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Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt

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  • Bronzebeard@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There were stops left that could be removed from Cybertrucks, still?

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  • notfromhere@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All they had to do was build a solid, reliable truck, and not be fascist. Instead they build a poorly glued together piece of shit and sieg heil. I fucking hate this timeline.

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I still refuse to see it as a truck. The defining feature of a truck is its bed, and the bed on this thing is presented as an afterthought. Covered, undersized, impossible to access from the sides. It’s just a tank. A penis prosthesis for the undersized.

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    • HawtTism@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Guarantee you do nothing about it except bitch and cry “fascism” on the internet, while simultaneously never really knowing what fascism is. You people show your low IQ every day, and I fucking love it so much. “Elon musk is a Nazi fascist” - Yep. Hates Jews, hates niggers, wants to hang little Mexican children. The fact you people think that’s actually reality is fucking insane. No wonder you’re all confused which gender you are.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And SpaceX had such good publicity, also notably one aesthetically the very opposite of sieg heil.

      I mean, aesthetics of Tesla advertising and design and everything were pretty different from SpaceX from the very beginning. I wonder how could Musk be the founder of both. Maybe they’ll find traces of a brain worm in him too. Can’t be solely ketamine.

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      • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        He has never founded or invented anything. Every business he owns, he bought from others. In some cases he forced them to refrain from claiming to be founders at all. He’s pathetic scum.

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      • RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Does it though? I have had a real hard time giving a shit about space fir a while now goven Musk’s musk is tainting it.

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      • demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I wonder how could Musk

        he’s not a Tesla founder, he only bought it

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    • mPony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t hate the timeline, hate the news. There are real people out there still trying to make the world work, getting stepped on, pushed over, marginalized, silenced. They need you. They need all of us. Do not let The Bastards win.

      (I’m still workshopping the “don’t hate the player hate the game” - suggestions are welcome. Words can still inspire people, even before coffee)

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      • notfromhere@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Thanks, friend. Much needed words. Maybe I’ll put my decades of counter strike to good use at some point.

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    • forrgott@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I fucking hate this timeline.

      I keep seeing people say this. However, hate us what created this timeline. I don’t believe it’s what will get us into a new one.

      I mean no offense towards you; I want you to know this. I guess I just finally realized what it is that bothers me about that statement. In fact, I share your sentiment. Because not only are they poorly made, common sense safety measures are removed and replaced with poorly engineered crap that traps people, while other badly designed components catch fire and burn them to death.

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      • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That hate came from somewhere.

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      • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That hate came from somewhere.

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      • notfromhere@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        First time I’ve used this phrase, myself. But I had such hope for the future and I guess I am finally admitting my hope is gone.

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  • Kiwi_fella@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is that “all stops”, as in they will get rid of that guy who very definitely did a Nazi salute?

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    • kreskin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “pulling out all the stops” probably means removing the minorities and anti-fascists from the tesla payroll.

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    • jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t even think he even commented on his Nazi salute after he did it. Which is even more damning.

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    • mm_maybe@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Seriously, why the fuck is he still CEO of that company? He’s actively undermining them in every way on a global scale. Tesla shareholders are idiots…

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    • GuitarSon2024@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This just in: Tesla’s new moniker “Arbeit Macht Frei” tracks poorly with most human beings.

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    • Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Best they can do is promote him.

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      • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What do you get for a guy whose dick gets sucked by the president?

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  • hedhoncho@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Elon should offer to pay the tariff for new customers.

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  • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    i wonder when ol stinky starts pushing somekind of law that makes it mandatory to buy one

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    • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      More likely to make the government buy them all.

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      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Or forces it on the military.

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      • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        DOGE

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      • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        basically same thing though, just even more infuriating

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  • booganiganie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bit like Elon, Never lived up to the hype

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  • froh42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Tesla just needs a new slogan or a good marketing campaign.

    Something like:

    Tesla - power by joy

    Or “Kraft durch Freude” in German.

    All that would perfectly fit the brand image.

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    • Noscopy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure that the new employee orientation has a banner that says something about work setting me free.

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    • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Kraft durch Freude

      Nice, how about “Cars enabling Freedom” or “Autos machen frei”?

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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For reference.

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    • Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or make a special edition. The Kristall Nacht with a red and black wrap or something.

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      • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Could even decorate it with a pattern based on an asian symbol commonly found on temples!

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  • Red_October@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah because they were showing such restraint before.

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  • IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Good News: Now the nazi who owns the company can, via his role in the nazi government which he bought, can bail himself out.

    🙃

    (fuck this timeline)

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    • Oderus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Elon doesn’t own Tesla… Where did you get that from? He has 19% of their shares and is the CEO, nothing more.

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  • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t say it was a failure.

    It sold quite well considering its price.

    The original specifications and price were never going to be met,

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Even if you ignore the politics it’s just a terrible car that is way too expensive. I’m honestly surprised it sold any units at all but I guess people just like vanity toys.

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    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tesla fan here, this is kind of accurate. I wouldn’t call it terrible, but the aluminum chassis means it has towing limitations, the small battery doesn’t have nearly as much range as most other Tesla’s and it gets worse if you’re towing, plus not everybody wants to drive the Halo truck. Double the range or cut the price by 30% and you have an interesting car, as it is now I look at it as a first generation attempt.

