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Comment by cowmix | Hacker News Reader

The best pronoun joke, ever.

It could be, except it's not factually correct (and an element of truth is necesssary for good humor). GP was talking about Tesla, not about Elon. The correct pronoun for a company is surely "they"

It could be, or you could consider it to be like a ship, in which case it is she!

ha! I stand corrected :-)

The most amusing to me is that British English considers a company a collective noun, and says "Apple are going to make an iPod" whereas the US considers it a singular entity and says "Apple is going to make an iPod".

heh, great point, I never noticed that, but now I don't think I can unsee it. Consistency ftw

Shouldn't be "it" ? for the company itself

It’s commonly “they”

For example: “Meta released a new product, they (Meta) are calling it …”

WHOOSH! You're completely missing the point that it's all Elon's fault, not his company's. GP was incorrect to blame Tesla for Musk's own failures. Blaming the destruction and undermining and toxicity on "them" is obfuscating the true cause, and smearing hard working innocent people, who didn't just shoot off their big fat racist mouths like Elon did.

Nobody else at Tesla made Nazi salutes, and publicly bullied, abused, and humiliated their own daughter, and perpetrated DOGE's destruction and corruption. Tesla ("they") had nothing to do with any of that, but suffered from Elon doing it.

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