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[–] andyburke@fedia.io 119 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

At this point, if you drive a Tesla, I have a real hard time not thinking you like Nazis who hate freedom and minorities. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 101 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 51 points 3 weeks ago

fucking nazi scum trash

[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What a wonderful Roman Salute. πŸ’€

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

At least if someone drives a brand-new Tesla. I can kinda sympathise a little bit with people who bought theirs a couple of years ago before Elmo's antics became really obvious and are now struggling to get rid of it.

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I give a pass to most Tesla's because I don't know much about cars. The cyber dumpster drivers knew full well who he was before buying their Swasticars, and they get to see my social finger at every opportunity.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 weeks ago

Also, the cybertruck is objectively garbage on every front.

It failed at its original design, it failed at its current design, it failed at range, it failed at tow capacity, and more. It is objectively the worst vehicle in the sector it's trying to claim it is in.

Subjectively...fuck all of it.

[–] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I stopped giving a pass to most Tesla driver a couple of months ago when I realized they've all had plenty of time to sell their cars

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If Subaru starts committing genocide, selling my car now isn't going to hurt them, only me.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it -1 points 3 weeks ago

I thought you meant this Subaru

And was likw "hold on, i didn't knew he made cars"

Last Season spoiler of Re:ZeroYeah, okay, it's plausible a genocide atp, but a car?!

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[–] WaitThisIsntReddit@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Let's go through a list of products you use and see how many are created by evil people. Very easy game to play.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Selling a Tesla to another owner solves nothing, now you have a new owner you are hounding to sell it

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[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Ugh yeah, I'm an Uber driver and it being a cheap EV that also qualifies for comfort rides would really make my life better but I just can't support the Nazi. I'm kinda jazzed about the slate truck, but I'm sure it's bad for leftists someway somehow. Living under the thumb of capitalism is tough

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 15 points 3 weeks ago

Hey, wanna say 🀝 for being principled even when money is on the line, unlike some other responses in this thread.

And I agree that the Slate looks cool af. πŸ‘

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

Does a Hyundai qualify? I just got one of the Ioniq cars for a great deal and in my opinion, beats Tesla in every category.

[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

slate truck, but I’m sure it’s bad for leftists someway somehow

I'm not familiar with it. But what's its front-on visibility like? How many children can sit in a line in front of it before you can see them? How tall would someone have to be before a crash results in someone being knocked over the car, rather than being run over? (The former being generally much safer.) The problem with many of these types of vehicles that Americans call "trucks" is that their insanely tall bonnets make them insanely dangerous to pedestrians and cyclistsβ€”especially children.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You should do just the most basic research to understand how prejudgemental you are being. πŸ‘

[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not being prejudgmental, I'm asking a question, and explaining the reason the question is relevant.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

so..impossible to type Slate EV into search?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Slate is a compact Vehicle. Not an electric brodozer.

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My Hyundai EV is honestly very great, I got the kona

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 1 points 3 weeks ago

Bezos put money into this project, but it seems that he no longer has any representation on the board.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 1 points 3 weeks ago

This looks great, but it seems it's part owned by bezos? No thanks.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

just cover up the logos.

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

My car is 8 years old and paid off. I’m sorry we didn’t have many options 8 years ago and we didn’t know who he was. I’m glad I have an EV now because gas is crazy and my electricity is $0.13/kWh vs $5.50 for gas, even though I barely drive it since I live in a city now and take public transit, but my wife uses it to drive to work. I am not going to buy another tesla if we ever need another car.

But there’s no point in selling a car that we use at a loss right now. I don’t give him any money besides long distance trips with the superchargers, but every new EV uses the Tesla super chargers now.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 2 points 3 weeks ago

At least disable data collection.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Sell at a loss

You'll never not sell a car at a loss

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Um where have you been? With chip shortage and supply chain issues the dealers were phoning people up and offering more than they paid to get cars back.

