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While Elon indulges in political theater and self-aggrandizing quips, Tesla is experiencing an unprecedented slump in both sales and stock value.

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[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 108 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

He should list five things he's done for TSLA this week.

Absentee CEO.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 63 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh no, maybe he should've tried minding his own business instead of trying to destroy democracy in multiple countries at once!

[–] nanoswarm9k@lemmus.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

Oh no! Fantasy business failing just like those fired engineers with safety concerns said it would!

Too bad the rare resources are already wasted!

Let me... finish writing out... this reality check for... 0 fucks.

Liquidate that shit into individual gardening grants and public train money.

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 43 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 3 weeks ago

I hope he feels worse soon

[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 weeks ago

This is all an act.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 25 points 3 weeks ago

Behaving like a shithead has consequences. Hanging out with corrupt shitheads has consequences.

Welcome to the real world Elon. Now cry me a river and get the fuck over it.

[–] Vari@lemm.ee 24 points 3 weeks ago

So… stop? You have more money than anyone could ever spend. Just fuck off already. Stop being so fucking evil.

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 22 points 3 weeks ago

The ketamine ran out and reality rushed in

[–] Jinx@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 weeks ago

Crocodile tears 🙄

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 weeks ago
[–] painfulasterisk1@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 weeks ago

'Close to tears' is not enough. He needs to endure decades of real tears.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 13 points 3 weeks ago

Boo hoo hoo poor wittle musky

[–] iamjackflack@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago

good, hope that rich bastard has all the trouble possible to make his life miserable

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 weeks ago

Gut him — financially, ofc.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago

government bailout in 3...2...

[–] gabelstapler@feddit.org 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

More like wiping his tears with dollar bills. Wouldn't be surprised if he and Trump's buddies were given a heads-up to buy shorts before the stock market went downhill.

[–] ricketyrackets@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

I’d bet F’elons life on it.

[–] HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 10 points 3 weeks ago

Cry me a river fuck face.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago

I hope his panic attacks have panic attacks. I hope he goes to bed and never rises for fear of the mess he's made. I hope he stumbles in his fear, and fucks with someone with little enough left to lose they do something about it.

Fuck you F'Elon Ballstink, if your dreams come true I will personally stowaway on a rocket to Mars after your death to shit on your grave.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago

We need to start a fund for this dipshit to receive a fresh package of rope each day.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If he really cared maybe he should stop stretching himself thin, get out of DOGE, and stick to selling shitty cars

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The earlier Tesla's weren't so shitty. Not more than your average Kia/Hyundai EV anyhow in terms of being a car. The self-driving shit is another story.

Cybertruck has been a dumpster fire since inception though.

Yeah, if Elon could drop the politics, hand off X, and go back to just being a major investor in tech companies that actually have some pretty cool ideas, that's be great.

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[–] emberpunk@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

I think the damage is done even if he were to backtrack. People will just assume he's backtracking because of money and that's it. Not because of his actual ideals

[–] figjam@midwest.social 8 points 3 weeks ago
[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He wasn't close to tears, he just needed time to think of something to say that won't tank his wealth.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe he was. Maybe Thiel had a conversation with him about drawing more of the wrong kind of attention.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

It's still not enough. We need to ramp up Musk suffering at least another 60% in this quarter.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 weeks ago

Cry me a river, you absolute waste of a human being.

You showed your hand and you're an complete piece of shit. I hope the good people got their money out of your schemes; it'll be too late now.

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

Then just fucking die already. Bitch ass.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

America doesn't exist.

[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

Cry harder, little bitch. Hope you get fired the same way you fired thousands of federal workers.

[–] Daelsky@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

Oh no. Let me cry for the richest person in the world who also happens to be a fascist and spent the last few months posting on Twitter and running around the US president instead of doing his job as a CEO of a company. Total crocodile tears for this guy.

You reap what you sow.

[–] apotheotic 6 points 3 weeks ago

"Our savings at this point exceed $4 billion a day. So it’s very significant."

Like, he's not even trying to use subtle wording to slightly bend the truth in his favour. He is just making shit up unabashedly.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 6 points 3 weeks ago

Skill issue

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

CRY SOME MORE

[–] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

Cry harder shitbag.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

He only got close to tears because the drugs took away his ability to actually cry. Or feel.

[–] apotheotic 4 points 3 weeks ago

Too bad, maybe next time we'll make him go all the way

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

That’s just a reaction his body makes on its own. He is incapable of human emotions.

[–] the_q@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

How does this thread have so many comments and upvotes without a single critique of the source? "TV Fandom Lounge" sounds like some weird AI blog site, and the headline claiming Musk was "close to tears" (in quotation marks, so apparently someone said this...?) has nothing to do with the rest of the text. Nowhere does it clarify who said this about the interview, nor does it even mention crying or tears once outside of the clickbait title. And if you actually bother to watch the interview where he is supposedly "close to tears", he looks completely normal (by his standards). Media literacy is completely dead it seems, people are happy to mindlessly circulate complete garbage as long as it fits whatever political narrative they are trying to push.

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If I had five cents for every time I've seen a comment talk about 'weird AI' and I've read it as 'Weird Al', I would have ten cents.

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Weird Al always deserves a shoutout!

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[–] sloppychops@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

With the way things are going for Tesla, he should probably consider collecting and selling his crybaby-bitch tears.

[–] baggins 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

[–] LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Hahahahahaha

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