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Yesterday evening, Tesla reported first-quarter earnings for 2025, and they were abysmal: Profits dropped 71% from the same time last year.

Musk sounded bitter on the call with investors that followed, blaming the company’s misfortune on protesters who have raged at Tesla dealerships around the world over his role running DOGE and his ardent support of far-right politicians.

“The protests that you’ll see out there, they’re very organized. They’re paid for,” he said, without evidence.

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[–] Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 48 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The world would be better without you, Elon. And you’re such a sad little shit you’re probably reading these comments hoping someone will like you.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Kill yourself, Elon. Everyone will be sorry then.

[–] genevieve@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

as someone who will definitely be sorry if elon kills himself i would really like elon to kill himself just to prove that i indeed will be sorry

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Kill homework?

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not in school anymore....but I feel like Elon killing homework would have been widely applauded by students everywhere....

[–] genevieve@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

I hope I can get your support in my personal life mission? I'm on a cerebral crusade of minds....I put a lot of personal effort into getting people to join me in calling it what it is....

Autoassume!

[–] Necroscope0@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago

Still over here hoping his penis pump explodes and burns him to death from the dick up.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)

so when can I expect my paycheck for being a paid protestor?

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

Probably about 3 weeks before the DGE Efficiency Cheques?

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago
[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 days ago

I want my money Elmo!

If you say it's paid, pay me. Pay up or shut up

[–] suicidaleggroll@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

Profits dropped by 71% compared to the same quarter last year, but the stock price went up 68% in the same time frame. Because that makes sense. Who are the idiots still buying TSLA at these prices?

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Can I get more pictures of Elmo crying? They make me fell all warm and fuzzy.

[–] ryrybang@lemmy.world 250 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

He should be totally overjoyed, not bitter.

The current stock price, despite YTD of -36%, is still way over any kind of realistic valuation. And by that I mean orders of magnitude off.

Price to earnings makes it still look like a very, very, very hopeful/optimistic startup in the development phase, rather than a withering, fake luxury, niche automaker facing boycotts and being "run" by a full-blown Nazi that everyone hates.

If you still own Tesla shares, get the fuck out of it now. The recent collapse is nothing.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Agreed. Their P/E ratio is still in dreamland. Look at the P/E ratio of any other car company and compare to this dumpster fire of a company.

People like fElon say they aren't like other car companies; they are a "technology" company. I say that's bullshit.

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 114 points 1 week ago (15 children)

This 100%. Tesla remains massively overvalued, and it's on the basis that in the future the company will dominate with self drive cars. It's vaporware on a scale never before seen.

Tesla has fundamentally flawed self-drive technology because someone stripped out essential tech to save money. Lidar is essential to self driving cars but some genius decided they knew better than their own engineers and the self drive industry as a whole and instead made their vehicles and tech camera only. That genius? Elon fucking Musk.

The guy's an idiot. The company is an overpriced joke.

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[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

$0.12 eps is amazing. I'm pretty sure Tesler stock is a money laundering vehicle.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That would be the most reliable vehicle they have!

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 217 points 1 week ago (3 children)

“The protests that you’ll see out there, they’re very organized. They’re paid for,” he said, without evidence.

No. When you do a double seig-heil on national television we protest for free.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

You have a typo in your Nazigruß. I'm not going to correct it because I don't want to write out those dirty words.

[–] vorlaut_boy 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Germans mostly call it Hitlergruß.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 6 days ago

True. I'm German, but didn't really find the word right then.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I was wondering about that, but I have the same problem I wasn't willing to plug it into google to check the spelling.

Thanks for letting me know.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Fuck, I'll pay to protest at this point. I'm livid at this assface.

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[–] Zippygutterslug@lemmy.world 150 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nobody's got to pay me to convince me Musk is a nazi piece of shit, he did that all on his own.

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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 132 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Where do I submit my paid protester invoice?

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 93 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Submit expense reports here:

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 85 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You can bullshit the American people that they are paid protestors, but if any of his investors buy that line of bullshit, they deserve to lose all their money.

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[–] mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Shorting TSLA is my favorite thing right now. The one tiny bright point in my life.

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[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

It is a mistake to lead off with "here's the thing about Elon Musk," because there's LOADS of things with Musk, but in particular. Let's set aside how ludicrous it is to claim that the protesters are being funded by some outside source, because sure that's worked in the past, and of course it's the Democrats, those notably cash-positive people, who are doing it.

Elon Musk is THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD. If anyone could beat a theoretical money-backed protest against him, it would be him. Just offer to beat the offer of anyone funding the protesters. That's it! If they're only in it for the money then the protest would fold immediately.

More than that, Musk has literally paid people to vote in his favor in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race! The levels of hypocrisy are so staggeringly great that it risks materializing actual hippopotamuses on his properties.

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Bruh, don't do shit that causes protests then.

This guy was a liberal environmentalist sweetheart and then he decided he was going to say fuck you to his main customer base and throw his ilk in with Trump. This is all on you Musky-boy.

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