still never buying one. There are much better EVs on the market that cost less and look nicer. The tesla has always looked silly. Like what a teenage boy would think is "cyber punk".
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Do they really think this will be "the golden move" to save Tesla? It's still Musk's company. The brand is toxic forever.
If he isn't forced to leave the board and divest all stock, Tesla is still dead.
Hell, even then...
Let it be very, very clear that the board had no problem with Musk's sieg heils. They only care because they've lost a massive chunk of their stock value. Don't support nazis. Don't support Tesla even if Musk has been completely removed.
Elon needs to be removed from the board and all his stock returned to the company. Only then can they start looking at cleaning up their brand.
his whole board needs to be replaced, that is not handpicked by musk.
Should probably even rebrand at that point
Yeah no shit, get Nikola's name off that shit. Call it Edison Motors or something :)
naw, they'll rename it T and buy out T.com
They'll name it Xcars and the only way to buy them is through twitter dming grok.
"Alright let's go, everyone in the T-mobile!"
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Musk, with his DOGE, has even abolished the federal department responsible for ensuring that all cars coming to market follow compliant minimum safety regulations. Purely intentional so Musk can market his cars without any oversight. Safe or not. And dare you complain about that: Musk has an army of lawyers who will immediately take any negative publicity or negative comments from users to court. Need proof? https://apnews.com/article/tesla-china-musk-investigation-takeaways-422af6d3c6e7cc88173d12891e8c0a9a
I wouldn't be surprised if DOGE nationalizes Tesla and puts it under Musk's command. Gotta have Cyber Tanks for the regime, right?
"Please put down your weapon. You now have 15 seconds to comply."
Robocop's corporate dystopian nightmare is closer and closer to reality.
It's been here. RoboCop was satirizing all that same crap that was happening back then, as well.
The American consumer is a fucking idiot, this has a high chance of success as people forget about Elon and go back to buying them.
I mean, in fairness, do we have any qualms with the rest of the company? Elon was directly responsible for pretty much all of the cyber truck decisions. But the regular Tesla's, aside from Elon prohibiting lidar and making false claims about self driving, are pretty decent. Without him, lidar might get implemented, the cyber truck will probably be scrapped, and real engineers will have their voices heard again.
Isn't that kind of what we want from a company? To realize their errors and remove the cancerous parts?
He will still have a shitload of shares. I don't need to get into the nitty-gritty detail of whether I hate the company or its products; his stock in it is what allowed him to buy the election for Trump, so fuck Tesla.
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Are you assuming Elon would no longer own stock or have other ways he'd continue to profit from Tesla?
Why do you want a redemption arc for this overvalued company so bad? You holding a bag?
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Tesla was garbage before Elon came out as a Nazi. The quality control is non existent and has been.
Yes, and that's another reason the company is failing, and I won't buy a car from them. But, that's not the point here, the point is Musk's stupid antics are having major consequences for him. The only value he's had for the company for years is as a mascot. The company succeeded so far as it has in spite of Musk, not because of him. Same for SpaceX.
It's literally the opposite. The company has only done well in the past because of his antics. Tesla currently has a price per earning ratio of 155. It's only even this low because now people realize he's a Nazi. In the past, I've seen their price per earning ratio go as high as 350. If you know anything about stock fundamentals, you'd know that a normal ratio is around 20-30. Anything under would be a must buy stock and anything over would be a must sell, generally but not always.
But not Telsa. This isn't the first quarter sales have been down for Telsa. In the past when it happened, Elon would just do something stupid like launch a car into space, make a small flame thrower, or do some stupid meme shit and the price would still go up, despite a bad earnings call.
Since the first non roadster Telsa, they have been making shit quality cars and selling features as a subscription. If it wasn't for captain dipshit doing stupid stuff and fooling people into thinking he's smart, that company would have failed. Or he would have sold his portion back to the original owners and they company might have produced quality cars like the Roadster.
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do we have any qualms with the rest of the company
Let's say they can him. Let's say he is somehow compelled to sell off stock until he's a minitority shareholder. His ego would not let that go. To say he's still filthy fucking rich would do a disservice to filth. You can't separate him from this mess. He'd just come back.
If he just disappeared tomorrow, no chance of repurchasing it, just maybe but we need to see:
- Unions everywhere
- OSHA up their ass
- Put some fucking LiDAR on the cars
- Reinvent quality control
- Reinvent a safety program so that people can't burn to death locked in their car.
- Fully support individual resale.
- Fully support 3rd party service centers.
- Every car is modified until it gets at least a three-star crash rating
- All features are purchased with the car, if your seat has a heater, you can use it for free.
- One feature is "we don't sell" or "store your data in a way that can identify you"
- Car updates are transparent and unless a true safety hazard, optional.
- No more of this screwing around with odometers to speed past warranty availability and everyone gets 30k more miles and another year because they were assholes.
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So Elon won’t be to blame when it’s worth less than, say, Ford?
Still means fuck all as long as he holds his Tesla shares. All you're doing is making him more money by making the shares go up again.
Drive the stock into the forking ground.
Doesn't matter you goons could literally fund srs operations globally and everyone will still think you're Nazis
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