Tesla (TSLA) announces 336,681 deliveries, far worse than expected

From another perspective, because you drive a symbol of the new authoritarian state armed state enforcers essentially offered to target people at your discretion and it reinforced your acceptance of state propaganda.

I'm not sure you realize it but in that moment you were given the opportunity to destroy the lives of any scapegoated person/group you could locate in the vicinity.

The administration has sought the most extreme charges and punishments possible for Tesla-related dissent, even advocating sending American citizens to CECOT. The ability to wield immense state violence in this fashion is worth protesting against!

I find your story a harrowing tale of how our new fascist state seeks to wield violence against the citizenry.

Sell your car. You're driving around a swastika with wheels.

for some reason both posts got flagged...

I think Denver's status as a hub for IT, Telco, Aviation/Aerospace may skew things a bit, but the town is _lousy_ with Tesla products. Cybertruck included.

And I think this period of time is going to be underscored by the guilt of good products helmed by questionable people. Musk, J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, all have either produced or led thousands of people to produce good things. And then they got rich enough to let their filter drop? I dunno how to exactly phrase it.

Model 3 and Y have composed of 95%+ of Tesla’s deliveries for at least a few years. No serious analysis would have concluded Cybertruck to be anything other than a rounding error.

One view of this is HN sports two ranking algorithms: the front page and /active. A few months after discovering /active, I found I was not looking at the front page. I've come to the conclusion it's gamed (not by HN of course, but the various tribes flighting for attention), and yes the primary mechanism for that is flagging.

Having two ranking algorithms is very bluesky'ish in some ways, and thank $DIETY it does. The front page reminds me of other sites that have voting systems. I don't know how to describe it - but I get the sense they all tend to favour articles the tribes like fighting about. /active has much less of that feel.

The comments on HN also suffer from the same tribal warfare effect - with the comments the tribes like fighting over rising to the top. That isn't so bad - because it means you can often just skip the top couple of comments to go fossicking for the insightful gems.

Criticizing Telsa is permitted

Elektrec is Fred's blog and he went from the biggest tesla fanboi to Tesla critic the day that Elon told him to knock it off. It is in general poor opinion blogging masquerading as a news website.