Comment on Tesla recalls 120,000 vehicles over potentially faulty doors that could open in a crash
VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 9 months agoTesla has exceeded safety test rankings beyond the vast majority of other manufacturers and has received numerous top accolades from very reputable safety sources.
Those were all in the beginning when they were new and trying to impress the world. To say standards have slipped since then is the understatement of the century.
Never trust a guy who says “I’m not a fan boy but” and then repeatedly brushes all criticism of what he’s pretending not to fanboy over as “echo chamber nonsense”. 😂
Especially not after him repeating PR talking points almost word for word for what would have been at least two paragraphs with better formatting 🙄
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s an interesting stance. The logic of your statement reads as:
If someone agrees with me I’m right. If someone disagrees with me, then the person disagreeing is automatically doing so in bad faith and their opinions should be automatically dismissed without consideration making me right.Under your logic what statements ever allow for someone to challenge or correct you and learn something new?
VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 9 months ago
Nope. The logic is that “I’m not a fan boy but” is usually as true as “I’m not a racist but”.
In both cases, what follows will usually be proof that everything before “but” was a lie.
Or to put it in yet another way: people who feel the need to assure others that they’re definitely not fan boys…are usually fan boys.
Me being right or wrong has nothing to do with it at all.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Are you then saying that you’ll consider someone’s opinion that is contrary to yours as long as they don’t mention they “aren’t a fanboy”? Its just those words that trigger you to dismiss them entirely?
VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 9 months ago
I’m saying that there’s being open minded, which is a good thing, and then there’s wasting your time trying to talk sense into people blinded by hero worship/follower identify to the point of being unreachable and/or arguing in bad faith.
The latter is a bad thing that I’m trying to become better at avoiding but am doing right now with you and was doing before with Definitely Not A Fan Boy Nuh-uh.