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Tech CEO's response to burning Teslas includes plans to "optimize" firefighting industry out of existence

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Given that Musk seems hell-bent on becoming the villain from every piece of science fiction ever, I kind of expect him to keep fire departments around but have them start fires.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Very handy for book burnings.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Literally Fahrenheit 451

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

keep fire departments around but have them start fires.

Ah, so it's the 1930s again.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm still shocked at how america is being taken apart and taken down by a white supremacist south african. Maybe their power wasn't so super after all.

[–] obviouspornalt 6 points 1 week ago

I'm sorry, the preferred nomenclature is 'African-Amercan'

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Yes—say and do things that are going to make you more unpopular.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

only clue that this is satire

Meanwhile, Tesla's stock surged 17% on news that Musk had threatened to send all arsonists to Mars as "unwitting beta testers for our oxygen deprivation experiments."

Tesla's stock did not go up 17%.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think I just ate the onion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I definitely did on this one and it's a good reminder that I'm amplifying my echo chamber by getting lazy and only looking at headlines.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Oh man, he's going to pull a Crassus. I hope he ends the exact same way too, nothing would be more fitting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Was he on drugs when he posted? It’s a pretty bizarre read.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I don't know if it's drugs or trying to be funny or both

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Weird thing to want when people are setting your businesses on fire.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Elon just wants to get back to the traditional roots of firefighting.

Private companies standing around and watching buildings burn, until the owner comes out and pays them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Godamn this is borderline believable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The same fire department preventing his shitty cars from burning down entire cities?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Aren’t the fire departments the one “saving” his burning show rooms? I mean if you wanna let them all burn down without being stopped by all means 👐🏼