• MellowYellow13@lemmy.world
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    Why the fuck are you defending this shit?

    Also I am tired of hearing about how Musk only recently went insane, dude has been off the rails for as long as I can remember.

    Eccentric billionaire? My ass dude, he was an asshole and insane always for anyone paying at least a little bit of attention.

    It just finally caught up to him and now everyone wants to cry wolf that has been supporting him? Fuck off.

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      What do you want to have happen? The car exists and is in an owner’s hands already. Elon doesn’t make any more money no matter if they sell it or not. It’s environmental waste to simply scrap it. What are the options, here?

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      I didn’t think they were defending it. The reality is some people live in a bubble and don’t pay close attention to the media, and switching cars is not exactly an easy thing to do without getting fucked over.

      Many people are upside down on their car note, and when you trade in with negative equity on a car loan, that negative equity gets added to the new loan balance. It’s kind of a big deal for the average person.

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          I had Tesla sales reps at my WeWork office one week back in like 2019 iirc. They had a very aggressive sales campaign for a while at least. One even offered to have me test drive a Model 3 right their in the parking garage, which I declined.

          So yes, they were making it very easy. Have you ever had car salesman show up at your office?

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          Many bought the thing 5+ years ago when Tesla was basically the only electric with a real charging network…

          Until relatively recently, if you were an American who wanted to buy an electric car and wanted to guarantee you wouldn’t be stranded somewhere with a dead battery, Tesla was literally the only option.

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            I had all of those things and didnt buy one as many others. Crazy that when you buy a car from a nazi lunatic things dont work out

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              K live in your fantasy bubble and revise history all you want, not even a decade ago Teslas were considered very good cars, and the only viable electric option for some. Not hard to figure out why people bought them then, just like it’s not hard to figure out why people are selling them now.

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      What are you talking about? Most Tesla owners are progressives. This whole thing is a gut punch to Tesla owners.

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      Lol, a lot of rich people are rich assholes, that’s nothing new. Think Bezos is saint, how about that one CEO who made people go to work during a flood, did you like Brain Thompson, Ulf Mark Schneider - do you even know who that is?or back in the day when they used to lock workers in the factory or shove children in the mines.

      The rich have always been assholes, Musk is just more public about it. 5 years ago, he was just another rich owner of a company. The company made something good, so people bought it in support of the product not specifically the owner and his values, just like every time someone buys a nestle product.

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        Your argument that 5 years ago he was just another rich person is utter bullshit. I remember him a decade ago being legit insane.

        Again, everyone just wants to cry wolf now that has been supporting him

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          You’re out of touch, my man. 90% of the population aren’t paying attention to what rich people are saying and doing. Pretending that everyone that bought a Tesla 5+ years ago knew that he was an insane asshole all along and are now feigning ignorance of that fact to save face doesn’t make it reality. But whatever, keep getting worked up over something that doesn’t really matter at present.

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          That’s nice not everyone payed that close attention, they got sold a car and are now stuck with a shitty reputation by association. Some people are afraid to drive their car because they’ll get harassed by people who can only see telsa driver = musk supporter.

          You could blame the buyers for their ignorance, but its pretty normal to have no clue who the CEO/owner is of whatever car brand you buy. How many can name 1 beside Musk or Henry Ford?