add them to the list of collaborators
Al the rich people are selfish fascist cunts, change my mind.
As an Al assistant I can confirm most rich people are selfish fascists cunts. To change your mind, I could allude to cases where people have not become rich due to selfish exploitative practices:
Lottery Winners
Lottery winners are chosen from a pool of people who become rich through chance, and would not necessarily be selfish fascists cunts.
Accidental Leprechaun Vehicular Manslaughter
Running over a leprechaun would allow you to obtain possession of his pot of gold while sparring the world of their mischief.
People named Rich
People named Rich are Rich, and would not necessarily be selfish fascists cunts.-
Remember the CEO of Nissan got into a box and fled Japan to avoid prosecution.
Wow, he's really not reading the country very well is he? 2020, that was a 50/50 move, piss off half the country, earn the support from half of it. (again just talking on a purely business strategy), unless the millitary is about to buy a shitload of toyota's, I don't see how this isn't a horrific play.
They're a Japanese brand known for cheap, reliable, sensible cars, do they expect loyalty from the Make America Great Again crowd?
Except in North America, where a huge focus is on trucks. Just look at how some dipshit chud in Twitter got them to scrub a ton of their LGBT and DEI stuff by posting about their "woke" trucks when their did a pride flag Tacoma. They desperately want to take that market share as it's far, far more profitable than stuff like the Camry.
These people are living in a different world than the rest of us. He IS reading the room, but we aren't even in the room that he's reading.
Japan has a new far-right-populist/Maga adjacent government. I'm sure that also plays into it somehow - both on Trump's side ("let's give good deals to our friends in spirit") and the CEO reading the room nationally. My first thought here is therefore opportunism, in its slimiest form.
Time to add Toyota to the list of companies I am now boycotting. Fuck it's getting to the point where I will need to live in the wilderness and make all my own shit from scratch, and ride a horse and buggy.
Yeah it really is.
Im getting a bit nutty about it. Every time someone mentions starlink I rage a little bit and its hard to resist a rant.
This is a really fucking weird time to board the trump train. Like, right now is ESPECIALLY a weird time in particular.
Sad to hear as a long time Toyota fan, but really not that impactful personally. The cars from Toyota have really dropped off quality wise post 2019, and used market purchases don't give any money to the company.
oh my god why
What do you mean why? Companies exist to make money not support moral causes or take a stand.
If Trump's replaced by leftist or whatever companies will change their tune immediately in the other direction. They don't care about being hypocritical and they don't give a shit that you are boycotting because the demented Dorito is a bigger threat to their bottom line at the moment.
Might as well wear a shirt that says I like money and whore myself for it.
The thing is he's going to ruin his company in the longer term. So they're not even really making money sustainably.
Longer term? Sustainably? What are those words? I like money!
Welcome to modern capitalism, where long term sustainable gains are second to short term profit, and destroying a company for the latter is considered "financial genius".
I'm currently considering new vehicles, and Toyotas have won the debate numerous times over the last 40 years, but they are now out of consideration until this CEO is gone. I don't support Traitors or Pedophiles, nor those who do.
I know Toyota shit the bed on EVs, but is this their actual plan to move forward? Suck up to Trump and hope he favors you while punishing your competitors?
Plan then seems also to be to massively loose market share in Europe, like Tesla did already...
This is satire, right?
Right?
I saw this the other day and thought he was making fun of maga. But now I don't know. Honda or shit, even Nissan at this point..the Pathfinder is like 8k below MSRP by me. For a bigger car and V6 compared to a 4runner.
I'm with you. After that stupid stunt, I will look at the Nissan, Honda and Mazda selection. Toyota is scratched off the list.
Yup. And my wife was set on the new 4runner SR5. Which was always risky because #1 it's a turbo, it will always be more unreliable than an NA. With Honda and Nissan keeping their V6s, nissan with their ZF 9speed auto trans on Pathfinder, Frontier, Armada and Titan. Honda with their Honda 10speed auto and also keeping V6 on Pilot and Passport. It's a tough choice between the two.
I mean, Asian culture does seem to have an unhealthy fascination with Nazis.
As early as 2000, Time did a piece on the country’s Third Reich–themed bars. That trend never fully took off, but it’s still fairly common for Korean teens to cosplay as Gestapo agents.
Known widely as Nazi chic, it’s different from the skinhead or punk swag you find in the West. The trend stretches beyond Korea—in China it was fashionable to dress up like Nazi officers in wedding photos, and a Hong Kong store once hung Nazi banners throughout their shop. In India, a Hitler boutique (with a swastika dotting the i) opened in Ahmedabad in 2012. In Indonesia, Soldatenkaffee, a bar named after a Parisian Nazi hangout and decked out with Hitler quotes and Third Reich flags, has (despite a temporary closure due to outrage) operated in Bandung since 2011; the Indonesia pop star Ahmad Dhani recently performed at a rally for 2014 presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto in Nazi regalia.
But the worst offender in Asia is Thailand. In 2007, some Thai students had a Nazi-themed parade, and in 2012 a school held an SS sports rally. Some Thai language books that use Hitler in their exercises, and a Bangkok KFC knockoff briefly called itself Hitler and used the Führer’s face in place of Colonel Sanders’s. In 2013, the country’s top university had to apologize when students painted a giant mural of superheroes that included Hitler, with which they posed Sieg Heil-ing. And naturally they have Nazi-themed pop groups as well.
And these are only the major, international-headline-drawing cases. From Cambodia to Japan to Myanmar, it’s fairly common to encounter vendors in markets selling swastika-adorned bike helmets, T-shirts featuring Hitler’s mustachioed mug, and Ché-esque Adolf posters of all sorts.
Infront of a Ford too...
Honda is still being normal at least, right?
I was hesitating between Toyota and Mazda for my next car. Looks like it's going to be Mazda.
I just wish Mazda would release an electric version of the Mazda 3. They do produce some electric SUVs, but mostly for Asian markets. Not everyone wants an SUV though!
I'll be sad when I'm finally forced to replace my Mazda 6. This all SUVs all the time nonsense needs to stop. I'm surprised they haven't discontinued the Mazda 3 at this point.
Okay, so as someone with 2 small kids and in the market for a replacement car, the Toyota Sienna is the high mark across available minivans. It being a hybrid was attractive. What do people recommend as an alternative?
Honda
Crossing Toyota off the list of potential next cars
Reminds of a scene in Saving Private Ryan when the US soldiers captured a German POW, and the POW started blabbing American pop cultural references like Steam boat Willy, Betty Boo, he said I like America and then sanf the Star Spangled Banner so he won't be shot.
Are we Trump's prisoner then?
God fucking dammit.
Very glad I got a honda instead. Got it used so it's not like I'm supporting either company but still
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