Tesla Investors Call for Musk's Suspension, Apple Pulls Ads on X

Republicans flock to buy racist cars, only find electric. Confusion sets in.
- Time for that sweating and 2 buttons meme.
- But the confusion is fleeting, as it always is, because they don’t have the brain power to process the cognitive dissonance.
  
  So they just trail off and then start screaming at the wind? Lead poisoning is a bitch.
- Elon is looking into rolling coal exhaust on Teslas for his Nazi fan club
  
  It’s just a trailer option for the cybertruck that’s basically a stationary 700hp engine idling without a muffler. It’s not generating power, just smoke.
  
  Hey @elonmusk Why Cant People Roll Cole In There Telsa’s? Your Not A Real Man If Your Not Rolin Coal —@RealPatroit1776
  @RealPatroit1776 looking into it —@elonmusk
- Surely fox news will tell them how to think.
  
  And it will be in everyone's best own interests.
- racist cars
  Lmao. What the actual fuck?
  
  Did you read the article?

There you go. It was all OK until it impacted $$. Glad they finally did something, but wish it would have been based on an actual ethical concern.
- this is one of the few levers of power we have. remember that every nickel they have comes from us working and us buying.
  
  Free market morality.
  
  Tesla batteries and modular car battery charging systems incoming, they're not going to give up their market foothold so easily now that they've got their foot in the door.
- These people have money for blood, what makes you think their ethics are any different? I don't care what sets the face eating leopards off so long as they get to eating faces.
- I don't expect people making bank to have many ethical concerns, tbh.
  "It's just one small thing. Besides, there are many other things to complain about!" said every investor tied to everything people complain about, probably.
- Expecting investors to behave ethically instead of in their financial interest? I see you're feeling bold today
- This is capitalism. There is no place for “actual ethical concern.”

I'm waiting for Apple and Google to pull the X client from their app stores.
Then the fun really begins.
- Not going to happen as all these companies work together. these companies are notorious to trick regulars into thinking they are helping the society.
  
  SocialMediaPlatform™ does something horrible
  Make a huge deal about pulling ads from SocialMediaPlatform™ to get consumers on your side
  Quietly return ads to SocialMediaPlatform™ after PR team determines everyone has forgotten
  SocialMediaPlatform™ does something even worse
  GOTO 2
- Why don't people just stop caring about whatever the fuck is going on at Twitter/X? I consider it in the same realm as truthsocial or OANN comment sections. Sure, musky had enough money to buy a platform, but that platform is elevated by it's users. If people just stopped doing that, it would be irrelevant. Literally nothing important has happened on twitter, ever. We don't need it. Just discard it and let it wither in the dark.
  
  Panem et circem.
  Meet the circem.
  They keep the panem.
- something would have to be seriously wrong for that to happen
  
  In the EU, App stores already have a legal responsibility to remove apps that promote hate speech. While both Google and Apple are sitting on the sidelines while the EU is going through the legal motions to tear Musk a new one, I wouldn't be surprised if they kick X out just before someone forces them too, just to pretend they actually care.
  
  [gestures vaguely]
  
  They already have no problem pulling other apps for shit that Xitter is known to pull. Even when said other apps have a similar lack of control (or even less) over said content.
- And the users will migrate into the welcoming arms of the 粪 client instead.

I hate billionaire nazis
- but you repeat yourself.
  
  All billionaires are cunts. All Nazis are cunts. Not all billionaires are Nazis.

- Can we just fully cancel his ass so we don't have to hear about him any more. I yearn for the day I no longer hear about Musk or Trump on a daily basis.
  
  We let people get so fucking rich that everything they do is newsworthy because it actually impacts a ton of people.
  The real problem is that we don't actually need rich people in the first place.
- This story highlights why news about this is still important. The investors wouldn't be doing this if they thought a lot of people wouldn't hear about it and be disgusted.
  I couldn't care less about whatever else he does, but when he does something awful, spread it as much as you can. We can see very clearly that not all news is good news for him. And one thing I do want to see is him discovering the consequences of his action, for once in his life.
- And he'll never go away, ever. As long as he has munny he will be a thorn in everyones side, he cannot simply be voted out like a politician sadly
  
  Or—and please, sit down before you read any further—the media could…stop reporting every single thing he says. [thunder crashes. children scream.]
  
