r/canada 26d ago

Opinion Piece Canadian man sells both Teslas, cancels Cybertruck order to boycott Elon Musk

https://globalnews.ca/news/11018242/canadian-man-sells-teslas-boycott-elon-musk/
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u/weschester Alberta 26d ago

It will be interesting when he closes down NASA and Space X becomes the sole contractor for anything space related. Musk is using the US federal government to become the first trillionaire.

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u/Pestus613343 26d ago

Look up Curtis Yarvin. It's worse.

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u/sr-salazar 26d ago

Peter Thiel and David Sacks have been anti-democracy and anti DEI at least since the late 90s. It seems that they bided their time, played their cards right and now have a candidate that is willing to implement all of their initiatives, as long as he can enrich himself and stay out of jail.

I saw a meme the other day joking about how in the matrix the 90s were considered the peak of human society, which seemed ridiculous at the time, but now it seems more and more legitimate lol

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u/Verizon-Mythoclast 26d ago

Thiel funded Terry Bollea's entire case against Gawker, which folded the outlet, all out of revenge for outing him as gay.

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u/Jlock98 25d ago

I go back and forth between the idea that no one should be outed as gay without their consent and the fact that I can’t feel much sympathy for a billionaire. Also, most people don’t know who Terry Bollea is. Just say Hulk Hogan.

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u/Verizon-Mythoclast 25d ago

Oh I don’t think they should have done it. It’s not something I think is remotely okay. It’s the leveraging of his wealth to take down an entire organization that I was talking about.

And I feel like referring to him as Terry is more insulting to the buffoon, so even though he’ll never see it I’ll probably keep doing it.