Elon Musk

[Thumpalumpacus]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

[Thumpalumpacus]

(Bold mine)

FAFO.

Boru

Business 101: avoid controversy. Stupid putz.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

(Bold mine)

FAFO.

Boru

Business 101: avoid controversy. Stupid putz.

Yup. The only thing investors hate more than uncertainty is controversy.

Boru

[AFTT47]

So simple and predictable too. Stay out of politics and everybody judges your product on its merits. Dive deep into politics and you turn off about 50% of them - regardless of what side you take. Such a no-brainer to not mix business with politics. It's a guaranteed loss.

[Pat Mustard]

So simple and predictable too. Stay out of politics and everybody judges your product on its merits. Dive deep into politics and you turn off about 50% of them - regardless of what side you take. Such a no-brainer to not mix business with politics. It's a guaranteed loss.

I think the foray into politics was because people were beginning to judge his companies based on their merits.

[Jackalope]

So simple and predictable too. Stay out of politics and everybody judges your product on its merits. Dive deep into politics and you turn off about 50% of them - regardless of what side you take. Such a no-brainer to not mix business with politics. It's a guaranteed loss.

I think the foray into politics was because people were beginning to judge his companies based on their merits.

If you judge the company based on its merits, its stock would trade at half or less of what it does.

[Fireball]

So simple and predictable too. Stay out of politics and everybody judges your product on its merits. Dive deep into politics and you turn off about 50% of them - regardless of what side you take. Such a no-brainer to not mix business with politics. It's a guaranteed loss.

I think the foray into politics was because people were beginning to judge his companies based on their merits.

OUCH! Yeah, verily.

[Rev. Rye]

So simple and predictable too. Stay out of politics and everybody judges your product on its merits. Dive deep into politics and you turn off about 50% of them - regardless of what side you take. Such a no-brainer to not mix business with politics. It's a guaranteed loss.

I think the foray into politics was because people were beginning to judge his companies based on their merits.

Apparently, it's because one of his kids started to transition. Admittedly, he was apparently always right-wing in private, but he became public once Vivian did.

[Rev. Rye]

So simple and predictable too. Stay out of politics and everybody judges your product on its merits. Dive deep into politics and you turn off about 50% of them - regardless of what side you take. Such a no-brainer to not mix business with politics. It's a guaranteed loss.

It depends; and it seems like especially if you're diving into left-wing poltics (and I mean "left-wing" in the loosest way possible, because the right tends to not grasp differences in ideas like Stalinism and saying that maybe putting immigrants into what may as well be death camps is something we shouldn't do), it can work out pretty well for you. Even from the right, at least as long as the right-winger in question doesn't understand things like "if you buy something just to destroy it, they still have your money."