[skc]

It's a curious own goal by Musk. I would imagine that Tesla have pretty detailed profile data on the average Tesla customer.

Surely there were pretty clear signals that a significant number of those people would vote with their wallets based on his politics.

[spwa4]

Tesla was having very serious difficulty long before the election. For Musk the choice was probably to join the democrats, and get the tiniest amount of power, or help Trump and be the unofficial vice president.

And as everyone was saying last year "Trump can't be THAT bad", you know, before the stock market dropped 3.66 trillion dollars.

[AlecSchueler]

> you know, before the stock market dropped 3.66 trillion dollars.

And the disappearing people, threats against allies, stripping of hard fought rights, siding with Putin, airbrushing women and non-white men from the history books, declaring Gaza should become a holiday resort and spreading FUD about white genocide etc etc etc