  Nah he'll just be forced to sell some shares before a big profit or they'll arrange a boardroom coup to take away some of his autonomy, CEOs be warned, acting out like too much of a wildcard can appear self destructive and irrational to investors and shareholders alike
  
  True. I do have a feeling like he'll get caught doing some fucked up shit and will go to jail but with all the money , its really hard to tell if he'll ever go to jail as jails are for poor people. Trump is the best example. Hope he rots in jail but I doubt it
- Couldn't agree more. He's all over the news all the time, but Lemmy seems especially obsessed with him. I understand, given the demographics here, but I wish he would just go away forever
  
  Meh that seems like all social media tbh
- The fucking prick really needs to learn to shut the fuck up for a change... And like yesterday.
  
  I cant wait too see his ass in court for some crime hes been caught doing

"We are absolutely appalled at this behavior!" [Buys more stock in Tesla] "I mean really, this has gone too far!" [Collects dividends] "He needs to resign, this is disgusting!" [Watches stock price climb] "this antisemitism must stop or else!" [Buys more stock]
- In the interest of pedantry; TSLA doesn’t declare dividends.
- But you buying and holding also contributes to the price going up. Just as you refusing to buy or selling your shares contributes to prices going down. This is how Elon has manipulated markets for quite a while.
  
  I mean that's how public stocks work, yeah?
  
  I think what you meant is,
  If I buy Tesla stock, then I have a small voice in how the company is run, and I can push it towards a more progressive and altruistic vision.

Musk going down in history as the person removed from leadership in the largest number of billion dollar companies ever.

Tesla Investors Call for Musk's Suspension
They'll quickly find themselves in the same position as the GOP with Trump. Where they want to replace him and cut their losses but the cult of personality is around that one person and nothing else. That's what happens when your audience is so cult-like and fanatical. Not that I feel bad for either the GOP or Tesla obviously, it's still their fault for cultivating these bastards and they don't deserve the slightest sympathy.
- Or just that Elon’s shares are big enough that he can dictate what happens

- Right after it dropped 30% tho
- I'm sure none of them care at all it's just pr damage control
  
  "Who cares about the message attached? The product is solid!"

- Xcrement*
  
  Xcretion

Musk finally end that step too far. Dude forgot there’s a world out there beyond the weird right-wing bubble he’s created for himself on X.
- Personally I think the only reason for this action is the Swedish Unions blockade.
  I think they'd have let him be as shitty as he wanted for as long as he wanted if not for their profits being impacted.

I’m sure his response will be doubling down and turning away more investors. But if that goofy fucking truck being shit, delayed, and possibly a scam didn’t dissuade them…
- Melon Husk ranting about "cancel culture" in 3...2...1...

Hurt him in the way that's most painful to narcissists: remove his ability to generate narcissistic supply. Kill Xcrement.

Suspend him from where?
- From a ridiculously slow lowering mechanism above a tank full of sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads.
  
  I wouldn't even mind if we could only get particularly aggressive sea bass

these investors can say what they want, but the only language musk speaks is money. Sell the shares, dump the stock price.
- I can't wait till Tesla falls apart like the house of cards it is.
  Tons of people gave Tesla a $250,000 interest-free loan in the form of pre-ordering the roadster that was supposed to be released two years ago. People are going to remember that and think twice before pre-ordering the next big car release
  They sell vaporware, let's be real. Cybertruck is going to be a huge disaster calling it now
  
  people are going to remember that
  I really would doubt that unfortunately

Seems like IBM, Apple and Tesla all believe the Boer is a detriment to their brand.

BirdChan is turning into a shit show and the blast radius is very large. When you pretend to be smart and savvy catching up to you in a very large and glaringly painful way.

....but American jews are mostly white.......
I'm so confused.
- Whiteness is arbitrary and can be withdrawn pretty fast. That's part of the problem, white isn't a race, it's an ingroup.
  Ask a Catholic how quickly they can be exempted from white club.
  
  That's race in general too, same thing happens with mixed black people who grew up in an affluent white context.
  Race is basically "made real" through racism, which is largely dependent on economic relations. Our modern notion of race didn't really develop until the 1700s. To me being anti-racist is about criticizing the notion of race itself, with the understanding that it's been made in to a real construct that has power through racism.
  
  Muslims used to be considered pretty white before 9/11, Italians used to not be considered white in the early 1900s.
- Race is a construct, homie
  
  You're right. And before anyone rebuts, Irish and Italian weren't considered "white".
  
