Oh no…the Leopards ate my face thread

Musk is already the richest person on the planet. If Tesla stock goes down, he will still be the richest person on the planet. If Tesla goes out of business, he will probably still be the richest person on the planet. The continued existence of EV tax credits won't change his net worth very much.

This next part is based on speculation from my wife, who, unlike anyone on this thread, has been in the same room as Elon when she worked at Tesla, so you can take it under advisement as to whether you believe it or not. Elon isn't really driven by his net worth - he has enough money to do whatever he wants for the rest of his life. His focus remains on "saving" "humanity" (for various definitions of those two words - for example, he's not a big fan of trans people since his daughter came out as trans, so he doesn't really include them in "humanity"). He sees climate change as a problem - he sees EVs as something that can help fight climate change - but whether the EVs are built by Tesla or built in China doesn't really matter to him. He got the ball rolling through Tesla but it's being picked up now by BYD and he's OK with that.

 

Only thing is, it sounds like he put his anti-woke crusade above his concern for climate change.

 

Colonizing Antarctica--as in, building a self-sufficient colony of thousands of permanent residents--would be vastly easier as well.

 

I supported uncommitted organising. That is the smart thing to do.

However voting for Mango as a political movement can't be explained away as distraught individuals making a bad decision.

The right seem to better understand that the time for power struggles and your seat at the table is when you win. In my lifetime, the activist left is plagued with power struggles around losing. The supposed greens are the masters at this. Sabotage Biden who did more for climate that any political leader ever and replace him with a guy who will vandalise all that work that millions of people organised to achieve.

Such genius. Such winning.

 

Within the Dems they are - that is how you got the IRA - an unprecedented effort to refocus the US climate agenda, translate it into legislation and rally the whole tent behind it.

Jill Stein is a russian asset (literally) and grifter who fools a bunch of idiots that both parties are the same. It's insanity.

 

Also I get that we are in the LOL nothing matters phase of democratic collapse but a fair amount of the narrative does ignore the fact that Biden is not the PM of Israel, nor CIC of the IDF and that the Biden admin has repeatedly sought a ceasefire. Do i wish the west and other countries had a different policy on supplying arms? yes. But the reason Bibi - the person actually running things - campaigned for Trump is because he thinks he'll get the freehand Biden has not been giving him.

if, as an organised political movement, you can't grasp basics, then you get what is coming to you IMO

 

In the US the so-called greens are often astroturfed by the republicans

Real climate and environment people are dems.