• N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    I don’t understand the market for the Swastikar. You need to love Nazism, believe that global warming is real, and be able to finance a 100K vehicle. That’s a Venn Diagram with an incredibly small center circle.

    The recalls and potential to be burned alive inside also have to be ignored.

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      2 months ago

      You need to… believe that global warming is real

      No you don’t. There are plenty of chuds who like higher-end electric cars just because they’re extremely fast.

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        2 months ago

        Yeah but you dont need a Tesla. There are so many cool electric cars now.

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          2 months ago

          Sure, but if they meet the parent commenter’s other two criteria (loving Naziism and being able to finance a $100k vehicle), especially the first one, why would they pick some cool brand when they could have a swastikar instead?

          (That downvote isn’t from me, BTW.)

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          2 months ago

          But do they all validate the inner toxic masculinity needs?

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            2 months ago

            The movies always made me fall asleep. But in the book, the cars could fly.

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                2 months ago

                Like I said, the movies always make me fall asleep. Maybe I fell asleep before that part.

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                  Sounds like a super power: just put a movie on when you go to bed 😅

                  The flying car is within the first 5 minutes of the first blade runner movie iirc?

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            2 months ago

            Blade Runner spinners look way better than the swasticar.

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        2 months ago

        All cars in Seattle travel at 30mph or less during morning and afternoon traffic.

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      I think it’s way simpler than that. Has to be, these people are dumb.

      A lot of people worship money, and, well… car made by richest man. That mean car good! Buy car!

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      2 months ago

      Conditions a and b line up well… no belief in global warming required to buy your favorite billionaire’s shitty tonka truck.

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      2 months ago

      You also need to be clueless about off-road and towing capabilities. I see an odd similarity to this car as the Hummer brand in the 2000s. It represented some sort of gluttonous American superiority at the time. Whereas the Hummer alluded to a military superiority, the Cybertruck now alludes to a BigTech superiority. It’s all the attempt to buy yourself an identity.

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        Whereas the Hummer alluded to a military superiority

        Uhhhh…you have seen the H3, right?

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            Absolutely. Just wanted to point out that the H3 exists, and everything after H1 implies nothing more than too much money.

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      It’s simple to understand. Just look at the company’s stock value since the CEO outed himself as a Nazi.

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      I didn’t buy my EV for sustainability reasons, I bought it because it was the most cost effective and convenient commuter car for my specific driving profile.

      The sustainability is just a nice bonus for me that I don’t care too much about.

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    Funny, but I prefer Swasticar bc Deplorean is trading on the cool factor of DeLoreans

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    I don’t like that, the Delorean is exponentially better than the nazicar in every way.

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    Fun fact: Every month something else falls off these things, or they find out a spring shower disables the electrical system, or…

    Doc doesn’t have to get it to 88mph to travel Back to the Dealership

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      Doc doesn’t have to can’t get it to 88mph, to travel Back to the Dealership in limp mode!

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      Fun fact: these are actually more explosive than Pintos

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    Makes me glad that Bob Gale is preventing any new Back to the Future movies from being made, 'cause you know that someone in Hollywood would have tried to make a Cybertruck time machine otherwise.

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    How about Derploreans? I liked cyber rust though, living in salty winter roads territory.

    Funny how living where trucks are actually useful in the winter has kept the washing tubs to a minimum. Between the two factors I only saw my first one in the wild this month. It was black in a vain effort to look cool lol