r/confidentlyincorrect • u/Substantial-Gear3279 • 17d ago

Embarrased Satisfying

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

Gladly, the US isn't the boss of the world anymore- despite Trump's protestations and tantrums. Tesla & Big Oil have been hard-lobbying to keep tariffs high on Chinese imports. Tesla prefers people buy their $70k+ EVs, and Big Oil would rather that people not be able to buy $30k EVs in North America. Car Culture must continue on!

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u/wot_r_u_doin_dave 17d ago

All true. But even if it wasn’t for Trump and all his nonsense Tesla took their eye off the ball a while back. China will steal the bottom end of the market and they’re rapidly losing the luxury space to the likes of Audi, Mercedes etc. The truck is just a stupid gimmick. Even the likes of Renault are making Tesla beaters now. And it’s because Musk is actually a really shitty CEO as well as being a really shitty person.

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u/Sharkbait1737 17d ago

It seems to me (as a total layman when it comes to the EV market) that Elon and the US more broadly have completely dropped the ball on this to “own the libs”.

Which is stupid, because they had the ball, and it would be easier to keep it than try to get it back - and that should be Elon’s entire job as CEO and Drumpf’s as President. But no. Putting the US at a huge competitive disadvantage in the coming century.

America’s previous dominance was built on fossil fuels, and they could have used that power to get ahead on the next big energy market to lock in that dominance for decades to come - but those libs weren’t going to own themselves.

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u/Jerryjb63 17d ago

That’s how you can tell who’s fighting for progress and who’s just fighting for the status quo.

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u/Skurvy2k 17d ago

To be clear, liberals are just as addicted to the status quo as this crop of conservative, reactionaries and Christian nationalists are.

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u/Jerryjb63 17d ago

Yeah… Did you not pay attention to the Biden administration? They were investing into EVs, microchips, infrastructure, education, and climate change?

I agree though. I still think there’s a mindset that the Democratic Party needs to grow by appeasing moderates and courting independents, instead of pushing the country back toward the left and the rest of modern world providing healthcare and education.

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u/Skurvy2k 17d ago

All in service of capitalism. The status quo.