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[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 325 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (28 children)

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.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 128 points 2 months ago (7 children)

whatever ass-backwards state Musk chooses

Pretty sure he's headed to Texas.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 94 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the king of back-assward states

[–] JackDark@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Florida Man would like a word with you.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Texas is 50th in the US for quality of life. How they managed to be worse than the other Gulf states is baffling. Abbott and Paxton have managed to turn Texas into a raging dumpster fire. If Texas actually left the US, it probably wouldn't even be able to get a membership in BRICS.

[–] mazelado@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

For those who were also curious about a source for the claim that “Texas is 50th in the US for quality of life”: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/13/10-states-worst-quality-of-life-america.html

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jeez, Texas losing to Mississippi is embarrassing considering that by any measure it’s a failed state. The Jackson water crisis alone should have them scrambling on par with Michigan post Flint.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

To use an analogy, Mississippi will kick a puppy if it crosses its path Texas is outright looking for a puppy to kick.

[–] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

I think you mean teXas 😂

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

Don't blueball me like that.

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

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

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] Tacos_y_margaritas@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 months ago

He'll fit right in.

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