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This is absurd. Tesla has had a period of danger of bankrupting every two years for its entire existence. Each of which they pulled out of by doubling deliveries.

They’re quite possibly the only car company who has had actual skin in the game in recent years.

The rest of them just went begging to Daddy (Congress) when they got themselves fully fucked.

Your notion that GM, Ford, etc are somehow living in “the real world” seems willfully ignorant of history.



I literally said nothing about GM, Ford or the rest. I didn't even imply anything about them. Who are you replying to?


You literally made a claim about “the rest”.

Who, in your mind, are the companies other than Tesla, if not Ford, GM, et al?


What? Who are you replying to?

my comment: >I 100% disagree, and believe what you're doing is the classic English Major grasping for meaning where none was implied.

>I think what we're seeing is what happens when there is no one around to say 'no' to a company. Tesla is being fed, by everyone in at least the US, that they are the future and are prophets of what is to come.

>So you take the attitude of 'I can do nothing wrong' and add a dash of Musk's inherent God-Complex, and mix it into the culture there.

>And this is what you get.

>That's my theory.

Where are you reading whatever it is you're reading about "the rest"? Who are you replying to?


To say nothing of Toyota, Honda, Mazda, many German manufacturers... amirite?


No, I wouldn’t imply anything about them. The point of discussion is pickup trucks so they’re less relevant.




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