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You think cops should be murdering people in the street.Naw,,,,you guys are too busy erecting a statue and making George Floyd the criminal one of your heroes,,,,,and you have the audacity to question republicans about Musk,,,,,,
We disagree.
Naw,,,,you guys are too busy erecting a statue and making George Floyd the criminal one of your heroes,,,,,and you have the audacity to question republicans about Musk,,,,,,
You think cops should be murdering people in the street.Naw,,,,you guys are too busy erecting a statue and making George Floyd the criminal one of your heroes,,,,,and you have the audacity to question republicans about Musk,,,,,,
We disagree.
Idiots with no life. Sad
Karrin can't keep away
...Effy has though.
tee, hee.
never known a poster so busy to chide people without lives
Don't know if that's the reason but I get the same result.
https://x.com/adammocklerr/status/1874516180322681127
Last edited by ChumpDumper; 01-01-2025 at 05:45 PM.
https://apnews.com/article/tesla-sal...af8293db25b2f3Tesla sales dropped 1.1% in 2024, its first annual decline in a dozen years
Tesla posted its first annual sales drop in more than a dozen years Thursday, sinking a stock that has soared since Donald Trump’s victory on optimism Elon Musk’s close relationship to the president-elect will help the company.
Tesla’s global vehicle sales rose 2.3% in the final quarter thanks to 0% financing, free charging and low-priced leases. But that was not enough for billionaire Musk’s most valuable holding to overcome a sluggish start to 2024.
The Austin, Texas, company sold 495,570 vehicles from October through December, boosting deliveries to 1.79 million for the full year. That was 1.1% below 2023 sales of 1.81 million as overall demand for electric vehicles in the U.S. and elsewhere slowed.
The year-over-year global sales drop is Tesla’s first since 2011, according to figures from analytics firm Global Data. The company sold 1,306 vehicles in 2010, but that dropped slightly to 1,129 the following year.
The fourth-quarter boost came with a cost. Analysts polled by FactSet expected Tesla’s average sales price to fall to just over $41,000 in the quarter, the lowest in at least four years.
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Unreal that the richest man in the world has such thin skin
You guys need a new playbook. Nobody is buying it anymore.
No, it's better if they spend the next four years crying Hitler
Right, so CNN and MSNBC can finally wipe themselves off the face of the earth due to crap ratings. I see your logic there.
While you cheer Hitler?
Musk is literally doing this bit right now
fwiw, the guy Elon is chatting with there is a Twitter "race scientist"
putting a defense contractor and public subsidy hog like Elon in charge of cutting spending isn't credible, it's corrupt
Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture - Anil DashPeople who, in good faith, want to see government get more efficient, may ask, "But what if we really do want to improve government efficiency and reduce spending?" That's great! Lots of us who care about this stuff would love to see those goals achieved. It's worth asking yourself a few questions if you care about those issues:
- Today, 47% of discretionary spending each year by the federal government is on defense, but virtually nothing has been said about cutting defense spending. (It's almost half of the costs they could cut!) Why would they instead be talking about cutting veteran's benefits, which are a tiny fraction of that cost? It's almost like... they're not trying to cut spending to defense contractors.
- Would anyone who sincerely cared about government efficiency begin without talking to anyone who's been working on those problems in the past? Are they likely to make progress if they haven't learned from any of the mistakes made in the decades of earlier attempts?
- Is it likely that any organization is going to become more efficient if its employees are being targeted with threats of violence from strangers? If so, do you think you would be more productive at work if hundreds of strangers were talking about how you should be killed, and would you be comfortable if your name were shared in the group chats of the guys who carried out those New Year's Day attacks?
- Would anyone let any other defense contractor or government vendor run a "department" that was trying to reduce government spending? What if the CEO of Boeing said they were going to cut government spending? A big pharma CEO said he was going to increase government efficiency? Maybe the head of an investment bank was going to come in and reduce spending at the Commerce department? That sound credible to you? What makes these particular corporate executives even remotely credible to do this job? How is it not a massive conflict of interest to put people who sell hundreds of millions of dollars of products directly to the government in charge of reducing government spending?
- If procurement processes are the way in which all the money in the government is spent, and they're too complicated (which they definitely are!) how can you reduce government spending without engaging with the hundreds of advocates and activists who've been fighting to improve things there? Instead of targeting innocent government workers for violence, why not lift up and amplify the good work of folks in the Government Accountability Office, the independent efforts at procement reform, or just ordinary citizens fighting for simpler processes or to reduce paperwork and complexity?
The bad-faith style of engagement, the endangering of workers who have .00005% the wealth of the richest man on earth, the ignoring of obvious waste in defense spending... all of these signs show us that DOGE isn't about what it pretends to be. Instead, we need to look no further than the simple corrupt backroom deals of strong men dictators around the world to see how the friends of leaders get sweetheart deals to sell their stuff at inflated prices (and, usually, inferior quality) while everyone else foots the bill.
It used to be the kind of thing that Americans would point at sadly as an example of how other countries were struggling. Now we're failing to see the same playbook being used against us.
Last edited by Winehole23; 01-05-2025 at 05:32 AM.
Now, imagine you were a tycoon who is also a defense contractor that is trying to sell hundreds of billions of dollars of military equipment to the government, and you know that the procurement process requires them to go with the lowest bidder. But, since you're a dude with hundreds of billions of dollars, it doesn't seem fair that the system isn't even more rigged in your favor. How would you "fix" this system? Well, you'd have to capture procurement, so that it was rigged to only buy stuff from you and your friends, at whatever price you guys want. And if it could screw your compe orsalong the way, and punish them for not kissing your ass? That would be a bonus.
Enter DOGE.
Last edited by Winehole23; 01-05-2025 at 05:33 AM.
now that Trump won, Elon has changed the algo (according to Grok) to shield the government from criticism, while limiting the reach of anything deemed "negative" or "misinformation"
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