• Ledivin@lemmy.world
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    They’re buying 2 (along with 31 other vehicles) to make sure that our bombs blow them up. They will, and that’s all that’s going to happen.

    There are enough real issues rn that y’all really need to do better at avoiding these distractions…

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    I don’t think you need to test blowing them up. They’ve already lost if they’re using them.

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    Or Elmo just has a lot of overstock to spare because of his shenanigans and his fellow tecnofacists and investors are having our government buy them at top dollar to prop up the house of cards that is Tesla meme stock

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    ISIS: So we switch to cybertrucks then?

    ISIS 2: Can’t handle heat and sand.

    Boko Haram: So we switch to cybertrucks?

    BH 2: Can’t handle water.

    Cartels: So we switch to Cybertrucks?

    Cartels 2: Toyotas are cheaper.

    IDF: Cybertrucks?

    IDF 2: Starving GaZa is cruel enough without torturing their eyes, too.

    Edit: Ya’ll Quieda: Cybertrucks?

    Ya’ll Quieda 2: Hell yeah! They piss off the libs!

    Ya’ll Quieda 3: But God Emperor Trump hates them now!

    Ya’ll Quieda 2: Trump hates them but the libs hate them??? I DUNNO WHAT TO DO???

    Edit 2:

    Russia: Cybertrucks?

    Russia 2: Better than what we current—

    Ukraine : Got one!!!

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      The military already know you can’t do anything to stop a Hilux. They’re just trying for better numbers in their testing now.

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      I feel like the IDF2 one is more like “the small bodies of starved palestinian children get stuck between the panels and are difficult to remove”

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    This is 100% initiated by Elon to sell trucks to the airforce and as a bonus project an image that the cybertruck is viable for something like that. It laughably isn’t and can also easily be tracked. Off road isn’t really possible either from what I gathered.

    Hard to think of a worse vehicle for that purpose actually.

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      it is a perfectly viable strategy to get one’s enemies to buy that flaming rubbish bin Elon calls a truck.

      He’s probably motivated by greed, but low key, it’s a brilliant strategy.

      Oh. wait. he wants our airforce to buy them? shit.

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      The purchase order is for (2) CyberTrucks, among a group of 33 vehicles total. Here is thought they found a way to ease the glut in the used market…

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      It also has a tiny range compared to like the Silverado EV or Hummer.

      It’s been proven to be laughably easy to break in various ways.

      A 50 cal round will go right through it and into the battery. Then it’s just about being patient while it self immolates.

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    “How did it go?” “We fired the cannon and the vehicle exploded, and it’s still burning now.” “So the test was a success?” “Actually, we missed. It just did that.”

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      I’m the coming civil war, they believe the MAGA Army will use Cybertrucks, so it’s best to prepare a defence against them.

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      1. Create fake research program on fighting against cybertrucks, keep it cheap
      2. Make statement that enemies might want this car
      3. Enemies, confused and intrigued by that statement, start a war cybertruck research program
      4. Enemies start buying american cars for testing
      5. Either they quickly decide to start to use them, or they keep spending money trying to figure out what we were thinking with that public statement

      As long as you keep the program cheap by only buying a few and not spending to many man hours, you can come out ahead. Either way, it’s an American car, money comes back to our economy.

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      Yeah weird sentence. It reads as stating fact about the subject of the sentence, the cyber truck - referred to by “it” but then continues to walk that back and say “may transition to”.

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        fixed:

        “it is likely the type of vehicles used by the enemy, the enemy may transition to Tesla Cyber trucks”

        And I do think that the enemies of your democracy are already the one buying those monstrosity

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    So the massive surplus of cybertrucks that have just been sitting for months are finally getting a buyer huh?

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    ‘it is likely the type of vehicles used by the enemy may transition to Tesla Cyber trucks’

    Please explain your reasoning in great detail and at length. Go on. We’ll wait.

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        What if aliens come by and fix everything, including assassinating the fascist with legal command of the military.

        https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/30/military-veterans-remain-a-republican-group-backing-trump-over-harris-by-wide-margin/

        That’s a near supermajority of the veterans, including the dipshits who volunteered for Bush’s Crusade. The troops are younger, dumber, and in the middle of professional standard bootlicker training.

        There’s enough sane vets to form a training core for the Army of the Republic in that civil war but it’ll be nasty.

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          Well, your scenario is about as likely as Cybertrucks becoming the standard platform for technicals…

          (My weaksauce scenario is unrealistic but still the best explanation for why the army would need to train shooting at Cybertrucks. Other than, you know, obvious grift.)

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        I’m sure whatever the AF are intending to ‘test’ will work just fine on the few CTs that might still be operational six months hence, prior testing or not. We’re talking about a car that can be stopped in its tracks by light snowfall or being left outside in mild rain. I’m no expert, but somehow I don’t think a quick burst of 30 mm PGU-14/B armor-piercing incendiary rounds or a Hellfire missile will experience any issues.

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          Of course realistically this serves no purpose other than transferring some money from the DOD to Musk. But we can try to make up some slightly less depressing explanation…

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    Tesla can’t even sell these dumpster coffins to all the Muskrats because nobody can afford them.

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    They going to haul a diesel generator around with them like that cybertruck arctic expedition?