Elon Musk is really doing an incredible job educating the public...

[Swede]

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=GBblZ64-slaDQ-H2dLw2Hg

[plimsoll]

1. Queue Hoyt in 3, 2, 1

[erronis]

22. Either it's on vacation or you've figured out the silencing trick.

Seems like Hoyt shows up for awhile and then goes away - perhaps to get batteries recharged.

[Lunabell]

25. He's too busy fan boying musk.

Probably taping up posters of musk on his bedroom wall.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Incredible job, that.

Musk considers the US government to be another corporation.

“I think its a false dichotomy to look at government and sort of industry as separate...government is...the ultimate corporation,” Musk said Tuesday at the WSJ CEO Summit, calling it a “monopoly that can’t go bankrupt, or usually cannot go bankrupt.”

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/10/elon-musk-government-is-the-ultimate-corporation.html

Dear Leader types regard corporations like any entity, to be controlled, managed and exploited.

[wryter2000]

11. If that were true

The government would have to sell off every department except the postal service and maybe the department of education. The postal service operates in the black. The department of education probably earns more than it costs in raised income taxes for the people who get an education. The Pentagon is a huge money black hole.

[Wounded Bear]

33. My favorite definition of fascism is the melding of gorvernment and industry...

[Joinfortmill]

3. Yup, and think, we could have had Amber Heard as the Mrs. Oligarchy. Yikes!

[Sympthsical]

5. Objection

Hearsay.

[dchill]

13. Sidebar...

It could still happen.

[peppertree]

4. That's how Hitler, Mussolini, Pinochet, Marcos, and the rest of them rose to power

Dark money.

[NewHendoLib]

6. Just another Uber wealthy narcissist fucking asshole.

[justhanginon]

7. They are becoming a dime a dozen in this country.

[GoCubsGo]

10. I see what you did there.

Maybe they can get Joesph Gordon-Levitt to play Elon in the film adaptation, too.

[dalton99a]

27. +1

[NQAS]

8. You know...

There are lots of wealthy people you just don’t hear about. Whether they’re good people or pond scum, you just don’t hear about them. You don’t know who they are.

I like that. I am fucking tired if these billionaire narcissists who are in our faces every day. One day it’s begging for government bailouts or handouts, the next day it’s condemning the government. Just go the fuck away.

But twitter. Dont buy twitter. Go to space. Don’t go to space. Buy 50 mansions and billion dollar yachts. Or not. Just do it. Or not. Just stop talking about it.

[LoisB]

9. Hear, hear!

[NewHendoLib]

12. THIS!!!

[Bobstandard]

14. He's convinced me to not buy Tesla

I had plans to buy both the car and the power wall, but not now. If for no other reason than his antics make the long term viability of either/both enterprises less certain. Good job boss!

[tavernier]

24. How about the other reason being

that they look like bloated toads.
Ugly Car!

[airplaneman]

28. I think Musk sells Yuppy Toys - I cannot afford any of his stuff.

China's best electric car is $25K and has a 600 mile range and looks like an Infinity.

-Airplane

[former9thward]

49. Chinese cars do not have the safety or environmental

requirements that American cars are required to have. I would much rather have an American car.

[world wide wally]

15. I wouldn't let him babysit my kids is all I can say

[AntivaxHunters]

16. Whoa! I didn't hear about this!

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=aji9uOZ1oxXVFNLHszHvgQ

[sop]

18. Elon Musk traveled to Brazil to discuss projects to "protect the Amazon rainforest"? Really?

"Amazon deforestation surges to 12-year high under Bolsonaro"

"Bolsonaro’s great achievement when it comes to the environment has been this tragic destruction of forests which has turned Brazil into perhaps one of the greatest enemies of the global environment and into an international pariah too.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/01/amazon-deforestation-surges-to-12-year-high-under-bolsonaro

[AntivaxHunters]

19. He's garbage

[Evolve Dammit]

32. It's all BS. He is an autocrat supporter and wanna be. And he may well be. All it takes is $.

[Warpy]

17. He's also getting loved bombed by the cult

probably by a silicone uholstered bottle blonde from Republican central casting.

[SergeStorms]

20. When you become a multi-billionaire.....

it seems to turn you into a know-it-all who can't keep your mouth closed. It also aligns you with fascists and other corporate criminals, and you actually believe everything you have to say is important.

Silly multi-billionaire. No one really gives a hoot what you have to say. You breathe rarefied air, and we peons are lucky to get a breath that hasn't been polluted by you corporate scions.

Go ahead, keep on talking, but don't feel offended if we don't listen to a damned word you say, alright?

[Wednesdays]

26. When you're rich, they think you really know

"And it won't make one bit of difference if I answer right or wrong
When you're rich, they think you really know!"

-- "If I Were a Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof

[SergeStorms]

31. True dat!

Kind of like TFG bragging about grabbing women by the ______. "They just let you do it". I'm quite sure they don't, asshole. In fact, you're still facing 20+ lawsuits with that assertion still in question.

[OldBaldy1701E]

46. Yada dee da dee da didle didle dee da dee da dum! (n/t)

[NickB79]

21. Ford's new EV's can't get here soon enough

I'm going to love watching Big Blue bury that smug fucker's company when they really ramp up F-150 Lightning production.

[Mr. Evil]

23. I forgot about that one.

You just know that's going to put a serious butt-hurt on Tesla and the Musk-O-Rama!

[Shipwack]

29. I never really wanted to buy a big truck until I saw the Lightening

Now I do because of its features and early reviews by mainstream car magazines. Not only does it cost the same or (less) than a similarly equipped conventional truck, it can also act as a "power wall" for the house!

