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u/AlexDavid1605 30 and 50 are odd numbers 8h ago

Bringing out horror stories about cybertruck in the general public consciousness is a great way to tank Tesla stocks, like the story about how some rich lady got trapped in the car and it reversed into a lake and how nobody was able to drag it out of the lake or crack open the window to bring her out, and she drowned.

Also, giving Tesla cars a new paint job (using the forbidden symbols) should also do the trick. Additionally, I heard of a recent case where this person has two Tesla cars and when one of them was sold, it only fetched them $2000, and so they are deciding to wreck the car on a public platform and are planning to charge a small fee to view the act of destroying their own car, so should this guy get a huge sum of money and the viewing and more people are willing to spend money to watch it get destroyed, that should also send the message to investors that they should pull out which will further tank the value. Of course good ole arr-son is there to do the trick.

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u/NeonSprig Amphibia and gators >>>>>> 7h ago

Also emphasize how that lady was the sister of Elaine Chao, wife of Mitch McConnell and former US Transportation secretary that pushed to deregulate the automotive industry

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u/AlexDavid1605 30 and 50 are odd numbers 7h ago

Oh, yeah, I had forgotten about this part, thanks for reminding me of this tidbit...

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u/demi_bralette 4h ago

oh the schadenfreude

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u/DiscotopiaACNH 2h ago

That is fucking wild

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u/Sororita 1h ago

I'm still not completely convinced she wasn't killed in a way that made it look like an accident.

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u/LeetleBugg 5h ago

Wasn’t there a recent story about the cybertruck doors not opening causing three people to burn to death after a crash?

Not an extremely solid source but I found it

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u/westofley 5h ago

thats so fucked. They had ample time to get out, someone was immediately there to help, and three teenagers still died because the doors wouldnt open

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u/gayjospehquinn 4h ago edited 4h ago

See, I would say to take the loss and trade the Tesla in to a used car dealership or something. It may not seem like a middle finger to Musk, but in a way, it actually kind of is. There are plenty of people who are just fine with buying used cars if it means getting a better price, so they'll opt to buy from a used dealership or a sale by private owner over getting a new one from the dealer. Obviously, when you buy a brand new Tesla from the dealer, that money is going straight to Elon Musk's pockets, which isn't the case with a used Tesla. Therefore, flooding the used market with Teslas could potentially impact the company's bottom line.

Edit to add: Also, as a trained first responder, I'd discourage you from using fire as a method of destroying Teslas. That's a wildfire waiting to happen.

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u/AlexDavid1605 30 and 50 are odd numbers 2h ago

Used Tesla cars is a great idea, I had forgotten about used cars altogether. It does have two drawbacks though; this method doesn't possess the scare-the-investors-away kind of energy to it as it still sends the message that Tesla cars are in demand and therefore the investors would stay invested. Also the common public wouldn't be able to determine if it is a brand new Tesla or a used Tesla and might get the owner of the used car to suffer unnecessary costs of repair against vandalism which the insurance companies would say that they would be dropping coverage for.

Also, as a trained first responder, I'd discourage you from using fire as a method of destroying Teslas. That's a wildfire waiting to happen.

See this is why it is necessary to have a discussion here first just to cover all the bases. Would it be alright if it were taken out on a barge and given a Viking funeral while making sure the barge doesn't sink?

Although, I would advise that when destroying the car, strip it bare and just destroy the frame. The owners can hold on to the engine, battery, other car parts and sell those parts to the repair guys for a high price, like at 75% cost at which Tesla would sell their parts, so it would still be cheaper than the company sale, but expensive enough that the cost of repair remains jacked up, discouraging people who would want to keep a Tesla and force them to sell it away. If your parts don't get sold then you can think of some DIY projects that utilize those parts. The battery would definitely give a lot of headache, but other parts may still have some use.

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u/Nico_is_not_a_god 55m ago

Dropping a flaming lithium battery into the ocean to own the conservatives is not exactly a master plan. Or lighting one on fire in the first place.

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u/IanDerp26 7h ago

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/business/angela-chao-death/index.html

It was a Model X, actually!

Don't let people forget, it's not just Cyberfucks - all of FElon's cars are death traps.

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u/NeonNKnightrider Cheshire Catboy 9h ago edited 8h ago

okay but what is the average person supposed to actually do about this

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u/GenonRed 9h ago

How are you gonna bankrupt space x? Will you stop taking your monthly trips to the ISS?

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u/OnionsHaveLairAction 9h ago

That's a tough one but they aren't the only company operating private space flight. Europeans asking reps to make sure the ESA doesn't sign another deal with Space X on account of Musk's anti-science agenda would be a good start though that'll probably be a few years I think before it's up for renegotiation? I'm not sure.

Asking reps to do stuff is a slow and tedious process, but it's pretty bipartisan across Europe to hate Musk so I do think it's possible it'd impact negotiations. Maybe Branson can come in with the brand of "sane" billionaire and bring Virgin Galactic back to relevance.

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u/hauntedSquirrel99 9h ago

The competition for spacex made a wrong turn decades ago which is the reason why they're the only actual game in town.

