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Anybody who bought a Tesla in the last few years is a goddamn tool. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We've known for years that the owner is a lying, creepy, out of touch dipshit and that it's a very flawed car and the company will cut costs to save money on safety items, every time.

Electric vehicles with drive assist are awesome and are the future, but there are alternatives, especially if you have money, which a lot of Tesla customers do. And they're not particularly well built; how many of these do you think will be on the road 20 years from now? And now we've seen how Elaine runs their companies, why the hell would anybody put their trust in their products?

If you've bought a Tesla in the last five or so years, you're a damn goober in my eyes. That's my hot take, prepared for being called poor and other sodium, tear filled comments from fools whose opinions don't matter. You are the hardcore, foaming at the mouth Segway fan from the 2000s, have at me lol.

Update: The teary eyed, sweaty fingered responses to this are predictably hilarious. I've been called a guy that eats 4 pizzas a week in another old thread because of this, a cunt, a tool, a douche, a couple people spent their energy to tell me they don't understand me spending my energy posting this, some people are telling me something about Tesla or Elaine living in my head rent free. All genuinely pathetic responses, so GG lol. Cheers.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

how many of these do you think will be on the road 20 years from now?

While I agree with the basic premise of your argument, this isn't the knock you think it is. The majority of passenger cars won't be on the road in 10 years, let alone 20. Between poorly designed cheap econo-cars, people who want the latest new thing, and people who abuse their car (insanely long commutes, deferring maintenance, etc), they just don't last that long on average. I rarely see a 2013 model or earlier let alone a 2003 or eariler.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm just over here sittin' in my lil 2006 civic hybrid, eatin' popcorn and celebrating 200k+ miles without so much as a loose screw.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I probably wouldn't buy one now because of my extreme disdain for Musk, but also there are at least comparable alternatives available. Musk is a disaster, and maybe you can argue that if not Tesla, then some other vehicle would have jump started (heh) the EV movement, but I'll at least give Testa credit for helping make the EV as popular as it is now. All that said, I still don't own an EV because the last time I needed to buy a car it was still prohibitively expensive and I had no way to charge it overnight; I suppose there's a whole separate discussion on considering an expensive car you can't charge overnight because you rent an apartment that only has street parking and maybe the real need is to focus on a better housing solution before a new car...but anyways.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm just here for Elaine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are the guy keying all the cars!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Eh this is the same fad with probably the same people who all bought/would have bought a Mustang in the 90s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm a bike driver and Teslas wanna hit me left and square and I can't hear those removed. I get it the gas cars are probably gonna go extinct within 180 years, but telsas suck on build quality and those removed are expensive to do any repairs, where is my RIGHT TO REPAIR!!!!

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