Tesla dealerships are getting protested and, in some cases, vandalized. Sales are down on 9 of the top 10 countries Tesla sells in. Yet Tesla stock is up. Twitter is a cesspool of nazi-themed bots, and somehow just pulled in $1bn and raised its valuation back up to $44bn.

How is any of this possible? It seems really artificial to me, but I don’t really understand business.

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    We don’t want Chinese dumping their cars and leading to the loss of even more manufacturing jobs in North America and Europe.

    Who is this we, here? I want this. The people employed in these manufacturing jobs are not people I am concerned about.

    When China gets bored with subsidizing our economy, we can spin up new state of the art facilities.

    We are being sold a lump go fear, uncertainty and doubt around this stuff by the people who profit off these industries.

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      227 days ago

      You’re not concerned about the people around you that won’t be able to afford anything? You’re not concerned about the cost for society? You’re not concerned about the fact that you’re exciting jobs to another country that is now a monopoly that can just increase prices however it feels like because other countries don’t have any alternatives? You’re not concerned about a country you depend on turning around and becoming your enemy?

      If you’re not concerned about any of that you don’t understand much of the world around you buddy.

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        27 days ago

        Yes, that’s exactly why I’m for allowing countries that can do it cheaper to import their goods. It’s cheaper for everyone.

        No one is owed a job, using the government to project jobs and profits cost us all. It is corporation socialism sold with the slogan, “think of the workers” – the fact that the right pushes for this agenda is a huge fucking red flag. They pick and choose the workers they pretend to care about and every single time it’s because there is a huge opportunity to extract profit from labor.

        I think the peoblem here is I understand the world more than you. I didn’t use such a silly appeal to make my position because I use logical and you used feelings and insults.