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[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

The article doesn't say if it's targeting recent Tesla buyers or all owners.

Most current Tesla owners are not MAGAs and bought when they were marketed as a green vehicle.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 1 week ago

Musk has been acting nazi for quite some time.

[-] habitualTartare@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

I think most people weren't fully aware until recently. You had to be active online or actually look for information to see it was more than just rich billionaire syndrome. We all live in bubbles and some people didn't get to hear about all the details with the 2019 pedo submarine incident Nowadays it would be very difficult to argue you didn't know but bought a Tesla because it's in your face.

For context, the model S was first sold in 2012, the model x in 2015, model 3 in 2017 and Y in 2020.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So the model 3 was released when he was a Trump advisor, and the Y when he openly started spreading conspiracy theories non stop.

As for the "we didn't know" excuse it's as bullshit now has it was in 1945.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

people buying the cybertruck are fully aware of Elons behaviour, they buy it to stroke thier own egos. ive seen an increase in newer regular teslas being driven around, i think some people are ignorant to his politics.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Musk has been acting nazi for quite some time.

Yup. People are acting like this is something that just happened in January.

My first educational experience regarding how fucked Musk is was when he randomly called a Thai rescue worker a pedophile in 2018. And it was relatively high profile news. I saw a post on Reddit about a year ago asking when Elon went crazy and most comments agreed the first highly public instance was the Thai cave event.

So I've spent the last 7 years seeing more and more Teslas on the road knowing this guy was a grade-A fucking asshole that these drivers were enriching. And people are acting like his assholery is some new thing.

[-] dodgy_bagel 3 points 1 week ago

My car was made in the 90s.

[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Not as openly. Yoy would have really looked into his background to know what kind of person he was and even then he had not gone full nazi.

[-] NotForYourStereo@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Cool story bro.

They can sell. They can trade. If they want to continue to own a Nazi car, they should be prepared for the consequences.

[-] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 week ago
[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Google says you can sell it to a dealer or a used car service like carmax.

Is that going to be a bit of a hassle? Yeah. You know what else is going to be a bit of a hassle? Needing to pretend you aren't the gender you are because the government has painted a target on your head for choosing happiness. Or hoping nobody decides to take away the green card you worked your ass off to earn.

And is the value going to be dropping? Yeah. So get on that. Plenty of us are getting on finding ways to emigrate to countries that are less horrifically fucked and speedrunning their way to gilead and we know those slots are gonna dry up. And we are the privileged ones who even have a chance at doing this.

So "it is hard and I might lose a bit of money and it isn't my fault I couldn't be bothered to care until now" is a load of horse shit. And people wonder why I, and so many others, just laugh-cry whenever people talk about how this upcoming thing is totally going to flip the switch and get America to riot in the streets.

[-] Amanduh@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago

You should go outside and touch some grass friend

[-] prole 3 points 1 week ago

Their comment, unfortunately, seems grounded in reality.

[-] Amanduh@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

If that is what you think then perhaps you need to go touch some grass as well

[-] prole 1 points 1 week ago
[-] Amanduh@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

It's not an insult, it just means you need to go get some fresh air and perspective

[-] prole 1 points 1 week ago

It's a conversation terminus used by people who refuse to accept that they might be wrong about something.

[-] Amanduh@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

If you think people deserve to have their personal property destroyed because of the viewpoints of an out of touch egotistical billionare then you truly need to touch some grass and reflect. It's a pretty simple message I think.

[-] misteloct@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Is there a Tesla dealership on top of that grass?

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

If you care about being consistent, you should probably smash your computer right now since you used Google, and Google CEOs are on the Trump train too.

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

All major companies have blood on their hands. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

To my knowledge, only one company's CEO is publicly heiling hitler and actively destroying a government and killing children by defunding aid programs in a manner that violates the constituion.

And, personally? I do make it a point to avoid giving money to the REALLY bad companies. In a lot of cases that is just not possible because of the late stage capitalism hellscape we live in. But when I have the choice between some Popeyes and some chikfila? One of those companies openly funds MUCH worse things than the other and walking a block farther is, quite frankly, the least I can do.

But, instead, we need to celebrate people supporting evil through apathy and then actively defend them when protests are happening? Y'all were the ones who were talking about how kyle rittenhouse is a bad person but he had a point about being worried about the guy who owned the Target on 5th street, huh?

Because what does this say to our LGBTQ+ friends (assuming everyone involved has some...) or the people being illegally deported and sent to internment camps when the biggest pushback is "Whoa. Your protesting might inconvenience me and is thus bad"?

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

If you can't see the difference between protesting in a way that actually hinders fascists, vs making a hitlist of people who fell for positive marketing, then I just can't help you.

[-] Iapar@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago

Fucking aquaman?

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago

All owners that they can find in various leaks/databases when I checked last week.

And musk has been a known evil dipshit since at least 2018 when he threw a hissy fit because the divers who rescued those kids didn't use musk branded products. He accused one of the divers of being a pedophile and actively devoted resources to "proving" this.

Let alone the countless stories of musk being a sex pest (remember having to buy a woman a pony because of whatever he did to her?)

So, at best, people can argue "I didn't care enough to do any research on what I bought and accidentally enabled a nazi.". At which point... I really don't give a fuck? Its the same as the people who couldn't be bothered to do any research and were surprised to hear that biden apparently wasn't on the ballot.

Their apathy is causing untold horror to at risk groups and the global economy. So they can go fuck themselves.

And, totally anecdotal: I have seen fucked up teslas in parking lots next to un-fucked ones that just had a "I bought this before he went insane" or "I hate him too" bumper sticker.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can honestly say I don't research the political affiliations and actions of every CEO of every product I purchase.

[-] Amanduh@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

You can't argue with these people, anyone who owns a tesla deserves to have it destroyed in their minds.

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

Okay? Then don't expect me or anyone else to research the political affiliation of the owner of the tesla we see on the street to decide if they are a hateful pro-nazi prick or not?

[-] prole 2 points 1 week ago

Well, good time to start

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Elon was a dipshit in 2018 yes... So are 90% of CEOs, and 100% of modern "Republicans". Most just aren't as publicly vocal because they don't make themselves the face of their brands. The Republican party hasn't actually supported their stated viewpoints in decades, and few members of the general public have noticed. They just take what they're told and allowed the shift.

Being a dipshit is different from actively supporting a fascist takeover of the government. Regardless of what you might want to claim, there is a shift there. You're an idiot if you can't see the public shift in the last few years. He may always have been this way,but he wasn't as vocally and publicly supportive of it. It used to just be shit takes on events for publicity, not the active lead of the country's destruction.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

the hyperloop scam which he cause cali to be unable to build the fast rail, because it allowed enough time for trumps, Elaine chao to block any kind of funding.

[-] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Do you buy Nestle products? Do you buy anything from Amazon? Do you drive an ICE car and purchase gas for it?

If you do any of these things you're an evil piece of shit Nazi and deserve to have your possessions burned to nothing (per your logic)

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