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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • It’s better than letting him milk it from the shadows.

    With the way he’s set up his own companies to benefit from DOGE “inefficiency” fixes and government contracts, Tesla has a safety net and path to perceived growth. And unfortunately, the public has a short memory. If he leaves and decides to stop interfering with global politics for a while and people move on to boycotting something else, Tesla’s already-overvalued hype stock will have a chance to recover even more.

    It’s also against his interests to sell his Tesla stock since he used it to help secure those massive loans when buying Twitter. If he’s forced to divest, he would actually have to eat that massive multi-billion loss in a tangible way.

    Anyhow, I brought up the idea more so as a reminder that we must not stop with the boycotts until he does finally sell. While he still gains personal wealth from the company, it’s not enough for him to just step down as CEO.





  • I don’t know what they teach in journalism school

    It’s not what they don’t teach. It’s that what they do teach is immediately and unobjectionally discarded by the oligarch paying their salary.

    If something doesn’t benefit the ownership or the ideals promoted by the ownership, it won’t be published. If it’s in opposition to the ownership or their ability to retain wealth and power, the journalists behind it won’t be employed any longer. Outside of publicly-funded or independent journalism, journalistic integrity and unbiased reporting are practically dead.

    This is what happens when news and media are consolidated into a few large conglomerates owned by a wealthy few.