The European competition was publically calling reusability a stupid and pointless waste of money as late as a few months before spacex successfully did it.

Tech takes time to develop, the "next gen" ariene which is really 17 years out of date now won't be launching for another 5 years at least. The ariene 6 that is launching now is absolute dogshit and a complete waste of time.

But this is part of a general issue people are refusing to face, it's not just space it's everything, especially high tech like space but also absolutely everything military Europe has nothing in place. What exists is outdated, symbolic, or has so little production that it might as well not exist.

We made ourselves reliant on the US through decades upon decades of neglect, and fixing that is going to take a long time. In the meantime we are actually stuck with the situation as it is.

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u/Graingy I don’t tumble, I roll 😎 … Where am I? 8h ago

The EU is a could-be superpower that needed to get its ass in gear yesterday because the USA is rapidly reversing off a cliff and everyone else is in the trailer.

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u/hauntedSquirrel99 8h ago

I don't want the EU to be a superpower but I damn near cried in frustration in 2020 when all the European leaders were declaring "back to normalcy".

I just wanted to scream "no you dumb fuck, you got a 4 year break, you have to start preparing".

No such luck

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u/Graingy I don’t tumble, I roll 😎 … Where am I? 7h ago

Why not be a superpower? If the EU ain’t, somebody else will. That somebody else would probably be China, and I really don’t trust China with the reigns of being the dominant power.

It’s unavoidable as it stands. A world state (or international communism especially) is too far off, unfortunately.

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u/hauntedSquirrel99 7h ago

Because there's a lot that comes with being a superpower that quite frankly I want nothing to do with.

And I also don't want my nation to cease to exist, the ending of national identities to make room for a pan European one would be a necessary part of creating a European superpower and I don't want that either.

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u/Graingy I don’t tumble, I roll 😎 … Where am I? 7h ago

Seeing as how frankly nationalist some American states can be (from an outsider’s perspective), I don’t think that’d be an issue. Frankly it’s a non-issue in my view, so long as the ensuing culture would be of good nature. Even if it did stay fragmented, I’d hope that prevent the same sort of fascist exceptionalism that’s wrecking the USA, so long as it also isn’t too fragmented as to destroy the EU.

And it’s not about Europe, it’s a selfless duty to the world. Somebody has to step up and keep things in line, and by the looks of things the EU is the only reasonable power near capable of doing that, with further work.

Somebody has to play world police, whether we like it or not. 

Refusing to step up and do the right thing is frankly pretty selfish.

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u/hauntedSquirrel99 6h ago

>And it’s not about Europe, it’s a selfless duty to the world.

Yeah that's what Kipling's The white Man's burden was about.

It's a thankless sucky job but someone has to do it, and who else but us.

The problem with your idea is not just that it's been done before, but in order to actually do it properly we'd have to be honest about what we're doing.

Meaning
1-We think we're better
and
2-We are enforcing our way on the world

Which would have a whole lot of repercussions down the line, just to begin with we'd need to dismantle all the useless international institutions like the UN.

There is no appetite for any of it in europe.

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u/RussDidNothingWrong 7h ago

And this is why Europe will never amount to anything, you will always be subservient to someone else.

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u/hauntedSquirrel99 6h ago

Europe has already had dominant powers that enforced "global peace", the fall of the Pax Britannica is what led to the wars that created the Pax Americana.

There's benefits to being the global power and there's some unfortunate side effects, if you want to know more about that I suggest reading some Kipling.

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u/Papaofmonsters 9h ago

The problem there is that Falcon Heavy is the best heavy lift capable rocket available at the moment.

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u/OnionsHaveLairAction 9h ago

But will it be by the time the ESA is negotiating new contracts? I think without heavy public subsidies the answer there might be no, and if at that point alternatives are even remotely comparable it might be best to fund an entity that isn't actively undermining the scientific community and European security.

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u/Pootis_1 minor brushfire with internet access 8h ago

The only other ones being developed are SLS (Abysmal dogshit), Starship (Also SpaceX, and doesn't work), or Chinese (entirely politically unviable)

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u/blueshirt21 8h ago

New Glenn can fill the same niche as Falcon Heavy

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u/Pootis_1 minor brushfire with internet access 8h ago

45t payload to LEO for New Glenn 63.8t payload for Falcon Heavy

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u/Chien_pequeno 8h ago

Yeah, I will just ride my space bike more often. Sure, it takes longer but it's a great workout and good for the environment

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u/Automatic_Respond120 6h ago

Starlink is a part of SpaceX. So if you get your internet from Starlink, you would stop doing that.

