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solardev 10 hours ago

Every big company lobbies politically, usually on both sides of the aisle. And their employees often make their own campaign bribes too. And to some extent they will all do some virtue signaling (supporting their choice of LGB/trans/law enforcement/women/2nd amendment/minorities/whatever). Most of that is just whatever... people shop at Amazon, Home Depot, Meta, Google, Chick-filet, Walmart, Hobby Lobby, whatever, and they all have their values...

But... very very few of those companies are led by an outspoken unfiltered CEO with their own social media. Even Zucky doesn't go way out of his way to broadcast his political agenda on his social media platforms. Musk is unique in that way. And Musk has also flip-flopped somewhat, from being somewhat liberal (though barely) in the past to being burned by California politics and then shifting ultra-right these days. So people who bought their Tesla thinking he was a liberal or at least neutral, well, they're stuck with their cars even after Musk changed his tune.