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This is interesting to me

I watched some videos of Trevor Milton. He has ZERO signs he is faking

HOWEVER

A) Just because someone's body language and presentation is PERFECT doesn't mean they are telling the truth. They might have convinced themselves of the lie

B) The Truck Video is SUPER DODGY. It's shot from an angle that makes it impossible to tell what the incline angle is. It could VERY easily be just a truck with no engine rolling down a slight incline

C) The walkthroughs etc. Trevor Milton does are SUPER DODGY.

Elon Musk with Tesla talks about crazy things that might never happen (Full Auto Pilot Level 5 Driving) but half of the crazy stuff he DELIVERS

Trevor Milton seems to be just as good as Musk at promising things, but so far has not delivered anything

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On the one hand, it would be great if Nikola delivers a great truck

Competition for Tesla

Death to these parasitic short sellers

ON THE OTHER HAND

Don't see what exactly is the VALUE Nikola is providing. GM is building everything. So is Nikola's contribution selling a great story ???

It's like Musk's ability to sell stories, but lacking Musk's abilities to

A) get subsidies from the government B) actually deliver products

Trevor Milton and Nikola are getting money from the stock market. That comes with a lot of dangers which government contracts and subsidies do not



Did you believe short sellers are "parasites" before Elon Musk started ranting about them, or did you get this idea from him?




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