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My friend's father bought a 2025 Tesla after my friend begged him not to, but a boomer's gotta boomer. Suffice to say, it hasn't gone well for him, so the man went and put this decal on his car. My brother in Christ, you are driving a freshly redesigned car. Nobody is going to believe your swastikar is pre-COVID.
Elon went crazy in 2018 at the latest (the Thai cave rescue thing). Anybody who bought one of his cars after that knew what they were getting into.
Depends on, I personally know otherwise very political people who didn't know about the Thai cave rescue controversy, while others still think he's "just a bit upset that his child transitioned", because they read "non-loony lefty sources", that downplay his transphobia.
Ok, I'll rephrase: Anybody who bought one of his cars after that only has themselves to blame for being ignorant and shouldn't expect any absolution from me.
I saw this sticker on a 90s Ranger the other day and almost spat out my coffee.
Elon was always a crazy racist cunt. You never bought it before he went crazy. There was no before.
General public sentiment was very positive around 7-8yr ago. We know you're very smart and special for disliking him before that, but that doesn't change the fact that most people liked him still.
For my part I got off the train after those kids that got trapped in the cave.
Yeah calling the rescuer pedoguy was what did it for me, also yeah, get off your high horse.
I disliked him before that, but that was more like "he overworks his employees and there's lots of injuries because he prioritizes aesthetics over safety in his factories", not like "he's a full blown nazi".
Back then you could convince yourself the end justifies the means, but one could no longer justify that stance after his Twitter addiction fully took hold. Which was around the time he called that cave diver a pedo.
He was always a grifter type. He created an entire company "Boring company" just to undermine the highspeed rail projects.
Elon was always crazy and it was so obvious.
I feel like around 2018 with the mini sub and insisting it be used to save those boys in the cave was a big turning point in the public perception. Maybe more of an inflection point.
Yeah, the "pedo guy" comment was completely revealing. That's not just a moment of weakness or slip of the mind. Thems the words if a verified sociopathic narcissist.
To me it was when he started to sell bullshit and didn't deliver that it became clear he's a lying piece of shit. So when I first heard about him. When he forced himself into important positions while being horrible in everything he did except for hyping up dumb people who gave him their money. He's a sleazy salesman who has shown time and time again he will do anything at any cost to achieve his goal, which consists of money, fame and power. He doesn't care about the people he harms or deceive. He doesn't have great ideas himself, he steals other's ideas and claims them as his own. And this showed when he pushed himself into the tesla company and he became a more public figure, or at least to me he did. I never trusted the guy, I always warned people about him because he's a lying charlatan. Looking back at older footage of him, it also shows clearly (with the whole old X - PayPal disaster which he lies about, or the game he copied). If anyone thinks he wasn't crazy before, they are just dumb and/or extremily ignorant.
He took all the credit for Tesla and sued the guys that started the company so that only his name was attached to it. I remember reading about the Lotus based Tesla before I knew about him.
The original creators of the Tesla car were engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who founded Tesla Motors in 2003. While they were the company's founders, Elon Musk became the company's first major investor in 2004 and was later granted co-founder status after a lawsuit settlement, which also included other early executives like J.B. Straubel and Ian Wright.
Less obvious if your not paying attention to him and only hear things about him from his fans...or atleast back in 2017. Now it's basically impossible not to notice he's a twat
Honestly I feel sorry for anybody driving an older Tesla. I remember maybe 8, 9 years ago i had a long talk with some guy who owned the first (?) model, and I have to admit we shared the enthusiasm. Wasn't many E-cars on that level back then.
I didn't follow Musk in the media and I missed the Thai cave rescue & pedo calling disaster, so it took me a few months longer to start to realize what sort of person he really is. When exactly? Must've been before he bought Twitter. Sometime during Trump1.0.
And then it all came in like a retroactive flood. How he stole Tesla from the people who really started it, how delusional all his space projects are, how deeply corrupt/entwined he's always been with the government...
But I don't like those stickers, no matter how old the Tesla is.
Tesla is not the only option anymore.
If you're serious you sell it. I know you can get other e-cars relatively cheaply nowadays, much cheaper than a new Tesla. So, what would the resell value be on any Tesla?
I plunked down $1000 sight-unseen in March 2016 for a first-run Model 3. I had driven a Model S (no way I could afford one) and was obsessed with Tesla. I finally received my 3 in early 2018 (I believe) and loved that car like a newborn baby. I was a rockstar in the area, people wanted to see it. Kids wowed when I drove by. The future of transport was looking bright and I was at the forefront.
Over time, Elon’s actions became more unhinged, and for a while I had the “separate the art from the artist” attitude. The Salute was the final straw. I had gotten more and more embarrassed by my car as it symbolized everything I hated, due simply to the actions of the insane CEO. When he helped elect Trump and became butt buddies with him, I knew my car’s days in my garage were limited. I sold it to Carvana for $18300 and bought a used Audi for the same price.
Man, I miss that car. It was everything I wanted. The FSD web of lies pissed me off, but the car was objectively great.
I have a reservation for a Rivian R2 now and I can’t wait to get it. I’m getting the same feeling all over again. So, what I guess I’m saying is, please RJ Scaringe don’t turn into a Nazi.
Even people who have no issue with Musk put these on their cars. They know Musk is unpopular and do this to avoid vandalism.
I have no respect for anyone who drives a Tesla at this point. I would have sold mine already on principle, if I had one, no matter how old it was.
I did have one pre-covid and I sold it shortly after he started going right-wing maga. The fun part was I sold it during the chip shortage. So I got more than I paid for it.
What is supposed to be done with the cars that already exist? Tossing them in the junkyard or destroying them won't make anything better. They can still be used for their purpose.
But don't buy a new one.
I see that, but resale values have probably tanked, and not everyone has the disposable income to just switch cars whenever they want.
it's wild because even if you take elon out of it teslas still look like ass
Irregular panel gaps on a new car fresh out the factory is crazy work
Yeah, omg, how it's this still a thing (better than the older models, but still).
The production value on not-that-cheap cars is bad, but folks just don't care?
(It used to be that ppl thought fancy or rugged cars were fancy/rugged bcs of how they were built, not bcs someone in an ad told them so even after they've seen the car irl.)
It's like the industry didn't learn anything from Toyota's infamous entry into the USA production market.
He was always crazy
I knew he was nuts pre pandemic and that's when we had nut jobs worshiping him. Knew bout his transphobia against his kid etc.
Awareness has risen substantially.
Lefty people dont know about tesla models, so this wont be completely ineffective.
Lefties think he was always bad.
I kind of think this is valid. If you have a Tesla, you need to apologize for it
I'm not getting down in the weeds, seeing when you got the Tesla and how that pans out. I don't care, maybe you have your reasons. I don't know you
But it is not optional to disavow Elon
but buying it in 2025, and trying to make it look like you bought it like years ago, is cope on the fathers end.
asians are super ignorant of elon and have generally positive views of him, despite what he as done, ive seen alot of asian people buy it the cybertruck after twitter purchase, most are techworkers too. thier one of those "im not political types" or SOcial media unawareness. im from asian heavy area thats the general feeling im getting from these people.