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Bad business move (buying Twitter, which had ZERO to do with his "mission" of getting to Mars) with Twitter having laid off 70% of employees and losing massive amounts of advertising revenue since his takeover. Using Margin loans to fund it and having to sell stock when it was down.....FSD nowhere NEAR where he thought it would be by now (hellooooo robotaxi service), and cant seem to keep a woman in his life. YOu'd think with all of his money and jets he'd at LEAST have one bad chick by his side at SOME point...

He's come (gone) a long way since being Time Man of the Year...

No modern woman with self respect gonna take those working hours ... it's not the times of Einstein any more.

Twitter can sustain max 1000 employees for breakeaven so direction is about right ...

People buying FSD left and right so can't really blame that move either ...
 
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I do think he's an idiot who needs to shut up and stop walking on third rails when he's the CEO of Tesla who needs all the support it can get from everywhere to support it's so called mission of accelerating the transition to sustainable energy.
And to top that off, does anyone need another divider in a country split and drifting apart? Wrong direction Musk.
 
Far left's claim that Musk is far-right is disintegrating right in front of our eyes:

1. DOE is endorsing the Covid lab leak theory, which once was labeled as "far-right conspiracy theory", now supported by a major US science department under Biden administration.

2. Tim Urban's book What's Our Problem? is now #1 best seller on Amazon in Political Commentary & Opinion section, and he went on Lex Fridman podcast to explain - among other things - why woke is a cancer on the liberal democracy institutions and we need to be aware of it and fight it with courage, exactly what Musk is doing.
 
Bad business move (buying Twitter, which had ZERO to do with his "mission" of getting to Mars) with Twitter having laid off 70% of employees and losing massive amounts of advertising revenue since his takeover. Using Margin loans to fund it and having to sell stock when it was down.....FSD nowhere NEAR where he thought it would be by now (hellooooo robotaxi service), and cant seem to keep a woman in his life. YOu'd think with all of his money and jets he'd at LEAST have one bad chick by his side at SOME point...

He's come (gone) a long way since being Time Man of the Year...

Musk had several self-declared "missions." Electrifying transportation; getting to space more cheaply and eventually getting to and colonizing Mars; building fast, underground, inter-city mass transportation; and perhaps others I'm not aware of. More recently, turning Twitter into a heaven for unrestricted free speech.

The first of these missions is off to a great start, with Tesla building the best cars on the road and being the only auto maker that makes only electric cars. Tesla made EV's mainstream, with Nissan joining early on. FSD has been a failure so far because while Tesla's ADAS systems are the best on any car available to the public, a full robotaxi, which was the original promise of FSD, is nowhere on the horizon.

The second is partially accomplished: SpaceX is sending people and supplies to the ISS far more cheaply than anybody else. Mars is a complete pipe dream, as conditions there are a thousand times more harsh and desolate than Antarctica. But I call SpaceX a complete success in spite of Musk's loony ideas about Mars.

Hyperloop was a complete flop.

And lastly, he's made Twitter into a place where racists, conspiracy mongers, and anti-vaxxers have the freedom to promulgate their malicious lies but any criticism of Musk is banned. So much for free speech!

He achieved two of his missions before he went completely off his nut and botched the other two. Now his enabling of racists and some of his own comments have provided his critics with very plausible arguments that he himself has become racist, or perhaps always was. Being a white South African does not necessarily made somebody a racist, any more than being a white American does. But his own actions are pointing in that direction.

Tesla makes the best cars on the road and SpaceX is the most advanced of all the private space-launch companies. But Musk has become an embarrassment. As noted above, I suspect performance-enhancing drugs intended to fuel his workload.
 
1. DOE is endorsing the Covid lab leak theory, which once was labeled as "far-right conspiracy theory", now supported by a major US science department under Biden administration.
That is not exactly what happened.
"The Energy Department said it reached the conclusion with "low confidence."
"Four other U.S. agencies believe the virus was a result of natural transmission and that the virus, known as SARS-CoV-2, jumped from animals to humans at a wet market. Two other agencies are undecided."

It may turn out to be the case that it was a lab leak but the political drive by one side to jump to that conclusion before there was evidence was the far right conspiracy.

2. Tim Urban's book What's Our Problem? is now #1 best seller on Amazon in Political Commentary & Opinion section, and he went on Lex Fridman podcast to explain - among other things - why woke is a cancer on the liberal democracy institutions and we need to be aware of it and fight it with courage, exactly what Musk is doing.
Just because a book is a best seller doesn't mean the majority of the country agrees that the latest boogieman is actually a problem. It's the typical playbook of fear mongering on the right, take a minor issue and make it a target by blowing it out of proportion so people don't focus on real problems. You were played and you fell for it, just like Elon.
 
Musk had several self-declared "missions." Electrifying transportation; getting to space more cheaply and eventually getting to and colonizing Mars; building fast, underground, inter-city mass transportation; and perhaps others I'm not aware of. More recently, turning Twitter into a heaven for unrestricted free speech.

