Yup the actual overriding philosophy of south park is "if you care about anything youre dumb"
Like most libertarians their core belief is "I should be able to say or think whatever I want without consequences like 'people pointing out I'm stupid'."
The only issue is that car manufacturers are doing the same thing. Make it look like a Tesla, but it doesn't have an engine so we don't need to worry about anything else, but shiny luxury looking. And now it's an EV. It's unfortunate Tesla set the standard.
💯 the tariffs aren't even the issue. You could sell Chinese EVs at the same cost as everything else and they still would be #1. It's that they still aren't street legal.
Makes perfect sense when you see some of the build quality.
Why buy some shoddy slapped together EV at luxury prices when actual car manufacturers have EV options.
Elon was truly benefitting from being the best of one.
Before tesla the only electri option was a prius which was practically inviting harassment.
South Park made a whole episode at the peak of its popularity that prius drivers were worse than climate change because of how smug they were.
Wild that he decided to go full in on trying to get the approval of people who thought that episode was hilarious while trying to sell electric cars.
Once again Matt Stone and Trey Parker want people to not care about anything except the petty personal battles that Matt Stone and Trey Parker wage.
Yup the actual overriding philosophy of south park is "if you care about anything youre dumb"
Like most libertarians their core belief is "I should be able to say or think whatever I want without consequences like 'people pointing out I'm stupid'."
The genX vibe was "caring about things is uncool"
"Generation Meh" had material comfort, with primarily boredom as its primary source of discontent.
Once they got older and "got theirs" most of them became junior boomers.
Absolute free speech for narcissistic treatbrained vulgar hedonists that want freedom from consequences.
If they're rich enough, they get exactly that.
The only issue is that car manufacturers are doing the same thing. Make it look like a Tesla, but it doesn't have an engine so we don't need to worry about anything else, but shiny luxury looking. And now it's an EV. It's unfortunate Tesla set the standard.
AMERICAN car manufacturers are doing that.
Which is why we have to have 100% tarries on Chinese EVs.
Because they'd kill like two or three different domestic markets.
They'd be the most popular electric car, most popular sedan and most popular commuter vehicle.
💯 the tariffs aren't even the issue. You could sell Chinese EVs at the same cost as everything else and they still would be #1. It's that they still aren't street legal.
Because we are very careful to make sure they aren't street legal through legislation.
The fucking cybertruck is street legal, giant pick up trucks with blind spots lager than children are street legal.