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Considering the pickup EV has been an enormous commercial flop, only selling barely a fraction of Musk’s promised 250,000 to 500,000 Cybertrucks a year, there’s a good chance Tesla is using the mercurial CEO’s other venture to boost the numbers ahead of the end of an otherwise disastrous year.

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[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 314 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Pretty sure this is illegal, you know, using one company to prop up another (the old “Enron” method)

Wish the US still I don’t know, had laws and whatnot

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

NVidia-OpenAI-Nvidia-OpenAI

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 138 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Laws are so 2010. Get with the time, it's all corruption and gambling now.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

2010? By that point, the global financial crisis had already proven that there are no consequences for financial manipulation if you're rich enough.

[–] if_only@sh.itjust.works 49 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh we still have laws. Elon is just part of the "in" group who the laws protect but do not bind.

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Just like Madoff and SBF, he'll only face consequences if he fucks over the wealthy

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 58 points 3 days ago

"Illegal" is only for the poors and can apply to something as simple as crossing the street

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If the US tries to enforce laws against Elon, he'll go on Twitter and starting calling for the break up of the United States like he did for the EU when they decided to enforce their laws

[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So the fuck what? Who cares what he says on his platform for bots, Russians, and fellow morons?

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 0 points 1 day ago

Besides the heavily armed Yall Qaeda crowd? All of their potential victims....

[–] PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They can’t buy enough of these to weigh the collapsing market for them. They’ll be less than $50k.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They will a hundred percent buy them at full price, in a big money transfer from space x to Tesla so muck can get his trillion dollar payday that was voted in

[–] n0respect@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let's remember that SpaceX gets tons of government funding. No doubt they will try to pass it off as legitimate spending.

[–] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Its shakey, but might be in the clear because SpaceX is still private and can do whatever it likes. If they went public too, then there would be a problem I think

[–] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think they’re going to IPO soon, so gotta get this shady shit done first.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Using government funds to buy stupid trucks

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Private, but don’t they serve a number of government contracts?

This is basically the government bailing out Tesla directly for a shitty truck.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago

It might or it might not. Money laundering is difficult to do legally. Possible but difficult.