The first of these missions is off to a great start, with Tesla building the best cars on the road and being the only auto maker that makes only electric cars. Tesla made EV's mainstream, with Nissan joining early on. FSD has been a failure so far because while Tesla's ADAS systems are the best on any car available to the public, a full robotaxi, which was the original promise of FSD, is nowhere on the horizon.

The second is partially accomplished: SpaceX is sending people and supplies to the ISS far more cheaply than anybody else. Mars is a complete pipe dream, as conditions there are a thousand times more harsh and desolate than Antarctica. But I call SpaceX a complete success in spite of Musk's loony ideas about Mars.

Hyperloop was a complete flop.

And lastly, he's made Twitter into a place where racists, conspiracy mongers, and anti-vaxxers have the freedom to promulgate their malicious lies but any criticism of Musk is banned. So much for free speech!

He achieved two of his missions before he went completely off his nut and botched the other two. Now his enabling of racists and some of his own comments have provided his critics with very plausible arguments that he himself has become racist, or perhaps always was. Being a white South African does not necessarily made somebody a racist, any more than being a white American does. But his own actions are pointing in that direction.

Tesla makes the best cars on the road and SpaceX is the most advanced of all the private space-launch companies. But Musk has become an embarrassment. As noted above, I suspect performance-enhancing drugs intended to fuel his workload.
This is a comprehensive and completely accurate assessment. In other words, you should expect either a downvote or a sardonic laugh symbol any minute.
 
Far left's claim that Musk is far-right is disintegrating right in front of our eyes:

1. DOE is endorsing the Covid lab leak theory, which once was labeled as "far-right conspiracy theory", now supported by a major US science department under Biden administration.

2. Tim Urban's book What's Our Problem? is now #1 best seller on Amazon in Political Commentary & Opinion section, and he went on Lex Fridman podcast to explain - among other things - why woke is a cancer on the liberal democracy institutions and we need to be aware of it and fight it with courage, exactly what Musk is doing.
The sooner one figures out that everything the AuthLeft does comes straight out of rules for radicals, the sooner you know how to defend against it.

Everything is a projection and or a Kafka trap and nothing is ever enough. Anger feeds the beast.
 
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The sooner one figures out that everything the AuthLeft does comes straight out of rules for radicals, the sooner you know how to defend against it.

Everything is a projection and or a Kafka trap and nothing is ever enough. Anger feeds the beast.
If you're going to keep using trendy buzzwords, then at least define them for our good readers. You never explained CRT in context, so I've taken the liberty of providing a link explaining AuthLeft:
 
No modern woman with self respect gonna take those working hours ...
Elon has a history of paying for female company. Supply-demand-hourly rate will take care of the working hours problem.

Twitter can sustain max 1000 employees for breakeaven so direction is about right ...
Twitter was profitable at the old staffing and advertising revenue levels.
There were no problems at Twitter until Elon screwed the pooch by alienating the advertisers and tanking the revenue.
LBO-ing (Leverage Buy Out) the purchase with $13 billion debt has introduced $1.2B/year interest overhead. Another 100% Elon-induced problem as well.

So no, there is just about NOTHING right about Elon's impact on Twitter. And that is before we bring up the question of Twitter being a massive distraction from other value-add companies.
Elon will likely disagree, since he puts high value on self-promotion.
Based on his time commitment to Twitter, self-promotion is his highest priority at the present time.

People buying FSD left and right so can't really blame that move either ...
There is no evidence of high FSD take rate.
The last article I read was that fewer than 9% of Tesla buyers were picking FSD, and that was before the last round of price hikes jacked it up to $15K.

And yeah, FSD claims are demos are mostly fraudulent, and Elon now has a class-action lawsuit to deal with. Big surprise:

Not to worry, Tesla has a rock-solid excuse: "FSD may be a failure, but it’s not a fraud.":
 
It may turn out to be the case that it was a lab leak but the political drive by one side to jump to that conclusion before there was evidence was the far right conspiracy.

I think you are missing the forest for the trees.

The scandal is that virtually all of Social Media (along with major players in our Government and Academia) censored all common sense discussion that maybe (just maybe) COVID escaped from the COVID lab that was just a few miles from supposed ground zero in Wuhan. Reputable scientists from major universities were being censored by 20 something year old humanities majors working for Twitter "safety".

I remember lots of media talking heads and politicians going on and on about how racist and irresponsible it was to even consider that COVID could have escaped from the Wuhan lab. As if the Chinese government were less irresponsible with the genesis of COVID if it came from a disgusting and unregulated wet market where they serve bat soup?!

Everyone with half a brain knew that China was majorly complicit through their incompetence in managing labs or wet markets. But the same Social Media and Politicians spent the next year basically praising China for their authoritarian lockdowns and their obviously fake COVID stats.

We were all being gaslit to the nth degree.

Musk buying Twitter and opening the curtain is exposing so much. I am very thankful that he is creating some transparency and we might even get some accountability with our broken media going forward.

We can not have a functioning society when one political side can have so much power and influence to censor the other's opinions.
 
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