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> Most of the market is down, outside of energy and defense sectors. Tech and tech related things have taken a massive hit.

While that's true, if you look at S&P 500, or even just a bunch of tech stocks like GOOG or MSFT, it's pretty clear Tesla is doing much worse still.

https://i.imgur.com/JbbyghN.png

For context, 1 year graph with dates: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/TSLA:NASDAQ?comparison=...

Certainly much worse, all since November.

Netflix is down 53% ytd. amzn is down 51%.

Unlike some other companies, Tesla was significantly overvalued to begin with. i think even elon joked as much himself. they never an energy/battery company first and they dont know how to fit and finish. none of this regressed in the last year.

> feels more to me like corporate news media and progressive allies have a fight with elon.

The fact that it feels this way to you is exactly the problem. It's pointless to politicize a car company but that's what Musk has gone ahead and done. It's not helping Tesla's stock price and it's not helping Tesla sell cars.

> they wanted him to close the Twitter deal

Musk signed a binding agreement to buy Twitter and then spent six months trying to back out of the deal. When Musk realized a contract is a contract and he wasn't going to win in court, he finally closed the deal.

No one has done this to him. He did it to himself.

> No one has done this to him. He did it to himself

done what exactly to himself?

hes still one of the wealthiest people on the planet. he could literally shutdown Twitter tomorrow and the people who’d cry the hardest are the ones cheering for twitters collapse, on Twitter, who refuse to leave.

elon is still running spacex, Twitter, and boring company. if he lost every dime and every company, he’d get the Silicon Valley vc funding, even in this economic climate, to go do the next thing.

one thing elon has done he doesn’t get credit for is ripping the mask off this massive grift in the tech industry. With over half of the Twitter workforce gone, the site runs just fine. what exactly were these people doing? in fact, they had little to no productive output of course with exception of their culture war/far left battles they were fighting in cahoots with government.

i digress but this grift is widespread across google, meta, amazon.. all big tech. class of professional managers and a propped up elite who produce little economic output. 20% of the biz drives bottom line for the other 80%’s empire building, territorial wars, and bloated bureaucratic nonsense.

no one wants to come out and say it in fear of attacks from the corporate media, but these execs are taking note from what Elon just pulled off, in big tech and Silicon Valley vc backed companies alike

Twitter doesn’t run fine. It’s a testament to the laid-off folks that it’s still running as well as it does but cracks are showing.

any well built service architecture doesn’t require a massive head count of engineers to keep things running. if code isn’t constantly changing because of new features, it’s behavior should be same. If traffic increases, more hardware will automatically get provisioned and added behind your load balancers, and lbs should auto scale as well.

you must need a few support staff which you can hire contractors for to keep things like OS and other software dependencies patched with latest updates.. and if u using third party cloud, depending on abstraction you get this taken care of as part of the package.

Except that Musk talked about speeding up development of new features, promised that and even made steps toward making that happen.

His plan was not to keep it running with skeleton crew.

> done what exactly to himself?

Bought Twitter, made himself look foolish doing it, and continues to make himself look foolish in the running of it.

> Bought Twitter, made himself look foolish doing it, and continues to make himself look foolish in the running of it.

to who? you? corporate media? this is nothing personal but do you honestly believe musk cares about how you or the corporate media portrays him? that it clouds his mind in the morning “oh no, I look like a fool?”

Are we talking about musk, whose resume includes spacex, tesla, boring company, paypal? Are you sure we’re not talking about kim kardashian?

The guy has money and influence at the .1% but it’s the fear of “looking” like a fool?

Musk 100% cares about the opinion of the average person, yes. He is a insecure little boy at heart, which is why he is constantly trying to win the approval of the internet and shitposts like it’s an early 2000’s forum. It’s why he bought Twitter. It’s why him being booed at that Dave Chapelle show devastated him. It’s why he rapidly turned into alt-right idiot: because those were the only people still cheering him on.

Take a look at his replies on Twitter. He's constantly appreciating random nobodies who tweeted praise of him. Or look at the whole view count thing. Yes, he absolutely cares.

> do you honestly believe musk cares about how you or the corporate media portrays him?

Yes. He desperately craves the attention and most especially the adulation. It's sad.

What does Musk caring about how he looks have to do with the fact that he looks foolish? should we give him a pass because he doesn't care?

1m to date: TSLA -40% AMZN -11% AAPL -10% GOOG -8% MSFT -2% NFLX -1% META +5%

These numbers seem to directly contradict your thesis that TSLA decline is just a consequence of the tech market decline, given that the second bigger loss during last month was 4 times less in percentage compared to TSLA.

Define woke.