buddascrayon @ buddascrayon @lemmy.world

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Until very very recently, not if you're a rail worker in the United States. And even now, not that much. The exploitative nature of our country's "work ethic" is beyond ridiculous.

“We’ve gone through many a crisis over the years and actually been… on the ragged edge of death – at least, maybe a dozen times,” he told investors on the conference call Tuesday. “This is not one of those times. We’re not on the ragged edge of death, not even close. There are some challenges and I expect that this year will be probably be some unexpected bumps this year but I remain extremely optimistic about the future of the company.”

I was wondering why the stock price got so much air in the last few days. He got on the phone with his tech bro stock holders and promised miracles. But... Full Self Drive is a joke, there aren't any new models being developed, the cyber truck is a disaster, and he's outted himself as a mother fucking Nazi. It may take a while but his bag of tricks is running close to empty and being a ketamine junky isn't helping him.

I don't follow Russian propaganda and I'm not a tankie. And I know for a fact that the DNC did Bernie dirty. And that's why I don't trust the DNC. That's not a problem caused by Bernie, that's a problem caused by the DNC being a shady organization.

And blaming Bernie for Hillary's loss in 2016 is just idiotic because Bernie had nothing to do with Hillary losing the general in 2016, that was all on her. She's the one who failed to get the votes. There may have been vocal Bernie bros who were talking about how they didn't want to vote for her but most of the people who voted for Bernie in the primaries voted for her in the general. That's because people who voted in the primary are politically engaged. The problem is that Hillary failed to get those who are not politically engaged on board with voting for her. And the people like you who blame Bernie for her loss are part of the problem not part of the solution. You make excuses for her and you make excuses for Kamala Harris and you make excuses for people like Chuck Schumer and Nancy pelosi who have basically ceded the entire Congress to the Republicans in exchange for keeping the meager power that they currently hold. Because that's all they care about.

Hillary might have had a lot of advertisement money to play with but we also know that outside influences were promoting Bernie on social media to create a spoiler effect.

What spoiler effect? He was running for the Democratic nomination, not as a third party candidate. And with a very small number of vocal exceptions, everyone who voted for Bernie in the primaries voted for Hillary in the general. It was her absolute failure to get independents in multiple flyover states that lost her the election. And a huge part of that is her attempt to appeal to republicans. A strategy that also failed spectacularly for Harris in 2024.

Hillary Clinton started with over 500 delegates before even 1 ballot was cast in a primary. And it was widely reported by every news outlet as if she had won some kind of campaign. They failed to mention that those were super delegates, meaning powerful individuals within the party who could cast their own full delegate vote for a candidate. Then she secretly took control of the party's finances and then her friend, who was the DNC chair, arranged for every debate between her and Bernie to be on Sundays late at night when people wouldn't be inclined to watch. They pressured the news outlets to downplay Bernie's victories and over report on Hillary's. Yes, she won the primary by many delegates, but the effort to lock the nomination up for her was a mafia style fix that undermined the entire democratic process.

And in 2020, when Bernie was gaining a great deal of momentum against Sleepy Joe, they used the pandemic to cancel all the remaining primaries and declare him the winner. The DNC doesn't have my support and won't for the foreseeable future. They've made this bed with Trump and we're the ones who are going to have to lie in it. We need a different party. Not the fucking "Green" party either. Cause fuck those neoliberal assholes.

Food is one of the few things we export more to China than we import.

You forgot to add that the people who are steering that narrative are literally billionaires and millionaires who are actively publishing propaganda to brainwash the masses.

And it isn't just undereducated people who fall for it. This is an effort that has been going on for 50 years. The conservative ideological points have been worked into ads, schools, and main stream television. Touting American exceptionalism while downplaying the socialist programs that have ushered in the golden era of America's general populace prosperity. Medicare, Medicaid, social security, welfare, and even agricultural subsidies are all social programs enacted with the intent to bolster a strong populace. These downplaying and demonizing efforts are being paid for in full by multimillion dollar corporate conglomerates run by millionaires and billionaires. Conservative voters in both well educated places and undereducated places have been thoroughly convinced that these programs are horrible and are "stealing money from their pockets to give to dirty immigrants and poor people who don't want to work." Reagan, over 40 years ago, coined the term "welfare queen" which is the single dumbest term in the history of the world. No one living on welfare is living "like a queen". And yet the term still gets airtime and ink in not only conservative rags but moderately liberal spaces as well.

Yeah it's The Hill. They launder conservative talking points to neoliberals and centrists in order to obfuscate real information. Nothing they report is trustworthy.

And the more stock he has and the more it's worth, the more money he can get from a loan based on it.

My point is still standing, the thing keeping him from selling his stock is not the taxes it's the value of the stock.

This was literally proved when he sold some of his stock to pay off taxes that he owed. Bitching on twitter the entire time about it as well.

Thank you for confirming my point.

He actually had to sell some of his stock to pay taxes a couple of years ago. And when he did so it dramatically dropped the price of the stock. So no. There's a rule in place that if you have a stock for X amount of time you do not have to pay taxes on it when you sell it.

Oh we should absolutely be fighting but not with guns. We should be fighting with the law and protests. We should be confronting these fuckers at every junction. But the moment we pick up a gun or a rock or some other violent means we just give them the excuse to escalate the fascism.

Unfortunately, this is a exactly what Trump wants. He wants riots and chaos so he can declare martial law and gain even more power and possibly delay or even cancel elections. All of this is calculated.

Honestly I think the real nail in the coffin for that company would be if another company like BYD came in and started selling their EVs on the market. Cause unlike Tesla they make decent cars at affordable prices.

90% of what is keeping Tesla's value is the tech bro community's absolute belief in Elmo. If he sold all of his shares the value of the stock would plummet to almost zero. Hell if he even just sold a moderately large portion of his shares the stock price would plummet dramatically. That's why he's always so reluctant to sell his stock and basically uses it to leverage loans.

Do you have a source on this?

I'm sorry where are you getting this information from? Everything I've read about him says he's progressive and looking for progressive candidates. He's a very staunch gun control advocate (I think you'd be shocked at how many corporate Democrats are not). Which is understandable because he was a survivor of a school gun massacre.

If you look at Alexandria Ocacia Cortez's primary, when the DNC realized what was happening they tried desperately to undo her primary win. Going so far as to endorse the incumbent Democrat who stayed on the ballot due to a technicality.

These people are not trustworthy at all.

Another example would be Biden's primary win in 2020. The DNC used the pandemic as an excuse to end the primary process early and just declare Biden the winner. And even before that they were heavily pushing Biden on everyone and doing their best to lock Bernie out of just about every poll they conducted, pretending like had no chance even though he was pulling numbers that were equalling, and even surpassing in places, Biden at the time.

“Let me be clear, this is not about shielding incumbents or boosting challengers,” Martin said.

Liar liar pants on fire. These people are so steeped in their own bullshit that they can't even recognize how full of crap they truly are. I'd be willing to bet if this guy could reverse AOC's win in the primary in her district in New York he would do so.

Don't forget medical visits and one other thing... Hmmm, what was it again that almost half of children born end up needing again? Oh yeah, baby formula.