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voidUpdate ◴[] No.45063021[source]
I'm still convinced that it being called "full self driving" is misleading marketing and really needs to stop, since it isn't according to Tesla
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acdha ◴[] No.45063088[source]
Why do you think Musk put so much money into helping Trump win? Tesla was under multiple investigations for safety and unkept promises, and he knew that he would not have leverage to halt those under a Harris administration.
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myrmidon ◴[] No.45063332[source]
I'm absolutely not a fan of Trump, but this is a highly questionable assumption.

The much more likely hypothesis in my view is that he was helping Trump because of personal conviction (only in small parts motivated by naked self-interest).

You should expect rational billionaires to tend politically right out of pure self-interest and distorted perspective alone; because the universal thing that such parties reliably do when in power is cutting tax burden on the top end.

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antonvs ◴[] No.45063429[source]
Musk is on record saying to Tucker Carlson that “If [Trump] loses, I’m fucked.”

So this isn't so much of an assumption, as taking him at his word.

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unnamed76ri ◴[] No.45063530[source]
The Left was coming after Musk pretty hard before the election. I don’t know the context of the quote you pulled but it’s not hard to see how if Trump lost, there was going to be consequences for Musk.
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Swenrekcah ◴[] No.45063613[source]
He has committed a lot of fraud and was facing consequences for that. That has nothing to do with left or right.
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1. immibis ◴[] No.45064854{4}[source]
Why do you believe it has nothing to do with left or right?

(Democrats aren't left btw)