Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.

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[–] 105 points 3 years ago (58 children)

Fuck Musk. He built an entire automotive platform on the concept of "sustainable transportation" and took those on the right to task for denying climate change. NOW he's supporting the POS GOP candidate that had the audacity to call climate change a "hoax" repeatedly at the debate. Fuck you Elon!

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  • [–] 69 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Dude Elon never did anything. Only people he paid with emerald slave money did.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I'll call him apartheid boy faster than anything, but this claim is largely inaccurate and needs to stop being repeated, because the truth is bad enough.

    He got rich by scamming Compaq and thanks to Peter Thiel, gay fascist, kicking him out of control at PayPal.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not only did his own father call Elmo out on his fake "rags to riches" story, by throwing a bag of unrefined emeralds on the table.

    Elmo even went as far as to state his father had a stake in an apartheid emerald mine in an interview in Forbes of 2014.

    He tried to get the interview removed of course, but it still is on the Wayback Machine.

    Excerpt:

    JC: How do you handle fear?

    EM: Company death – not succeeding with the company – causes me a lot more stress than physical danger. But I’ve been in physical danger before. The funny thing is I’ve not actually been that nervous. In South Africa, my father had a private plane we’d fly in incredibly dangerous weather and barely make it back. This is going to sound slightly crazy, but my father also had a share in an Emerald mine in Zambia. I was 15 and really wanted to go with him but didn’t realize how dangerous it was. I couldn’t find my passport so I ended up grabbing my brother’s – which turned out to be six months overdue! So we had this planeload of contraband and an overdue passport from another person. There were AK-47s all over the place and I’m thinking, “Man, this could really go bad.”

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  • Elon sold his first company, which basically just owned a single useful program, to Compaq for $300 million, riding the .com bubble.

    Errol Musk's net worth is $2.5 million.

    His affluence gave Musk his start but it isn't why he's a billionaire, that's due to dumb boomers paying too much for funny numbers and Peter Thiel realizing he's a moron that can't be trusted to run a company based on public perception of trustworthiness.

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  • [–] 64 points 3 years ago (46 children)

    Ehz he didn't built an automotive platform. Other people did that, he bought it and green it mostly through controversy and by now it's quite clear that Tesla's are quite shit to own and drive.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    ...I mean, I love my Tesla, and most people I know with one feel similarly. I'm not a fan of the way the company is run, and association with Elon makes me want to hurl these days, but I have no qualms with the cars themselves.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I don't love your Tesla, because they keep almost running me down because their self-driving bullshit doesn't know what a zebra crossing is.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    So I'm not saying FSD is any good, it's incomplete beta software on public roads, but considering not even a fifth of Teslas have FSD, I'd be willing to bet you've just encountered some bad drivers with a nice mix of confirmation bias...

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Teslas are awesome to own and drive. It's an annoying checklist that takes an hour when you first get the car to make sure your car isn't one of the ones with the bad panels, doors that don't close nicely, etc., But you can decline the car if it has any of those things, or they fix it right away. Once you are through that part it's really a great vehicle, especially if you have a charger at home. Gad stations are super inconvenient if you think about it.

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