• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Trump threatening to take away Musk’s government contracts is pretty serious for a smokescreen. Even the threat of doing this could destroy the companies, even if he never intended to follow through.

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      30 days ago

      It may have destroyed a normal company. But musks empire is so out of normal market rules that the thread won’t do much harm I would think

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        30 days ago

        Unless Tesla gets bailed out I don’t expect it to survive much longer, consumers already don’t want his badly built and overpriced swastikars anymore, and this is yet another blow to the company. Musk leaving the government won’t save Tesla from itself.

        It needs government money or it’s done.

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          29 days ago

          Elon has recieved about 38 Billion from government funding so far so he probably knows how to keep milking the cow