Tesla to Bud Light: hold my beer!
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https://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article301927034.html
A man wearing a face covering accidentally set himself on fire while burning three Tesla charging stations in an act of protest, South Carolina police said.
Before igniting the flames March 7, the man used red spray paint to write a profane message against President Donald Trump and “long live Ukraine” on the ground next to the charging stations outside of a Mellow Mushroom, according to a North Charleston Police Department report shared with McClatchy News.
Then, he used homemade Molotov cocktails to start the fire, police said. Witnesses told officers the man ran away after accidentally catching his back on fire, according to the report.
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https://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article301927034.html
A man wearing a face covering accidentally set himself on fire while burning three Tesla charging stations in an act of protest, South Carolina police said.
Before igniting the flames March 7, the man used red spray paint to write a profane message against President Donald Trump and “long live Ukraine” on the ground next to the charging stations outside of a Mellow Mushroom, according to a North Charleston Police Department report shared with McClatchy News.
Then, he used homemade Molotov cocktails to start the fire, police said. Witnesses told officers the man ran away after accidentally catching his back on fire, according to the report.
Further confirmation that, “stupid is, what Stupid does”.
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Obviously, he doesnt get out much. 555
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I bet it's not as cool as his wife's reaction when he says nice things about Trump.
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According to recent reports, Tesla insiders have been selling their shares as the company’s stock has experienced volatility. Kimbal Musk, Elon’s brother and Tesla board member, sold 75,000 shares in February 2025.
James Murdoch, who has served on Tesla’s board since 2017, exercised stock options and sold shares worth approximately $13 million on March 10. This sale coincided with the stock’s largest single-day decline in five years.
Other notable sellers include Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja, who recently sold $1.7 million worth of shares. Robyn Denholm, chairman of Tesla’s board of directors, reportedly made two sales over the past five weeks totaling $75 million.
While insider selling is common in publicly traded companies, the timing and volume of these sales have raised eyebrows among investors and analysts. Jay Ritter, Emeritus Professor at the University of Florida, told ABC that insider selling is “not a positive signal” for a company’s outlook.
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Insiders sell their own company's stock all the time. I know the article says that the volume was relatively high, but I'm not sure how true that is.
By the way, put your entire portfolio into TSLA this Friday. You'll thank me on Monday.
Education is extremely important.
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We are seriously at a point where conservatives are buying EVs and promoting their stock while liberals are dumping them, setting them on fire, and torching charging stations. Who had this on their Bingo Cards 5 years ago?
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This is wild - I was always a bit surprised that something like electric cars were so politicized and toxic on the right.
Rationality really does seem very subordinate to feelings for humans. (See: righteous mind by Haidt)
I’m not putting myself above that. Very much recognize it in myself too lately.
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Again, just imagine if there were systematic arsons and other destruction across America, of politically targeted leftist businesses, by Magats. To the extent that on Fox news, it was being publicized, and cheered on, and laughed at. The left would be going completely insane. The liberal females of Bluesky would melt that website down.
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The really stupid part of this? Elon owns about what? 12%? 65%-70% is owned by various investment funds. Vanguard, Blackrock, etc… These people are fucking over teachers, union workers, and general maintenance street far more than they are hurting Elon….
The Brad
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This is wild - I was always a bit surprised that something like electric cars were so politicized and toxic on the right.
Rationality really does seem very subordinate to feelings for humans. (See: righteous mind by Haidt)
I’m not putting myself above that. Very much recognize it in myself too lately.
@xenon said in Tesla to Bud Light: hold my beer!:
This is wild - I was always a bit surprised that something like electric cars were so politicized and toxic on the right.
EV's, per se, are not toxic on the right. Never have been.
What is toxic on the right, is the state forcing EV's on the public. One ought to be able to drive what you want to drive. And what can work in Europe would be silly as hell in West Texas.
Somebody like Jon, who lives on the East Coast where everything is more compact and range isn't as critical, could probably do ok with a Tesla. It would suck for me...How do you charge a Tesla when a hurricane knocks out the electricity for four days?
Freedom of choice is good!
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The really stupid part of this? Elon owns about what? 12%? 65%-70% is owned by various investment funds. Vanguard, Blackrock, etc… These people are fucking over teachers, union workers, and general maintenance street far more than they are hurting Elon….
@LuFins-Dad said in Tesla to Bud Light: hold my beer!:
The really stupid part of this? Elon owns about what? 12%? 65%-70% is owned by various investment funds. Vanguard, Blackrock, etc… These people are fucking over teachers, union workers, and general maintenance street far more than they are hurting Elon….
That’s just wrong. Tesla is the vast majority of his wealth. It’s a small bit of any investment fund.
“Don’t make me repeat myself”
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Stocks are easier to manipulate with social contagions of fear and greed, than the fundamentals of a company are. But Tesla's fundamentals could easily be affected too, if the net effect of Elon's political participation is negative enough. If enough shame or fear is heaped on buyers of Tesla cars. I can imagine not wanting to deal with the potential for random people thinking you're signaling something political, and potentially toxic to them, just by the car you drive. The differences between cars is not so great that that wouldn't be an easy tie breaker. Some others will want to support the company, of course, but I don't know that they will be enough.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Tesla to Bud Light: hold my beer!:
The really stupid part of this? Elon owns about what? 12%? 65%-70% is owned by various investment funds. Vanguard, Blackrock, etc… These people are fucking over teachers, union workers, and general maintenance street far more than they are hurting Elon….
That’s just wrong. Tesla is the vast majority of his wealth. It’s a small bit of any investment fund.
@jon-nyc said in Tesla to Bud Light: hold my beer!:
@LuFins-Dad said in Tesla to Bud Light: hold my beer!:
The really stupid part of this? Elon owns about what? 12%? 65%-70% is owned by various investment funds. Vanguard, Blackrock, etc… These people are fucking over teachers, union workers, and general maintenance street far more than they are hurting Elon….
That’s just wrong. Tesla is the vast majority of his wealth. It’s a small bit of any investment fund.
His holdings in SpaceX are worth ~ $150B, and he has another ~ $50B from X and his other holdings. Wipe out Tesla entirely and he’s still worth over $200B and likely still wealthier than Bezos and Zuck. Pray tell, what difference does this drop make in his day to day living? The little $ that I tossed on Tesla a little while back probably had a bigger effect on my day to day life and a .3% drop in a fund’s performance will likely have a bigger impact on a Median earner’s retirement lifestyle than Musk’s lifestyle after losing $150B in Tesla…
Beyond that, you have 126K Tesla employees that will feel this a helluva lot more than Musk will.
