New York Moves to Shutter Tesla Dealerships in Blow to Musk
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New York Senator Patricia Fahy used to be on Tesla’s side until Elon Musk joined forces with Trump.

Lawmakers in New York state are moving to shut down Elon Musk’s Tesla dealerships in yet another blow to the billionaire CEO.

New York State Sen. Patricia Fahy and other lawmakers are fighting to remove a waiver that allows Tesla to operate five in-person dealerships in New York, instead forcing the company to sell their vehicles through dealer franchises, The New York Times reported Sunday.

“No matter what we do, we’ve got to take this from Elon Musk,” Fahy said in March when she first introduced the bill against Tesla. “He’s part of an effort to go backwards.”

She wants the company to relinquish its 5 licenses and instead distribute them to other EV manufacturers, such as Rivian, Scout Motors, and Lucid.

  • fake_meows@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Reverse cause and effect. Wake up. They are already dismantling DEI and citizenship and due process and the courts and on and on. Now it’s your move in response.

    They have gotten this far precisely because of the lack of spine in their opponents. They are absolutely leveraging tolerance and a rules based ordered retreat from people who don’t believe what they believe.

    If you aren’t a bigot, racist or Nazi, they expect passivism, banging on powerless law books and some nasty bumper stickers as a response.

      • fake_meows@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        But why do you want to attack Musk though?

        Are you mad because he cheats on his taxes or his wives? We should probably broadcast that our only problem is with his taxes. That would be a better way, right? Like, dont call him out morally, tolerate that and just look for a legal case?

        Do you see the problem?

          • fake_meows@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            So how come you think it wouldn’t be a very good piece of public policy to be crystal clear and honest about that?

            Like why can’t the state say: “we are not subsidizing this business with taxpayer money any more, because of their ethics”?

            You can make a legal case against Tesla for accounting or SEC violations or tax fraud…but that’s not taking a moral stand.

                  • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee
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                    2 days ago

                    I know what that is and it’s not relevant.

                    I disagree and think that it is. By explicitly stating that they are targeting Tesla within New York because of Elon Musk and his connection to the company there is a statement being made that they will no longer tolerate that behavior and the attempts to harm the country and the democracy by Elon Musk and that they will defend against his intolerance with whatever means they can.

                    When you’ve tried to use reason, when you’ve tried to work within the systems that are in place to deal with a bully and those systems have failed you and the bully is refusing to listen to reason then you reach a point where you just have to punch them in the nose.