Sue me for not wanting to enrich someone who spends their inhuman amount of wealth on advocating for everything I despise. Especially for something like a car that has competition.
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If you consider it crazy to fight fascism, maybe you are a fascist.
If my options are ripped off by a fascist or ripped off by not a fascist, then yes, I'll choose to be ripped off by not a fascist. The fuck kind of argument did you think you were making?
You're the one who injected "getting ripped off" into the discussion as some false dichotomy, so don't grandstand about how apparently anyone who doesn't support fascism is a sucker, you dolt.
Rich coming from the person trying to justify Tesla cars as not a ripoff when they're some of the worst shit to come out of North America in the past few decades, equipped with a ripoff self-driving technology that doesn't work even though it was promised to be coming as a fully fledged feature a decade ago, and which has been getting charged as a complete feature for just as long.
Maybe, just maybe, the ultra-billionaire fascist asshole who's hoarding wealth by inflating his companies' stock prices doesn't have his costumer's best interests in mind. I know, shocking, moral values kinda correlate with whether you're getting ripped off or not, its a crazy concept, and one that the MAGA folks so desperately think they understand but they sorely don't.
OP literally said there's much better deals anyways. You focused entirely on the financial aspect of the comment, when that was never what was being discussed. Its perfectly fine for people to, in addition to thinking about good or bad deals, think about the moral implications of their purchases. At no point did they say or imply that morality was the only or primary basis for a purchase regardless of value proposition.
Edit: don't assume I'm a fucking gringo, ew
No one said that. Teslas are a ripoff anyway, so why are you framing this like it's a choice between "support a fascist or get ripped off"? That's fucking inane.
It's crazy to you that someone would draw a line against supporting fascism? So if Elon released a decent product at a fair price, but was still an open neonazi, you would support him? Because having a moral stance guiding one's economic decisions makes one a rube?!?
Do you read and enjoy Ayn Rand or something?
Criticizing Musk for being a nazi doesn't preclude the other valid critiques such as Teslas being an overpriced and shitty product. That's a strawman that you've injected into the conversation.
You're just shifting goalposts, and I'm done with you. Bye.
I am leaving. You're just trying to sound clever
Logic isn't your strong suit, huh
The fascist is the one doing the ripping off.
I know people that still won't buy Mercedes (and some other brands - these same people don't look too closely into IBM, GM, Ford, etc., though.) because of what they were involved with approximately 80 years ago, regardless of whether they are a "good deal" or not.
He is a fascist and it’s also not a good deal so I dunno what point you’re trying to make.
Gotta learn to make a coherent point my guy.