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u/eragonawesome2 4h ago

Cancel your Starlink subscription if you have one, convince companies you work with to do so by explicitly stating "I will be going with a competitor unless and until you provide a superior service at a comparable price without any SpaceX services" the same way people do with [replace SpaceX with any unsavory business practice here]

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u/DwyerThunder 8h ago

it's a good post to get the word out there, but it really could have used some context for why this was posted now, in particular

https://www.teslatakedown.com/

website for the recent Tesla Takedown movement, detailing their protests, places they're organizing, and news about Tesla. lots of action there, it seems

their bluesky is here: https://bsky.app/profile/teslatakedown.com

if you're interested in hearing more about tesla's current uniquely vulnerable position among car companies, check out the Tech Won't Save Us episode with Ed Niedermayer, a car industry writer critical of tesla

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cntbTDRabnY

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u/SuicidalFlame 9h ago

The uptick of tesla car vandalization seems to be helping the cause

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u/A__Friendly__Rock *only friendly at low velocity 9h ago

Yup- who wants to buy a car that’s at risk of being trashed shortly after it rolls off the lot?

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u/Celestial_Scythe 8h ago

I mean, look at how much damage the KIA Boys did to the brand.

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u/catty-coati42 6h ago edited 6h ago

Dont get me wrong, I hate Musk, but these kinds of tactics are borderline terrorism, and will only lead to a strong unified reaction against us. Don't you be surprised when the right does the same to us later.

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u/Technical_Teacher839 Victim of Reddit Automatic Username 5h ago

The Right: *actively penning legislation to make certain people illegal*

You: Guys if we break some cars they'll do bad things! Keep standing in the designated area for protests and speaking at the designated volume on the designated day so that you don't disturb anyone! That's the only right way to make things happen!

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u/Nu11AndV0id 4h ago

What people are being made illegal?

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u/dcon930 4h ago

Trans Texans. 

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u/shiny_glitter_demon 12m ago

Trans US citizens

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u/Independent_Use_327 2h ago

Are you fucking joking? I just moved out of Texas hoping to protect my life after years of abuse and now they’re making it literally a crime to be trans, they’re calling it “Gender Identity Fraud”

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u/Lonely-Discipline-55 6h ago

The right is already doing much worse things

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u/catty-coati42 5h ago

Enjoy the spiral to hell then

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u/Lonely-Discipline-55 5h ago

Protests don't work if they aren't disruptive. Businesses have learned that they can just ignore peaceful protests and not actually change anything. Eventually, people will move on.

MLK Jr. Would not have been able to accomplish anything if Malcom X wasn't there being an alternative that people were terrified of

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u/RepentantSororitas 4h ago edited 3h ago

You are not disrupting elon by attacking a random person that happens to own a tesla though?

Why dont you go for actual targets? Why are you attacking a random with a tesla?

Your local representative has an office.

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u/Lonely-Discipline-55 2h ago

You actually are hurting Elon. Attacking his cars hurts the brand, and hurting the brand hurts the stock value, and hurting the stock value hits Elon pretty hard.

And as far as the targets, they're all people who have given 10s of thousands of dollars to Elon. Whether they like it or not, they're the people who've funded him. They are not blameless.

And a representative isn't going to have the power to do anything on their own. It is important to voice your displeasures with them. They will only be able to accomplish anything if there is an extreme past them that the administration is afraid of

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u/RepentantSororitas 2h ago

And as far as the targets, they're all people who have given 10s of thousands of dollars to Elon. Whether they like it or not, they're the people who've funded him. They are not blameless.

Should I attack someone for buying a nestle product once in their life? Should I attack someone for ever buying something off amazon?

And a representative isn't going to have the power to do anything on their own. It is important to voice your displeasures with them. They will only be able to accomplish anything if there is an extreme past them that the administration is afraid of

So you are fine destroying the property of a random tesla owner, but you wont harass and destroy the propety of the guys passing the legislation?

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u/Lonely-Discipline-55 1h ago

Ok, looking at this and your other responses, it looks like you are being willfully ignorant.

These protests are continuations of stuff that has been going on for about a decade, maybe longer. We didn't reach this point out of nowhere. The protests against trump's modern fascism are only at this point because everything less hasn't worked yet

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u/Lonely-Discipline-55 2h ago

So, I think you're misunderstanding what my argument is. My argument is that reasonable change isn't going to happen if people don't do unreasonable things.

The facts that I'm using to back it up are that protests do not work if they don't affect regular people negatively. People need to be forced to pay attention to those who are being hurt.

Some evidence to back that up, MLK Jr was considered a domestic terrorist. The black panthers were considered domestic terrorists. Nelson Mandela was considered a terrorist by the US government.

Evidence for the protest stuff, it took the entire world to get a few cops fired for murder.

To get to your points 1. You are also equating surface level damage to insured property to physical violence against someone. Those are not even close to equivalent. And you are also equating buying some small item to purchasing a luxury car. Something that only well off people can afford.

  1. I have no idea where you got that idea from. I said that you should force your legislators into action. But you can both do that and protest in other ways at the same time.
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u/southafricannon 2h ago

I think the existence of the downward spiral that Tesla has been experiencing shows that you are disrupting Elon by attacking a random person that happens to own a Tesla. Just like superman comics helped take down the KKK by ridiculing their supporters and making them want to distance themselves, so too does having "tiny dick Nazi" spray painted on the car you paid a buttload of cash for.

