• pedz@lemmy.ca
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    Nobody wants to buy a swasticar, so I predict it will soon be illegal in the US to buy an EV from any other company than Tesla. Because free speech absolutism or something, whatever.

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    0% in this economy? Interest rates are still up, it’s been hard to find any 0%s after rate hikes, they really are desperate.

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      Pretty much every major EV brand in the US is selling at 0% financing right now. GM, KIA, Ford, Nissan, Tesla, VW etc etc. its a great time to buy.

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          I care. Deriving enjoyment from the suffering of others is fucked and the comments exhibiting such should be pushed back on, not encouraged.

          Does Musk deserve suffering? Yes, undoubtedly, imo.
          That doesn’t make those kinds of comments okay. In fact, i think they’re a huge red flag.

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            My family members sacrificed their lives to fight against fascism overseas. One of our ancestral homes was even massacred by Mussolini. Fuck fascists, and fuck Musk. If you go around Nazi saluting, you deserve to get your ass beat. You do not get any respect because you are a piece of trash.

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            Counterpoint: He’s a Nazi, and therefore deserves to die. Or, at the very least, I won’t shed a tear if he does.

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        True. EV fires are harmful to the environment.

        wouldn’t it be so funny if Musk died in a Cybertruck that drove into a private swimming pool and the doors locked on him :p :3

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          I prefer my billionaire overlords accidentally backing their Nazi cars into ponds and then being too fucking stupid open the door or bust the window and drowning.

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      This just in: DOGE deems tesla a nation security asset, too big to fail, and bails out the company.

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      It’s still +26% in 6 months, +58% in a year and +535% in 5 years. There’s still a long way to go down unfortunately.

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        Not with their P/E ratio at 273.22 🤣

        The average P/E for the auto industry is 29.97. $TSLA is beyond overvalued. If it stays like this, it’ll take another massive hit after the Q1 earnings call on April 29th.

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          The funny bit is that if their stock price falls 90% in 6 months, their P/E will almost certainly still be above the auto industry average because their earnings will be falling too.

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        That’s would be interesting to know. He bought Twitter on October 27th 2022 when TSLA was around 225 (having fallen from above 330 when he first announced he was going to buy), and it’s now at 272, so he’s got about 17% left before it drops to the same value. Presumably the loan was for less than the full value of his TSLA holding, so he’s still got some margin left, but I can easily believe the banks will be wanting extra collateral pretty soon considering it’s down 30% in the last month alone.

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            He is in a good position to cause hyper-inflation in the US in case he needs a few extra quintillion dollars.

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            He’ll put the USA up as collateral

            I think he might have already sold that…

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              Llm: *“Okay, so you think the United States is just a country, right? With laws, a government, and people who vote? No. The United States is actually a massive, over-leveraged brand, built on a combination of nostalgia, marketing, and a complicated system of political derivatives that nobody really understands. And just like the financial system in 2008, it’s being held together by confidence.

              Now, let’s say the USA starts running into problems—declining trust, political instability, social fragmentation. Normally, in a functioning system, you’d fix these things. But instead of actual reform, what if we just repackaged the entire thing and sold it as something new?

              So we take all these existing structures—government, media, economy—and bundle them into what we’ll call ‘America 2.0.’ It’s the same thing, but we slap on a fresh narrative: ‘Innovation!’ ‘Resilience!’ ‘Democracy!’ Boom. People feel reassured. But underneath? It’s still the same risky assets, just rebranded and resold.

              The best part? If it fails, the people who repackaged it already made their money. And the rest? Well… the system’s ‘too big to fail,’ right?”*

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      I just snagged a Mach-E GT (still arguably a Nazi car though) my co-worker has a Kia EV, and it seems pretty good. The Nissan Leaf is decent too.

      Fair warning, range anxiety is real, but I’ve pretty much gotten over it at this point. I charge my car to 180mile of range, and I rarely get down lower than 130 in a week, so an EV with 120 miles of range would be sufficient, especially if you have a partner with an ICE or hybrid.

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      There are loads of viable alternatives these days with both legacy auto manufacturers closing the gap and a raft of new EV manufacturers joining the market, mostly from China.

      I sold my Model 3 last month and took delivery of a new Polestar 2. The only features that I’ve lost in the switch are the built in dashcam (had to install my own instead) and using my phone as a key (which is supposed to be fixed in the next software update). Other than that, the feature set and specification of the two cars is pretty similar. Except my new one has twice the battery capacity.