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It's giving chatgpt.
I get the sentiment and am on board 100% that Elon Musk is a fucking loser Nazi -- but what a condescending note. Whoever wrote this note needs to mind their own business, and maybe take a week away from the internet.
Definitely agree there. I get suggesting alternatives but literally everything they explicitly listed is really pricey. Assuming their tesla is paid off, who'd go another 20 to 30k in debt because of a note?
It would make more sense slap an anti Elon bumper sticker on and keep driving it until either EVs get cheaper or they can afford something different
Whoever made this probably thinks that the currently favored "call them all Nazis" approach is more likely to form/feed persecution complexes.
A simple 'Swasticar' sticker, for example, will make the owner feel personally attacked, even though it's meant to be an attack on Musk and doesn't really have anything to do with them.
Whoever wrote this wants the value of tesla to crash...
While I agree with the sentiment, if the face-value goal of this note becomes true, this has the same vibe as "Sell it to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?"
I promise you there's always going to be someone willing to buy one. You'll possibly just have to drop the price really low. I'd buy a used Tesla for a dollar, for example. If people suspect the price is dropping then hopefully they'll panic sell, and force the price to drop even faster.
That's the goal, though. If people start doing this, the value of used Teslas will crater. That will kill sales of new ones. Why buy a new one when you can get a used one dirt cheap? Why buy a new one if you know it will lose all of its value because the used market died?
Unfortunately downward price will come against up the tariff inflation of new trucks and cars (estimated 20%+ increase by dealers) that will happen if Trump unchanges his fucking mind one more time.
I still think annoying but not impossible the remove stickers are the solution. Do that enough times and anyone who hasn’t fallen into the sunk cost fallacy will either be looking to sell, or at least never buy another swasticar.
Still plenty of rubes that support trump. The backlash against tesla actually probably has whole swaths of them looking to buy one to own the libs.
I think that's a big stretch. The venn diagram of people that buy electric vehicles and those that support Trump barely intersect.
We’re talking gold medalists at mental gymnastics though. My right wing relatives are now retiring their own narratives. They used to say “drill baby drill, EVs are for libs.” now they are saying that Tesla is the only brand for a patriot because the company and factories are in America.
Ask them where all that lithium and aluminum in those teslas comes from.
I would have said the same about crypto a few months ago, but here we are with a presidential shitcoin grift being carried by millions of Trump supporters
I've always taken the WSB/Cryptobros Diamond Hands cartoon as a caricature of Trump. AFAIK, cryptobros have been infatuated with Trump since the beginning.
I honestly don't understand what selling it does though. The same amount of teslas are still on the streets. Please help me understand.
It may reduce new sales
If everyone wants to sell and nobody wants to buy, the used price will go down.
If used teslas in good condition are dirt cheap, there's no point buying a new one.
If nobody wants a new Tesla, there are fewer Teslas entering the streets.
More important for your last point, it hurts Musk's value. Most of his wealth is in stocks. Make those drop in value and he has less wealth.
The advice isn't about reducing the number of Teslas. It's about helping someone get out of owning one. Also, that money doesn't go to Elon, it goes to the seller, so to some people, they might consider that part a wash.
It's about helping someone get out of owning one
You realize that if someone sells their Tesla, while they no longer own one, someone else does, right?
The point is crashing the market value of used Teslas, thereby reducing new sales as people will be more incentivized to buy used.
What's wrong with owning one? Its a car and we can assume the owner has a need for it (obligatory "Fuck cars!"). It's the buying of one with the knowledge we have now that is the issue.
Edit: I see a few downvotes so I must have said something wrong. What am I still not understanding?
It's also an overpriced "luxury" vehicle, a terrible one with a boatload of recalls and recurring design issues. How long before we consider owning one to be like owning a Daewoo or Pinto?
We've also known what their CEO is about for a while now. Years in fact. And that same CEO is dismantling the US government and killing people with his actions. I think a lot of us see it this way: If someone still owns one, they get to "own" that they own it now.
So like what if you bought it used? That doesn't profit the manufacturer, and there's no way you'd be able to tell just looking at it.
I understand the frustration with Musk, but to sell the car someone else has to buy it and then that buyer is going to be bullied. I don't think the frustration is being focused on the right thing here. Go protest or spend that time calling or writing to your representatives instead.
The working class infighting is not the way.
I agree the infighting is not helpful. I also think that we currently can't use traditional bargaining and protest tools to effectively punish or otherwise shame those in power into concession. In this case, Musk is an oligarch who owns companies, like Tesla. People are shaming owners of these vehicles and pressuring them to sell because that is a very tangible way to hurt the oligarchs in our country, by hurting their purse. It's the only thing they care about. It will either help lead towards concession, or ultimately wipe out the power they have. I think this is a form of solidarity, and those who care about that will go out of their way to distance themselves from the oligarchs who oppress us, including when trading or buying within our own class.
Because elon bad all cybertrucks must be defaced and their drivers hung - at least that's the sentiment I'm seeing around here lately
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If enough people try to get rid of their Teslas the Used value will crash and bring the New value even further down.
That was observed when Elon in his brilliance secured the Hertz deal and then slashed new Tesla prices. Leaving Hertz no choice but to dump their inventory.
The sell off from Hertz hurt the used value because it was a large supply of "We just want out, we already lost money on these"
I read it as a funny, polite, "fuck you". It's only going to piss someone off who bought a Tesla as a sign of status and is still a fan of Elon Musk. Everyone else will see it either as helpful but misguided or will get the joke.
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Awesome, I love the approach. 👍🏾
It lowers the value. If plenty of fairly new Teslas can be found fairly cheap, it will disincentivize people who do want a Tesla from buying new. Hopefully takes the stock price down, which is what most of Pres. Musk's wealth is based on.
If they tank in price I wonder how practical it would be to swap a normal truck body onto one. Wouldn’t mind a cheap EV truck.
If the price goes low enough, just rip out the battery and use it as home solar energy storage.
Turn the cabin into a chicken coop.
$100k chicken coop. I love it.
i mean. wouldnt rebadging it and putting a "fuck elon" bumper sticker be more of a message than selling it to another sucker?
(also ripping out the spyware laden computer system that reports all activity INCLUDING CAMERAS back to hitlerHQ and can remotely disable your car)
On your second point: unfortunately that’s the system that makes the car go
The car is still completely functional without an internet connection. You could just disconnect the cellular antenna and drive perfectly fine forever (just without ever getting software updates, traffic and map updates, and being able to use music apps in the car).
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Unfortunately, it would send a message to folks who do things like storm government buildings and kill cops. I wouldn't want one of those deranged lunatics coming after me.
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