Is there any depth he won’t sink to?

  • towerful@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    Maybe it’s as suggested in the article. That the rebate is going to be paused, so Tesla is trying to farm it. You know, for fraud.

    But this could also have other motivations behind it.

    Like Tesla buying Tesla’s in Canada as some sort of “people aren’t boycotting Tesla. Infact, there has been an INCREASE in sales in Canada. Clearly Tesla’s are trying to be cancelled, and clearly Canada wants to be part of the US” kinda fraud?

    As in, trying to bolster Tesla stock. And trying to meddle with another country’s politics.
    Only the fucking idiot muskrat applied for government funded rebates on all of them?

    Cause that’s what this is. Fraud.

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      1 month ago

      Oh look - more fraud. You know, from the fraud guy famous for committing fraud all the time.

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      This set of fraudulent sales happened in January and before inauguration more importantly, so I doubt this was due to beefing car sales. Most had not called for a boycott at this point, not enough at least to justify this massive scale of car sales.

      The sales DID begin immediately the day the canadian government announced the rebate program was running out of money and could only fund a few more weeks. It lasted exactly three days, which were a friday, saturday, and sunday. Most car dealerships in canada are closed on weekends. Tesla registered enough sales at exactly four dealerships that, assuming each was open for 12 hours, they would be selling 100 cars per hour per location. By the time monday rolled around, the government confirmed they had entirely run out of money for their rebate program and closed it early. Car dealerships from around the country that had already paid customers the credit but hadn’t yet submitted the sale to the government for rebate then had to eat that cost themselves because they thought they had a couple weeks left.

      Tesla doesn’t have any dealerships not owned by them so it’s not a case of some rogue resaler, and the dates are so damning that i can’t see any other motivation for it.

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    Was there some deal? Model Y going up for orders? Surely someone can answer this to at least hint at what happened. How many cars do they normally sell? Is there something in Canada which triggered car sales? Did other manufacturers see similar jump.

    Why write such a crappy article with so little info is beyond me. Most people here aren’t Canadian, we got fuck all perspective.

  • TheObviousSolution@kbin.melroy.org
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    Fine them and repossess all their assets since they are a flight risk.

    The same sort of anything goes market disease that is causing severe GPU scalping. When you break and show that there should be no trust or respect for society, you begin reeking people just obsessed with exploiting the systems. And the US is so very much this now, it is a dying, decaying, heavily diseased superpower becoming authoritarian dictatorship that is only going to spread the sickness around until it is gone.

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    There are some commenters asking for clarification, as to what this could possibly mean, and I fear I may be able to shed some light. It may be as I feared all along, but Canada is quite possibly filled to the brim with nazis.

    They’re elated by the swiasticar memes, and finally feel free to speak their minds by voting with their wallets.

    I think a preemptive strike is best, we need to hit them hard before they have a chance to act. Those things are bulletproof, after all.

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    1 month ago

    Maybe the stupid decision was helping the rich buy EV to replace their 2 year old Lexus, instead of funding mass transit?

    Like why is the poor funding this to begin with, during a housing crisis none the less where we need mass transit more than ever.

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      Because the 2 year old Lexus will put carbon into the air and the EV will not.

      Also it’s possible there may be some people in the middle class that took advantage of the program. They will be putting less carbon into the air as well.

      I get that you want to eat the rich or whatever, but if the world burns down because of global warming, you won’t get the chance to do that.

  • halyk.the.red@lemmy.ml
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    Mods removed my comment, purely because I called every canadian a nazi, with zero proof. It’s like 1984 up in here.

  • 11111one11111@lemmy.world
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    Why leave your opinion for your own post when you never even read the first paragraph or highlight points that precede the article. That once again, you fucking posted??? Commend you for not deleting it after comments from users who read it called you out but doesn’t that just make you feel like an even bigger dolt?