Some owners would rather sell their car than be associated with Tesla now.
    • Ferroto@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I’d just park it in portland overnight and file an insurance claim the next morning.

    • JargonWagon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      But selling a used one to someone that wants an affordable EV will potentially turn someone from buying one brand new, and therefore keeping profits out of Little Musky’s pockets.

    • 4lan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I have sticker paper and a printer. Idk how I have resisted the urge…

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I’m not sure they’re going to be able to give those things away.

    Seems to me, at this point, this is a bit like owning anything with a swastika on it in 1946.

    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I feel bad for Nikola Tesla having his name associated with all this nonsense. Not even death let him escape from rich assholes taking credit for the work of others.

        • Cryptagionismisogynist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nikola-tesla-the-eugenicist-eliminating-undesirables-by-2100-130299355/

          The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. Several European countries and a number of states of the American Union sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not sufficient. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.

          Oof, that’s a tough read.

            • Cryptagionismisogynist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              7 months ago

              Eh, I don’t buy this. There were always dissenters and weirdos and people knew differently. There were trans pioneers. There were vegans. There were abolitionists. Not everyone was like that.

              Tesla wasn’t a biologist, let’s leave it at that. Humanity’s greatest biological strength is their adaptability, which requires variety. Eugenicism is inherently disadvantageous to humanity because it reduces their ability to adapt and respond to environmental threats. A counter to that would be E.O. Wilson, see Half Earth, a short read that emphasizes biodiversity.

              Eugenics only makes sense to cowardly people who are afraid of being treated how they would treat others. It’s a bad idea to Cavendish Banana Hapsberg people (oh and btw eugenics is deeply tied to incest kinks, see Elon and Trump).

              Again, this is thinking that is pretty intuitive if you aren’t bloodthirsty and pathetic

          • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
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            7 months ago

            I have read a number of comments from people with illnesses or other issues that are genetic, saying they don’t want to pass their problems onto the next generation.

            So, bizarrely enough, there is a certain amount of eugenics happening, it’s just purely voluntary.

  • Singletona082@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

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

  • zyberteq@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    That would be good for the EV conversion market. Since they use a lot of Tesla motors and battery packs.

  • Montreal_Metro@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 months ago

    While it’s nice to protest outside of the Tesla dealership, people should be protesting outside of US embassies, and while they are at it, protest outside of the Chinese and Russian embassies too. Block them in.

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Trump and musk couldn’t care less about protests outside embassies.

      The Tesla protests are hurting musk.

  • malloc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I shamefully admit I almost pulled the trigger on a Tesla Model S Plaid back in 2021 or 2022. Flush with a shit ton of cash, but fortunately I was reading reports of production build quality issues, many recalls, and ultimately pulled back my deposit.

    Looking back at it. The one decision I have no regrets on.

    • 13igTyme@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      That’s the part I never understood. Even if you weren’t a Musk fan boy and before Musk showed his true colors, Telsa has always, ALWAYS been shit quality. I remember back in 2015, or so, there was a video of someone finally getting their Telsa and it had a massive crack running the length of the driver side A-pillar, yet they just ignored it.

  • FackCurs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    What are your thoughts on doing a Nazi salute when seeing a cybertruck? Is it okay because we are mocking them? Or is it just never okay to do a Nazi salute?