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Anybody who bought a Tesla in the last few years is a goddamn tool. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We've known for years that the owner is a lying, creepy, out of touch dipshit and that it's a very flawed car and the company will cut costs to save money on safety items, every time.

Electric vehicles with drive assist are awesome and are the future, but there are alternatives, especially if you have money, which a lot of Tesla customers do. And they're not particularly well built; how many of these do you think will be on the road 20 years from now? And now we've seen how Elaine runs their companies, why the hell would anybody put their trust in their products?

If you've bought a Tesla in the last five or so years, you're a damn goober in my eyes. That's my hot take, prepared for being called poor and other sodium, tear filled comments from fools whose opinions don't matter. You are the hardcore, foaming at the mouth Segway fan from the 2000s, have at me lol.

Update: The teary eyed, sweaty fingered responses to this are predictably hilarious. I've been called a guy that eats 4 pizzas a week in another old thread because of this, a cunt, a tool, a douche, a couple people spent their energy to tell me they don't understand me spending my energy posting this, some people are telling me something about Tesla or Elaine living in my head rent free. All genuinely pathetic responses, so GG lol. Cheers.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You acknowledge there are legitimate reasons to be opposed to Musk, but at the same time you are discrediting anyone who has that opinion as "[not] to be taken seriously"?

Brushing off criticism as "hate" and "trendy" is counterproductive and whether you like it or not, says a lot about your own biases as well. If you are actually interested in genuine discourse, you should instead engage with the reasons why he is disliked, and make your case as to why they're not important/accurate/whatever. Because blindly defending him from "haters" is just as much a trend thing.

And before you accuse me of "[struggling] hard when having to state those reasons", there's a myriad of good reasons to think Musk is a bad person. From the way he treated his workers during the height of the pandemic, to the way he publicly treated Twitter employees fearing for their jobs, to the kinds of politics he's using Twitter to promote under the guise of "free speech", it's clear that he does not feel a need to be respectful to people he has control over. I don't know what your moral compass is, but I don't particularly care for selfish rulers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you revisit my original message you see that I said "blind hatred" If you can list me a host of legitimate reasons to why you're opposed to him then I'm not talking about you.