[skissane]

Tesla definitely benefits from its relationship with SpaceX - the Falcon Heavy maiden launch, Bob and Doug riding Teslas to the launch pad - those are the kind of positive brand stories that money can’t buy.

Nobody knows how Twitter under Musk will turn out. Some critics predict it will soon be a far right swamp no advertiser will want to have anything to do with. If they are right, Tesla’s association with Twitter stands to do it great harm. But if they are wrong, Tesla could benefit from its association with Twitter, much as it does from SpaceX. Musk is (surely) telling Tesla’s board and execs that having just paid billions for a firm, he isn’t about to alienate all its customers (the advertisers) - and the Tesla team is going to take his word for it.

[jh0486]

We always seem to forget that the majority of US citizens identify as conservative or moderate. Personally, I'm middle-left and found the endless hordes of far-left mobsters to be as equally unappealing.

It appears the country is finally trending back to moderate after the dumpster fire that was the last 7 years. Will companies continue to be hyper focused on political stances now that they're missing earnings? I think companies will leave the virtue signaling to the internet and get back thinking about how to maximize revenue. If people use the platform, and companies get click-through, I think they will advertise on it.

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[mijamo]

What does "moderate" mean in this context?

From an outside perspective both Biden and Obama have felt extremely moderate for instance.

[jh0486]

Great reply from someone else around generational shifts. That essentially answered this for me.

To give a troll response:

In the current context, I guess it means someone who doesn't live on the internet complaining about issues they do nothing about as if it does something tangible to change the real world.

[skissane]

Political labels only have meaning in the context of a given time and place. What’s moderate in one place and time can be extreme in another. What’s right-wing at one place and time can be left-wing at another. (And in both cases, the converse is also true.) Obviously the person you are replying to meant those terms in a contemporary US-centric context - a “moderate” in the US is likely to be a fair way to the “right” by the standards of some countries, and a fair way to the “left” by the standards of others.

[weberer]

It simply means the respondent checked the "moderate" checkbox when asked.

[coffeeblack]

Both Obama and Biden (and Bush) delivered a couple of wars to the military industrial complex to make trillions of dollars on. If you don’t deliver wars, the media will punish you. That’s what I learned from the past 20 years of U.S. politics.

[pjc50]

The public definitely wanted a war after 9/11. Being anti-war could get you cancelled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Chicks_controversy

[18pfsmt]

Indeed, the public did/does want war...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

[coffeeblack]

Just like today if you advocated for peace in Ukraine.

[pjc50]

Advocating for surrender in Ukraine will, because that will get a lot of civilians killed, but withdrawal of the aggressor won't. And yes, this is consistent, the US should never have fabricated its pretexts for the Iraq war.

[treeman79]

Both are radicals trying to pose as moderates.

Biden is just a puppet these days. Saying whatever’s he’s told to by handlers. That’s been his entire career. How he makes his money.