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[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

musk helping vw by making a nazi salute.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

And one or two other things

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Oh how the turn tables

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Stick it to the Nazis by buying... checks notes ...Volkswagen

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It this the same company that complained about bad financial situation and threatened layoffs just a few months before?

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

Yes and the same one leaking a massive geolocation database of its smart cars fleet.

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

And the one that manipulated their data on emissions

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

They weren't even in a bad financial situation, their profits were a little lower.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Iโ€™m happy that theyโ€™re doing well but Iโ€™m sad America will never get the electric GTI now.

This is worse than the chicken tax.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Ugh they will never improve their price or dash now

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe people in Western Europe started buying Europeen cars instead of Chinese or American ones. But they unfortunatly don't explain the reason in the article.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Nobody in Europe buys American cars (except those that buy Tesla). Some American companies make European cars (e.g. Ford) or American conglomerates have European companies they've bought (e.g. Fiat). All of those would be made in Europe with European workers though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Donโ€™t know about that. In Slovakia they fired 1000 people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I bet they're making the ones who are left work longer shifts, or they hired badly paid "contractors" who they can ditch at will.