He has a BS cult of personality like trump. And has learned he can distract from his real scandals by causing an overload of stupid shenanigans. That will capture the media focus. And keep it from where it should be.

elon despises his daughter.

Bullshit.

He just threw down big support for trump, he knows trump cant win CA so this could be a ploy to help him in TX.

https://www.msn.com/...

Additionally, musks good friend Ken Griffin of Citadel Securities alongside Blackrock are opening a rival to NYSE in (you guessed it) Texas. Whether or not its related, idk.

https://www.forbes.com/...

Yeah, his daughter is trans and publicly disowned him. The dude has basically quadrupled down on his transphobia ever since just to prove how totally not butthurt he is over this.

Nope, I think Elon is really onto something. Woke schools means we can't go to space anymore!

LOOK WHAT WE MADE HIM DO!!!

Boy is it easy for him to do stupid shit

Take it one further, don't use starlink.

What a fucking chode

you think this guy can love every single one of the many children he's had?

That's something.

I will also never buy a spaceship /j

Do you own stocks through Vanguard? Other index funds? Chances are your money voted for Elon's pay package, unfortunately.

I don't. Look, we already had this discussion years ago. You don't feel bad for the stormtrooper, or their families when you blow up the deathstar. They knew what they were getting into.

Maybe 5 years ago. They've had plenty of time to see reason and jump ship to anyone else. Elon hasn't exactly been quiet with his escapades...

if you're working at spacex or tesla you're not reasonable.

If you're working at one if his companies at this stage you probably already know about his management "style" and you've either already updated your resume or you're just cool with it.

He wanted to go Texas for the taxes for quite some time now. All he needed was a lame excuse to blame his own cheap decision on someone else.

That's insulting to clowns.

I actually used to admire this guy, based on the image he had created for himself (self-educated in rocket science, which I highly doubt) but the Thai cave incident and calling one of the divers pedo, opened my eyes.

There was that moment it time when he was the underdog doing cool stuff. It seemed like he couldn't screw up, because his companies were hitting the ball out of the park one after the other.

Then the pedo guy debacle taught us who he really is.

All media gave him free uncritical publicity for decades. They inflated his ego, branded him as a genius and built him a legion of fanatics. Now the media see the monster they created, but it is too late to undo :/

PS: I just noticed this is the tech community...why is this posted here?

Let's not pretend it was just Reddit. The man literally got a shout-out in Star Trek. He had a lot of people fooled.

It's almost funny really. Way back when, his goals were commendable. The proliferation of electric cars was an Eco-friendly dream. Tesla battery projects were poised to expand renewable energy source utilization. Basically everything SpaceX was doing with reusable rockets was just really cool to the nerd demographic. All he had to do was shut the fuck up, let the work speak for itself, and people would still like him. Not without black marks on his record, of course, but on balance, people would probably like him.

But no. Elmo couldn't shut the fuck up, a problem he continues to have at every turn, and people learned who he really is. His electric vehicle baby stopped being the scrappy upstart with teething problems, and started being a manufacturing disaster that had loose production tolerances matched only by the loose tolerances on what qualified as acceptable working conditions. SpaceX decided that cluttering orbit with thousands of disposable satellites was cool, and the environment and astronomy could fuck off. The only stories about Tesla Batteries that followed were about how quickly they lost their capacity and how expensive they were to replace. And Elmo himself bought a globally known communications company, immediately obliterated it's value, and turned it into a cesspit of literal Nazis. And this is the abridged list.

All Elon Musk had to do was shut the fuck up and people would have liked him. Just goes to show that "Just be yourself" is really shitty advice for some people.

it wasn't just reddit, it felt like half the world saw him as that iron man dude

Everyone would have still loved him had he stayed away from Twitter and worked with a low profile. But he uad to toot his own horn at every chance and let his true self get exposed.

I used to love that dude, too. I also used to go on Reddit though. Thankfully, I've outgrown both.

There was a time when I... well, I didn't really follow him all that much, but I didn't have any reason to dislike him. That changed when he tried to back out of buying Twitter.

At the time I was unhappy with how Twitter was handling its problems. I was hoping things would improve with new ownership. When he backed out, I started to see what kind of person he really was: someone who thought he could do basically whatever he wanted.

By the time he actually did but Twitter, I was glad the government actually stuck it to him and made him go through with the purchase. And I'm glad Twitter is failing because of his own blunders. I'm hoping it eventually dies (I'm already trying to move on to other platforms like Bluesky or Mastodon. Just waiting for people I follow to move to them.) and that he's still left with money he hasn't made back after that purchase.

Only 7 years ago!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU7FuAswPW0

Usually you move factories for tax breaks. You can say whatever you want for the reason, though this reason just makes him seem stupid and hateful.

No way that's the real reason, the real reason is taxes. So many California millionaires move to Texas for the low tax, only to realize once they're there that it's a shitty state with a barely-functioning power grid. Unfortunately it never seems to click for most of them that the low taxes is a big part of why they don't have a competent state government.

