really? in Cali? I have to be curious about the type of Californian or just normal person in general that'd be all like "sure the head is a nazi but Im getting a good deal bro!“
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Just because the state is "blue" doesn't mean there aren't millions of conservatives there. And given that most people aren't politically active and just don't give a shit, actual card-carrying liberals are likely a minority of the total population.
Unfortunately I know at least two... One even voted Trump because she believed in some of the conspiracy theories and is not very well educated. The other just apathetic in general. They both have teslas before and feel like its a good product. Like another comment said, most people don't want to give up their services or products despite the consequences. I live in the bay and it also boggles my mind when I see new Tesla's. Most people driving those are also like Asian or Indian that I've seen....
There is hope. I do also see many bumper stickers about being anti elon.
It seems people lack the strength of conviction they used to have. Now, they’re just subservient consumers.
I mean, you have to be at least decently wealthy to afford a Tesla. I don't think the groups of people buying Teslas are the same groups of people criticizing Musk and Nazis.
I was really proud to be British for the first time in ages yesterday when I saw that of all the car brands sold in the UK in January Tesla was 33rd! Some of the brands who sold more cars I’d never heard of!
Tesla always sells poorly in the first month of a quarter in the UK. I don't really understand why, but it's very much a thing
It’s because most of the time, protests are just pageantry. Think about it- people ~~hate~~ despise YouTube with a passion, but refuse to ever leave it. In fact, they’re still trending toward growth.
People always hate so many things, make public proclamations that everyone should boycott it- and yet, they privately continue using it. It’s a show. Nothing more than words.
This isn’t to say that there are no instances of boycotts having an effect on a product or service, but I’ve yet to ever know about a successful one that didn anything meaningful. In the past decade or so.
Look at Zuckerberg. He could fuck a 10 year old kid during the halftime show of a boxing match between Jake Paul and some other dipshit, and He wouldn’t lose a single Facebook user.
The people that had the balls to bail on these services and products already did a while ago. The rest either don’t care or have a giant online presence of talking shit.
Overall Tesla Sales in CA (By Unit) 2023: 238,589 2024: 202,865 2025: 179,656
I guess it's hard to see the amount of Teslas that weren't bought, which might otherwise have been bought were it not for the whole "I hate Musk" thing. But while EV sales were growing in CA, Tesla sales were falling.
There's enough market manipulation by the government that the alternatives are scarce or financially out of reach. It's not a true free market.
Is it just brand awareness and advertising? In my experience Hyundai, Kia, and VW make superior EV compared to Teslas and they tend to be less expensive for similar models
Conservatives aren't wrong when they shit on how dumb California is as a national punching bag, they are just even dumber and more deeply married to their cult-like beliefs than Californians could ever be, even in the worst caricature of Californians possible.
California really does seem to still believe in the progressive potential of Sillicon Valley, especially when it is violently ripped from tech workers hands and given to techbro billionaires to blindly destroy, and it makes me want to vomit just thinking about how self defeating and smarmy of an ideology that is to hold in 2026.
Gavin Newsom perfectly encapsulates this emptiness inherent to Californian culture.
And unfortunately, if we have elections in 2028, he will be the next US president. And any time I point out that he's a terrible person with a shit track record with LGBTQIA+ and POC groups, I get blasted with downvotes. Electing him will just be trading one festering sore for another.
Same, it is infuriating. Neoliberals are insufferable ideological cowards who will ALWAYS backstab you rather than challenge the status quo. It is so obviously apparent this is 1000% who Gavin Newsom is it hurts to even think about.