Is there any depth he won’t sink to?

  • towerful@programming.dev
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    11 days 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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      11 days ago

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

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      11 days ago

      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.

  • turnip@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days 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.

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        11 days ago

        Mass transit actually does remove carbon and lasts a century, your Tesla is made using coal.

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          10 days ago

          Are you referring to the use of coal when making steel? You know steel can be made without using coal. Also trains and buses are made using steel, so not sure what your point is.

          We can’t bulldoze down entire communities and rebuild them so they’re optimal mass transit. We can’t even keep the carbon tax going in Canada because that’s unpopular. It’s a struggle to reduce carbon output in a democratic society, but we can’t do anything by being uncompromising assholes about it. I’d prefer everyone take transit everywhere too, but that’s not going to happen anytime soon, so EVs are a reasonable compromise. The goal is to reduce carbon not enforce our will onto others.

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            10 days ago

            We can’t bulldoze down entire communities and rebuild them so they’re optimal mass transit.

            Why not? We did exactly that with highways and freeways for cars. I say we run light rail straight through the rich neighborhoods, using eminent domain, and divide them the way they did to poor neighborhoods with their stupid wasteful roads. And I actually like driving.

  • halyk.the.red@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

    Mods removed my comment, purely because I called every canadian a nazi, with zero proof. It’s like 1984 up in here.