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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
The people buying teslas, generally, weren’t people living paycheck to paycheck.
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.”
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.
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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.
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Are you equating every owner of a Tesla to Nazis?
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I mean, forgive me, but it was an odd response to talking about people’s cars being vandalised.
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They’re not though. Not everyone who owns a Tesla is supportive of Musk and Nazis. That’s a dumb world view.
I’d never buy one because I don’t want my money to go to him, but other people have owned theirs since before the cyber truck days where he could be reasonably ignored.
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Whhere is the lawyer with the class action suit on behalf of all Tesla owners against Musk for his statements and actions directly causing loss of value?
Oh, and what about on behalf of all Tesla shareholders? With that whole SEC requirement to maximize shareholder value there seems to be an issue.
Plummeting? The company is still massively overvalued.
These things take time
A plummet that takes time is really not in the traditional spirit of plummeting.
Down 27% in half a month is no a small drop.
People who bought Tesla cars before Elon bought an election should not be harassed.
A vehicle is for the decade, at minimum. Affording a switch is not something that can be assumed. This isn’t the 90s, when regular people turned over a lease, or a purchase, every 3 years, ish.
There’s also a commitment to electric once a charging station is installed at your home.
My last vehicle lasted almost 15yrs.
So in practical terms, for anyone interested, anyone driving a Cyber Truck, or a Model Y or Model 3 refresh are fair game. Put simply, if the headlight goes all the way across the front, let 'er rip. If it has regular looking headlights, hold your tongue.
Nope. Protesting is meant to be disruptive. Making tesla owners uncomfortable is the only way to take elon down.
You think Elon gives a fuck about Tesla owners? He is swimming tax payer dollars for his other ventures. Military and space $$ dwarf car sales. He doesn’t give two shits about Tesla and knows other companies are going to take away most of his market share.
That’s why all the new shit promised is not happening. It’s not being funded.
If resale value tanks because nobody wants to drive the car, musk gets deposed
Resale $$ do not impact Musk. He has already picking the bones oft Tesla. Harassing people who are stuck with one doesn’t affect Musk at all. In fact it helps him because he can play the martyr and get people who are harassed hating on “the lefties”.
He borrows against Tesla all the time, it would at least inconvenience him to not have convenient collateral for huge loans.
Crazy take. You dont have agency to address real issues (money in politics, correctly taxing gains, lack of good leadership and social infrastructure) so lets lash out at other wage earners who have more in common with you.
Does that apply to strikes too? 'Crazy take. You don’t have agency to address real issues (setting wages) so let’s lash out at other wage earners (customers) who have more in common with you.
Interesting point. I thought about this a little and I suppose what separates a strike from this would be what is an organized opposition to a system vs. a targeted attack on individuals.
And yet. I drive past hundreds of Tesla’s every morning and afternoon during my commute. Yesterday I saw 5 white model S in a row in the lane next to me.
Regardless of the whole Elon thing the drivers of Teslas are DOGSHIT.
Some of the fastest production vehicles ever made but the drivers are inept blind morons almost every time. The will pull out in front of you and then not speed up. They will block intersections during traffic because God forbid they miss one light cycle.
I’ve seen people making food with a tray attached to their steering wheel and on their phone using autopilot.
I hate Tesla drivers so much.
I’ve heard a theory that a lot of the H1B tech immigrants who literally do not know how to drive in the US are being told that Teslas are fully autonomous so they buy one and then find out that’s not the case. So they drive erratically, best case they’re following the rules of the road from their home country, worst case they’re completely winging it.
The average native driver here isn’t that much better. Source: I’ve lived here my whole life.
This is one thing that makes moving to Europe or the UK very appealing (if I would even still be welcome anymore). Everyone drives sooo much better on average, at least in all the places I’ve driven.
They absolutely are primarily driven by high earning tech immigrants in my area.
My Asian buddy got one a couple years ago and he was a fucking terrible driver in his Camry (every single panel had dings and scrapes) I cannot fathom the damage he’s been doing with his Tesla.
Used to be that BMWs were driven by the worst (asshole) drivers on the road. In the past year, my wife (first) and I have noticed that that crown now lies firmly on the head of Tesla drivers… and it’s not even close.
I still fully think its BMW, with a surprise entry from VW owners. Dont know why, but Tesla seems to be #3 in my area
There used to be a 50/50 mix of ex Prius drivers that drive like a Granny and ex BMW drivers that drive like assholes. Now most of the people in category 1 have gotten rid of theirs, so it’s mostly assholes.
I think you might be making a generalization.
Obviously.
Well I can guarantee you that some Tesla drivers are pretty good, some are terrible, and some are in between.
Yes thank you I am aware how stereotypes work. It’s not all of them but it’s enough that people noticed a pattern.
P/E 129. Shit is overvalued as fuck.
Still got a long way to go. I hope it gets kicked off the S&P 500. That shit should stay out of our retirement accounts.
Good.
Heard on Swedish radio (P4) that there are even car dealers that no longer accept a tesla as trade-in when you buy a car from them.
Imagine alienating your core client base of the company that you use as collateral for all your business dealings. If Tesla stock tanks Elons loans get called in as the collateral would be worthless and he doesn’t have liquid cash to cover his other investments. Would be a site for sore eyes to watch him go penniless.
