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DOGE Officially Shuts Down as Trump Administration Ends Government Efficiency Office (townflex.com)
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[–] 189 points 4 months ago (56 children)

At this point, if you drive a Tesla, I have a real hard time not thinking you like Nazis who hate freedom and minorities. 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (13 children)

    Ugh yeah, I'm an Uber driver and it being a cheap EV that also qualifies for comfort rides would really make my life better but I just can't support the Nazi. I'm kinda jazzed about the slate truck, but I'm sure it's bad for leftists someway somehow. Living under the thumb of capitalism is tough

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    slate truck, but I’m sure it’s bad for leftists someway somehow

    I'm not familiar with it. But what's its front-on visibility like? How many children can sit in a line in front of it before you can see them? How tall would someone have to be before a crash results in someone being knocked over the car, rather than being run over? (The former being generally much safer.) The problem with many of these types of vehicles that Americans call "trucks" is that their insanely tall bonnets make them insanely dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists—especially children.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It seems like it's slightly lower profile than a Ford Maverick and doesn't seem to employee the sloped hood shape that's better when it's between the 30in-40in range. Which it doesn't appear to be in. I'm kind of leaning towards the ionique? Ionic? The Hyundai. The other issue I'm working with is that I have a tall frame and sitting in a sedan all day is pretty uncomfortable which makes driving longer hours intolerable. Knock on wood I haven't hit any pedestrians but I do do a lot of driving and it's entirely possible that's because of driving a sedan where I can see. It is a worthwhile consideration. But it would be nice. So many considerations

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    slightly lower profile than a Ford Maverick

    Just looking at the Maverick online, it seems a fairly obscenely tall bonnet in the 2022 models, but older models are much more reasonable.

    ionique? Ionic

    I think it's spelt Ioniq. They're a brand I quite like, and looking at their recent lineup (I think the last time I looked at them was like 2021), the Ioniq 3, 5, and 7 all seem really good. The 9 stretches things a bit, but is still a hell of a lot better than the Maverick 2022.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    You should do just the most basic research to understand how prejudgemental you are being. 👍

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  • [–] 32 points 4 months ago* (15 children)

    At least if someone drives a brand-new Tesla. I can kinda sympathise a little bit with people who bought theirs a couple of years ago before Elmo's antics became really obvious and are now struggling to get rid of it.

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  • [–] 36 points 4 months ago (14 children)

    I give a pass to most Tesla's because I don't know much about cars. The cyber dumpster drivers knew full well who he was before buying their Swasticars, and they get to see my social finger at every opportunity.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago

    Also, the cybertruck is objectively garbage on every front.

    It failed at its original design, it failed at its current design, it failed at range, it failed at tow capacity, and more. It is objectively the worst vehicle in the sector it's trying to claim it is in.

    Subjectively...fuck all of it.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (12 children)

    I stopped giving a pass to most Tesla driver a couple of months ago when I realized they've all had plenty of time to sell their cars

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    If Subaru starts committing genocide, selling my car now isn't going to hurt them, only me.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Let's go through a list of products you use and see how many are created by evil people. Very easy game to play.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Selling a Tesla to another owner solves nothing, now you have a new owner you are hounding to sell it

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    The next person could unwitting buy it not knowing the elon Nazi thing. I think you over estimate the general publics awareness of what goes on.

    It solves nothing. Future sales should be the target.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    My car is 8 years old and paid off. I’m sorry we didn’t have many options 8 years ago and we didn’t know who he was. I’m glad I have an EV now because gas is crazy and my electricity is $0.13/kWh vs $5.50 for gas, even though I barely drive it since I live in a city now and take public transit, but my wife uses it to drive to work. I am not going to buy another tesla if we ever need another car.

    But there’s no point in selling a car that we use at a loss right now. I don’t give him any money besides long distance trips with the superchargers, but every new EV uses the Tesla super chargers now.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Sell at a loss

    You'll never not sell a car at a loss

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Um where have you been? With chip shortage and supply chain issues the dealers were phoning people up and offering more than they paid to get cars back.

    A friend drove a van for 2 years and dealer bought it back over new price. . Used cars have been crazy prices too. A car you'd have paid $1800 for 6 years ago is now $6000 even with six years more

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (13 children)

    I bought mine before he went crazy. He has tweets after I purchased bragging about scoring high on lgbtq equality. Further, mine has lifetime free supercharging. The longer I have it the more I cost tesla money.

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  • [–] 29 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    He was always a shitty person. Even in his adolescence.

    He made fun of his classmate because his classmates father committed suicide. That classmate responded by shoving him down the stairs. Which honestly should have happened more.

    He was always rotten to the core.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    That may be, but that wasn't really well known then. Hell I haven't heard anything you claimed above until now.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Behind the Bastards did a segment on him about 7 or so years ago, which is how I found out about how shitty he was when he was younger.

    This article I found on the stairwell incident:

    https://www.news24.com/business/economy/elon-musk-made-hurtful-comment-to-fellow-pupil-who-left-him-hospitalised-father-says-20220602

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    He was calling a heroic cave rescuer "pedo guy" for daring to beat him to rescuing children before his cool submarine was built... 8 years ago. And people back then weren't surprised how awful that was, because it had already been well publicized how fucking awful he is.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    He has always had some pretty shitty opinions about things and a shitty way of doing business. Tesla was basically stolen by Musk from the guys who founded it, then he tried to rewrite Tesla history and label himself as the soul founder, at which point the actual founders had to sue him to maintain their founder status, and that was all in 2009, so unless you tell me that you bought the Roadster in 2008, I have a really hard time believing you. Or you're one of those people that don't care about things until it's literally shoved in your face. But I digress. Sure you didn't know.

    But what's stopping you from selling the one you have now, since you do know, now?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Tesla Roadster was just a Lotus with a retrofit electric motor. Without Elons cash they wouldn't have become what they are today. In effect he helped found a viable production car instead of staying as an aftermarket retro fit of another manufacturers car.

    He's an absolute asshole douche, but I'm glad he brought Tesla to where it is, it forced all other ICE manufacturers to take EVs seriously.

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