Comment on Based tesla user???

lengau@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• lefixxx@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Your memory is faulty. Musk “was” a visionary savant that tried to advance humanity by making EV mainstream and advancing the mars mission. The facade dropped recently

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    July 16, 2018. That’s when Musk called that rescue work a pedophilia.

    That’s when his antics couldn’t be hand waved as eccentric or trolling. The rumors that he was a shitty boss weren’t back up yet, he was still pro-LGBT and he had renewed public interest in space travel after the shuttles were retired.

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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But Tesla was popular before that. In 2012, Tesla was the only EV that didn’t completely suck.

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      • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Its honestly blown my mind that it’s taken this long to get something that’s even somewhat competitive with the Tesla’s.

        Like a Model 3 is $35k, has a near perfect safety score, can go like ~360 miles on a charge, and is a 4 door sedan.

        Let’s look at some competitors why don’t we?

        • BMW i3 has a 4 star rating, gets like ~300 miles range, and costs $60k
        • Honda Prologue does have a 5 star rating, but it only gets ~300 miles range, and is a SUV, it also starts at $50k
        • BYD HAN (the only one i could see on their website in the states) only gets “300+ miles” on a charge, but it supposedly only costs around $30k. I also couldn’t find any safety information that didn’t come from the Chinese government so I wont comment on that.

        Obviously Musk is a bad guy and you shouldn’t give him money and all that. But it seems like the legacy manufacturers are like 3-4 years behind, and that’s the smallest the gap has ever been.

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  • lengau@midwest.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He was always this bad and I’ve been warning people about him for a decade or more. That’s the point - own the fact that you were ignorant rather than pretending this was some sort of change in him.

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  • FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I agree with lengau too. He’s always been a grifter, claiming other people’s achievements as his own, implementing unsafe practices in his factories, union busting, etc…

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It wasn’t very easy to see without paying close attention to him though. And who was paying close attention to him at the time?

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      • lengau@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Anyone in tech who followed the rise of paypal

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      • FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I got into an argument over it with people in 2016-2017.

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      • harmsy@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thunderf00t was paying attention, but I can’t think of too many others.

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  • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, their memory is fine. You’re knees are just a bit more scuffed then theirs.

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• Fortatech@gregtech.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well, it probably means the latter, just that the person probably didn’t know of the political situation back then.

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  • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It means people were to ignorant or too dumb to notice some clearly huge red flags Elon was a nazi scam artist.

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