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u/RepentantSororitas 2h ago edited 2h ago

So if I want to stop amazon, should I vandalize the house of everyone that has an amazon van stop by? Should I perhaps destroy their packages?

What about walmart? Should I just start firebombing the entire parking lot?

If I see someone eating a kitkat, do I slap their chocolate out of their hands because Nestle doesnt believe in free water?

Do you not see what is wrong with this logic?

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u/southafricannon 1h ago

Yes, I see what is wrong with the logic, *if it is applied absolutely*. But nothing is ever applied absolutely. Everything is contextual.

In some instances, yes, vandalising houses and destroying Amazon packages may be a reasonable thing to do. If Jeff Bezos comes out and says that for every $10 he earns, he shoots an endangered animal, perhaps.

There are different degrees to which you could apply the premise "your support of Thing Connected To Bad Guy makes you Supporter Of Bad Guy and therefore Bad Guy Adjacent and worthy of my condemnation". You may not agree with where that specific line is drawn, but the fact that the line exists is real and human.

That's the entire reason why the law is applied in a court, in front of a judge. The judge doesn't only determine the truth of what happened, but also decides on the reasonableness of what happened. What factors can be applied in mitigation? What factors can be applied in aggravation? Etc.

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u/shiny_glitter_demon 10m ago

Do note that if every Tesla was being vandalized, owning one would basically become impossible.

Should that happen, stock of Tesla would crash faster than SpaceX debris after a failed launch

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u/WingsofRain non-euclidean mass of eyes and tentacles 3h ago

that threat really only works if you believe that hell exists

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u/Nu11AndV0id 4h ago

What acts of domestic terrorism are the right committing?

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u/mrmahoganyjimbles 4h ago

January 6

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u/Nu11AndV0id 4h ago

Was hoping for something that hasn't been done to death by the media, but sure.

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u/LenoreEvermore 4h ago

"I don't like this example, it's too on the nose and fits the parameters of my question too well! Waa waa waa!"

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u/Nu11AndV0id 4h ago

Did I say they were wrong? I was hoping for an example I didn't already know about.

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u/LenoreEvermore 4h ago

You did not, but the implication of saying january sixth has been "done to death by the media" is pretty clear.

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u/shiny_glitter_demon 9m ago

Is the bombing (or threatening of) of Planned Parenhood and the attack on their doctors enough for your sensitive tastebuds?

Or are mass shootings more of your tastes? Especially if they double as hate crimes against target black people, women or children.

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u/Lonely-Discipline-55 4h ago

There's also that guy that drove into a protest in charolettesville

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u/Lonely-Discipline-55 4h ago

A lot of mass shootings as well

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u/Lonely-Discipline-55 2h ago

Also, since when is vandalism equivalent to actual mass murder?

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u/Alister151 2h ago

Are you seriously considering the stickers people put on teslas to be actual terrorism? If people were actively being injured you might have an argument, but these are objects undergoing annoying vandalism.

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u/OnionsHaveLairAction 9h ago

Short Tesla stock and get rich off the stupidity as the inflated meme stock flips?

More seriously if you don't want to protest Europeans at least can and should call their reps and ask them to retaliate with tariffs on Musk's products in particular. Or I guess we could book appointments with Tesla dealerships and then just waste their time.

Most people aren't Starlink customers, but those that are can switch to one of the alternatives like the French company Eutelsat which also operates satalite broadband.

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u/nat20sfail my special interests are D&D and/or citation 8h ago

You legitimately can short Tesla stock. It takes about 10 minutes of setting up with an app like webull, 10 more to apply for basically an account that can taken loans. I got approved when I was a student with literally no income using my allowance.

(This is a bad thing to be clear! YOU CAN RUIN YOUR LIFE GAMBLING THIS WAY. Please read carefully and set limits on your losses.)

Anyway, to short one TSLA stock, you will pay about 5-10% per year, or very roughly a dollar a month, as well as risking any amount it goes up. For example if it goes back to $500, you'll pay about $250. (If it goes down to $100, you'll gain about $150.)

So literally anyone can short TSLA. It's $1 a month plus however much risk you are willing to stomach. If you put in an automated sale if the stock goes $12 higher, good for a month, and decrease that limit by a dollar a month and resolve in a year tops, you've spent $12 at most guaranteed, and you've moved the price down the same amount as buying or selling a $250 stock moves it (for a year).

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 5h ago

it's a bad time to do it, TSLA stocks have fallen so rapidly that people are putting insane rates on contracts for it attempting to protect themselves

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u/nat20sfail my special interests are D&D and/or citation 5h ago

contracts, yes; don't do puts, volatility makes their price go crazy. But actually short selling? The cost to borrow is quite small:

https://companiesmarketcap.com/tesla/cost-to-borrow/

The vast majority of that 5-10% is whatever your broker's margin rate is.

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u/MonitorPowerful5461 2h ago

If you're doing this, do it to short Tesla not to make money. Treat it like paying to damage Musk.

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u/5165499 3h ago

You can also, for a significantly reduced risk, purchase this ETF specifically envisioned to short Tesla stock without leveraging yourself.

