• TheFogan@programming.dev
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    14 days ago

    My question really, who is buying tesla’s these days, and is that even a noteworthy percentage of musks income these days.

    Honestly it looks to me like musk is just adapting to leaching off the government anyway. Also throwing in the pivot of basically getting trump to commit to buying (Edit due to incorrect information:) Vehicles from tesla for military use. I mean yes absolutely don’t give him the extra stream of income… but, but I can’t help but feel this is rather toothless.

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      14 days ago

      Musk’s net worth is largely tied to Tesla’s market cap. Most of his wealth is in those shares

      Make the brand extremely toxic and start affecting the share price. People are investing in the company not for logical reasons, but primarily emotional ones. People seeing mass anger and protest of Teslas hit the emotion part

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      14 days ago

      commit to buying military cybertrucks

      I just want to be clear that they order was for armored Teslas in general, not specifically Cybertrucks.

      Armored vehicles tend to be standard vehicles retrofitted with armor. This could mean any model of Tesla, not specifically the Cybertruck, especially since Musk already suspended Cybertruck production at the end of 2024.

      I just keep seeing repeat that it’s going to be Cybertrucks but literally the evidence does not bear out it being Cybertrucks, especially since production of Cybertrucks was already suspended.

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      Also, assuming it’s a Cybertruck is literally buying into and re-enforcing the marketing of the Cybertruck being a powerful armored vehicle to begin with. We all know that’s not true.

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        14 days ago

        Valid point, though still key point is… They are getting the US government to buy tesla’s… which helps take some of the load off needing consumers to buy them.