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The electric vehicle industry is closely watching to see how Tesla boss Elon Musk, who played a key role in the victory of Republican President-elect Donald Trump, will use his influence with the incoming president to steer the industry's future.

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[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 64 points 6 days ago

"Use his influence" = get what he paid tens of millions in bribes for

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

It doesn't matter that he has several hundred billion more votes than anyone. Money is speech bro. Legalized bribery is democracy. Well it was. Now fascism and dictatorship are democracy. That's called Freedom™️!

[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago

Money is power/influence, that has always been the case. Not sure why you felt the need to put that in quotes as if it wasn't universally applicable.

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 7 points 6 days ago

I was quoting the article.

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

You misspelled 44 billion dollar.

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