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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Reminder to anyone who bought a Tesla years ago before musk publicly admitted he's nazi. If you have free data or supercharging on the old cars, use it as much as you can. You're costing Tesla money just by existing and using their services. Do with that what you will.

[โ€“] [email protected] 98 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Excellent. Fuck Musk and all his companies. Biggest leech on the planet. He didnโ€™t make his money, he stole it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

He did. But he stole it from the US government / tax payers. Every president since Obama has fallen over themselves to pour tax payer money into his arsehole. And he is living the high life because of it. This is literally what the US wants. They love subsidising this bitch.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

His entire life, since the day he was born, has been built entirely on exploitation.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Hey UK!

Can we just try not to be last for once, please?

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

One of the issues with these percentage stats is that we were not as big of purchasers of Tesla as the rest of Europe so it's going to be harder for us to have as large of drops.

If you look, France has dropped that much just to catch up with us.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Even before the others dropped you were 3rd most out of 8.

Now you're 1st most.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The graph is missing headers so not sure, but UKโ€™s numbers are highest here

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you look, France has dropped that much just to catch up with us.

Swer n me mum. You brits cant get through a day without a dig at a frenchie, do ya?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Why the Jamacian accent?

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Being last is what we do best

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm doing my part. I can't afford a Swasticar anyway.

I can afford a bunch of Nazi stickers, though!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

But how else would us red, white, and blue headed step-children know how to make you somehow look better in comparison?

[โ€“] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is the best way to strike back against Musk.

Hit his pocketbook. Tank his net worth.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Tank his net worth.

It's not just his personal worth. Twitter purchase was/is largely dependent on Tesla stock. So he's not only losing his own credit and should the trend continue some big players in investment business won't be happy either. He has been an useful idiot on raising the stock prices, but he is very much sacrificial if the things go too far. I don't know why he hasn't been replaced already, but the trend in US of A seems to be that you can do whatever stupid shit you can come up with and keep doing that without consequences. So maybe the big players are still benefiting from what he and the other guy are doing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

When The stock market crash's you can buy into companies quite cheap.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago

The EV market is crashing. If you exclude Tesla from the figures, the EV market is up 13%.

[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good. I hope he's angry about it. It would make me very happy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He is. And sad. But he says he doesn't understand where this hate comes from. Real genius, that guy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

he fried his brain with Special K.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Nah, the drug abuse is just another fuck-up in a long string of fuck-ups. The dude's always been a weirdo, he just didn't have the balls to go full Monty until the entire world started fluffing him up as the IRL Tony Stark. He feels invincible and it's pretty much our fault. I know I had some hope in what he was doing (even if just for a lack of better options), do I feel stupid now...

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I still find it hilarious that he supposedly has a 165 IQ when everytime he opens his mouth he sounds so unintelligent and stumbles over words and uses meme language. I have never heard that man say a single intelligent thing in all the time I have known of his existence.

I wonder what Chinese bloke he hired to take his IQ test for him.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I dont think people grasp that he doesnt really care about tesla anymore, his shareholders are having a stroke, but he personally, has other sources of wealth that are more important to his megalomania now, namely starlink and spacex, and all the government subsidies that come from them.

at the end of the day, tesla is just a car company, and when you're a megalomaniac trying to design the entire world to your liking, thats small fry stuff

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's why we need to elect someone who will get the ball rolling on jailing Musk.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, the new version of "nobility" that doesn't want to pay taxes. They make a company and then get government handouts.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

Swasticar becoming unpopular. About time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Anna needs to learn the difference between a total and an average

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I know what you saying but the average would be adding those percentages together and dividing by the number of countries listed, which is -44.7% and is not getting the total sales for each year across all countries and get that -47.7% shown as total and is a more meaningful number because those markets are different sizes

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Oh fair enough that makes sense. The additional context would have been good in the original post as I thought it was a simple average

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

These guys want to be like Russia and other 'strong men' led countries so bad, let them have a Russian economy, and the same worldwide product 'dominance' as Russia too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Damn, dude! The Lada was shit, but it wasn't a Tesla!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Your post has been removed for promoting violence /s

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Nice. Remove the nazimobil from our roads.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Not to trow sand in the gears, but let's wait until the numbers after the launch of the new model Y comes in. Some buyers might waiting for that one.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Quick, somebody tell him that changing models from X to Y makes the cars trans.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

South of the alps. Big peninsula, looks like a boot. Can't miss it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Then why do I miss it so much?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Apart from the food, sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system and public health...

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Down 55% according to Reuters (although these numbers don't match up with the ones in the post, so they're probably not directly comparable in some way)

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Keep going guys I love jerking off to Elons tears

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Hypocrite feels (says) what?

Fuck him and his shitty vehicles

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

what do these percentages mean? is that stock value?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Heโ€™ll have long since pivoted from this venture onto whatever insider trading heโ€™s up to alongside defrauding the state.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

The potential side effects of ketamine include dissociative experiences that may lead to confusion or impaired motor coordination, cognitive disturbances, and, with repeated misuse, the risk of developing a substance use disorder.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)
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