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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.
Musk was an asshole since PayPal
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.
That may be, but that wasn't really well known then. Hell I haven't heard anything you claimed above until now.
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.
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
We were this fucking close to answering the "What if baby Hitler was killed" question.
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?
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.
You're keeping it to protect it from the real Nazis? Come on, dude. You have done mental summersault to avoid selling your swasticar.
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.
They worked with Lotus, but it only shares 6% of parts with the Elise. Musk wasn't at Tesla at that time.
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.)
Yes. I bought it before his "pedo guy" tweet.