Raisin45567
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Elon & Twitter
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Has anybody actually tried to search or tag @ElonJet on twitter? I tried, @ElonJet does come up in suggested usernames, so not shadowbanned.
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EfficientWatts
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It is on you to prove that the poll is flawed or biased, but that it why I provided two polls, one that kinda supports your point. But rather than accept that, you immediately move the goal posts to "just a figure of speech". But 99 percent has a general implied meaning of an overwhelming majority, but I do not think that is the case.
Of course if I toss more polls at you, you'll just say "flawed! Flawed!" And we'll get nowhere. There will be no satisfying you.
trayloader
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Perfect analysis.
Elon made the biggest headlines of the biggest German News today, and it was not positive.
I’m waiting any second now for Apple to pull the plug. 40million/quarter lost for Twitter plus the halo effect. Multiply that by the 25 biggest ad clients and it will go downhill fast. Wait until Koguan Leo backs out. Drowning Tesla.
It sounds we have Elon and Peter Thiel taking part in the discussion here sharing a lot of smilies
Dave Chapelle did a brilliant job for the world to see. Diess or Jerome Guillen would be my preferred choice.
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If I understand it correctly, shadowban works letting find the users and read his tweets, but they have less reach. So it could be shadowbanned.
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It's in the teslarati article, if you're shadownbanned, your name wouldn't show up in the search or tag suggestions: "Some users, for their part, had already observed that they were unable to search for or tag Sweeney’s “@ElonJet” account through suggested usernames on Twitter."
I think there are some indications now that Tesla is manufacturing cars faster than it can sell them.
There's tons of inventory on tesla.com and used prices of Teslas have dropped a huge amount in the past 6 months. Wait times for custom orders are basically gone, except for the Model X.
Rumor has it that November orders in the USA are down significantly as well.
Now how much of this reduction in demand is caused by the tax credit coming back in 2023 vs other factors such as the "Twitter overhang", remains to be seen.
I think that Tesla is hoping that the tax credit will boost sales, but I have to wonder if they will need to reduce prices regardless, to juice demand.
mach-edriver
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I just watched three different clips of Musk’s appearance onstage with Chappelle and it clearly didn’t go well for him.
Not that there anything particularly shameful about getting booed, but he simply can’t accept even superficial rejection.
BUT THE BEST PART: instead of just sticking to his patently false characterization of the crowd response he has to try to demonize any dissenters to his greatness with an “unhinged leftists” jibe. The fact that he did it a day after he was embarrassed is akin to coming up with a withering response to a cocktail party putdown, only doing it the next day and only to yourself.
This trivial incident merely reinforces the fact that the whole Twitter affair, from cannabis-based bid to QAnon-adjacent new “management,” is fundamentally a cry for attention and approval by a man whose tremendous business successes have failed to give him enough of either.
IMO some buyers may be hanging off due to the prospect of a tax credit.
The long term trend is that prices will be progressively reduced.
Some buyers will prefer a vechicle other than a Tesla for lots of reasons.
The quality of the the vechicles and the charging network is a selling point.
The supply / demand equation is hard to judge.
How many people that don't want to buy a Tesla will buy an ICE?
Aside from Tesla and BYD other car makers may struggle to ramp volumes fast enough to fill in the increasing demand for EVs.
If you are selling your Tesla becuase of Elon, what car are you buying?
UkNorthampton
TSLA - 12+ startups in 1
For me, probably a bmw i4. Or maybe yoloing it and going for a taycan or etron-gt
UkNorthampton
TSLA - 12+ startups in 1
I didn't know. Bad use is in one sentence in the Wikipedia entry. A lot more references to other uses in popular culture, Matrix film, music & the like.
I've used the phrase since childhood as have many others - it's in common use. It's from Alice in Wonderland. Temporary use by a bunch of [perjorative term] in one small part of the world shouldn't mean that native English speakers shouldn't use it. It too will pass.
Despite no information to answer your question, were I to defend his position I would mention repeated Bolsonaristas blocking traffic, burning busses etc. Those things do happen now and attract instantly-produced videos, often cropped to maximize the mayhem for the uninformed. I have witnessed none of those myself, nor has anyone I know.
We do live in a post-pandemic world that somehow acts to accentuate extremist sentiments and present only the most salacious versions of reality. My former neighbors in Southern France have shown me a few examples. Here at TMC many of us seem obsessed and frustrated with this sort of event in TSLA would, of course exacerbated by the propensity of our erstwhile hero to utter provocative pronouncements that he may believe, but tend to drive traffic for his current activities.
All of this has clearly drawn many TSLAphiles to question their loyalties, driven by their inability to see TSLA behaving as share prices do; change. The truly dismaying part of this is the sentiment that @NicoV tries valiantly to fight, pointing out correctly that all this idiocy is centered among the US-centric Social Media addicts, more specifically among those who have had recent margin calls.
In this typically verbose response I plead for all of us to use common sense to question extremist views of our investments and focus relentlessly on actual facts.
To that end, returning to Brazil, with a fact or two. In my small area of Rio de Janeiro there are at least five Tesla, one new Model Y lives in the building housing my nephew's restaurant, a new Model S Plaid lives on my block (with a menagerie of high end cars) and so on. Many people know of Tesla, it seems. Nobody cares about Elon politics, but most of my family lives to watch SpaceX launches and the teenagers are all enamored by the games.
That is only to emphasize that obsession over Tweets reflects birdbrain-style behavior, in my opinion.
What kind of CEO poisons demand for their company’s products. It’s unacceptable. BOD needs to relieve him of his duties.
UkNorthampton
TSLA - 12+ startups in 1
Said Putin, Saudis, Oil Company Execs, Ex-coal Execs (surely all bust now?) & their minions:- lobbyists, politicians & media (no adverts, no graft)
NigelM
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Perhaps I’ve just always missed hearing it so I’m genuinely asking for someone to explain the meaning and give me a sentence or usage with the phrase.
Raisin45567
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It would be more logical to dispose of his Twitter account, as this would deprive Elon/Twitter of future advertising revenue. Selling his Tesla doesn’t touch Elon in any way.
It's sad that somebody was so misinformed about the "white Rabbit Tweet" and perhaps others that they sold their Tesla and TSLA. Elon has used this before and nobody cared. People's perceptions have changed and they're attributing false meaning to his Tweet.
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