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[–] IlllIlllIlllIlllIllIIIIll@sh.itjust.works 49 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Oh no, the poor dealership owners might have to actually compete for once. My heart just bleeds for them. Hearing the NADA CEO say this is bad for consumers is the funniest thing I have read all week. Since when do these guys care about us? They spend all their time lobbying to make direct sales illegal so they can keep tacking on 10,000 dollar market adjustment fees for doing absolutely nothing.

The reality is that American car companies and their dealer cronies have completely abandoned the affordable car market. Everything on the lot right now is a 60,000 dollar emotional support tank. If a Chinese company wants to sell a basic, functional EV for a third of that price, why should I be forced to subsidize some local tycoon's third vacation home just to get a ride to work?

I am so tired of the fake concern. They aren't worried about the country or the industry. They are worried their parasitic business model is finally hitting a wall. If Canada is smart enough to let people actually buy what they want, we are going to look like idiots over here paying double for the privilege of being harassed by a salesman in a cheap suit.

[–] Seaguy05@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Don't forget their political aspirations!!

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[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I was confused too. This comment doesn't look too bad but given it's a 7 hour old account it made several multi-paragraph comments like this in a formulaic outrage-bait kinda way. This comment looks fine but the full comment history is pretty AI like

Full comment history: https://files.catbox.moe/uf48if.png

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough. Wish we'd get a reason something was removed though.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's what the modlog is for. You can check and see the given reason is "slop spam", it's very transparent.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Must not be something the app I use is capable of showing. Thanks. Didn't know they had that.

[–] enterpries@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, they're part of the problem.

We need new instances with better moderation.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Make one, or just some of the many existing ones. That's the beauty of federation.

[–] john_t@piefed.ee 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Un-american here. Does Canada have the same direct sales ban as the US? Same dealer lobby in both countries?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tesla does not use dealerships in Canada or US. Dealerships and insurance agents, brokers , real estate agents are are redundant leeches on society.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It was a fight though, and that’s probably still going on in some states. There were many lawsuits trying to block them. At one point Tesla was opening locations on native reservations to escape state level protections of car dealerships.

I think common sense won out, believe it or not. Given the dealership model, it makes some sense at least historically, to protect dealers from manufacturers. But when you have a manufacturer that doesn’t have dealerships and never had, where does your argument about protecting these non-existing dealers go?

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some states have a carve out for Tesla only.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Wow, 12! You’re right

And sure enough, searching for Rivian returns that they are only allowed to sell in 25 US states. It probably hasn’t mattered much with the R1 generation being relatively few sales but now that they’re coming out with R2 and R3, and expecting a lot more sales, they need a way around this

It’s ridiculous that any state would create a law for a single manufacturer: that needs to be fixed

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you write for a living? You should write for a living. 👌

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Was gonna say the same thing, evocative

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And now a mod removed the comment?! 😔

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Huh, well, it made good points anyhow, I guess the one thing it's decent at is fooling me every now and then lol

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

This community has an AI bot as a mod?