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Doing a from-heart-to-sun salute tends to hurt sales in UK and Germany, who woulda thought. The stereotype about French is that they don’t care and might even like it, but maybe this is also about build and design quality.

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Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You know it was the French revolution that popularised the guillotine as a means of dealing with wealthy elites?

But yeah I don’t see how Tesla is going to ever repair the damage to their image, unless they can kick musk out and that doesn’t seem likely.

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- rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Make a product line of electric guillotines? And dogfood with Musk.
  
  Anyway, the French revolution is not considered a one-sided success.
  
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bzah@discuss.tchncs.de [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You may want to read the text before commenting nonsense, the French are not pleased either. | Sales are crashing in France, Germany, and the UK | In France, sales of new Teslas fell by 63 percent

I don’t see what justify your attack, it seems unnecessary to attack people based on their nationality. Yes, we do have a far-right issue in France, but it’s pretty much the same as everywhere else in Europe and there is still a resisting left here, not all hope is lost. Also, regarding your comment below, the white flag stereotype for France comes from 2003, when the US and allies invaded and destroyed Irak, but for once France stood against the US imperialism.

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- Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah, fascism seems to be flourishing all over. I’ve never got the impression that France was any worse than anywhere else though.
  
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- ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  the white flag stereotype for France comes from 2003
  
  It actually comes (unfairly) from the French army mutinies of 1917 and (also unfairly) from France’s surrender to Hitler in 1940, in addition to their not joining in the fun in Iraq. All of which obscures a prior thousand-year history of kicking the shit out of people.
  
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  - rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I was just joking, but you forgot to say that this
    
    kicking the shit out of people
    
    can be made more specific, they were regularly kicking the shit out of Germans. Germans were the suffering side saying “thanks for punishing me, master” for many years. Not even counting, obviously, Normans kicking the shit out of English.
    
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  - bzah@discuss.tchncs.de [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Thanks, I was not aware of that.
    
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    shasta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah I’m glad the other guy replied with more details because my fuzzy memory was telling me that the French surrendering stereotype was around back in the 90s at least, but I was pretty young then and it was hard to remember.
    
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- rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s a joke, it’s supposed to be grotesque. Grotesque is usually different from adequate to reality.
  
  That’s first, second, my comment does incorporate the fact that the French are not pleased either. You may want to improve your skills of processing two-sentence comments.
  
  Oops, this one is four sentences, I guess it’s going to hurt.
  
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