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It’s telling that Tesla’s largest market share loses are occurring in foreign markets where BYD is allowed to compete.

If the falls were actually caused by Musks antics you would expect the inverse, with a larger effect in the US and attenuated effects in countries less invested in US politics.




If you assumed all markets were equally annoyed with the antics you'd expect more of an impact where it's easy to switch to something else.


Other countries don’t care about US politics as much as Americans think they do.

Especially non-English speaking countries.


Elon is the world’s richest man, not just the states’, and he has been meddling in the politics of other nations such us Germany and the UK.


Musk promoted AfD and Reform and Meloni and various Irish far-right micro-parties, and presumably other European far-right parties, and did a Nazi salute on stage. And threatened Poland and Ukraine, and is part of a regime which is pushing a trade war with Europe. Like, I'm not sure why you think he's just a factor in US politics.




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