A friend drove a van for 2 years and dealer bought it back over new price. . Used cars have been crazy prices too. A car you'd have paid $1800 for 6 years ago is now $6000 even with six years more

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 0 points 3 weeks ago

Saying "my principles have a price tag on them" sounded bad.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I bought mine before he went crazy. He has tweets after I purchased bragging about scoring high on lgbtq equality. Further, mine has lifetime free supercharging. The longer I have it the more I cost tesla money.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He was always a shitty person. Even in his adolescence.

He made fun of his classmate because his classmates father committed suicide. That classmate responded by shoving him down the stairs. Which honestly should have happened more.

He was always rotten to the core.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That may be, but that wasn't really well known then. Hell I haven't heard anything you claimed above until now.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Behind the Bastards did a segment on him about 7 or so years ago, which is how I found out about how shitty he was when he was younger.

This article I found on the stairwell incident:

https://www.news24.com/business/economy/elon-musk-made-hurtful-comment-to-fellow-pupil-who-left-him-hospitalised-father-says-20220602

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

We were this fucking close to answering the "What if baby Hitler was killed" question.

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

He was calling a heroic cave rescuer "pedo guy" for daring to beat him to rescuing children before his cool submarine was built... 8 years ago. And people back then weren't surprised how awful that was, because it had already been well publicized how fucking awful he is.

[–] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

He has always had some pretty shitty opinions about things and a shitty way of doing business. Tesla was basically stolen by Musk from the guys who founded it, then he tried to rewrite Tesla history and label himself as the soul founder, at which point the actual founders had to sue him to maintain their founder status, and that was all in 2009, so unless you tell me that you bought the Roadster in 2008, I have a really hard time believing you. Or you're one of those people that don't care about things until it's literally shoved in your face. But I digress. Sure you didn't know.

But what's stopping you from selling the one you have now, since you do know, now?

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because, as mentioned in my initial comment, it costs tesla money the longer I have it. If I sell it, the free supercharging won't go with it. While it's mine I can choose where to get repairs and avoid tesla service centers. That's not a guarantee if I sell it.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Tesla Roadster was just a Lotus with a retrofit electric motor. Without Elons cash they wouldn't have become what they are today. In effect he helped found a viable production car instead of staying as an aftermarket retro fit of another manufacturers car.

He's an absolute asshole douche, but I'm glad he brought Tesla to where it is, it forced all other ICE manufacturers to take EVs seriously.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Tesla Roadster was just a Lotus with a retrofit electric motor.

They worked with Lotus, but it only shares 6% of parts with the Elise. Musk wasn't at Tesla at that time.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

I bought mine before he went crazy.

Musk was an asshole since PayPal

[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You bought yours before 2018? Because that's the cut-off for when supporting anything Musk does was acceptable. Butting his way into an emergency situation offering "help" that lacked any awareness of what was actually needed, and getting so butthurt when told he wasn't helping that he accused the heroes actually saving children's lives of being paedophiles, and hiring PIs to try and track down dirt on them to that effect, is inexcusable. And then lying to a court to pretend that calling someone a paedophile is not a serious insult in South Africa, in order to win the defamation suit.

It was a prominent enough news event that unlike his many flaws from before then, Tesla owners cannot reasonably claim ignorance after 2018.

But anyone who genuinely did buy their Tesla before then is fine in my books. As winkerjadams says, selling your car now won't hurt them. Not enough to matter, anyway. (In theory, more people selling might reduce the resale value, which will reduce incentive for people to buy new, reducing Tesla's value. But I suspect that's a miniscule effect in the EV market.)

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yes. I bought it before his "pedo guy" tweet.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

My friend has a Tesla. He is absolutely this person.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I had a coworker that regularly pressured other people to buy Tesla. He succeeded in convincing two of his friends as well as his own daughter.

[–] Swuden@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I feel like most of the commenters in this thread would have an aneurysm if they took a drive on Norwegian roads.