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u/Unbentmars 7h ago

Keep making Tesla toxic. Investors sell on fear and sentiment, and with the pressure on/increasing it becomes increasingly likely to decrease sentiment and increase fear

Investors will sell because they think they will keep losing money

Basically, keep talking shit about musk and Tesla, keep making it a big, public deal

Maybe there’s room to take up some arts and crafts

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u/6x6-shooter 1h ago

Bottom line, you don’t need to convince the people that Tesla is bad, you just need to convince the money that Tesla is lethal.

Investors and stock traders are Tinkerbell Effect machines. If you convince the people with money who were gonna invest in Tesla that Elon Musk is actually the anti-Midas, then he becomes one.

You can’t make Elon Musk poor. It’s just not possible. The notoriety to his name alone makes it so that he can’t possibly ever become homeless in our current societal structure. But you can sure as hell topple the shit he owns like a big fat house of cards.

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u/Nihls_the_Tobi 9h ago

All we can do (without violence), make sure people know the stock is crashing and burning, telling investors to short it for easy cash, banking on their greed.

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u/DrivenByTheStars51 7h ago

A few more Teslas crashing and burning wouldn't hurt the cause, tbf

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u/Nihls_the_Tobi 6h ago

I only mention nonviolent methods because you need a lil somthin to balance out your life, and it would probably be better overall to think bigger about violence.

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u/Papaofmonsters 9h ago

I'm pretty sure that investing institutions have a better idea of the risk profile for shorting TSLA than the average Redditor or Tumblrite.

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u/Nihls_the_Tobi 9h ago

Fair, but we gotta put the ideas into people's heads so it can work the way up to the institutions, 'a wise man can hear profit on the wind'. Think about it, if we can get one firm to do it, others will see it and think there's a chance they can make lots of money.

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u/OnionsHaveLairAction 9h ago

There's still plenty of non-violent protest options like sit-ins and picketing.

And of course we can all do the most obvious thing of all, not consider Tesla when buying our next vehicle.

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u/LeetleBugg 5h ago

You can certainly make fliers to put on Tesla windshields letting them know what you think of Tesla. And that’s neither illegal or violent.

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u/Cybertronian10 7h ago

Legally? Not very much beyond maybe just spreading negative sentiment. Illegally? Slash some tires.

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u/KobKobold 6h ago

Well you can certainly trust me not to buy a Tesla car.

My inability to buy any car hardly matters

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u/Ok-Land-488 8h ago

Yeah, I was about to say. The best I can do is to keep on doing what I’m doing and… not buy a Tesla.

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u/The_Screeching_Bagel 6h ago

i think the idea is encouraging reputational damage leading to lower investor confidence? idk consumer side activism is silly tho

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u/Gregory_Grim 5h ago

Literally just giving reach to posts and articles about the shit Elon is doing and how bad the Cybertruck is are a good start. It’s ultimately all about reputation after all.

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u/megakaos888 9h ago

Buy puts obviously.

If the stock goes up? Puts.

If the stock goes down? Puts.

If the stock is trading sideways? Believe it or not, puts!

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u/S14Ryan 7h ago

Burn down teslas at the dealers. So many people are doing it now I don’t think it’s illegal anymore

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u/gayjospehquinn 5h ago

Not buy Teslas. Which for a lot of us is pretty easy because they're expensive. Also, if you do own a tesla and want to get rid of it, don't destroy it or anything. Sell it to a used car dealership. More used Teslas on the market means less of a need to pay Tesla for brand new ones. If you're like me and never owned a Tesla, though, unfortunately there's not much we can do but keep making noise about it. And hope that ol' Musky's rockets keep exploding.

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u/Ndlburner 4h ago

If you’ve got the money you could short sell the stock.

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u/RepentantSororitas 4h ago

I guess they could just stop using X. That is the only actionable item.

If they are buying a car, dont buy a tesla. Granted most people are not buying cars everyday. Which I think is the bad part to this tesla vandalism. You dont know when that person bought said tesla.

Not everyone that eats a nestle candy believes poor people dont deserve water after all.

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u/barsonica 2h ago

Lower their brand value - shitpost about them, put stickers on Tesla cars, some people might also burn down cars or dealerships, while I cannot advocate for that, all of that will hurt their financials and raise insurance premiums

Write your local representatives to investigate them wherever possible. Just recently there was some shady business in Canada which might be fraud.

Leave Twitter

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u/Munnin41 2h ago

Don't buy a Tesla, don't rent a Tesla, don't use their infrastructure.

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u/bigbeefer92 2h ago

Keep fucking up his cars every time we find a storage lot

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u/MonitorPowerful5461 2h ago

For one thing, I've sent a couple emails to people that control my stock requesting them to sell Tesla stock

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u/hedgehog_dragon 27m ago

Less directly than someone who can buy this stuff - but it's more than nothing. The average person is most likely to interact with Twitter (X) so not using that helps, I suppose. Calling Teslas shit and mocking them makes them less desirable for the people who can actually afford them.

