• MellowYellow13@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    He was always crazy though. You just weren’t paying attention then. No one remembers him going wild and calling the Thai rescue divers pedophiles to their face and all that?

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      24 hours ago

      The rescue divers were the first real public turning point. He has always been crazy, but he tried really, really, really hard to project a cool-uncle, anti-establishment persona online before that.

      I think he eventually just realized he was rich enough to stop caring and so he stopped pretending.

  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    19 hours ago

    Or just sell them. But let’s keep driving the free advertisements for a fascist dipshit, because we have a bumper sticker that goes “Haha, I totally didn’t give money to the man who helped Trump win!!”

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    He was always a shitbag.

    He just had good PR, and most people never listened to the people countering it.

    Now, he’s fired the PR… and he’s still a shit bag with his crazy on.

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      Some people never heard. I see a lot of people accusing people of not listening, but for the first couple years I heard anything about Musk I didn’t hear any negatives. I wasn’t looking him up, I’d just see a joke or meme, and since I didn’t care much I probably didn’t even go into comments. I think the first real negative news I heard was the sub pedo incident.

      Maybe the Model E Model 3 S3X thing, but at worst I considered that an immature joke and didn’t think much further about it, nor heard anyway say anything seriously negative about it.

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    Kudos to the Tesla owners who realize Musk is still an apartheid supporting turd. My colleague has a Tesla and his wife told him to dump the car.

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      Problem is, most Telsa owners still have cars that have many good years left in them, and buying a different new or pre owned EV will be a hit to the pocket book. Especially after selling a rapidly depreciating Tesla.

      I get why people are saying “fuck it, I’ll put a sticker on it.” Selling and buying a new car isn’t a thing many people want to do at the drop of a hat. I

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        No, but you can trade in a 3 or 4-year-old car in exchange for a 7 or 8-year-old car for about the same price, depending on what you’re looking for.

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    3 days ago

    I live in an area where it seems like 50% of the cars are Teslas. Half my neighbors have them. Only stickers I’ve ever seen on a Tesla are “Student Driver”

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      Yeah, I bought mine in 2019 back when Musk just seemed like a dorky edgelord. I’m definitely not going to buy a new car just because Tesla’s CEO is a tool, though when I AM ready, it’s certainly not going to be another Tesla.

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        That’s fine, but nobody knows that on the road. We are going to assume you’re an asshole. Life isn’t fair, Elon will tell you that.