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This will have very little effect on SF in the long-term 😂🤣 All of their staff that was here are going to stay here - they’re not going to follow fucking X to whatever ass-backwards state Musk chooses

So, to recap:

  • we have a huge office that will eventually bring in another major company,
  • the area keeps all of its best talent, and
  • we get rid of the grifter that regularly refuses to pay their rent/lease, taxes, and insurance bills?

Hell yeah, of course this is a win.

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whatever ass-backwards state Musk chooses

Pretty sure he’s headed to Texas.

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94 points

the king of back-assward states

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Florida Man would like a word with you.

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I think you mean teXas 😂

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They’re actually just moving people to their existing San Jose and Palo Alto offices, not even leaving California!

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10 points

I can’t wait until it goes blue this November and 49% of the state collectively whines about it for 4+ years.

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Don’t blueball me like that.

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As a native Texan, this shit just keeps piling up and I cannot be more stoked. They’re so close to flipping our state.

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At one point they were only keeping the desperate H-1B visa workers. I don’t know if that’s still the case, or how many of those workers are Asian or South Asian, but they might not want to move to whatever anti-woke place Musk wants to put X next.

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I imagine most of whoever is left at Twitter is on a visa, so yeah, they probably will follow Musk wherever he says to go. The alternative is people rip their families away from their homes that they’ve probably built over the years and move back to their old country.

Now, if Biden were to grant the power to protect re-employment to other companies for those on L visas, Musk is probably utterly fucked.

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The alternative is people rip their families away from their homes that they’ve probably built over the years and move back to their old country.

Musk is very anti-remote-work, so they have to do this anyway. Moving to Texas is only slightly less jarring than moving back to their home country which, in my experience, most people on visas visit regularly anyway.

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Anyone hardcore enough to still be working at that dumpster fire is there for the long haul, they will follow Formerly Twitter in to the gates of hell, seemingly.

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I’m guessing some of them (if on work visas) don’t have a lot of mobility. That doesn’t mean they will be as productive as someone else. Seeing colleagues go to other companies and being treated better on day one has a toll on worker morale.

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All of their staff that was here are going to stay here - they’re not going to follow fucking Xitter

At this point, for how he treated his employees, we can assume that most of the ones left are visa hostages that would be deported the day after being fired or incompetent people that faked their way to the spot and can’t find another job that pays the same. Or musk stans, but he fired even that simp that slept in the office floor in order to be more “productive”.

They are trapped and follow him everywhere

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Depends on the visa, but usually you get a grace period to find another job. Not a walk in the park but no one is getting auto-deported either.

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Its weird Peter Thiel hasn’t followed him. Both of them are just awful, you’d think they’d synergize

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Yeah, it’s not a big deal, but it shows or starts a trend.

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Of? Companies leaving CA due to liberal laws? That’s kinda been CA’s thing since forever.

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Another lemmy echo chamber… It’s pointless to show another kind of opinion. And I’m not far right or anything. I don’t even care about US politics.

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“Turn around!” they begged him, as he strode slowly towards the desert sun, but he knew enough of Lot and of Orpheus, that it would only bring them ruin if he did. So heavy was his heart, that he glanced back with melancholy love, and thus the fair city of San Francisco turned to salt. He kept on walking into that desert sun, a heavy heart keeping him anchored to calls of vultures naysaying his poor sense of direction…

~Honestly good riddance to both. I have never seen more narcissists in my life than I have in SF.~

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Rich people really seem to think that them just having shitloads of money in a location makes that place better. I’m a midwesterner and even I know San Francisco has serious issues from how in about a generation or two it went from a working class industrial and military city to home of several of the wealthiest companies and filled with enough upper working class people to skyrocket cost of living.

So to Elon, don’t bring X to my city either

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And they are now bringing that problem to Texas. Along with a bunch of liberals.

Good. Texas is a big enough state it should be blue.

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Yeah I think he is expecting an Atlas Shrugged moment. where everything collapses as the intellectuals (him) walk away from the foolish socity.

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It’s funny, I just finished Atlas Shrugged and it’s crazy how Ayn Rand got it wrong about those who can “do” must also have the highest moral standards.

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4 points

Reading some interviews with her and she does seem to think money makes right.

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An extension of the Philosopher-King ideology

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The fucking sink joke! Lol

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Bye Nazi-toddler, don’t let our tolerance and diversity hit your ketamine addicted ass on its way out, you piece of human garbage.

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He’s addicted to ketamine? I would’ve guessed cocaine

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I believe the quote I read from someone who knows him was something like “He microdoses ketamine daily, and macrodoses at parties”

I wonder if he pisses his pants yet? He must have K bladder by now, unless there is some super rich people secret to avoid it.

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Wow, because of your comment I’ve googled ketamine bladder and now I can’t consider K as a relatively safe drug anymore.

20 - 90 % of users got irreversible urinal tract ulceration and significantly reduced functional bladder capacity.

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I have no doubts that he frequently does that, as well as other controlled substances. But it’s okay for him to abuse drugs; he’s rich and powerful after all! Though it would be interesting to see his head under an MRI with T2 and see how many Olney’s lesions he has.

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T2? As in the spin relaxation time?

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Well now when some rando on the internet told you otherwise, you know better :D

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I hate that ketamine has to be catching so many strays lately… Don’t blame K for this idiot.

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correction; as twitter prepares to be evicted for non payment of rent

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This is the real story, they ain’t choosin shit. They’re being kicked the fuck out. Elon takin tips from DonOld T

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Finally, NIMBYs everyone can get on board with

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YIMBY

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