• Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
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    10 days ago

    The American consumer is a fucking idiot, this has a high chance of success as people forget about Elon and go back to buying them.

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      9 days ago

      I mean, in fairness, do we have any qualms with the rest of the company? Elon was directly responsible for pretty much all of the cyber truck decisions. But the regular Tesla’s, aside from Elon prohibiting lidar and making false claims about self driving, are pretty decent. Without him, lidar might get implemented, the cyber truck will probably be scrapped, and real engineers will have their voices heard again.

      Isn’t that kind of what we want from a company? To realize their errors and remove the cancerous parts?

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        9 days ago

        They’re overvalued in the triple multiples compared to other American car companies because they’re a meme stock and halfway ran on government subsidies we paid for rather than putting it into education or social causes.

        A step in the right direction isn’t good enough when there’s miles to tread.

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          9 days ago

          A step in the right direction isn’t good enough when there’s miles to tread.

          So all or nothing? Then you’ll get nothing.

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        9 days ago

        He will still have a shitload of shares. I don’t need to get into the nitty-gritty detail of whether I hate the company or its products; his stock in it is what allowed him to buy the election for Trump, so fuck Tesla.

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          9 days ago

          But did Tesla facilitate that or was Tesla worn like a puppet by an investor(Elon). There’s a distinct difference and what I’m asking. Do we blame every company that gets gutted by Venture Capitalists? Do they have no path to redemption?