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      I gave him lots of money when he showed off Teslas all-electric sports car, pitched the model S sedan, and laid out the plan for solar roof tiles, and home battery storage.

      It was a beautiful moment when I saw a billionaire putting their money against fossil fuels.

      When he was struggling to get model 3 production rolling, I gave him lots more money.

      Then he started shitting on trans folks and I started divesting, but still wanted Tesla to succeed.

      Then he essentially bought twitter with that money I gave him to develop Tesla and reports of working conditions started coming out so I divested more… But I held hope Tesla board would kick him out and I could put that money back.

      Then he got into politics and Tesla board voted to give Elon tens of billions and I left all the way.

      Fucking shame.

      There was a moment when Tesla was investing tens of billions into actual electrification research and developing compelling projects and making lots of money because of it.

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      Every once in a while he blackmails the Tesla board into giving him a shit ton of money. Besides that he doesn’t have much, his wealth is in stocks, mostly Tesla, because his other companies aren’t publicly traded. What rich people do to actually get money is they get a loan backed by their stocks, and then never really paying it back. Tesla is extremely overvalued, but because of that he can just borrow as much money as he wants.

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    Sales are tanking, profits are tanking, and he’s being forced to abandon his precious “SEXY” branding, by ditching the S and the X. Now it’s just “EY.”

    Tesla has crashed, and is NEVER coming back. Sales/profits will continue to slip with each earnings report. The only thing keeping it afloat is because it is held in massive institutional investment accounts, but as it continues it’s inexorable slide, those institutional accounts will start to sell down, accelerating the slide, until they all bail, and Tesla stock nosedives.

    Tesla will be bankrupt in 2 years.

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    Elon Musk is a Nazi

    He Should be stripped of his security clearance and incarcerated immediately.

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      He’s only got security clearance because he’s a Nazi. A normal person would have been denied it.

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    At least the costumes can be sold for Halloween in Tesla’s forthcoming liquidation sale, unlike their cars that nobody wants.

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    They are making robots that are confirmed to not do anything on their own? The ones he has been scamming people and lying over using human remote operators?

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      The robots are going to finish that tunnel in California. They will carry your car through the tunnel, as always promised. They just need a little funding.

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      46% earnings drop in Tesla, they’re pivoting cause no one wants musks cars anymore.

      They’ve blown public trust, so now they’re pivoting to businessmen with no morals.

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        I wonder if the 3 is selling better. Maybe they will put more effort in to it.

        Maybe they shouldn’t have made that shit truck.

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          It’s cheaper. It’s almost definitely a better seller. The S was supposed to be a luxury car. It’s bigger, has air suspension, etc. But most people don’t want to pay a premium for stuff like that.

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    Those robots are complete vaporware. I would predict we’re about to see whole lot of robot hype video clips on twitter and tiktok very soon. We’re going to see his fake “robot” playing soccer, making breakfast, juggling, and whatever. I’m sure they’ll be all ai generated. There will be paid tesla influencers who already bought cybertruck hyping up this non existent robots very soon. Elon will tout millions of robots sold but in reality they were all sold to spacex and those robots will be sitting in a hanger somewhere. It’s all smoke and mirrors.

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      How fuckin dare he drag Optimus’ name through the gutter with his fascist metal dogs.

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      He’s so fucking uncreative. At least Thiel is slightly more clever with his references

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    Stock market capitalization bigger than all the European and American car brands COMBINED but they only sell two very similar vehicles. Makes sense

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    All I can hear is “Get ready to smash some clankers soon” ✨

    Thank you mister Elon Musk for making the most advanced punching bags yet ! Pretty please, can you make it so they bleed when we destroy them ? Being splashed with android blood sounds absolutely glorious 👑

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    Tesla booked just $2.28 billion in “bedrock,” repeatable earnings. […] At its current market cap of $1.44 trillion, Tesla’s selling at an adjusted PE of 632 ($1.44 trillion divided by $2.28 billion). Palantir, the super-hot supplier of software to the intelligence community, is often cited as the ultimate in over-the-top valuations at a multiple of 353. But Palantir’s got nothing on Tesla. At a “core” multiple that’s 80% higher, Tesla easily beats Palantir for offering minimal pennies in profit for every dollar you’re paying for the shares.

    https://fortune.com/2026/01/29/tesla-stock-price-pe-earnings/

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    Just don’t have interest but who exactly is the optimist robot marketed at? Like we all know that it doesn’t work without remote control so who’s gonna buy it.

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      Even if his robots were ready for primetime (they’re not), I don’t see how he’s going to be able to price them affordably, given the RAM shortages.