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    So just so we’re clear here. It’s completely fine for F’elon Musk to manufacture the cars in fascist America, but also countries such as Germany and China. Totally fine.

    But it’s NOT ok for other car companies to produce and manufacture their cars in countries that aren’t the USA?

    Hypocritical much there you rancid old snake oil car salesman?

    Fuck Trump and a super bigly Fuck You to Elon.

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    “Illegally boycotting.”

    Trump is hilarious. Like the government can stop me from NOT BUYING something.

    Sounds like if he had it his way, we’d be forced to buy only what he declared and in the quantities the law stipulates, regardless of need or ability to pay.

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      Excuse me sir, have you performed your government mandated consumption today? It looks like your spending quota is a little low, how about ordering some tasty Dominoes^TM and signing up for a subscription service or your choice? Remember what your mother taught you: “a penny saved is a penny wasted”. Money atrophies if you keep it locked up, everyone knows that! You need to keep that cash aerated, circulate it!

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      Remember, this South African immigrant, whose father owned a slave ran diamond (edit: emerald) mine, sued advertisers for pulling out due to his racist remarks and the racism being spewed on his platform. Choosing not to advertise on his platform was ‘collusion’ and illegal… 🤦‍♂️

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      it’s like that time when Elon “free speech absolutist” Musk tried to sue advertisers that decided that they didn’t want their ads on his Nazi filled platform

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      Trump signs an executive order that every American must purchase a Tesla. Supreme Court rejects the order by a 5-4 vote several weeks later

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        Bring back debtor’s prisons, lock up everyone who defaults on their mandatory loan on a non-living wage, then invoke the 13th amendment and boom – you’ve successfully replaced the labour force you’ve ousted by deporting people.

        I’m sad that’s plausible.

        (e: didn’t the auto industry basically do this once with company towns?)

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    I like how it’s illegal to just decide to not buy something. Capitalism sure has changed.

    I know it’s not illegal, just making a joke off the dumbass’s words.

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    I work in the defense industry. Many of my coworkers are conservative. Most of them would never consider an electric vehicle (I heard them laughing about rolling coal on a Tesla recently). So the target audience doesn’t want them, and the former audience is now staunchly opposed. Who do they think will buy them at this point?

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    His misuse of public office should be landing him a third impeachment. Why is any of this being ignored as the new normal?

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      Because the American people are cowards, and don’t know how to stand up against this. Their inaction speaks volumes in its own way.

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    Good grief, the President of the United States shilling for a Private Company. How pathetic.

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    So wait…. Boycotts are illegal now? It’s mandatory to buy their trumpmobiles?

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        Don’t call them swasticars. Elon hates them being called swasticars. So, don’t call them swasticars online, and don’t call them swasticars irl. Elon is sad and depressed and having a very not fun time lately, so don’t kick him while he’s down by calling his babies swasticars.

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        this is the most hilarious thing i have seen all day. i had to scroll up and check and it’s actually there. amazing. 10/10

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    “illegally and collusively boycott”. Trump is such a turd of emotions. Just says things that feel true, and his idiot followers gobble it up. I don’t think there’s any case where a boycott is illegal, and colluding is just a scarier word for organizing or cooperating.

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      colluding is just a scarier word for organizing or cooperating.

      Makes sense when you remember that he doesn’t want people cooperating, that’s communism /s . He wants people obeying.

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      I don’t think there’s any case where a boycott is illegal,

      The USA has made boycotting the zionist entity illegal, many states require businesses to sign pledges not to boycott as conditions to getting contracts. So much for that “freedum of speech”.

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      I wonder whatever happened with Musk’s claims that companies not advertising on Xitter was illegal collusion.

      A quick Qwant search later: it seems he’s expanded the suit: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-5283271/elon-musk-lawsuit-advertisers-boycott-new

      Unfortunately, his abuse has already SLAPPed down the original group behind the assessment that led to the boycott, but now that the world’s bestest genius evar has decided to also take on (check article) Lego, Nestlé, Tyson Foods, Abbott Laboratories, Colgate-Palmolive, Pinterest and Shell International?

      Hopefully, he’s bitten off more than he can chew.

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      In this case, it’s not even organizing/cooperating/colliding. Multiple people are reaching the same sensible conclusion simultaneously and acting accordingly.

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      The only reason Trump knows what the word colluding means is because of his collusion with Russia.

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      colluding is just a scarier word for organizing or cooperating

      Colluding is a bad kind of organizing and cooperating,like gangs, conspiracies, and oligarchies.

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        That was an extremely aggressive response. Did you consider, “Hey, you don’t seem to know this, but check out this [source]”?

        There’s a trope for “existing users are hostile to newcomers because the newcomers are ignorant, preventing the community from growing and undermining their goals”, but I’m not sure the name of it. Might be a variation of “For me it was tuesday”

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          Did they consider not bumbling into a new community and post ignorant disinfo?

          It takes <30 seconds to search a point in a search engine (or provide a prompt to an LLM I don’t judge) if they’ve proven they can’t do the bare minimum to make sure they’re adding to the discourse and not spreading fake news, than their value to the community is dubious at best.

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              So I forget, are you an ‘ignorant newcomer’ (your own words) or do you have your finger on the pulse of the community and its goals, and post disinfo anyway?

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                I didn’t know about anti-boycott laws. I posted in good faith. Now I know.

                I don’t know specifics of this community but I seem to have a better grasp of community in general than you do.

                You could have taken the opportunity to politely educate. Instead you’ve chosen maximum hostility. Why? What are you getting out of this? How is it better than kindness?

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                  Yeah, I got a little heated, I guess everyone has their own line on what constitutes good faith, and that’s okay! Frankly I only know as much about US anti-boycott laws as I do because I work at a big soulless US corp.

                  I definitely don’t claim to be some elder of usboycott, and in fact dislike people who claim to have some kind of superiority for being established in a community

                  I just happen to be a random nerd on the internet that knows a strange amount about anti-boycott laws, who just dropped an edible and is feeling much more empathic,

                  Hopefully this can just go down as a lovely educational moment on the fediverse! And I hope you have a lovely day

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    Let’s demand Trump to make Elon the POTUS, I bet he’s not gonna talk about Tesla.inc then😂