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[–] hikuro93@lemmy.ca 77 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I firmly believe some MAGA somewhere is out there right now expecting a loan approval to buy the most expensive Tesla out there, not knowing an unemployment letter is already being typed out.

One can hope for such poetic justice.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 40 points 11 months ago

They will somehow blame Obama for it

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

not knowing an unemployment letter is already being typed out.

Probably being typed out by a DOGE staffer because they’re a government worker.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

~~typed out~~ AI generated, because it’s far more efficient to burn electricity so that Grok can help in dismantling our government; Formulating the first “AI destroys humanity” plot that sci fi always warned us about, but decidedly more boring

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 11 months ago

Formulating the first “AI destroys humanity” plot that sci fi always warned us about, but decidedly more boring

Really a shitty version of it. No sentence. No reasoning ability. Just algorithmic predictive text with a massive data set that manages to sound "intelligent" enough to fool the credible.

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's okay, it's only the cost of, what, a couple eggs?

[–] valkyre09@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

I mean, it's a couple of eggs, Michael. What could they cost? 10 dollars?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago

New York prices, likely

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

What's fucking hilarious is Tesla is running a 0% down 0% apr loan....

Before the auto industry stopped doing those, they were sometimes referred to as a "crash out loan".

Because you can get a brand new car for $0 for the first month, and collections move slow. It could be 6-12 months before repo even starts.

That's not even getting into how common "thefts" of those cars happened as soon as they left the lot.

But even if it's not nefarious, trumpers believe any day now they'll be millionaires.

Best case scenario Tesla's going to have a huge used inventory no one wants for a couple months payments.

Even if someone pays it off on time, Tesla still loses money on the financing. This is classic death spiral and it being a meme stock might not save it.

Quick edit to add:

People are protesting stores still, they need to protest factories. With a bloating inventory and no sales, Tesla is going to do stupid things to keep production online, be cause if they shutdown it's a lot harder to start up when they still can't sell any.

Factories shutting down even for a week or two could legitimately kill the company.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can they brick the cars remotely or suspend whatever is needed to operate the vehicle if you miss one payment?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you believe Musk they can drive themselves to a dealership...

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd believe they can drive themselves through a dealership

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

The Cybertruck will hit the glass window of the dealership and fall apart since the glass is stronger than the glue

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)
[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

comfusod urge bongo

[–] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oooh, this is fun. 3 kilobytes, ah ah ah!

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 3 points 11 months ago

MUCK AMAXA CAERT ACAIN

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Don't these people hate electric vehicles?

[–] didnt1able@sh.itjust.works 30 points 11 months ago

No they hate liberals, liberals who drive electric vehicles. Now liberals are moving away from tesla which means teslas are okay.

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've seen the exact same question posed on conservative social media in the reverse.

It's not about whether they're EVs, folks.

[–] 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's plenty of other EV manufacturers to choose from though

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 11 months ago

I can't tell if you're trying to explain that to me or to them, but I think I and they know that.

[–] missandry351@lemmings.world 8 points 11 months ago

But Tesla is electric and electric cars are communism

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago

Campaign against EV's for years.

Bitch about solar.

Send videos around of large generators charging some stuck teslas for half a decade and laugh about those stupid libs, don't they know where the power comes from?

then

Ohh, umm Buy a Tesla! get that uhhh computer....

[–] Doolbs@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Buy the car that has more fatalities than the Ford Pinto had.

That will get those libs.