You mean "When" not "If".
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Replace soap and Proctor and Gamble with Tesla and America respectively.
What he actually means:
"If the ship of Tesla goes down, I will take America with it."
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What he really means is that if Tesla is going to go down, he’s going to take America down with it.
Elon.
If you are on a ship... and there is some troublesome bullshit cargo that keeps throwing off the balance of the ship, in a storm, and that cargo is the property of an idiot who keeps trying to erect his own sail, despite have no clue what he is doing, no idea how sailing works...
You throw said dumbass and his bullshit overboard, so the ship and everyone else survives.
... Then, you mutiny against the idiot captain whos been bought and paid for by the other idiot who is currently fish food.
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Is that his first concern from said realization? Goddammit.
Yes, that is right after where he put his pills. 🤡
Translation : "If I can't keep stealing US taxpayers funds and funnel them into my companies, they won't be able to exist on their own merit."
At this point, it's pretty obvious his entire goal with DOGE was to dismantle federal agencies that were either investigating him in some way, or were trying to regulate his companies. So, I guess this means Tesla can't survive without him actively gaming the system in his favor.
Batshit druggie loser says some fucked up bullshit?
How odd
It is long past time for torches and pitchforks.
Do you mean thoughts and prayers, or rifles and windage?
Says the guy who helped drive the “Ship of America” into the iceberg.
This guy is so entirely up his own ass.
I swear the way he stumbles around his words disarms people to the fact that he straight up lies all the time.
My understanding is that's for warmth.
lol
That's surprisingly modest of him, I'd have thought he would have put it the other way around.
He probably meant to.
He’s not going to get any help from China.
Yeah they’ll probably just nationalize his factory over there at some point and hand it to BYD along with all of the software and IP they can snap up from any servers and devices that are in-country
From what I hear BYD is better than Tesla at this point. I think we've come to the time where China is reaching parity with us tech. I mean what do we have that they don't?
"Better" doesn't tell the whole story. There are hundreds if not thousands of different technologies involved in making an electric vehicle, from material selection for the frame to batteries to all the different components, software, conforming, etc. BYD cars may be overall superior to Tesla cars (I don't know if they are, both are above my budget) but that doesn't mean that there aren't two or three hundred little things that Tesla cars still do better.
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It is very, VERY far from being that simple. They are several decades behind the US and EU in jet turbine technology, for instance. And their chip foundries are definitely not considered bleeding edge. You have to go to SK and Taiwan for that. And part of Taiwan’s publicized defense policy is “we will melt our chip foundries to slag if the PRC invades”. Them being basically the best in the world at chip fabrication was a strategic investment (in a very literal geopolitical sense) that they began in the 70s and 80s.
Taiwan specializes in microchips, and China having to order chips from them isn't a big deal ... in terms of building/assembling an electric car.
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It's way past parity.