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A full-page ad in the Sunday editions of the Washington Post and The New York Times urged Tesla CEO Elon Musk to "dump Trump."
The ads were paid for by a startup investor named Doug Derwin. The longtime Silicon Valley resident told CNNMoney he shelled out $400,000 to run ads in the Times and the Post, as well as the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News.
It's the latest step in Derwin's $1 million bid to convince Musk he's failing environmentalists. He calls it "Elon Dump Trump."
Derwin said he didn't want to launch the campaign at first. Back in January, he was eagerly awaiting the arrival of his Tesla (TSLA) Model S electric car.
But as his Tesla was about to be delivered, Derwin said he caught wind of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's decision to walk away from Trump's business advisory council, which Kalanick served on with Musk. Kalanick had previously defended his working relationship with President Trump, but public pressure mounted in the wake of the president's immigration order.
That's a lot of money allocated to deprive Trump of ostensibly good advice.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @08:07AM (3 children)
You don't make the world a better place by sitting around huddling in safe spaces with approved people with approved views. That's how you create wars as you become more radicalized and your 'opposition', now devoid of neutralizing forces comparably radicalizes themselves. If you want positive change you do exactly what Musk is doing or what an astronaut recently did [youtu.be] (5:44) in Trump's call to the ISS. He, out of nowhere, started emphasized international cooperation and gave some great examples of all the things we're doing together that make us greater as a people and even as a nation.
This isn't going to make Trump suddenly go about face, and it shouldn't. It's okay for people to disagree. The role people like Musk, or the astronaut, play is to present information and ideas that help prevent Trump from being surrounded by an echo chamber of insiders and sycophants. You know, diversity of thought instead of just diversity of looks. I think it's sad people are breaking themselves up into echo chambers so much. Post 'inconvenient' data or facts that lean against the groupthink on e.g. Reddit and you're likely to be banned from discussion, be it of conservative or liberal bias. People need to understand that the way we start to work together is working together, even when we continue to disagree with one another.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @01:19PM (2 children)
Nope, sorry, your side went too far when it started religious objectioning to providing health care.
Not all of us are lesbians who sleep with guys for kids and have sympathetic stories that make great fake news.
Some of us are SOL when you go "religious objection" out of the blue when 2 YEARS AGO YOU HAD NO GODDAMNED PROBLEM WITH TAKING MY MONEY AND PROVIDING HEALTHCARE.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @03:22PM
Case in point. Because my views aren't the standard groupthink, I'm immediately labeled as the 'other side.' You seemingly can't even conceive of somebody wanting to work with Trump or thinking what Reddit is doing is bad unless I'm a Alex Jones listening, Fox News watching, bible thumping 'good ole boy.' Get out of the echo chambers and, more importantly, grow up. This sort of political insularity is the reason Trump is president today and we're likely looking at 8 years of him.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @06:10PM
Fertility is not a disease. Birth control is not medical care. Get your own damn birth control, have a kid, or just stop fucking.
Pregnancy is not a disease. You're a sick fuck if you want to kill your own baby. The least you can do is pay the hit-man (murderous supposed "doctor") yourself.