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[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 55 points 22 hours ago

Fuck Tesla fuck El卐n Musk

[–] chandlerbung@lemmy.cafe 25 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Now let's start seeing people cancel SpaceX contracts and go elsewhere. Really hit him where it hurts.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I know I certainly won't be buying any SpaceX rockets. I'll stick to the ones I can get at Michael's. 😤

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 20 points 22 hours ago

Never go full Nazi.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

How did they get away with that? One would assume a contract was in force. Was there an ,"no fash CEO" clause? Kind of an important item the story doesn't bother to cover.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 17 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Contracts basically always have conditions for each party to back out. There's probably a break fee but for leased vehicles it's probably not that significant.

As a construction company, the Tesla fleet is probably a pretty small portion of their vehicle fleet and cashflow.

Could also be some kind of 'bringing the business into disrepute' clause there.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 7 points 21 hours ago

I reckon online feedback like "fuck this Tesla driving bunch of fascist assholes" would be as big a PR nightmare for the company as its proving for tesla.

[–] XnxCuX@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

The US is one of the few countries that would side with Tesla on this. American company or not