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Betonhaus said:
Didn't Maine or some other state have a court decision directly designed to attack Tesla but makes doing any business with that state dangerous, and Tesla chose to leave the state instead of challenging the decision and now that precedent is causing all other businesses to leave the state?
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Delaware.
Long story short: They fucked over Musk twice so he let it stand to hurt the state for being retarded.

Delaware makes nothing. They have a fair economy, however, because their state laws are very favorable to businesses that incorporate within the state. Ages ago, Musk went to the Tesla shareholder board and basically said "I will forego a salary. Within 5(?) years I will get our stocks to hit a<n absurd number>. If I pull it off, you pay me more than my five year salary was worth, if not, I get nothing but you still have better stocks. They obviously agreed.
When it came time to pay out after he succeeded, a pair of very minor shareholders sued, because they hated Musk for supporting Trump. A lady judge in Delaware sided with these two, saying that the board clearly didn't understand what they were actually voting for, so it's null and void. The board decides that the fasted way to fight this is just to vote on it again. Again they vote to pay Musk. Again the judge comes out to order them to not do so.

Musk moves to have the company reincorporate elsewhere, leaving this insane precedent intact. Since other companies don't want to deal with judges randomly saying "You don't get to get paid," many are leaving, slowly hurting the state itself.
 
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Catch The Rainbow said:
Calling Anduril a cutout is strange since they're actively involved in weapons manufacturing
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Isn't your interest in Israel? You sound like you're carrying water for the US military industrial complex. Odd thing for you to be nitpicking about. Weird for you to even point it out. Like, did you even know who Anduril or Lattice was before you engaged on this? It would be odd if you did, again given your interests.
 
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Betonhaus said:
Didn't Maine or some other state have a court decision directly designed to attack Tesla but makes doing any business with that state dangerous, and Tesla chose to leave the state instead of challenging the decision and now that precedent is causing all other businesses to leave the state?
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You're probably thinking of Delaware.
 
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Isn't your interest in Israel? You sound like you're carrying water for the US military industrial complex. Odd thing for you to be nitpicking about. Weird for you to even point it out. Like, did you even know who Anduril or Lattice was before you engaged on this? It would be odd if you did, again given your interests.
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I can have only one interest at a time now? I've been following Anduril since tablet's profile of Palmer Luckey.


I'm pretty familiar with their company and am waiting for the IPO to open up.

Regarding "carrying water for the US military industrial complex", I want America to have the strongest military in the world and Anduril is doing the most right now to advance that instead of lazily exploiting the govt for contracts that don't make the US military stronger
 
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The Nothingness said:
The boomerwaffen are at again.
Protesters caught on camera delivering coffin to GOP congressman's front door in mock funeral procession

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I expected the Boomers to not go out with a shred of dignity (or anything to leave to the following generations, natch) but the way the average age of protestors instantly jumped by 40 years once the DOJ started threatening to investigate what nonprofits were funding protests has been incredibly revealing.
It makes sense, when you think about it. The most deranged political outlets right now are all on cable news - this is who still watches that shit. This is who that messaging still works on. The young knew the "end of Democracy, country in peril, fly the flag upside down" shit was all performative, it's these addled elderly folks for whom the teevee has been their arbiter of truth for their entire lives, who thinks the media still works the way it did in the days of Walter Cronkite (ignoring that even his legacy has been subject to endless self-idolatry by the press and has little bearing on reality itself), who turn on the television and have it run all day while they shuffle around their paid-off house they've had since they were 28, who think the country itself is at stake.
 
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Farmer McColl said:
Delaware.
Long story short: They fucked over Musk twice so he let it stand to hurt the state for being retarded.

