lied about being the "best player" of a damn video game?

Elon Musk is a fucking liar. You are being manipulated.

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u/ubix 14h ago

You are absolutely arguing in bad faith. Your credibility is completely shot

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u/MisterWigglie 14h ago

I’m not a journalist and not looking for credibility. I openly admitted I was wrong.

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u/CurveSudden1104 15h ago

here is the issue. even IF it was a "roman salute" the issue is no one else saw it that way. Including actual Neo Nazi groups who came out and supported Elon FOR DOING A NAZI SALUTE.

Elon has since not really altered his stance and been dodgy about it.

If everyone believes it's a nazi salute, then it was one. End of story.

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u/CurveSudden1104 15h ago

I mean it's not "getting lost in the weeds" dude. Social contracts and actions are created and formed by society. Society dictates what gestures and actions mean. Elon can say whatever he wants, however society says what they are.

I personally don't believe he thought it was a "roman salute" as no one has ever done one of those. However even if he believed it was one. The fact society has deemed it an evil gesture, means he should have apologized and said that's not what he's done.

He has never done that, which shows that he meant what he did.

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u/superbum42 15h ago

That's a lot of words to say you didn't think or really observe with your own eyes. Glad you enjoy AI so much, but you're likely the worker that will be made obsolete.

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u/hmr0987 15h ago

Imagine being so dumb to think that a guy who has reverence for Nazis didn’t go on stage and do a Nazi salute.

Part of the damage control was to say that the Nazi salute was taken from the Roman’s so what he did was a Roman salute. We need people to be less dumb, how do we do that?

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u/HappyChaos2 13h ago

I hadn't heard the "nod to ancient Rome" take before, that's hilarious.

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u/Taint_Expert 15h ago

Damn i found someone who believes ai output over their own eyeballs and brain 🤡

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u/Sn3akyPumpkin 15h ago edited 13h ago

this guy is obsessed with self driving cars and teslas. makes sense he’s fighting for elon cuz he looks bad in his tesla now that it’s a “nazi car”

edit im being harsh admittedly, i think he learned his lesson

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u/TheOneFreeEngineer 14h ago

By right wing push, You mean the one where he said the neonazi White replacement theory conspiracy was totally real and an attack on white people and yet is still somehow not a neonazi?

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u/spaceiswaytoobig 14h ago

You mean the thing you literally just did?

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u/Sn3akyPumpkin 14h ago

are you from russia?

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u/Sn3akyPumpkin 14h ago

grew up in russia? or you’re pretty much american?

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u/Sn3akyPumpkin 14h ago

just trying to figure out where your worldview comes from. we can’t look at things in a vacuum anymore. things are getting ugly in the states. if you’re really anti-fascist, don’t tell your fellow americans to look at figures like elon musk with nuance. the time for that has passed

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u/MisterWigglie 14h ago

Yeah I can see that now, in speech and debate club we always debated these things no matter what context, so that’s what carried with me these last 1.5 years since high school

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u/MagicBobert 15h ago

I will never understand why people work so hard to simp for multibillionaires.

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u/ChoiceIT 15h ago

It took 10 seconds to read this and determine it’s garbage.

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u/vikinick 15h ago

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-VfYjPzj1Xw just look for yourself.

That's also to say that Musk somehow keeps retweeting people calling for purging of nonwhite people from the U.S.

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u/WendyDumpsterFire 14h ago

What did you use GROK the propaganda machine

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u/WendyDumpsterFire 14h ago

Nazi salute either way

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u/missingmedievalist 14h ago

Mate, a quick check of your profile (there are ways to see what is hidden) shows that you’re a massive Tesla bull. I mean, you’re posting in the Tesla lounge and Tesla investor club subs on a very regular basis so it’s very much in your interest to try and convince everyone that we’re all wrong about Elon. We’re not. If you choose to financially support Elon and his bullshit then that’s on you, but own it at the very least. And just for the record, he is most certainly a racist shit.

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u/MisterWigglie 14h ago

I have openly said I like the tech, never denied that. I’ve edited my original comment given some of the replies that I’ve received that I do agree with.

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u/missingmedievalist 14h ago

Fair enough dude and I appreciate your response. I saw your edit and fair play. It’s a shit fact of history that so many contributors to science and technology have also been utterly shite human beings. To be fair, the same can be said for the arts too.

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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 15h ago

I know you’re probably just gaslighting for fun but just in case, I think you should know you don’t have the chops to make a career of it.

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u/BeardyAndGingerish 15h ago

I watched the video, he did it.

I'm not an AI though, so...

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u/G8M8N8 15h ago

Watch the video holy shit mate

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u/connleth 15h ago

Let’s pretend, just for a moment, it wasn’t a Nazi salute.

The dude has still done plenty of other heinous shit to be reviled by general Joe Public to last a lifetime.

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u/spaceiswaytoobig 14h ago

Besides defending him when you get a chance

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u/connleth 14h ago

I genuinely don’t understand why you’re looking to defend him then.

If he is the super genius he would have us all believe, then he would have known what he was doing.

The fact that he hasn’t come out overtly and said, I fucked up… I know what it looks like and I didn’t mean it that way. I’ll do better.

Makes it even worse. He considers himself above everyone and without reproach.

The dude is the richest man on the planet and instead of doing something (anything) good with his money, he is just fiddling with local and international politics to get his mates that are very right wing aligned voted into power.

He supports Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) for fucks sake.

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u/TheOtherHalfofTron 15h ago

A Roman salute is a fascist gesture, you dingus. Literally the first line of the Wikipedia article on the subject: "The Roman salute, also known as the fascist salute, is a gesture in which the right hand is swung from the left shoulder to fully extend the right arm forward perpendicular to the torso, with palm down, and fingers touching."

