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vegeta@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law

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Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law

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  • unmagical@lemmy.ml
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    Because schools cannot forcibly out students to their parents SpaceX is now incapable of working there? Seems like there’s something else going on.

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      He has a BS cult of personality like trump. And has learned he can distract from his real scandals by causing an overload of stupid shenanigans. That will capture the media focus. And keep it from where it should be.

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        In the UK we call it a dead cat strategy.

        There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table – and I don’t mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted. That is true, but irrelevant. The key point, says my Australian friend, is that everyone will shout, ‘Jeez, mate, there’s a dead cat on the table!’ In other words, they will be talking about the dead cat – the thing you want them to talk about – and they will not be talking about the issue that has been causing you so much grief.[1]

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy

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      Bullshit.

      He just threw down big support for trump, he knows trump cant win CA so this could be a ploy to help him in TX.

      https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elon-musk-goes-all-in-on-donald-trump/ar-BB1q5TOi

      Additionally, musks good friend Ken Griffin of Citadel Securities alongside Blackrock are opening a rival to NYSE in (you guessed it) Texas. Whether or not its related, idk.

      https://www.forbes.com/sites/caileygleeson/2024/06/05/a-billionaire-backed-texas-stock-exchange-is-in-the-works-heres-what-to-know/

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        Believe me when I say that it is not to help Trump win Texas. I’ve lived here for over 40 years, and for the last 25, I have kept hearing how this is a “purple state” and “it’s gonna be a swing state soon”.

        It’s not.

        It’s not, it never has been, it never will be, and it’s never been worse here. Which is why I’m leaving this hellhole once and for all next week with my cat, and I ain’t never looking back.

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      Yeah, his daughter is trans and publicly disowned him. The dude has basically quadrupled down on his transphobia ever since just to prove how totally not butthurt he is over this.

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      Nope, I think Elon is really onto something. Woke schools means we can’t go to space anymore!

      LOOK WHAT WE MADE HIM DO!!!

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    Remember when Elon moved Tesla Engineering to Texas, then moved it back to California since he couldn’t get enough people to work in Texas?

    Tesla Will Move Its Headquarters to Austin, Texas, in Blow to California - Oct, 2021

    Tesla Shifts Its Engineering Headquarters Back To California - Feb. 2023

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      Boy is it easy for him to do stupid shit

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    When asked about his estranged transgender daughter in October 2022, Musk told the Financial Times “Can’t win them all,”

    The guy is just an absolute monster. I think this much of a wealth gap for one person would bring out the worst in anyone. His worst is just really really bad. Never click on X links people please. It’s a small thing, but it’s the right thing.

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      Take it one further, don’t use starlink.

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      What a fucking chode

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      you think this guy can love every single one of the many children he’s had?

      That’s something.

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    The kind of decision making others feel worthy of an over 50 billion pay package.

    Fuck Elon, and fuck the board too. Never buying one with him involved.

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      Do you own stocks through Vanguard? Other index funds? Chances are your money voted for Elon’s pay package, unfortunately.

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    Oh look… Apartheid-boy is moving his company to a more overtly white supremacist location and blaming his daughter for it.

    I am so surprised.

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      He wanted to go Texas for the taxes for quite some time now. All he needed was a lame excuse to blame his own cheap decision on someone else.

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        So maybe I’m stupid but… Why? Why does he feel he needs an excuse beyond “taxes are cheaper in Texas”? Like, it’s understandable that a business owner wants to reduce costs, and reducing your taxes is one good way to do it. The blowback from saying something relatively mild like “I want to pay less taxes” is going to be way less than the blowback of saying “I want to leave California because trans people have too many rights here” right?

        I’m not trying to defend Musk or anything here, I’m just so confused why he’s going this route

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          cuz he dumb

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    I hate this clown

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      That’s insulting to clowns.

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        Right, sorry

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    “We have to move a rocket company because of trans highschool kids” wtf

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    How fun would it be if the next Texas power grid failure manages to cause serious damage to Apartheid-Baby’s pet project?

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    He’s literally evil towards his daughter. He said “can’t win them all” when asked about her. Wtf.

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    There are a million reasons to move out of California but there are a million reasons to not go to Texas.

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    … What? The final straw was … not having 100% up-to-date information on the gender expression of every child in the state?

    The fuck?

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    Is it because his wife left him for a trans woman?

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      She did? Which wife?

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        grimes left him and started dating chelsea manning

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