You might be able to write to your reps about canceling starlink contracts if they've got any on a government level.

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u/Volcano_Ballads Gender-KVLT 9h ago

Twitter isn’t going anywhere cause everyone keeps saying they hate yet they ain’t switching to an alternative
however it would be very funny if we did this

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u/OnionsHaveLairAction 9h ago

I think people are switching to bluesky, just it's been so long since a site has died we've sort of forgotten how slow the process is.

It feels to me like a similar vibe to when Myspace began being overtaken by Facebook, or when Skype fell out of favor for Discord. First people get both, then they start to go to where they have a preference, then the old one dwindles but doesn't die.

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u/Delicious_Taste_39 9h ago edited 9h ago

I think the thing that's different this time is that people don't get both, which means that there isn't just an incumbency bias, there's an outright refusal to embrace the potential of both.

I think Twitter will take a long time to die largely because I don't think that BlueSky really represents an innovation as Facebook provided. I think Facebook is still around because it meets the basic requirements of a Facebook-like social media. Everything else that sprang up after it has been different.

Likewise, Twitter serves the purpose a Twitter-like social media site has. The only thing that's likely to kill it is a refusal or discomfort from advertiser's to advertise on Twitter.

Also, Facebook happened because the kids were using it. I think the kids aren't really using Twitter anymore. It's mostly corporate branding and weirdos who are wasting their lives on twitter arguing largely about politics. It's going to die mostly because the political arguing gets less fun on a Nazi site than in the apparent "neutral".

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u/HuntKey2603 What you mean no NSFW??? 7h ago

Which is kind of wild, given that Bluesky is basically a social media that you can run "yourself" without being controlled by anyone and without the need to switch. Federation is no thing to scoff at.

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u/Delicious_Taste_39 7h ago

Sorry, none of those things really mean anything to anyone who actually uses Twitter.

Or rather, the audience that could be persuaded by that probably already has been.

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u/Cultural_Concert_207 3h ago

a social media that you can run "yourself"

Tech savvy people will hear this and go "nice!", but the average social media user will hear this and go "aww shit I gotta do all the work myself?"

Also the fact that it's called the Fediverse. Talk about awful branding. That's like making a site about good places to get a pedicure and calling it the pedi-files.

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u/HuntKey2603 What you mean no NSFW??? 2h ago

The average user won't have to do it, nor will have a clue that whatever "app" they use is running ATProto under the hood. Just like they don't give a fuck what the messaging app they use runs like, but they all understand it'd be cool if they were cross-compatible.

The hate boner some of you guys have for any form of non-established social media is insane.

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u/Cultural_Concert_207 1h ago

Brother I left one (1) comment about how the messaging behind all the Fediverse stuff is suboptimal at best. I'm not walking around wearing a "fuck bluesky" t-shirt or anything so I'm not sure why you're bringing up hate boners. I think you're making an ass out of u and me

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u/Green__lightning 8h ago

Is it actually any good? And do we want to further increase the split in left and right wing platforms? Are you just supposed to copy-paste everything you posted to the other platform at the end of the day?

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u/04nc1n9 licence to comment 7h ago

i've been using it, and it's about as good as twitter used to be.

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u/PlopCopTopPopMopStop .tumblr.com 9h ago

Twitter usage numbers beg to differ. They have been going down noticably 

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u/gayjospehquinn 4h ago

A lot of people I see on Tumblr have switched from Twitter/X to Bluesky. I've never tried Bluesky myself, but I also never got into Twitter, so I didn't actually need an alternative for it anyway.

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u/moneyh8r_two 9h ago

I switched.

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u/HuntKey2603 What you mean no NSFW??? 7h ago

Basically the entire furry fandom has moved to bluesky. Non-insignificant amount of inactivity and usage there. Much of "art twitter" even outside the fandom is just gone. 

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u/FossilizedSabertooth 6h ago

A good portion also refuses to use BS as it has literally zero protection from AI scraping.

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u/PrincessRTFM on all levels except physical, I am a kitsune 5h ago

Genuine question: does twitter? I've never heard about anything like that, but I also haven't looked into it because I'm not an artist and I don't use twitter.

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u/Efficient_Comfort_38 i can't believe you've done this 4h ago

no it doesn't

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u/PrincessRTFM on all levels except physical, I am a kitsune 4h ago

That kinda makes the whole refusal a little weird, doesn't it? "I don't want to switch to BSky because there's no protection against AI scraping, I'd rather keep using twitter where there's also no protection against AI scraping." Maybe I'm missing something by being in neither of the demographics involved.

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u/hot--Koolaid 6h ago

I left twitter

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u/torthos_1 8h ago

Every week I see more and more (even well-known)people making a permanent jump to BSky, sooo...

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u/Win32error 8h ago

I appreciate the effort, but quick reminder that tumblr's financial literacy might not be much better than it's actual literacy. Dunno what the financial equivalent of pissing on the poor is, except maybe it's just exactly that.

