• Singletona082@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Good.

    Say what you will about faceless corps, but toyota won’t send some jackass out a the public face to do sieg hail, and be the gleeful butcher of government programs.

    You have to be nestel levels of horrific before it breaks out of the corporate bubble.

    • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      So? You subsidised him since forever.
      Not a peep when he demanded to keep his factories open in full Covid times or plenty more scummy things.
      Only when he became a Trumper he was no longer great papa Elon for half of you.

      • houstoneulers@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        What makes you think I wasn’t verbally critical of him? I was telling ppl that were praising him that he seemed to virtue signal and seemed shady back in 2017. I was told I was looking too much into it. But in retrospect…

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          1 month ago

          OK I was generalising.
          Nothing in your comment says you aren’t be one of those who simply don’t like him NOW.
          Statistically more chance of that since all I saw for years was cringe papa elon, big brain Tony Stark bootlicking while it was indeed clear for anyone to see what a douche he was (not visibly fascist tho).
          But Americans love their oligarch heroes.
          Most people still think Bill Gates is a great philanthropist, while he is also an awful person with a more acceptable personality and image.

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            1 month ago

            Tim Urban put his established “accessible intellectual blogger” credibility behind some truly convincing pro-Musk propaganda pieces on Wait But Why back in ~2015 or so, which at the time were inspiring and felt very believable for people searching for signs of an improving future. For me, Musk fell hard from that grace during the Thailand cave rescue when he attacked that British caver in the most absolutely childish way. I really resent that Urban hasn’t gone back to readdress those old blog posts, but maybe he’s just another paid shill.

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    1 month ago

    Well I don’t want to celebrate in advance, Model Y facelift just released, let’s hope this trend continues and doesn’t show a reversal.

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    1 month ago

    Tesla is a meme stock in the disguise of a car company. It being down 30% means little, if anything volatility is good for big market players. Allows them to fleece more people. In a month Trump will announce a big tesla contract and it’ll go back up.

    Or so I tell myself because pessimism is easier to live with.

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    1 month ago

    In shorttime growth in a billion company…this is poisioness for tesla…elon all te blame…reminder of history is bad this company must be wiped out

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      1 month ago

      Not really. The UK is very anti-Musk and very anti-Trump.

      Ireland and the UK being the only ones to grow is likely due to the way Tesla delivers Right-Hand Drive cars - they deliver them as one large batch each quarter rather than constantly trickling them out like LHD cars.

      If you look at UK and Irish sales figures across multiple months, they swing between being up and down, depending on when RHD shipments come. Overall Tesla is down (and the UK even before Musk’s recent actions bought far fewer Tesla cars than France or Germany)