• John Richard@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I get that you may be joking, but him being fearful someone may vandalize a vehicle in the city doesn’t equate to him making a wrong choice. Imagine Trump starts locking people up for refusing to bow to him and your dad says to you before you go to jail, “well you made the wrong choice.”

    Now, him helping support a billionaire fascist on the other hand indicates he made a bad choice. Did he buy it cause he is a Musk fan, or cause he likes the features?

    An unfortunate truth is that car manufacturers have been able to get away with doing very little. Tesla wouldn’t have been as successful as it is initially if other manufacturers had actually implemented descent tech. Simple things like descent quality integrated cameras that record are still missing on almost every other car.

    I would have loved a progressive to get elected and regulate the industry more to require car manufactures form some sort of working group to make various components an open standard.

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      If you bought a Tesla in like 2017 because you wanted an EV and are now just stuck with it because it’s a worthless piece of explosive batteries and plastic and nobody wants it, I feel sorry for you. But if you bought a Tesla at any point in the last few years, then yeah, you deserve to be too scared to even leave your house knowing what sort of person you gave money too.

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        6 hours ago

        You are describing fascist behavior. You’re suggesting that people should be motivated to do what you want politically by fear of what your people will do to them if they don’t.

      • Flames5123@sh.itjust.works
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        A Tesla bought in 2017 isn’t worthless or more explosive than an ICE. The cyber truck is wayyy more explosive/dangerous than the older teslas. My 2018 Model 3 is still going strong. Since I’ve already paid off the auto loan, there’s no point in selling it until it completely breaks down, which could be like another 10 years. No point in wasting money when Elmo isn’t getting any of it since I mostly use home charging.