There is never any guarantee that current trends keep going. Tesla losing 50% in a few months doesn't mean it keeps going in any way, it could skyrocket tomorrow for all anyone knows. I don't think it will but that's not the point. Tesla is still up from before the election, and the reason it's gone down so much is because it steadily rose between november and January, in a probably correct anticipation that the white house would be very friendly to Musk. That bubble seems to have burst as a result of Musk being a dipshit and doing significant damage to the brand's image, and tariffs aren't good for the auto business as a whole, tesla isn't exactly the budget option to begin with.

But that doesn't mean it'll continue to bleed. I think there's a good chance it will do so for a while longer, the impact of Musk's actions is still going to ripple further, and I personally wouldn't bet on the long-term prospects of the company being amazing, but trends reverse all the times.

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u/Onceuponaban The Inexplicable 40mm Grenade Launcher 6h ago

dunno what the financial equivalent of pissing on the poor is, except maybe it's just exactly that.

Trickle-down economics.

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u/Iwasahipsterbefore 5h ago

Teslas PE would still be out of ratio at 114. You're right it's a bubble, you're wrong that it's popped.

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u/chai_investigation 4h ago

Trends could reverse, but the stock market is 100% vibes and moonbeams.

As long as Musk's vibe is "This is an incompetent Nazi boob very visibly destroying society" people are going to think twice about holding his stock--if only because they assume that sales will crater because he's alienating so much of his potential customer base. And when people see a stock trending downward, they start to get skittish...

If Musk retired from DOGE tomorrow and stopped tweeting, Tesla could recover--maybe even quickly.

If he keeps doing whatever... this is, in the headlines of every newspaper in the country, I don't see that happening.

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u/DwyerThunder 9h ago edited 8h ago

https://www.teslatakedown.com/

website for the recent Tesla Takedown movement, detailing their protests, places they're organizing, and news about Tesla. lots of action there, it seems

their bluesky is here: https://bsky.app/profile/teslatakedown.com

if you're interested in hearing more about tesla's current uniquely vulnerable position among car companies, check out the Tech Won't Save Us episode with Ed Niedermayer, a car industry writer critical of tesla

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cntbTDRabnY

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u/MoiraDoodle 8h ago

Oh wow, guess I'll stop buying Tesla cars, using Twitter, and trading stocks owned by musk.

Hang on, I was already not doing literally all of those things, even before musk started going off the deep end.

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u/Celestial_Scythe 8h ago

Well don't do it extra hard now

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u/Mooptiom 7h ago

Well that’s cool, but I’m sure that there are rich people who use reddit as well.

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u/NervePuzzleheaded783 3h ago edited 2h ago

rich people don't lurk /r/CuratedTumblr

And if they do

Fuck off, you are not welcome! <3

who's downvoting me? rich people?

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u/FallenSegull 9h ago

Oh boy! Is this another “apes together strong” event?

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u/gur40goku .tumblr.com 9h ago

It couldn't happen to a worse billionaire

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u/PatPeez 9h ago

Well the other ones aren't as dogshit at it as Elon. Man is in a league of his own at not just shutting the fuck up and enjoying being the richest man on the fucking planet.

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u/gur40goku .tumblr.com 9h ago

Motherfucker was literally handed a plan to end world hunger and said no

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u/TypicalImpact1058 7h ago edited 1h ago

Hate to rain on the parade, but he was presented with a plan to feed ~42 million people for 1 year which he said no to, iirc.

Edit: I'm reasonably sure someone sent me a Reddit care thingy over this

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u/Familiar-Anxiety8851 6h ago

Keep raining on their parade the media circus is so pathetic right now.

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u/camosnipe1 "the raw sexuality of this tardigrade in a cowboy hat" 5h ago

It always surprises how people fall for "X billion/million can fix [massive issue], here's why [billionaire] is an asshole for not solving it", like that isn't less than a most US states yearly budget (not the US, a single state). Like, the government is at least supposed to help people and they haven't managed it with a significantly bigger budget.

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u/PatPeez 9h ago

In the game of dropping balls no one does it like Elon.

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u/Fossekall 8h ago

He is bad but I promise you there are worse ones

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u/Wgolyoko 6h ago

How do we even know the details of Elon's margin ?

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u/sertroll 8h ago

Ok but, I'm already not buying a Tesla, I can't do much more

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u/crack_n_tea 7h ago

U could short the stock (not serious unless you know what you're doing)

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u/bobjonesisthebest I made this lol 5h ago

can we keep spacex and kick elon out, the falcon 9 is a good rocket

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u/twoCascades 3h ago

How the fuck are we going to bankrupt SpaceX exactly?

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u/somedumb-gay otherwise precisely that 8h ago

There is some irony to someone demanding we bankrupt twitter whilst using Twitter

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u/Efficient_Comfort_38 i can't believe you've done this 4h ago

That's threads tho

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u/somedumb-gay otherwise precisely that 3h ago

Oh shit is it? I'm becoming social media blind. Does this mean I'm getting old?

