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Speaking of the mirror worlds, I was just going to talk about Tesla, but now like the Mirror

World is a perfect transition to Elon Musk, right?

Because he went from Clean Energy Crusader and Electric Car forerunner to Right Wing Troll.

So one of the examples from from these articles is like there's just a couple subtle mentions.

One of the first articles we talked about just says, want to quote, unlock

your Tesla's full battery life,

question mark?

And you're like, how is it that a battery life

is not just what it is?

But no, in 2016, that costs an $3,250.

And then this article says, in 2017,

just one year later, when Hurricane Irma threatened Florida, the company pushed an update that temporarily increased battery life for owners for vehicles within reach of the storm.

Tesla was praised at the time, but people like the over customers. The carmaker simply lifted an arbitrary software restriction

on a physical battery that was otherwise used to create two different price points for

consumers and so they say like yeah you know this can all work out great if you have a

benevolent dictator but what happens if they decide to turn the screws on you and increase the

prices and your car stops working or whatever and like

like Elon Musk's transition over the last five years is you know all the evidence

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