No, the first one is true. It's the copycat comment that is vacuous and doesn't even make any sense -- "in the right" has a clear meaning, "in the left" is nonsense.
Let's go check on the cautionary tales of the Tesla shorts.... poor folks, we let them run around in the yard of the asylum without a fence because they have lost the motivation even to run away. They just keep mumbling about PE ratios....
From my perspective it's more of a "stay away" type of stock (short or not). The price is not supported by business finance fundamentals, and seems to be pushed upward via the retail market, driven by Elon's gift for selling futurism to the masses. To me, the value of Musk's companies is dangerously dependent on one single person, in a way that I can't think of for any other current company. It makes "investment" in the company more speculative, and closer to other "retail mass" phenomena like "meme stocks" or cryptocurrency.
As an example here, in the 2022 (relatively mild) stock market downturn, when the S&P 500 gave back about 20%, TSLA dropped from a peak in the low 400s, to a low of 122... roughly a 70% drop peak to peak. It's back to ~400 now, and it could go higher again. But, in the next downturn, it could go a lot lower.
We can print more money, but it's not about "affording" it, the money printing at most changes the value of the dollar (i.e. inflation/deflation).
The rest of the world wants dollars, and as long as they do, the US benefits massively from that demand, and it would be foolish not to satisfy that demand, as it's pure benefit to the US.
It seems that many are devoted to ending the status of the dollar as the reserve currency of the world, but it's a strange and subversive thing for any US resident to want or desire.
I struggle to believe there isn’t a significant fraction of EU citizens who are frustrated with the EU’s laws.
At the very least to the extent that the whole setup limits national sovereignty.
Your comment comes across as though you expect us to believe EU citizens are a homogenous whole, who happen to align with your perspective on this matter.
As someone who’s now switched over completely to USB-C and has saved money and reduced cable complexity incredibly, even if I ever get mad at the EU it will never be over Apple, which has time and again demonstrated itself to be an incredibly bad faith actor.
They complain about things their competitors are able to implement with no problems at all, and then once their tantrums are not sustainable anymore, they’re apparently able to solve all the problems as well.
For a company that sells itself as a design + engineering firm, they seem to have very little confidence in their ability to design or engineer their ways around constraints pretty much everyone else is able to.
On the contrary, it reads to me like they've simply been around, and this is the general impression they gathered. Which may still not even be true, but it makes a whole lot more sense context wise, and is pretty darn different to the conveniently malicious motivation you're proposing. And with this, now your own "royal we" is similarly rendered deceptive.
> At the very least to the extent that the whole setup limits national sovereignty.
That's how anything grouplike works indeed.
> I struggle to believe there isn’t a significant fraction of EU citizens who are frustrated with the EU’s laws.
Sounds like something that'd have polling data coverage?
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These two statements are equally as vacuous.
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