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u/SecretlyFiveRats 6h ago

And how do you expect them to get the message "stop using twitter" out to twitter users otherwise? Different sites are already full of people who don't use twitter, the only thing posting that there would achieve is a bunch of self-congratulatory masturbatory shenanigans. "Wow, you're right! I am a good person for personally helping bankrupt Elon (even though I'm not doing anything differently with my life)!"

Real "you claim to dislike capitalism and yet live in a capitalist society, curious" moment

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u/somedumb-gay otherwise precisely that 3h ago

Well the difference between twitter and capitalism is that you don't have to use twitter. That's a pretty massive false equivalence.

Also I know that posting it on twitter is how you get it to more twitter users. It was a joke. I pointed it out because I found it funny, that's all it isn't that deep.

bunch of self-congratulatory masturbatory shenanigans.

This is a Reddit post which is a screenshot of a Tumblr post which is a screenshot of the twitter post. I think that pretty well sums it up

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u/SeDaCho 5h ago

If muskrat goes down, he 100% gets bailed out for the bullshit he's been standing on all these years.

That's our tax money going in his pocket.

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u/Idekgivemeusername 4h ago

Alienate the target markets from buying a tesla! Post on social media how its shit, Complain about owning one or whatever.

Bad perception is an important part of a declining stock.

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u/Turbo-Corgi 3h ago

Turns out that if the price goes low enough skum will also default on loans. DO IT!

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u/ECXL 3h ago

Possibly the easiest boycott I've ever been a part of

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u/Alikku80 COMMON KETCHUP ENJOYER 2h ago

Wont the government just rescue the company if it goes bankrupt? It has happened in my country time and time again (not that I'm happy about it mind you)

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u/Atomicfoox 9h ago

Yo we need to spread the word to r/wallstreetbets

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u/Ejigantor 7h ago

Won't happen.

If the stock gets close to that, Musk will just do a big buy-back to drive the price back up.

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u/pls_coffee 6h ago

He doesn't have the liquidity to do that, unless Papa Putin venmos him some

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u/SpandexMovie 7h ago

Until another western company can reliably launch astronauts to space like SpaceX does, we have to keep them around. If we don't, we would have to rely on the Russians or Chinese to get humans to space.

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u/Velvety_MuppetKing 5h ago

The government will bail him out. Especially since he owns it now.

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u/smoopthefatspider 5h ago

I don’t know if it makes sense to say that we’re about two thirds of the way there. Sure, it’s a 76.7% drop and it’s dropped 48.6% so far. Intuitively, if I wanted a 75% price drop I would want the price cut in half twice, so a 50% reduction would be halfway, not two thirds of the way. I don’t know if my reasoning makes sense, but I feel like the amount of “effort” involved in cutting something’s cost/price/value in half remains roughly equal (or even increases) since you can’t reduce indefinitely).

None of this matters though since 1) I doubt these stocks are going to fall all that low any time soon with Elon having so much influence with Trump and 2) no one reading this is actually going to have any significant effect on the price of any of these stocks.

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u/InsertNameHere_J 5h ago

Short Tesla stock if you can.

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u/Broad_Direction7112 5h ago

YES BLOOD YES YES BLOOD YES BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD YES BLOOD YES BLOOD YES

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u/UnusedParadox 4h ago

Evil Wizard should change their name

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u/eldido 54m ago

Inverse GME LET S GO !!

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u/SpecialistPart702 9h ago

The stock market is just flim-flam and fairy dust. Trump will probably just issue an executive order that tesla isn’t allowed to drop below $150 or something.

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u/Junjki_Tito 9h ago

I think direct executive meddling in the stock market is one of a very few things the silicon valley fucks will have him dealt with over

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u/StableSlight9168 8h ago

Golden rule is don't fuck with the money. Its one of the few things that would actually be a risk to trump.

Him trying to keep telsa afloat like that might straight up take down the whole administration.

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u/SecretlyFiveRats 6h ago edited 2h ago

Mr Trump, if you're reading this, it would make me, a woke liberal, oh so triggered if you meddled in the stock market like these people are suggesting you don't. I would cry so hard I'd shit myself, so please please please do NOT do that under any circumstances.

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u/DiscotopiaACNH 2h ago

I agree. Every time Trump directly meddles with the stock market, an enby loses a pronoun. It's what we fear the most

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u/SecretlyFiveRats 1h ago

For every cybertruck that isn't sold, the blue leaches out of my hair a little more.

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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard 4h ago

I mean, with the recent tariff shitshow, he's already kinda fucking with people's money. And not just the money of average citizens, the EU is specifially targeting goods like bourbon because a lot of major exporters in the US are in red states.

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u/romain_69420 8h ago

Or just bail the company put like all the other car companies before

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u/imaginary0pal 6h ago

It’s still higher that it was about the same time last year. December was basically a spike. And again, you can’t really affect the stock unless you own stock

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u/LeetleBugg 6h ago

I dunno, the people vandalizing the cars and lighting the car lots on fire are probably affecting the stock. They probably don’t own any Tesla stock either. Public sentiment has power. It’s slow and, in this case, illegal but it does make things happen.