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DinahMoeHum

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8. Wilson's Substack piece is now paywall-free

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 07:03 PM

Mar 21

https://therickwilson.substack.com/p/kill-tesla-save-the-country?r=1ne2d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

Here’s the political physics of it all: Pressure on Tesla is pressure on Musk. Break Tesla’s stock, and you start to break Elon’s ability to bankroll authoritarian fantasies…and if that kneecaps Trump in the process, well, boo-hoo.

Corporate pressure campaigns generally work when a company still cares about rational brand management, market cap, and sales. Tesla is about to learn to care.

And guess what? The cultural moment for Tesla has arrived. Why?

1)Tesla’s Stock Is Perched on a Cliff
2)Elon & DOGE Are Poisoning the Brand
3)Nazi-Adjacency Is Famously Bad For Market Share
4)Even the Rats Know the Ship Is Sinking
5)A Product Line Ranging from Dull to Cringe
6)Tesla: Welfare Queen Extraordinaire
7) Institutional Investors: This Is Your Cue

a whole lot more at the above link. . .

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Musk's X Banned Rick Wilson (Lincoln Project) For Sharing 'Kill Tesla, Save The Country' Post? What We Know [View all] Eugene Mar 21 OP

Unrelated to the actual content, posting "Kill" anything is a surefire way to get banned on any platform. Hellbound Hellhound Mar 21 #1

So when did corporations become people?? madinmaryland Mar 21 #6

K&R Swede Mar 21 #2

Wilson should be worried, anti-Tesla activities are now considered "terrorism," he could be disappeared. sop Mar 21 #3

musk is a spoiled child and this banning is wrong LetMyPeopleVote Mar 21 #4

Mump is a Spoiled Psychotic Cha Mar 21 #7

The "Free Speech Absolutists" doncha know? Prairie Gates Mar 21 #5

Wilson's Substack piece is now paywall-free DinahMoeHum Mar 21 #8

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