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      • Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The car is objectively terrible. It’s ha heavy duty car that can’t do heavy duty things. The cybertruck has two things that it does well. It goes fast when you hit the accelerator and the sound system is really good. Everything else is extremely shitty, and a complete lie

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      • Monstrosity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You’ve got some balls coming in here & proclaiming You’re a fan of Nazi billshit.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s hard to find insurance for it, it’s objectively terrible at it’s job, that’s very few mechanics that can service it, It isn’t available in Europe, it has terrible quality control issues, It is made by a company with terrible customer service, and it is made by Nazi

      So many reasons not to buy it.

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      • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Made by under-paid awesome people that got themselves stuck working for an idiotic wannabe pseudo-Nazi.

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  • RangerJosey@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No thank you. I don’t want a swasticar.

    I’d love to have one of those new production old style beetles. But we can’t buy them here because our govt sucks donkey dick.

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    • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Swasticar is good! In my mind, I was calling it TeSSla.

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      • quokka1@mastodon.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        @angrystego @RangerJosey pretty sure we agreed on WankerPanzer

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    • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      VW cars are built by Uyghurs, which, last I checked, are a surpassed minority in China, that has to work under slave-like conditions.

      But I guess most cars are produced like this.

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      • nednobbins@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nobody builds cars under slave like conditions. It’s just not possible. Modern car factories are highly automated plants that require skilled operators. In the case of the VW Xinjiang, that was QC inspectors. There’s no way a hole in the wall car factory using outdated labor practices can come close to competing against modern production.

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      • RangerJosey@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m talking about the ones made in Mexico.

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    • Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You mean this style of beetle? Nazi Germany unveiling of the new beetle 1930s

      I don’t like cybertruck just wanted to point out the awkward history of WV

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      • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        VOLKSwagen!

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The massive, massive difference is that the VW Beetle wasn’t a shitbox for rich people. It’s okay to say that once in a great while. the Nazis, despite being horrific in most ways, did have an idea that wasn’t bad and this was that. The VW Beetle was an affordable car and if something went wrong with it, you could probably fix it yourself with only a small amount of automotive knowledge. You really don’t even need to give Hitler credit for that considering he basically just told Ferdinand Porsche to do all the hard work.

        Not so much the Cybertruck. It was Elon’s baby from the beginning and he took a very close personal interest in it.

        The Cybertruck is a bad idea. Even for rich people. It’s been demonstrated over and over again.

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      • RangerJosey@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I know exactly what I said.

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  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hate for his employees to suffer for his shitty actions but there it is

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    • nlgranger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They already suffered from his shitty actions, he did not become a terrible person overnight.

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  • RatzChatsubo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Strange I see them everywhere

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    • send_me_your_ink@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you by chance live in a high CoL area?

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      • RatzChatsubo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No East Coast

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I do, and even the bougie “conservative” assholes aren’t that interested. They’re more the decked out F-whatever and gas guzzler types.

        I don’t like to say it but a third party dealership was selling some painted ones that actually looked pretty nice. Nice enough to make me think that maybe the plan was always to pass on the cost to the buyer, it’s so much better.

        Or maybe it was just a talented… car painter? Is that a thing when they’re just working with flat panels and no design?

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  • atempuser23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For what it was spec’d at originally, I think more people would have been willing to consider it than would like to admit, assuming the other trucks were still priced as is.

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      • billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        For what it was spec’d at originally, I think more people would have been willing to consider it than would like to admit,

        I’ll admit it: a $30k EV with 600 miles of range? You’d be an idiot to not consider that, until it was proven to be bullshit and Elon was proven to be a full-on fascist.

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  • Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    At least the Wolkswagen was egineered properly. I don’t see anyone continuing to use this design after the war.

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    • oascany@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well that was designed by one of the GOATs - Ferdinand Porsche

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  • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Who the hell buys a cybertruck anyway ?

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    • Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Youtuber it seems.

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Obviously no one, hence the article.

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  • knighthawk0811@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Leon Skum is doing his best

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    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I thought you were talking about me for a hot second…

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    • droporain@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lol Lone Skum

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      • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Elong Pork

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  • xenomor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A couple weeks ago I drove past a Tesla dealership in Northern California. They must have had a dozen of these dumpsters lined up out front.

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  • JordanZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have they actually sold any for that little?

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    • ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Were people allowed to cancel orders due to that price hike?

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  • Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is this the one they let musk design? Feels like a Simpsons episode…

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  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Leon the Nazi can ask his dictator buddies, Abbott and the Orange Cockroach for a bailout.

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  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not even Hitler would buy one. He’s got too much self-respect than to associate with Elon.

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  • SDK@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Swasticar!

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are their brake problems again?

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  • hark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I am shocked they sold as many of them as they did. I get that there are mindless fans, but this is quite an expensive and ugly commitment to make.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Now if I could just get my 6YO to stop fawning over them.

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  • shikitohno@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Have they tried pulling out the “Make a vehicle that’s not a massive and shitty death trap,” or “Boot the Nazi from the company” stops? Because, I suspect doing those two might help it out.

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  • neineon77@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I remember posting about how a guy with a cybertruck would be an immediate no go for me and I was told by a guy I was being too judgy lol

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  • JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nazi truck.

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