• Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    At this point I expect to see them abandoned on the side of the road with a “Just take it” sign over the engine

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    Soon it can be scrapped for steel and you could make money off buying them.

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      Right? Who knew that making a product that half of the population wants to buy and then making your brand based around the exact half of the population that lives in contempt of this product instead was a bad idea?

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    I wonder if someone breaking it and collecting insurance money from it would end up being the preferred option over selling it.

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    For its part, Tesla has been trying to boost its image with the help of President Trump. On Monday, the president took to the South Lawn of the White House to promote Tesla’s cars, apparently buying one despite having campaigned on an explicitly anti-electric vehicle platform.

    Somehow, I don’t think MAGA cult will buy electric vehicles in quantities needed to offset even a fraction of people who used to buy Tesla.

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      Half of them are broke as fuck and the other half are heavily invested in oil company stocks. Elon made a poor choice of allegiance.

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        A portion also associate EVs and their ilk with environmentalists, and would probably not buy one even if their very lives depended on it.

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      Well if they make a Cybertruck 2 that’s lifted and looks like the Dildozer, they might have a new market. It’ll get 50 miles per-charge, but it’ll intimidate their neighbor’s kid, so it’s worth the $380,000 price tag (financed, of course).

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        The GMC Hummer EV Pickup Truck has entered the chat.

        205-kWh capacity battery [three times the size in a crossover], still gets only 275 miles [2023 version].

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      I don’t think the MAGA Cult can even AFFORD electric vehicles, I mean, shit I know I can’t.

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      Imagine the CEO of Browning or American Rifles helping Joe Biden pick out a new gun from a display in the state dining room.

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        The difference is Biden is a gun owner. So at least it would be buying a product he actually has. There has been incidents referencing him and his wife having at least a shotgun (so 2+ guns)

        With Trump hating on electric cars like he had for so long, and not knowing how to drive, it’s a bit different.

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            Many families don’t throw away guns, they pass them down. So antiques are a plenty as well. Being that his dad was born in 1915, it’s very likely they have guns from before WW1 around.

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      which is great, because it will increase the chance that tesla will go down and with that elon musk.

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      Eh…put a lift kit, USA flag wrap, and a smoke machine on the cyber truck and they’d double sales.

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    For its part, Tesla has been trying to boost its image with the help of President Trump.

    Yeah, that’s part of the problem, Elon.

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    Same people proudly claiming the market is self regulating shocked when the market responds to them being openly fascist cunts.

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      Volkswagen did okay. Mind you, only after Hitler’s empire had collapsed and Hitler himself had eaten a bullet.

      Elon, if you’re listening…

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        I can’t wait till the whole lot of these billionaire parasites get what’s coming to them. They are a plague on humanity.

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            They are currently doing their damnedest to collapse the US economy, it’s entirely possible that a simple recession let alone a depression could collapse the federal government. This would make their billions monopoly money and make them easy pickings, the ravens would feast.

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          Geez … easy, bro.

          We’re not saying you can’t enjoy it, alright! But if you start perving on the violence, don’t think we’re not gonna take notice, okay?

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        Not a call to violence, but while correlation doesn’t mean causation… Well.

        History rhythms and we’re impatient for the verse to end.

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        Nazi car has Nazi reputation

        I’m happy to hear that the free world denounces Nazis and Nazi products

        Not seeing the issue with that post.

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          Then why is THAT comment deleted. Just trying to squash the conversation.

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            What are you going on about? He was banned for trolling, and standard SOP for most mods dealing with trolls is to delete all their content (with a single click).

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                Be a mod. Deal with trolls on a regular basis. At some point you too with have absolutely no desire to scroll through their history filled with insults and ragebait to judge each and every comment individually. Confirmed troll? Check. Nuke all comments from said user. Done.