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Presumably, Elon would leave otherwise. Looks like the majority of tesla shareholders would like Elon to stay.

He already has left. He's a part-time CEO at best. Employees call him a pigeon CEO because "he comes in, shits all over us, and then leaves":

https://electrek.co/2024/04/22/elon-musk-pigeon-ceo-former-t...

The board seems to be working for Musk more than they're working for Tesla.

You can think of him whatever you want, but he's an investor money magnet like noone else. Everyone who owns stock of any company would want him. He could probably take over some fruit juice company and do nothing while it's valuation would still increase like crazy.

I was curious, so looked up Tesla’s stock price over the last few years. Seems like it’s had a rough ride since it’s all time high around late 2021.

Comparing today to just before the Twitter takeover, the Tesla valuation is majorly down. And this is adjusted for the stock splits.

I own stock in several companies. I would not want him anywhere near them. I have this weird desire to see them increase in value.

I own stocks of several companies and I definitely hope he stays as far away from them as possible. He is a man-child into alt-right and antivax conspiracy theories, this is toxic to any brand unless you are selling to the MAGA crowd.

The irony is, there are plenty of products and brands that absolutely would like to sell to the MAGA crowd, but you would not expect electric cars to be one of them, especially as their presidential candidate announced that he would ban them.

What if Musk is just pretending all this to sell to the MAGA people?

He has pretty much always supported democrats after all.

no he hasn't. like, he donates HEAVILY to anti-union causes and the GOP.

I really think people should stop saying "alt right" for anyone more conservative than Bernie Sanders. Alt right is an actual thing, and the trick of calling a mild thing an awful thing stopped working a few years ago.

Elon has retweeted things about The Great Replacement and anti-vax conspiracies. He is very much on the alt right, not "slightly right of Bernie Sanders".

Hard to know without citations what that means in practice. And retweets? I don't know. I like every YouTube video I watch regardless of whether I like it, so I know what I've watched.

Things that you could do accidentally with a thumbslip should only have a certain weight attached, and being quick to reach for a description that includes people who want Jewish people dead should be done cautiously.

> quick to reach for a description that includes people who want Jewish people dead

Never heard him being called Columbia University or Harvard student.

He did grow up with the original unexpurgated Ag Pleez Deddy *.

Not that's any excuse but that was how the twig was bent.

* Original being more or less contemporous with the novels Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure which lampooned the times.

> Everyone who owns stock of any company would want him.

Of course they would: from financing his own private vendettas (using Tesla to finance his Twitter acquisition) to rerouting GPUs ordered by Tesla to Twitter, who wouldn't want Musk to do that?

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