Seems like another way to avoid the death spiral trap Elon has set up for himself.<p>- Bought Twitter with Tesla stock as collateral<p>- Tesla faces falling EV sales and external competition<p>- Unionisation pressures, declining product quality, Elon losing his reach and audience's good graces<p>- Stock price falling too low can trigger a margin call on his loans<p>- Starts actual marketing, price cuts<p>- Price cuts chew into profits, stock falls<p>- Announces "real FSD" for 100th time<p>- Announces "robotaxis"<p>- Layoffs happening<p>While this might end up with a small bump in the price to avoid the margin calls, it might also end up being part of a downward spiral for Tesla in the end, depending on where and what they are cutting.<p>It would be unfortunate to see Tesla crash after everything due to his wish to buy Twitter and I think we might see him ousted in the following year or so. Before it was "Elon is Tesla's marketing driver so we can't kick him out", nowadays it seems way less so with him being more of a detractor.