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ExciteBike66
(2,665 posts)"Its not a lie if you believe it"
Unladen Swallow
(491 posts)who drives a Tesla. All of my Telsa friends, trucks included, are definitely not spending their nights alone.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,902 posts)Unladen Swallow
(491 posts)I don't know a single incel.
I know lots of Tesla drivers, and none of them are incels.
Most drive them because they're so cheap to run, and a couple of the more well-to-do ones paid the $6k for the self-drive feature unlock and use it a lot.
Bernardo de La Paz
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BannonsLiver
(18,431 posts)Anytime someone even so much as makes an innocuous dad joke feathers get ruffled. I’m sure I might feel the same way if I owned one, but then again, I would never hand over large sums of money to an evil man that I despise. I don’t care how great the car supposedly is.
LisaM
(28,861 posts)One is a tech bro who likes things that are new and is apparently just oblivious to the awfulness of Elon Musk (I know a lot of tech bros and they seem to have a built-in ability to separate the gee whiz factor of having new things from the unscrupulousness of the company).
One person had enough and traded it in after a year (female friend).
The third person is fully aware of Elon Musk and who he is and drives it (bought over the pleas of some of her friends) because it's a status symbol. I seriously don't get it. She has plenty of other options.
Bluetus
(444 posts)Last edited Tue Jan 7, 2025, 03:22 PM - Edit history (1)
"she bought ...because it's a status symbol".
10 years ago, even 5 years ago, there was a "cool factor" as well as a "conspicuous consumption" vibe.
With the Model 3 and Y, the conspicuous consumption thing is gone, and today, driving a Tesla is a signal that you are either in the Nazi cult or else very oblivious to what is happening in the world.
Quite literally, everyone driving a Tesla is helping fund the neo-Nazi movement all over the world.
Bluetus
(444 posts)Last edited Mon Jan 6, 2025, 05:20 PM - Edit history (1)
a liberal. Now that is it clear he is a Nazi, they are in a state of mental crisis. They are trying to reconcile their years of arguing that those low-quality, mediocre machines deserve our support because Musk was some kind of savior. When they look around themselves now, they see that the Cybertruck, in particular, is only being bought by the "tech bro" types who are cool with Musk being a Nazi. Fortunately, instead of the market for that hideous thing being over a million buyers, as Musk claimed, it looks more like 50,000 now.
During 3Q, Musk said they should be at a production rate of about 25,000 per quarter by the end of the year. Electrek, which has been a pretty reliable source, and mostly quite pro-Tesla until recently, thinks that they actually sold about half that many or fewer, and have already exhausted any backlog.
https://electrek.co/2025/01/02/tesla-cybertruck-sales-are-disastrous/
soldierant
(8,109 posts)by a MuskRat. A billionaire tech bro who cares for nothing but money. The real Tesla wanted his inventions to be free for the good of humanity. It's much like the name of Jesus Christ being appropriated by MAGAts claiming to be Christians when Trump** is the Apricot Antichrist.
Unladen Swallow
(491 posts)or start it, but he did fund it. From wiki:
Tesla was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors. Its name is a tribute to inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. In February 2004, Elon Musk led Tesla's first funding round and became the company's chairman; in 2008, he was named chief executive officer.
soldierant
(8,109 posts)although I didn't know all the details.
But that doesn't give him the right to go around acting like, and implying, that he is that smart. It's kind of an equivalent to stolen valor.
And it appears he's going to run it into the ground.