• clifmo@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    That was genuinely an embarrassment for him, and probably hurt cyber truck sales. More like, sharing his vile racist tweets or video of him performing a Nazi salute

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      Nobody in the world bought cubic truck based on it’s merits. It’s an ideological purchase, and nothing those goobers do or say changes their camp, so it can’t hurt or boost the sales.

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          I’ll go to the grave believing it was either intentional or Musk said ‘fuck it, if it breaks, it breaks’. I have no proof of it, but as soon as I saw it something in me said ‘come on…’. Call it extroverted intuition…