1) Let's talk about Tesla's China strategy. There's a few questions here - why did the Chinese government actively encourage them to set up in Shanghai? What's in it for Tesla? Why is Tesla continously discounting their cars?
Spoiler alert: $TSLA go brrr
Sales increased and the EV market steady grew
Chinese government hardened their resolve.
Similar to Baidu, complacency was a killer.
Similar to how introducing Apple and Samsung brought up Xiaomi, One Plus and Oppo, they decided to introduce foreign competition from the best EV brand there was - Tesla.
Tesla's domestic model 3 constantly sells out (and is 65% cheaper than US model) and Tesla is estimated to have ~20% of the Chinese EV market right now.
Chinese consumers love it, they love how cool Musk is and by extension how cool the car is. They don't have Twitter
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That suggests there is still SOME grassroots support for democracy that transcends
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5/OK, now the bad news.
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To me, the most important aspect of the 2018 midterms wasn't even about partisan control, but about democracy and voting rights. That's the real battle.
2/The good news: It's now an issue that everyone's talking about, and that everyone cares about.
3/More good news: Florida's proposition to give felons voting rights won. But it didn't just win - it won with substantial support from Republican voters.
That suggests there is still SOME grassroots support for democracy that transcends
4/Yet more good news: Michigan made it easier to vote. Again, by plebiscite, showing broad support for voting rights as an
5/OK, now the bad news.
We seem to have accepted electoral dysfunction in Florida as a permanent thing. The 2000 election has never really
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— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 16, 2018