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Tesla’s stock is plummeting. So is the Bay Area’s respect for its vehicles
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I dont think it's kind to heckle Tesla owners. But I do admit I laugh out loud every time I see a Cybertruck. They're that silly.
it's not kind to hang nazis either. it's cool and necessary, though.
Are you equating every owner of a Tesla to Nazis?
totally yes that's exactly what im doing 🙄. you are a world class me-understander.
I mean, forgive me, but it was an odd response to talking about people's cars being vandalised.
it was a response to someone saying vandalism isn't nice.
and to be fair; they are nazi not-so-dog-anymore-whistle cars.
everything but the cybertruck i can square why someone would still drive one. not everyone can afford to sell a car for less than it is worth as a car to not be seen it, or to pass up an undervalued car to move their kids around. but the cybertruck lacks all plausible deniability. by the time the orders were delivering, it was obvious who elon musk was, and that there were other better options available from competitors. it's also just fuckin' useless. like. it just absolutely sucks at everything a vehicle has to do, let alone a truck
Today, I successfully came to an agreement with my local service center to return my Tesla within the next 30 days for only $100 out of pocket (plus my mileage overage and damage overage...but I'll delay, deny, and dispose of those notices) instead of the original $10,000.
I'm done. Fuck Elon.
I agree with everything here, and encourage pre-2023 owners to continue applying the "Elon killed my resale value" bumper stickers to their cars.
I just haven't seen one that fully encapsulates my disdain for Musk.
Meh.
We've known elon was a shitbird for years. The case where he accused a straight up hero British Diver of being a pedophile for rescuing 12 children without using a musk branded product was 2018. And the sex pest shit has been pretty consistent since. And I will always argue that tesla emphasizing battery size so much actively hurt EV adoption throughout the country (you don't need a giant battery. You just need to realize that you were going to stop for lunch at some point anyway).
But also? The people buying teslas, generally, weren't people living paycheck to paycheck. They were status symbols for tech workers an so forth. Their asses can do a trade in or, at the absolute least, put on a bumper sticker to say they hate him too.
So no. I am not going to lose any sleep over people needing to make insurance claims because they drive around in a car that is branded around a nazi who is destroying the fucking country and destabilizing the world.
I don’t know how it is in the states, but here the model 3 was the cheapest EV in its category. If I actually had money I’d have bought a Volvo, or the ioniq 5
I made this point to a friend who worked in tech and had a Tesla like 8 years ago.
"You know that for people like me, I won't be able to afford a used electric vehicle until I'm 60 or more right? I'm 40 and still driving a 25 year old car. The planet can't really afford to wait for prices to come down for people like me to be able to afford them. It's not really saving the environment if the majority of people can't afford to jump in."
The best car for the planet is the one you have.
Fuck cars! Demand public transit.
Tbf driving old cars until the end of their lifetime is also an environmentally friendly choice, since there are quite large emissions associated with producing a car.
Exactly, people who can afford a tesla can also afford to get rid of it.
Zero empathy.
Also, fuck cars. Every major street should have dedicated light rail in its own right of way, being given signal priority. The people that bought Tesla's early on as status symbols, did so because they spit on the concept of public transit and hate the left that wants mass transportation.
I remember just a few years ago that it was a proud moment to own a tesla. That is a thing of the past. I hope the owners can all afford to dump it if they so choose.
I celebrated and honked for the protesters outside the Monterey Tesla dealer this morning.
My favorite cyber truck anecdote so far is watching them load about ¾ of the number of bags of mulch than fits in the back of my Volvo, then the owner struggling to pack it all in so he could close the cover.
It's a truck, why didn't they buy the bulk mulch for a third of the price? Cosplay posers.
I’ve seen a couple in the wild.
I didn’t believe people they’re ickier in person, but they absolutely are.
Also I have no idea how their tail lights passed any sorts of regulatory scrutiny, they disappear at angles.
Idk how the car itself passed any scrutiny for being a giant metal sun reflector, seems like a major safety hazard to other drivers
While harder to get rid of I treat Teslas with equal disdain as MAGA hats. Don't care why or when you bought it, if you still have it you're on my shit list.
I view all my fellow Americans this way. Until trump and naziboy are no longer with ... the nation.
I told them explicitly that the current situation was evolving. In response they laughed, abused me, and stole from me. I now know that this america is the real america. The good people are the minority. The majority care only about their money and what the propaganda tells them to feel.
Probably give it a good... 30 years after that. For such a "Christian Nation" we treat our own people, even whites, like shit. Our national debt is a problem but we've long been morally bankrupt. We gotta lose the trash in DC but without a shift in public sentiment we could backslide faster than the Weimar Republic.