Delaware makes nothing. They have a fair economy, however because their state laws are very favorable to businesses that incorporate within the state. Ages ago, Musk went to the Tesla shareholder board and basically said "I will forego a salary. Within 5(?) years I will get our stocks to hit a<n absurd number>. If I pull it off, you pay me more than my five year salary was worth, if not, I get nothing but you still have better stocks. They obviously agreed.
When it came time to pay out after he succeeded, a pair of very minor shareholders sued, because they hated Musk for supporting Trump. A lady judge in Delaware sided with these two, saying that the board clearly didn't understand what they were actually voting for, so it's null and void. The board decides that the fasted way to fight this is just to vote on it again. Again they vote to pay Musk. Again the judge comes out to order them to not do so.

Musk moves to have the company reincorporate elsewhere, leaving this insane precedent intact. Since other companies don't want to deal with judges randomly saying "You don't get to get paid," many are leaving, slowly hurting the state itself.
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I wonder if those minor shareholders got kicked off of the boards of any other companies they got involved with?
 
Catch The Rainbow said:
I can have only one interest at a time now? I've been following Anduril since tablet's profile of Palmer Luckey.


I'm pretty familiar with their company and am waiting for the IPO to open up.

Regarding "carrying water for the US military industrial complex", I want America to have the strongest military in the world and Anduril is doing the most right now to advance that instead of lazily exploiting the govt for contracts that don't make the US military stronger
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Color me skeptical of your motives. Luckey, like Thiel, Atlman, and Musk, are just cutout men. The companies are functionally the DoD.
 
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IAmNotAlpharius said:
I don’t know why so many on the right are such cucks for doomerism and deaftism. It’s like they enjoy losing. It sucks but I think we have a real chance to break the payment processors if we collectively push on it. For now we work with the coomers. Once we’ve dealt with the payment processors… it gets difficult.
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I think doomerism is so engrained in the right that it becomes something of a badge of honor. It's like lefty purity spirals in a way.
>Hoooo FUCK this nigger is happy about a positive development? It's over for him, much like it's over for the white man. I'm gonna expose him for being less demoralized than me. It's obvious that any good thing that happens anywhere is a ploy by the all-powerful Jewish cabal who will continue to win on all fronts forever.
 
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The Ugly One said:
Modern cars last for 10-20 years and 100K-200K miles. The classics of the land yacht era were typically done at 5-6 years or 50K-60K miles. They often didn't even bother making the odometers run to 100K miles because there was no chance they'd last that long. The idea that they were built better back then is a total fantasy. Easy to work on, yes, but the underbody was rusted out and you were looking at the road through the floor panels when a modern car would still be considered "almost new."
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Hard disagree. There was a sweet spot between 2005-COVID where majority of cars were optimized for the best efficiency to cost. Modern day vehicles made post 2020+ have shit the bed. They're impossible or difficult to work on outside of basic maintenance. The onboard computers make taking it to mechanic relatively difficult. They have all kinds of issues and cost 20x the price.
 
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inetsone said:
Color me skeptical of your motives. Luckey, like Thiel, Atlman, and Musk, are just cutout men. The companies are functionally the DoD.
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How is wanting the US to be the dominant military force a bad thing now? Multipolarism is pretty much a facade and if there needs to be a top dog I want the US to be it
 
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The Secret Sauce said:
I think doomerism is so engrained in the right that it becomes something of a badge of honor. It's like lefty purity spirals in a way.
>Hoooo FUCK this nigger is happy about a positive development? It's over for him, much like it's over for the white man. I'm gonna expose him for being less demoralized than me. It's obvious that any good thing that happens anywhere is a ploy by the all-powerful Jewish cabal who will continue to win on all fronts forever.
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That makes sense. My family and background is one of an ex-leftist so perhaps this is why I don’t get it.
 
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The Secret Sauce said:
I think doomerism is so engrained in the right that it becomes something of a badge of honor. It's like lefty purity spirals in a way.
>Hoooo FUCK this nigger is happy about a positive development? It's over for him, much like it's over for the white man. I'm gonna expose him for being less demoralized than me. It's obvious that any good thing that happens anywhere is a ploy by the all-powerful Jewish cabal who will continue to win on all fronts forever.
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Doomers get their pants pulled down and spanked by moonrocks.
 
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