• olivecrest@lemm.ee
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    10 hours ago

    Counter point = some folks bought Tesla (the normal ones not the weird “truck” things) because they wanted a more environmentally friendly option for a car. Back before awareness that Musk is an asshole was common.

    Like some of the owners might be regretful but not in a position to sell at a huge loss and buy a different EV.

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      4 hours ago

      The huge loss (in sales volume and therefore 2nd hand price) has mainly occurred because Musk is meddling politically.

      Shit dropped from drones is just icing on the cake.

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      9 hours ago

      Nah. Musk was calling that rescue diver saving kids trapped in cave a pedo before the model 3 came out. It was clear, public knowledge that he was a douchebag very early on.

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        9 hours ago

        Not everyone is online as much as we are. Lots of people are utterly unaware that ever happened.

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          Being unaware doesn’t protect from consequences. Even morally, in a democracy, it’s up to the people to be informed. Buying decisions drive policy. It should worry people that they don’t have the time nor tools to be informed. This alone should start a general strike.

          With all the things that are looming, imagine the price you are going to pay because you were not online enough.

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        8 hours ago

        EVERY big company CEO is a piece of shit. They just keep it behind closed doors. Fuckface decided to do it in the open.

        You probably own clothes right now made by kids in Pakistan. How would you feel if someone set them on fire while you were wearing them?

        You gonna slap the food out of people’s mouths because they shop at Walmart?

        Wanna kick some homeless dude for wearing a donated Tesla T-shirt?

        At some point you gotta realize everyone is a victim of capitalism and punishing them for being part of the system they’re born into is the opposite of how you get them to look around and wake up.

        If they really want catharsis they’d go after Tesla showrooms. Musk actually owns those, so you’ll actually be hurting his bottom line directly, instead of fucking over someone who bought the only car you could even get during the pandemic.

        Really, if you’re pissed at him fuck with him, not some random with a car payment who probably hates him as much as you do.

        (I really want to say cybertrucks are fair game, but that’s the goblin talking, and you really shouldn’t listen to the goblin. If your goal is accelerationism, then we have nothing to say to each other)

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        9 hours ago

        Yeah but I kind of expect every CEO to be on that level of douchebaggery. We wouldn’t be able to buy everything if that’s the bar, because the CEO of every company is on that level.

        Also we can’t expect everyone to be aware of that story.

        It’s when he bought Twitter and started going on about woke mind virus that he revealed himself as a bigger douche than most CEOs.

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          Yeah, the twitter debacle fucking broke him I wonder if there’s an alternative timeline where he weaseled out of having to buy it and decided to calm down and shut the fuck up afterwards.

          Maybe this is the timeline where he eats enough drugs to explode his own heart on a livestream.

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      8 hours ago

      Counterpoint: We’ve known how fucked up he is for years. It was just hero worshipping suckers who bought into his bullshit. Anyone with half a brain recognized him for exactly what he always has been.