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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • I mean it’s still insanely overvalued. It’s a car manufacturer priced like a tech giant - the stock is so high because of hopes they’ll be the ones to crack true full self driving, human level robotics, or produce batteries at some insane scale

    They’re so behind and have lost so much trust on all those fronts that they’d need to actually do it for the stock to pay out. But they’re no longer the best cheap electric cars, their self driving features are some of the worst because they went all in on visual only, and there’s many companies worlds ahead of them on robotics automation. Even their safety is so bad countries easily banned them once musk’s reputation tanked

    Plus, musk would have to divest or have his shares called in to fully separate him… Either of which means the stock tanks or already has tanked


  • Because they’re watching mainstream news, which even tiptoes around the tarrifs and doesn’t broadcast Trump’s daily interviews unless a clip makes him look good. They really just know the government is getting cut and that we’ve started a trade war with (checks notes) everyone

    This is going to change when effects of his policies actually start to land - so far we’re looking at disastrous moves in horror, but they’re getting a very toned down snapshot through a rose colored lens








  • You mean there’s no evidence it was more rigged than usual… There’s evidence of voter suppression, gerrymandering, and sketchiness without real evidence

    But ultimately, I think they’re talking about the Democrats - even now they’re talking about moving further right and working with Republicans, they actively oppose the change the people are demanding. They want to fight harder against the left, to ignore their supporters more, to get more in bed with the oligarchs

    What about free healthcare? What about fixing housing? What about breaking up monopolies? What about our rights? It’s like everything that matters is totally off the table


  • No… Well maybe, but they have something far more important to be doing - they should sue

    Know what the goal of nonviolent resitance is? To get arrested, so you can get standing to sue. You can then challenge the law, over and over, until you find cracks. You can make them put affidavits on record.

    And more importantly, you can drain resources. Tie up the courts, drain the budget, exhaust their lawyers. Make them deal with the work of going through endless depositions

    All that other stuff is great… But this is a major avenue of attack, and they’ve got no idea what they’re in for

    We like to forget, but civil rights weren’t a popular idea - the public being upset at the scale of disruption was what forced the white house to act back then. It might take a while, they might try to ignore the courts, but the bill will come due eventually


  • Oh it’s worse.

    They’re not trying to figure it out as they go, they’ve drank the coolaid.

    Musk and Trump were born into financial empires, everything they do fails but the people scrambling to pick up the pieces behind them got them huge wins and minimized loses

    After a lifetime of this, their arrogance has grown to the point they’ve seen the people cleaning up after them as an obstacle. And now they’ve successfully found cultists willing to carry out their orders directly without question, there’s no longer layers of people saying “boss is demanding this, how can we make it not disasterous?”

    More than anything, they just seem confused why people are getting so angry at them for doing what they’ve always done more effectively





  • They censored mainstream media. They boost and censor mainstream social media. They lie constantly, so fast we can’t keep up. The Democrats were neo liberals, they seemed like they were going to shift more progressive but now they’re becoming neoconservatives

    Lobbyists write the laws they may tweak before voting on. The Democrats let the conservatives stack the court, while refusing to do the same

    The electorial college, voter suppression, and “it’s whatever we give you or the orange guy who wants to destroy the country” has stolen our power

    The system is rigged. Almost none of us want this, not just what’s happening now, but the destruction of the middle class, the impossibility of housing, the enshitification of everything, healthcare that cripples you to use (if insurance doesn’t just delay until you’re also physically crippled)

    No, this isn’t us. We’re not in control, our democracy has been hacked by a small number of very powerful people. We have to fix it - but this isn’t our fault