A swastikar will park in front of my house when I get groceries on Sunday and I HATE IT. I don't want anyone thinking that's our dumpster or going to vandalize it and accidentally hit my sweet cute lil car. 🤬
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The only reason I'd be caught driving a tesla is if it had a completely true bumper sticker that said "I bought it after he blew his brains out."
50k is way too expensive for a car in 2025.
BYD sells theirs for 12k.
Bring them to the US or compete you fucking nepobaby fascists.
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“car company discounts car” is not a news story. “Fucking Nazi car company discounts car” sort of is.
But they didn't discount the car, just the finance rate, so yeah, not a news story.
If they use in-house financing (which most car companies do) they're still losing money overall. And it is indicative that they're feeling the squeeze so that's nice to know.
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The fact he dismantled all the agencies overlooking tesla safety weighs in to his overtime fascism.
Even if replaced as CEO and fully diverted from Tesla, I don't think I could trust their safety going forward.
He thought he could be Henry Ford, but Ford was a bit less overt in his Nazism. And, it should be remembered, Ford almost destroyed the company before being forced out by his own family. There are downsides to one man being the image the public has of a company.
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I put the reason for this in song..."Nazi, nazi, bo-botsy-ko-banna-fanna-fo-fawtsy-fe-fi-moe-motsy...nazi!".
Wow.. it's crazy. I was just thinking about it and honestly I don't think I'd drive a Tesla if it was given to me with a bow on the roof. That's some serious brand implosion right there.
Also, I know of at least one company in my area (where a friend of mine works) who used to have a Tesla fleet for their employees and who have all been switched to Polestars now.
I might take it apart and put the innards in my 85 Bluebird for fun. But it's probably DRM'd so who knows when it'll kill itself. It'd be like driving an HP printer - get in one day and the bastard will say PC LOAD LETTER, or more contemporary, "Problem with the ink system."
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The Tesla brand is dead to me. In 2018 I wanted a Tesla EV but when in came time to buy a new car (2024), I got a BMW instead. In 2018 I wanted a Tesla Powerwall but I just bought a Jackery system instead. Between the two, that's well over $100k lost to Tesla from that purchase. Countless more given that I will never buy anything Tesla ever. I won't even ride an Uber/Lyft if the driver is on a Tesla.
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Yeah bruh, I am in the market for an EV to replace my old Camry. Zero chance I’d ever look at Tesla. Zero.
We just got a good deal on a used Kia Niro EV. Pretty happy with it so far.
Toyota makes excellent EVS. Also the Hyundai Ioniq 6 looks pretty hot.
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I'm trying to buy a car, Tesla hasn't been on the list for good reasons. A Kei truck is very tempting.
I dislike Slate based solely on the fact that their video has appeared at the top of my YouTube home page several times, even though I generally don't interact with videos about cars.
Point taken but it reminds me of an old proverb: hate not the player, as the game is that which should be despised.
I appreciate that it's the first different take on an EV or cars in general since, well, Tesla? The customizability options, low starting price, and they've done some fun marketing stunts so far. There may be plenty of reasons to be skeptical about it and perhaps it'll even flop or be ghostware, but (the option for) a non-fastback crossover SUV with physical buttons has me, again, hopeful.
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It's actually kind of tragic. Tesla would have been, no, should have been a key domestic EV maker. They should have been our global offering in a strategically important industry. But instead, they're rapidly becoming a pariah. And it's all because of one man. One terrible, terrible man.
This is a very, very important lesson that America MUST learn: just because someone is rich, that does not mean they are smart, or good, or trustworthy. Personality matters, a lot. I am certain that if Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning could go back, they would tell Mr. Musk "no thank you, we're not interested in your investment," even though they really needed the money. It wasn't worth it, it came with strings attached. Within just a few years of taking Musk's money, both men were forced out of the company, and Musk was well on his way to convincing millions of Americans that we was a super genius who singlehandedly invented the electric car.
In this country, we have not only tolerated megalomaniacal narcissists like Musk, we've celebrated them. That has to stop. Look at where it has gotten us. One of them is president now! If we don't learn from this, and start to see men like Trump and Musk as the disease that they are, we are doomed. If we don't get these men under control, they will control us.
He also forced some dumb features in the electric car...like the stupid door handles, and lack of buttons.
Full "self" driving that only uses cameras and nothing else such as radar/lidar.
"delete!"
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You have to KEEP TEACHING the lesson. Because when you’re 25 years older, and kids are just coming into the world, they don’t ‘get’ how bad it is. They just hear it. I heard all about how WWII went, who was bad who was good blah blah.
Look now, we have Gaza. Look now, we have Trump. AfD in Germany.
Where do you think we failed (globally)? Like, how have we (seemingly) made a 180 in just under 100 years?
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Except Tesla never made good cars. It was always clear that real car manufacturers will learn to make good EVs before Tesla learns to make good cars. For some time Tesla was supported by fans who could ignore major design flaws and investors looking for short term profits. Long term best case scenario for Tesla was always to just become another, normal car maker.
For a brief window Tesla was the only company making a "good" EV in that all their competition was making cars with sub 150 mile range (sometimes significantly so). Teslas have always been bad cars, but they were the best EV. Then all the other manufacturers finally got the memo that they couldn't keep ignoring the EV market and grudgingly made decent EVs which almost by default made Tesla the worst EV on the market.
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just because someone is rich, that does not mean they are smart, or good, or trustworthy
The richer someone is seems to correlate with the absence of one or more of those traits.
Don't need to be smart to be born into money, which is where basically all the richest have come from.
Don't need to learn to treat people with compassion if you can afford to entirely opt out of public society
Don't need to be trustworthy if you have enough to pay people to be around you.
Past a certain bank balance, a person loses their humanity.
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I think the education needs to go further. Being billionaire rich is in itself a huge red flag; and people having this much money should immediately cause people to distrust them on every level because nobody gets that rich from honest work, from paying their employees fairly, from caring about the environment and general wellbeing of mankind.
Being a billionaire should disqualify people from owning and/or having shares in any economical sector deemed essential to societal wellbeing, not to mention from holding any kind of public office or even from exercising any kind of political agenda at all. They're rich, they don't need representation. They actually can take care of themselves.
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