• BigMacHole@thelemmy.club
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    4 hours ago

    Tesla LIED in a Way that could KILL Millions of People! QUICK! Give him ANOTHER Trillion!

    -The Government!

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    Like they know these lies will be revealed as lies once they pass whatever regulation allows them to be sold and out on the streets. So why bother? Presumably they calculate at that point what will the lawsuits and fines be and how can they pay that off at that time.

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      6 hours ago

      You can joke about it, but European regulators in the tech space are doing important work that rolls downhill to much of the world.

      It sounds like a very good thing to me that Europe is maybe going to force Tesla disclosures and/or force them to work out the bugs in their tech.

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      Seriously… If you commit fraud and lie to the government, you go to jail. A corporation does it and the fine is a fraction of a percent of their profits.

      If this capitalist dictatorship shit — where sociopaths, psychopaths, and pedophiles collude with the government to defraud and exploit the people — is what Liberals consider “democracy”, Liberalism is a full blown cuck ideology that deserves to die as much as conservatism.

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        I mean, if they got fined something like 100 days’ revenues¹ they’d change their tune right quick. European law allows for that kind of fine.

        ¹ One day’s revenues being calculated as the total revenues in their last fiscal year divided by 365.

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        The vast majority of people I know never commit anything that lands them in jail. However nearly all consider paying the speeding ticket fine once in a while just a cost of life they thinking nothing of.

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      2 hours ago

      Evidently, Tesla’s battery tech is from China — just private labeled. I’d wager this is why the US only hears negative commentary about BYD and not CATL & Sunwoda (Tesla’s suppliers).