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On another board I would usually respond to something like this with "not your personal army"...

• DiabloD3 13y ago
  And you would be downvoted on Reddit as well. Tesla is a distruption success story that can be repeated by other companies, and the only thing holding them back is out of date government lack-of-regulation. Regulation merely means to make regular, and this "regulation" makes it so only the biggest and richest car companies be able to sell cars under the guise of "franchised dealerships that are local businesses", that really have very little ability to operate as an independent business. The laws reguarding dealerships only drive prices up by forcing the existence of a middle man whos only job is to represent the interests of Detroit (ironic, seeing as our cars are made in China and Mexico now, instead of in the US). tl;dr: Tesla may make cars, but they are the kind of disruption Silicon Valley yerns for.
  • brownbat 13y ago
    I feel like the political parties both tend to focus on federal regulations as a source of harm or vehicle for change. The state and local regulations, those are where all the heavy lifting is done. There's some utter nonsense there, all brought to you by the parties' respective farm teams. EDIT: Put another way, I'm a left-leaning moderate, but shit like this makes me want to beatify John Galt.