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EV industry watching Musk's role in tariff fixing (www.voanews.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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The electric vehicle industry is closely watching to see how Tesla boss Elon Musk, who played a key role in the victory of Republican President-elect Donald Trump, will use his influence with the incoming president to steer the industry's future.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"Use his influence" = get what he paid tens of millions in bribes for

[–] WhatAmLemmy 22 points 1 month ago

It doesn't matter that he has several hundred billion more votes than anyone. Money is speech bro. Legalized bribery is democracy. Well it was. Now fascism and dictatorship are democracy. That's called Freedom™️!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Money is power/influence, that has always been the case. Not sure why you felt the need to put that in quotes as if it wasn't universally applicable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I was quoting the article.

[–] Badeendje 2 points 1 month ago

You misspelled 44 billion dollar.