Comments by "Golden Croc" (@GoldenCroc) on "Real Mercy VA Responds to Elon Musk" video.

@jstandards766 Nah, hes not wrong at all, in the post as its written. So how did he drink the "cool aid"? It was a reasonable post. Seems more than likely you are the one not knowing, just plain misreading, or having an agenda, which seems more "cringe" to me...
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@yt_nh9347 The virtue of disavowing what your leaders say you should. Showing loyalty and fealty. By public disapproval of a person ones leaders have told you is "bad". Its conceptually exactly the same as with Christians and the devil, or Judas. Not really that hard to grasp, is it? Do you even know what concepts are or did you just learn about them?
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@refugeehugsforfree4151 They are the definition of underpriced, actually. i.e sold below cost to manufacture for the longest time, and even today with the price cut sold at margins most outher auto manufacturers cant afford. The words you are looking for are "Too expensive for my wallet/taste" which might be true, but its not "overpriced". Its a common "mistake" for people to willfully mix these things up these days.
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@TheRacingJoker Its nothing new (muscle cars often had questionable drum brakes, dont get me started on the chassies dynamics) and the vaaast majority of customers dont care. There are lots of other examples throughout every decade. I will explain what I meant some more: Its a common car enthusiast fallacy to think every or even most car thats fast is driven by people that are going to go fast or even care about it. This is very far from the truth. Most are bought by affluent people wishing to show off. Most Ferraris see an average lifetime speed of lower than almost every other car on the road, courtesy of their owners being mostly in big congested cities crawling between the stoplights down to the cafe. Tesla Plaid is even worse in that regard. The car is too heavy to keep its tires alive during tracking, and the battery runs out very fast if you use the power. Most customers crawl around L.A and get up to 10 above the speed limit on an on ramp or between stop lights. Thats it. The standard brakes are more than good enough for them. Battery techinology is not at the point were tracking a Plaid is anything more than a meme, done by auto testers/youtubers to make a fun video. "No one" does it seriously in the real world.
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@TheRacingJoker Its really not an oversight, its a cost decision. Just about literally no one tracks their plaid, no auto manufacturer is going to put in a several thousand dollar part on a mass produced car to please waaaay less than 0.1% of the customers. Its a "car enthusiast mindset" fallacy to think it matters to customers. They brakes are more than adequate for the driving most of their customers do, and for those that like to have a bit more, the ceramics are an option.
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@yt_nh9347 For anyone with a bit of experience or who isnt willfully ignorant, her objective is as transparent as a fresh pane of glass, its not speculative or projecting at all. Level 1 Basic psychology and biology, This kind of pledge is part of human DNA since before humans were humans. As I said, its part of every religion or group there ever was. It doesnt have to be wrong, but its irrelevant to the subject. Again, as said above. The "leaders" are just that, leaders of our society, specifically the USA in this context. I did not assume she was ordered to do anything, what gave you that impression? She is doing it of her own volition, thats what displaying fealty is all about. I dont see how your last sentence of your post is relevant to the discussion at hand, but sure. Of course not. She inserted the part of the post pertaining to "tesla" as a virtue signal. Thats it. Thats what the discussion was about. By the way, your post seems/might be hidden, only accesible from my notifications. Be careful to not fall afoul of youtube guidelines regarding wording.
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@a-my9ql I am "pretty good at car engineeering"... yeah they are not very good compared to many other manufacturers, certainly their older models. This is true. They are a bit better these days, but still below average. However, why bring it up in this context? Makes no sense... unless its just an empty virtue signal. I know what I think.
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@a-my9ql One can certainly suspect they dont have any statistical data of the sort, nor interest in it, no. But its more the non sequitur of bringing it up in the first place thats the tell. Its totally irrelevant in the context, so why bring it up? The likely answer is clear; to virtue signal. I have quite a bit car engineering experience, but thats not really necessary in this case. Just being able to access and read data of various kinds pertaining to the cars is enough. Doesnt even have to be very granular. You will find I am one of the least biased people making comments on youtube when it concerns vehicles, if I do say so myself. Not a particularly high bar though... What I do is pretty well summed up in my channel info text. Somethings are good, some things are bad with every vehicle, none is perfect, none is totally bad. And, of course, its all in what the customer expects themselves. If there is anything specific you want to know, let me know and I will answer to the best of my ability.
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@refugeehugsforfree4151 Nope, EVs have some of the lowest profit margins to prodoce of any cars,, because of the high development cost and the cost of the raw materials and parts that go into them. I dont have to pretend anything, I know what I am talking about, both when it comes to manufacture of cars, economics, and the linguistics part of the wording. You seem to mix the things up I just explained how it works. Just because something costs a lot of money, doesnt make it overpriced. I can sell a 1 lbs bar of gold for 10 grand. Thats a lot of money to people, and they would have no real use for that bar of gold. But it would be a serious underprice considering thousand of buyers would pay much more in an instant if they could buy it. Same with most EVs, they have much lower profit margins than say most ICE SUvs or Trucks. Thats how it works.
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