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Elon Musk is pulling Tesla out of California, moving HQ to Texas/Nevada

-Arcadia-

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Seeing California reap the rewards of their own excesses provides schadenfreude.

Realizing that a bunch more mind-virused CA residents will relocate to Texas as a result of this, vote exactly the same, and with zero self-awareness, provides worry.

I wonder if Musk is just playing hardball for better treatment, though?
 

V4skunk

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He was on with Joe Rogan the other day!
He says he sympathises with the anti globalist movement and that neurolink will make people with brain and spinal injuries get full use of their bodies back.
 

sneas78

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You all aware Of what dumb shit inslee is doing ? Why doesn’t trump stop these idiot governors from destroying America?
forced isolation, forces tracing etc. with nations guard: why is America asleep?
 
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Hey I was offered a job at that plant back when it made Toyotas. Decided to finish my undergrad though.

Fremont can suck a dick for denying the A’s a new stadium.

What’s this thread about again?
 

Weiji

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I mean why the fuck did he think it was smart to build in California? None of this shit is new.
 

Dr.Guru of Peru

played the long game
I mean why the fuck did he think it was smart to build in California? None of this shit is new.
Tesla is a tech company, if you want the best engineers you locate in California.
Plus I’m sure he’d rather the company be close to where he lives. The guy apparently still sleeps at the factory at times.

Hes clearly bluffing though. By the time Tesla finishes relocating we would all have caught Covid19.
 
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TaySan

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How many of his employees are just going to up and move to another state though? I doubt they are going to want to leave Cali. It just sounds like an empty threat to me.
 

teezzy

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Cali seems like an expensive and lousy place to do business. George Lucas was trying to make a new studio for the ST and Cali politics put an end to that, it was one of the main reasons he sold his company. I imagine working w the local big wigs is a huge pain in the butt.

Sounds about right. I work in the office for one of the major automotive manufacturers in the United Staes. Cali is full of leftist consumer protection laws which all sound good in theory, but often times, there are a multitude of restrictions when it comes to how we're able to interact with Californians, due to said laws, that they often miss out on many benefits which we're able to provide others in different states.

Something, something, cutting off their noses to spite their faces, build the wall.
 

Dr.Guru of Peru

played the long game
Standard ehh ? Like when have we had this before? Last seasons flu?
I meant standard across jurisdictions, but since you ask:
The mandatory quarantines and contact tracing he mentioned were done for Ebola and SARS. You survived that without the government stealing your brain waves, so you’ll probably be OK this time too.
 
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MetalAlien

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Fuck CA.. just go on zillow around LA or something... how does any normal people live there anymore? It's like 400 grand for a one bedroom shithole.
 

MetalAlien

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That’s dirt cheap for a major city in the US.
HA, you haven't been to Houston... 400 grand will get you a mini mansion.

LA

oh oh I found this posh location in LA as well..

Houston
 
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Yoda

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*Some* politicians in Cali have utter contempt for business and that mentality is rewarded by the electorate there. He'd be wise to move, but it'd require a lot of capex that Tesla can't afford at the moment.
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
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Just kidding, I wish him and his company the best and hope they can open up soon
 

black_13

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Ironic since california is where 40% of all Tesla's are sold. Sounds like a threat to get them to change their minds since relocating would cost millions.
 
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Foamy

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He was on with Joe Rogan the other day!
He says he sympathises with the anti globalist movement and that neurolink will make people with brain and spinal injuries get full use of their bodies back.
I really wish he'd go public with Neurolink so I could buy stock.
 

sneas78

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I meant standard across jurisdictions, but since you ask:
The mandatory quarantines and contact tracing he mentioned were done for Ebola and SARS. You survived that without the government stealing your brain waves, so you’ll probably be OK this time too.
Reaching much? Wth are you talking about? I don’t want it .. that’s it. Anyways your ignored from now on.
 
Please keep your Trump-related conspiracy theories and other political talk to the Politics board.
This guy just plain seems like a dick. Being a whiny bitch over people taking loss of life seriously. They should tell him to go fuck himself. What he's doing is purely politics in hopes it helps the criminal in the White House. Almost makes you wonder what the story is, because you just know there's a very controversial one waiting to be revealed about this guy's antics as of late, and why he's been blasting the Trump message so hard. Oh well, bring on November.
 

xrnzaaas

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oh oh I found this posh location in LA as well..

They have a strange defition of a 'beautiful home' up there in LA. ;)
 

PSYGN

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How many of his employees are just going to up and move to another state though? I doubt they are going to want to leave Cali. It just sounds like an empty threat to me.

I think a lot of people wouldn't mind leaving Cali especially seeing what they can afford in these states in comparison. Toyota HQ moved to Plano, Texas and enough employees moved to where it affected median housing prices in the area. And when you consider that this is a new automobile company worth more than Ford and GM combined, I think there is a sense of pride and future opportunities in the company beyond the disgruntled employees that get the limelight. People follow that.
 
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Tesseract

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This guy just plain seems like a dick. Being a whiny bitch over people taking loss of life seriously. They should tell him to go fuck himself. What he's doing is purely politics in hopes it helps the criminal in the White House. Almost makes you wonder what the story is, because you just know there's a very controversial one waiting to be revealed about this guy's antics as of late, and why he's been blasting the Trump message so hard. Oh well, bring on November.
you seethe y bubble, mate
 

V4skunk

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This guy just plain seems like a dick. Being a whiny bitch over people taking loss of life seriously. They should tell him to go fuck himself. What he's doing is purely politics in hopes it helps the criminal in the White House. Almost makes you wonder what the story is, because you just know there's a very controversial one waiting to be revealed about this guy's antics as of late, and why he's been blasting the Trump message so hard. Oh well, bring on November.
You are in the minority comrade.
Trump is 100% guaranteed to have a second term.
 

Max_Po

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HA, you haven't been to Houston... 400 grand will get you a mini mansion.

LA

oh oh I found this posh location in LA as well..

Houston

Dam, that LA pad is slightly above ghetto level.
 

oagboghi2

Member
Seeing California reap the rewards of their own excesses provides schadenfreude.

Realizing that a bunch more mind-virused CA residents will relocate to Texas as a result of this, vote exactly the same, and with zero self-awareness, provides worry.

I wonder if Musk is just playing hardball for better treatment, though?
It's hardball. Musk had already been talking about moving major production out of Fremont. I believe the cybertruck production will be exclusively in Nevada. This is likely a attempt to get CA to allow him to start production again. He must be burning cash right now during the lockdown.

It makes sense for Tesla to expand to different areas, if only to improve their maintenance speeds
 

oagboghi2

Member
He must really want his employees to die to the virus for the sake of profit.
If he does open his factory back up, will you be hoping people get sick just for a cheap "Told ya so"

Do you worry about the grocery workers, transportation workers and fast food workers, etc etc who are also working right now?

Not everyone likes living on unemployment
 
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Elon is right. Everyone has given Tesla the Green light, but an Interim idiot who by chance is in charge of the County is stopping them is ridiculous.
 

drganon

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HA, you haven't been to Houston... 400 grand will get you a mini mansion.

LA

oh oh I found this posh location in LA as well..

Houston
California real estate is fucking insane. 400 grand for that piece of shit?!
 

ManaByte

Member
Elon is right. Everyone has given Tesla the Green light, but an Interim idiot who by chance is in charge of the County is stopping them is ridiculous.

The Alameda City Council has no balls. They could force this person to rescind the order against Tesla and avoid a lawsuit, as these are unelected at-will employees. But they're dickless wonders for handing over so much power to an idiot.
 
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