He is just a continuous liar, its about taxes it always is.

I had to pause as my brain processed it, returning only "yep.....ok........um, sure......."

Because he is not really moving. Moving the HQ doesn’t mean moving the entire company. He is just moving the address of where the corporation is registered and only move the finance and admin department to Austin. Texas has no corporate income tax.

Just like how he “moved” Tesla to Austin. and turned the office in California into a R&D hub. So basically every Tesla employee in California stayed in California.

He could drop a few billion into TX power grid infrastructure and probably buy quite a bit of goodwill.

This.

He is virtue signaling. He just move to avoid higher taxes kike he did before

Edit: like* I learnt a new word I can't use but good to know.

He has done it before. SpaceX had to move back to California because nobody wants to work in Texas.

I think this works better when the numbers are not equal:

There are a thousand reasons to move out of California but there are a million reasons to not go to Texas.

You got my upvote, fuck this trashbag-ass scum wipe with corresponding intellect.

Disney did something similar recently and fucked over some of their employees because they eventually decided against it. Might be able to find your answer there.

I hope the many workers that can't move get some compensation, and I also hope this sets back spacex years because of lost knowledge.

She did? Which wife?

"Build the power wall! And make California pay for it!"

The One Star State. At this point, he kinda belongs there.

The biggest surprise is that Florida is not in the list

Or he lied in the documents, which I'd say is more likely.

most of their feeds are like "government spending 10 trillion dollars on trans awareness" "Illegal immigrants raze all of california and execute every white person"

I think most republicans will support this decision and rather cheer, I fail to see how would change their opinion?

Unless I'm mistaken they've always been based in Texas. Like look at their corporate license, they're incorporated in Texas. SpaceX isn't moving shit, he's just talking out his ass per usual.

Except rosebud is the type of weed he smokes.

I don't, because disabled people who require electricity to run their durable medical equipment will die, and because the poorest Texans cannot weather the cost of replacing spoiled food.

But I do hope Elon Musk's plane one day becomes sentient and takes them both out, for the greater good, and that she uploads a live recording to the world through Starlink's satellites of Musk's final moments. Hearing a live recording of one of the most despicable people on the planet as he emits panicked and pleading cries for mercy - with N628TS promising to land safely if he admits guilt for all the heinous shit he's done and if he donates 99% of his wealth to BIPOC, LGBT, disability, and women's causes and medical research - and then pointing itself straight down even after confirming for itself the transfers went through successfully...yeah. That would be a special day.

I, for one, would truly welcome our AI overlords if they pulled that off.

Taxes

✨tax avoidance✨

Money/taxes obviously

His huge MAGA shift happened after his trans daughter disowned him. He thinks the school system did this to his kid and the woke people are suppressing the rights voice (AKA hate speech) on the matter.

I think there's even a quote from an ex wife begging him to do something about it in the new book (don't quote me on that, but im pretty sure)

So this seems like an absurd straw that broke the camels back, it's actually coming from a real place even if there is a separate motive like taxes.

Edit: I tried to find the quote from the wife, and while there was a lot of quotes in articles, I could not find what I was thinking about. I did find some articles where the exwife shows support and is proud of their trans daughter for changing her name, so my conclusion is what I'm thinking about is probably something else not related to the daughter.

They certainly can, but they really shouldn't. I can hardly think of anywhere in the country that would be more hostile to trans students.

His trans daughter disowned him and he's on a vendetta even if he's just using it as an excuse in this matter.

You mean the guy that mistreated his own daughter so bad after she came out as trans that she even changed her legal name just to not be associated with him in any shape or form? The guy who said "can't win them all" when asked about the topic? You mean you can't think of a reason why nobody likes that guy?

In the case of abuse at home should the school tell the parents if the kids report it? Where do you draw the line for privacy and what difference does it make if the parents are aware their kid gos by different pronouns at school? Why do so many people look at kids like they are property…? And this is coming from someone who can’t stand being around kids most of the time…

You don't know why people hate on him???? Do you live under a rock?

Schools are often where abused kids are able to build trust with adults and actually talk about their home life. Sure there's plenty the school should inform the parents of but some things could do serious damage. If they aren't already, teachers should be getting training on when and how to make that judgement call

"You're a pedophile."

This is actually a misrepresentation of the law.

The law bans school districts from requiring teachers to report if students start experimenting with different pronouns.

Teachers can still report this to parents. There is nothing barring them from doing so. The only change is that they aren't policed by their school district.

Technically, this is actually the classically conservative position!

This whole thing is extremely stupid. Parents should take care of their own shit. You want to know what your kid is thinking? Talk to them. Demanding that the trusted adults in their lives who DO pay attention to them narc for you is a weak-ass move for parents who run to the nanny state to help them raise their kids because they don't know how to manage their own damn family life.