Plus, Ford know how to build vehicles, unlike Tesla, whose vehicles have quality control problems.

Unfortunately, I doubt I'll be able to afford a $60K vehicle of any kind in the near future... 😕

[NullTuples]

38. Fear not, the Maverick was designed for electric

And there are pretty substantiated rumors the next-gen Ranger will be, too as it leaves behind the old platform.

Ford is well on their way down a well-planned road to convert their entire fleet. The first step was the eco-boost that did start-stop; that was like a stepping stone to hybrids. And hybrids are a stepping stone to electric (or stand next to in certain narrow markets & likely will for a long time). But it takes time and baby steps to seamlessly switch sales, marketing, service and parts over.

[NickB79]

45. The Maverick will be my next vehicle in 2 years

My Prius is 10 years old, and I need a small truck now that I've doubled down on my small farm/CSA business.

The 40 mpg hybrid is exciting, but I'm hoping for a plug-in hybrid or full EV model soon.

[Evolve Dammit]

34. We will forget Ford was a racist Nazi sympathizer. Ancient history.

[NullTuples]

39. Henry Ford was a monster. His grandson who became CEO in 1945 was a Zionist

https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2022/04/03/founded-by-an-antisemite-ford-motor-cos-leaders-became-pro-zionists/

Ford Motor Co in 2022 as a corporation works hard to fight racism, sexism and ableism. They perform frequent internal audits to ensure minorities make up at least an adequate percent of the workplace (which in their internal measures means at least the same same as society as a whole) and that includes all levels of management. That's worldwide, too - not just in the USA.

Also, when the new Ranger Tremor was announced, someone on Twitter called it "very gay" meant as a derogatory insult. Ford flipped that on its head and spent the time and money to have a special VERY GAY TREMOR make public & social media appearances to show support for their LGBTQ workers. It's fabulous and makes people smile.

So really Ford is sorta the anti-Tesla.

[Evolve Dammit]

53. interesting. thanks

[NickB79]

44. And Lincoln freed the slaves and saved the Union

Doesn't mean I'm gonna praise Republicans. Times change.

Maybe in 40 years, one of Musk's kids redeems the family name.

[Demovictory9]

30. also, lesson on how to change your reputation as an inventor to that of a rightwing nut

[Wounded Bear]

35. We Americans need to stop calling the guys who bankrolled things "inventors"...

[NullTuples]

40. The only thing Musk ever made was his first company's website

And the code was so horrible as soon as they hired an actual programmer the first thing they did was throw out all the old code (rewrote it from scratch) as it was completely non-scalable and non-maintainable.

His job has always been the same as Trump: to come up with new bright shiny objects and convince investors to give him money for them, which he needs because the attempt at the prior last shiny object is going so poorly.

It's a shell game. He's one of those guys with a card table, three cups and a pebble. He just had the luck of birthright to be doing it on a much larger scale.

[Demovictory9]

42. didn't know that. He's portrayed as the Iron Man Inventor type

[Dukkha]

36. He's just like Steve Jobs but much worse

Jobs loved to take credit for the technological innovations under Apple. The reality was he simply bankrolled brilliant engineers and programmers to design and build everything and then claimed it all as his achievements. Or He'd just outright steal other inventions (see Xerox PARC).

Musk is the same just an "investor" who takes credit for other rocket scientists work at SpaceX and auto engineers at Tesla. And how is making luxury cars for the privileged elite making the world a better place?

I about rolled my eyes in the back of my head last night on Bill Maher when Adam Corolla referred to him and "the smartest man in the world" Puleeze he's a modern day robber baron and an intellectual lightweight in the science community.

[NullTuples]

41. At least for a while Jobs had the realization that he also needed to showcase Woz 4 tech cred

Later though, Apple became something very, very different under Jobs. Slightly more cult-like, some might say. Just as the idea of carrying a computer around all day was becoming feasible and even useful, Jobs saw that there was a distinct market of people who were not technical, at all. But if they paid him a rather exorbitant amount, he'd sell them a high tech device that even they could use and thus feel like they too were part of this computer-technology revolution thingy. I'm sorry, did I say he'd sell them that device? I meant, "he'd have them begging for it and waiting outside the doors at midnight the day the next model went on sale so they could buy the bragging rights".

[NullTuples]

37. One might say a true capitalist was always a fascist to begin with...

[mathematic]

43. As if the red/brown alliance isn't real

Sick of socialists trying to convince liberals they're fascists. Capitalism is not a fascist ideology. Capitalism is a liberal ideology. Elizabeth Warren even describes herself as a capitalist.

The truth is there are always people of every political ideology that think they can use fascists as a tool to win political power. They're wrong. Fascism is using them as a tool to win political power. Fascism wins because it is popular. The way to defeat fascism is to instill a culture of individual rights. LIBERALISM is the true anti-fascism.

[Joe Nation]

47. Who does this idiot think is going to buy his Teslas? Republicans?

Not bloody likely. They are still mad that the horse and buggy era ended too soon. Good luck Elon. There are plenty of EV alternatives that don't have fart noises as options. Screw Musk.

[Aussie105]

48. Elon: Another 'stable' genius?

Why do riches, or pretention to riches, drive some over the edge?

Not to worry, most of us will never face that ourselves personally.
We just have to put up with them. Somehow.

[Blue Owl]

51. He's on the turnpike to tRumpdom

Or shall I say, tRumpdumb

[robbedvoter]

50. He was one by birth.

No need to ally.

[Scrivener7]

52. NEVER FORGET! Twitter participation is entirely voluntary.

Once upon a time, in the olden days, you didn't even know what a twitter was...
... and you were probably happier.