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His what now?

I'm pretty sure OP knows this, but some of the replies? Wow.

The Chaser is a parody news site, just to be clear. It's a really funny one, and just like good parody anywhere it strikes close to home. But it's not actual reportage (more's the pity).

Again, you're so close to the truth but your bigotry blinds you.

Which is hilarious, to me, coming from a person on a German server.

But hey, it's not as if Germany has a history of intense bigotry or anything.

His behaviour indicates that it clearly does matter to him.

Like the promising announcements of full autonomy? Like the promising announcements of … well pretty much everything Apartheid Manchild has announced ever?

You're so close to getting it, and then you turn away from it at the last second.

So yes, you're bigoted. Very bigoted. Much like the people who were spouting off about "cheap Japanese goods" in the '70s and '80s were. And their related ones doing the same for Taiwan and Korea later. And now China.

Or, you know, the ones spouting off about "cheap German goods" before that.

This specific one? Not yet. But there is a rather long history of nations, including the USA, using seemingly harmless items to target people for assassination, etc.

And an even longer history of the USA dropping bombs on civilians willy-nilly.

In the same place you assumed I lived outside of it, I presume.

After their stunt with diesel emission measurements, VW is permanently on my "will never buy from" list, alongside Chrysler.

It's also made by competent people and wasn't rushed half-completed out the door because of a sociopathic billionaire.

He's also an ignoramus who will find out the hard way that having more money than God is still not going to get humans to Mars before the middle of this century (at the earliest) and permanent habitation is a pipe dream that won't even happen by the end of this century.

This here exactly. There's shit products made in China. There's brilliant products made in China. It's just like everything else as per the old adage: YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!

If you only want to pay shit product prices, you get shit products. A variant of "play stupid games, win stupid prizes".

Say "I don't know what I'm talking about" without using those words.

Ooh boy. Let's look at notions like "historical bigotry". Perhaps studying the "Made in Japan" phenomenon in the transition from the 1970s to the 1980s could be instructive. Or the similar transitions for Taiwan and Korea, for that matter.

Or if you want to really do a dumpster dive into history, go look up how Germany relates to the whole identifying nation of origin of goods thing and how that backfired badly. (Hint: "Made in Germany" was the "Made in China" of its day.)

They have happy customers for the Cybertruck. Doesn't make that any less of an idiotic waste of metal.

And Tesla has a long history of "planning" things that never quite come to be. I won't be holding my breath on any kind of mass rollout of their semi rigs. If it happens, colour me surprised. Until it happens, though (and I mean really happens, not fake events like the recent robotaxi and optimus one), I will cheerfully say that it won't happen.

Because looking at Musk's grand pronouncements, the odds are on my side.

No, instead they'll let the government use you to target a bomb because you drive near someone they don't like.

This is definitely a case of "try before you buy". I've hated cars other people have loved and vice versa. You buy the car that fits you.

Why the flying fuck would I want a western car spying on me here in China?

It won't happen. Ever since he got ousted from one of his companies he's structured his companies carefully so he can never be ousted again.

There are several videos and essays explaining why the Tesla Semi is a non-starter. The basic concept, boiled down into a detail-erasing nutshell, is that it's too heavy and will always be too heavy. It's a dead end.