  Doesn't change anything, it's possible to identify with constructs, such as being gay, seeing that nobody seems to be "just" gay anymore, and it's more on the line of a spectrum. Where is the line drawn for any semantic definition?
- Jews are only white when it's convenient.
  
  I mean, I tan pretty well, and I've got pretty big lips for a white boy, but day to day, I have light skin, blue eyes, and light brown hair.

About the only good thing investors have ever done

If you don't get in line Musk, I'll feed you to the peasant rats!
The peasant rats:

Doesn't he own the company?
- No. He's the biggest shareholder, but only has a 13% share.
  
  Oh my bad, I'm confusing it with twitter.
- It's a publicly traded company. The shareholders own it.

Daily Musk spam

Regardless if you like Elon Musk or not, we should be careful not to become a vehicle (no pun intended) for some elites' political, ideological or religious agendas.

Let's not bag this guy just yet, he may be a bit of a loose cannon but if there's one thing that's kept China from descending into a hot war with Taiwan ironically it's not politics, it's this guy's charisma.
- What twisted road has your mind travelled to arrive at this thought?
  
  Another funny thought, are you curious to open my mind regarding the issue

So I'm not at the level of he should he removed as CEO yet, but his behavior and harm to the brand requires some sort of punishment by the board.
According to the latest biography the board chair and his brother (on the board) have already approached him about it.
At this time it's time for an intervention.
Suspend him as suggested in the article.
If he continues to act up after that remove him as CEO.
- I mean if it was literally any other CEO, especially one without a majority share in the company, they'd be out on third strike. Elon is on strike 6
  
  Strike 6 for this year so far
  
  Sure, but he is a majority share holder.
  I'd also say unless they've had an actual intervention with him that it'd be too soon for anyone.
  Without the actual details on what Robyn and his brother said to him, its hard to know. Did they just beg him to stop, or demand he stop or face repercussions? (Edit: Maybe the full details are in the book, I haven't read it, just the commentary on it)
- Without the good PR he used to give before showing his real face, he has zero value to any company he is part of, other than the money he has invested in it.
  In fact, any policy influence he has with any of these companies is actually a detriment.
  Elon never had any technical, intellectual or other expertise in any of the companies he was involved in.
  All he ever had was the illusion of charisma and being a master bloviator.
  Now that he has been exposing himself as nothing more than the petulant narcissistic manchild he is, that value he had has been dispelled.
  
  SpaceXs previous chief propulsion engineer would disagree with you
  Space.com: During your time working with Elon Musk at SpaceX, what were some important lessons you learned from each other?
  Mueller: Elon was the best mentor I've ever had. Just how to have drive and be an entrepreneur and influence my team and really make things happen. He's a super smart guy and he learns from talking to people. He's so sharp, he just picks it up. When we first started he didn't know a lot about propulsion. He knew quite a bit about structures and helped the structures guys a lot. Over the twenty years that we worked together, now he's practically running propulsion there because he's come up to speed and he understands how to do rocket engines, which are really one of the most complex parts of the vehicle. He's always been excellent at architecting the whole mission, but now he's a lot better at the very small details of the combustion process. Stuff I learned over a decade-and-a-half at TRW he's picked up too.
- Musk is a barely part time CEO of an automaker that had a 10 year head start and is about to get passed by just about every other major maker. He's producing cars rife with QA problems, and ships about equal parts vaporware to actual cars. There is also a ticking clock on a significant part of Tesla's business which is selling carbon offset credits (side note: what's the fucking point then?) and other subsidies that seem to have no plan to solve. He spends his actual time shitposting now with extra anti-semitism (and I guess we're glossing by the anti-LGBTQ shit he's posted several times.)
  SpaceX is healthier, but also has massive weakness in that they largely that way because of massive subsidy and lack of regulation on shooting satellites into space.
  Literally just about any other employee, not CEO would be fired 20 times over. That Elon remains the head of any company should send investors screaming for the hills because there is basically no clearer sign that the companies have no actual board and thus no actual oversight. Elon shouldn't be in charge of picking between McDonalds or Wendy's, much less an actual company.
- It's not like he's a good CEO. They should just remove him.
- If he continues to act up
  what the fuck are you smoking, it only gets worse from here with this tool.. this was the reason he bought that piece of shit platform to begin with.. again, what the fuck are you smoking that you think he can be reined in..
  
  You don't think a legitimate threat for his removal from Tesla would have any impact?
  If it doesn't, then he'll be out and he can tweet whatever he wants.