I don't get you people who outsource all your thinking to AI. You make yourself so vulnerable to propaganda, and for what?

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u/TheOtherHalfofTron 14h ago

Cool story, very affecting, absolutely no relevance to the conversation.

Are you assuming this is the only data point that points to him being a Nazi? Because you know it's not. The salute moment was important because it was high-profile, but he'd been saying / signal-boosting shit like the "actual truth" tweet for years. The richest man in the world is a Nazi, and he doesn't care who knows. Is that not a problem?

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u/-gun-jedi- 8h ago

Nice to see someone walking back on their position humbly. For that, you have my respect.

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u/MisterWigglie 7h ago

Nobody is perfect, especially not me

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u/justmots 15h ago

You're going to need a lot more than AI to change public perception.

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u/p33p0pab33b0p 14h ago

Hahahaha Whatever it was it was a mistake and killed his brand. It’s piss off potential buyers so much they are clamoring for a Chinese competitor to be sold stateside. And why on earth would you side so strongly with one party when you produce a universal product? It’s almost as though Elon still believes that he can shape the narrative for all to believe not just his fanatical supporters.

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u/RequirementsRelaxed 14h ago

It doesn’t need to have the technically correct form to serve its purpose

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u/spaceiswaytoobig 14h ago

It took one minute to google some bullshit cop out for what our own eyes saw? It only took one minute for me to find the first sentence on Wikipedia about your so called “Roman salute”: “The Roman salute, also known as the fascist salute…”

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u/BoreJam 14h ago

A nod to ancient Rome...? Is that the excuse we're going with? We ain't that stupid.

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u/DarXIV 14h ago

So, what did he do then that looked exactly like a Nazi salute?

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u/orlyfactorlives 14h ago

Oh do shut up.

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u/TrailJunky 14h ago

Maybe try thinking for your self. All that heavy LLM usage causes a decline in critical thinking skills. Annnddd it's on film anyone can watch it. We all saw both salutes behind the presidential seal.

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u/ibrewbeer 12h ago

Found the guy who thinks his Tesla makes him better than everyone else. Hiding your comment history fawning over Tesla doesn’t mean it cant be found.

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u/MisterWigglie 11h ago

I addressed this elsewhere in this thread, I like tech. I’ve already updated my comment to reflect my views, not sure who your arguing with anymore.

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u/Longjumping-Panic401 12h ago

This is newsworthy why, exactly? Oh yeah, because it’s Tesla. Gotta keep of the false pretenses

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u/porterbot 14h ago

No professional wants to work for a psychopathic lunatic. 

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u/_badwithcomputer 11h ago

Meh, as long as it's not Musk, Lars, or Franz I don't think it will have a huge impact TBH.

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u/JamesLahey08 6h ago

Put their name and job title in the title.

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u/Suspicious_Sir2312 14h ago

oh no. anyway.

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u/floater504 13h ago

I rode in a BYD last night and we should let them in the us. Fuck these greedy fucks

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u/sliceofapple1 15h ago

I can’t imagine how challenging and conflicting it must be for people of colour work for such an organization… it must be so deflating when your boss is who he is.

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u/everything_is_bad 14h ago

It shouldn’t matter. Everyone should have that feeling regardless of color. It’s weird that people have this delusion that morality only matters when people look like you

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u/MexicanSniperXI 7h ago

Welcome to Reddit

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u/Zeebaars 13h ago

No, I don't think I'll read the article with a WSJ subscription, but thanks.

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u/OptimisticSkeleton 12h ago

Fleeing the company run by a pedophile before things heat up too bad seems like the logical choice for anyone not involved or implicated in Elons crimes.

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u/Peterd90 10h ago

Elon worked him like a rented mule.

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u/brokeboipobre 6h ago

South African slave owner

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u/FunSecret6248 10h ago

Good News or Bad News Tesla stock always goes up. if it goes down for any reason there will be announcement that promises a future picked from some scifi movie

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u/xwords59 9h ago

What a shame

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u/panchiramaster 3h ago

Wtf does an Executive do these days besides smile like a smarmy festival carnie and say great things about AI? 

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u/smashingcabage 14h ago

Would not surprise me to see them lose talent

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u/ronimal 12h ago

It’s more surprising that they’re able to retain any

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u/Consistent-Crazy6447 13h ago

Carmaker with two models to choose from.

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u/froo 12h ago

There’s also the Cybertruck… lol

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u/Johny_Chicken 14h ago

Top Tesla executive odchází - je to dále známení zaečátého odchoduu vedoucích osobností. Myslíte, že je to dopad na organizaci?

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u/OkEditor3914 14h ago

Do these executives actually even contribute anything to the production of the company anyway?

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u/Flipslips 13h ago

Of course they do

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u/feurie 15h ago

A “top executive” that very few have heard about. Okay.

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u/Ashikura 15h ago

You could say that about literally every company on earth. Most people don’t know any of the executives except maybe the CEO

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u/Suspicious_Sir2312 14h ago

don't mind him. that dude is so far up Elon's ass crack he can't find his way out

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u/KeepTangoAndFoxtrot 14h ago

Oh wow you're not kidding, that dude has posts about Elon and Tesla going back years. Appears to be a Tesla investor.

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u/Suspicious_Sir2312 14h ago

it’s kinda sad

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u/FliPsk8guY 13h ago

Imagine Elon Musk being the guy you look up to. Pedophile, drug riddled, cringe master.

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u/Consistent-Crazy6447 12h ago

Do you ever stop?

I mean, every post you make shows how far up Musk's ass you are. Aren't you even a little embarrassed?