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Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants (gizmodo.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Despite its CEO railing against Biden, Tesla was more than happy to take the administration's money.

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[–] partial_accumen 94 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

And, tinfoil, but this very much feels like an attempt to steal the election for republicans. Because this is going to impact the infrastructure efforts of the Biden administration AND cause a lot of layoffs among blue collar workers when they can’t send invoices or get paid because everyone they knew got fired.

There was a time when I could have thought that level of calculation of Musk. That time is long since gone. His mouth cost him $44 billion when he was forced to buy twitter because of his edgy comments online. Musk's recent comments about the firings were his version of the criteria of "excellent, necessary, and trustworthy" and did not, apparently include the entire Supercharger team. Any outside observer would say the Supercharger team is absolutely "excellent, necessary, and trustworthy".

This latest action by Musk just reeks like a mania episode with a good dose of paranoia mixed it. I don't think it has anything to do with the election.

I was holding stock specifically to be able to vote Musk out, but this latest move was the last straw. I sold what I had after the announcement yesterday. Its already down $5/share lower than when I sold mine yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He's smart enough to listen if someone like Banon or Putin contacted him though. He could be dumb and doing what someone else tells him to do.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yup. Even the twitter stupidity makes a lot more sense if his "friends" were egging him on to destroy one of the most useful tools out there for activists to coordinate and information to spread outside of state outlets.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

Same way Candace Owen used to hang around with Kanye and all of a sudden he started saying all his racist shit out loud. It was always there based on some inside stories, but theres a corealtion with his worse public decisions and her influence.

[–] Everythingispenguins 14 points 6 months ago

Yeah a lot of recent musk has seemed like a manic state and paranoia. He's reported to have been doing a lot more drugs lately. So that would probably make sense