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[–] alatheus@lemmy.perthchat.org 8 points 2 years ago

This is hilarous and pathetic at the same time.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

L M A O

Bonus for pure good ~~tsar~~ capitalist syndrome.

[–] albert@lemmy.sysctl.io 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I honestly though this article was satire.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

This could totally have been a piece from the onion.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Musk said Tesla buyers should purchase vehicles “right at the beginning or when production reaches steady state.”

I just love that as a piece of advice. It's like they're producing sample after sample after sample and if you can just manage to hold your excitement and wait long enough, then they're going to scrap all those garbage-quality cars and you can get a freshly baked, high-quality car as soon as they've ramped up production (of those cars that no one is supposed to buy yet).

That statement:

  • pretends it's fine to produce worse quality products some of the time,
  • reads like they basically roll a dice when producing a car and at whatever quality it comes out, well, nothing they can do about it,
  • shoves responsibility to the customer,
  • doesn't actually tell you when you can buy a Tesla.

I don't want to know what this means for car safety. Do they not do quality control for that either?

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why would you start a hunger strike for that? Start a payment strike or something, it's not like you bought those overpriced pieces of shit outright!

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

A payment strike wouldn't help at all, since a car loan would be held by a third party. Tesla already has their money in full.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the whole thing is just pure comedy.

[–] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Musk: stuffing up on popcorn to watch people strave in his name, instead of doing something productive

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You all need to check out their website: https://www.teslahungerstrike.com/home

Also, this tweet by someone who started this: