My friend’s father bought a 2025 Tesla after my friend begged him not to, but a boomer’s gotta boomer. Suffice to say, it hasn’t gone well for him, so the man went and put this decal on his car. My brother in Christ, you are driving a freshly redesigned car. Nobody is going to believe your swastikar is pre-COVID.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      33·
      8 hours ago

      I feel like around 2018 with the mini sub and insisting it be used to save those boy in the cave was a big turning point in the public perception. Maybe more of an inflection point.

      • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        7·
        5 hours ago

        To me it was when he started to sell bullshit and didn’t deliver that it became clear he’s a lying piece of shit. So when I first heard about him. When he forced himself into important positions while being horrible in everything he did except for hyping up dumb people who gave him their money. He’s a sleazy salesman who has shown time and time again he will do anything at any cost to achieve his goal, which consists of money, fame and power. He doesn’t care about the people he harms or deceive. He doesn’t have great ideas himself, he steals other’s ideas and claims them as his own. And this showed when he pushed himself into the tesla company and he became a more public figure, or at least to me he did. I never trusted the guy, I always warned people about him because he’s a lying charlatan. Looking back at older footage of him, it also shows clearly (with the whole old X - PayPal disaster which he lies about, or the game he copied). If anyone thinks he wasn’t crazy before, they are just dumb and/or extremily ignorant.

        • UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          4 hours ago

          He took all the credit for Tesla and sued the guys that started the company so that only his name was attached to it. I remember reading about the Lotus based Tesla before I knew about him.

          The original creators of the Tesla car were engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who founded Tesla Motors in 2003. While they were the company’s founders, Elon Musk became the company’s first major investor in 2004 and was later granted co-founder status after a lawsuit settlement, which also included other early executives like J.B. Straubel and Ian Wright.

      • RobotsLeftHand@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        7 hours ago

        Yeah, the “pedo guy” comment was completely revealing. That’s not just a moment of weakness or slip of the mind. Thems the words if a verified sociopathic narcissist.

    • P1k1e@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      8 hours ago

      Less obvious if your not paying attention to him and only hear things about him from his fans…or atleast back in 2017. Now it’s basically impossible not to notice he’s a twat

  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    34·
    12 hours ago

    Even people who have no issue with Musk put these on their cars. They know Musk is unpopular and do this to avoid vandalism.

  • EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    38·
    16 hours ago

    I have no respect for anyone who drives a Tesla at this point. I would have sold mine already on principle, if I had one, no matter how old it was.

  • Don_alForno@feddit.orgEnglish
    88·
    19 hours ago

    Elon went crazy in 2018 at the latest (the Thai cave rescue thing). Anybody who bought one of his cars after that knew what they were getting into.

    • kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      As long as Elon has been in the spotlight I’ve read about what an awful company Tesla is, how innovative SpaceX is but at the same time has horrible leadership to work for.

      It was even before 2017 when I tried talking my brother out of buying one because of how clear it was they were cutting corners, hiding behind minimalism to excuse their lacking plastic covered interior.

      I refuse to give anyone a pass for buying one, the writing has been on the wall since day one. Any Tesla owner is just another slave to the zeitgeist.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      18 hours ago

      Depends on, I personally know otherwise very political people who didn’t know about the Thai cave rescue controversy, while others still think he’s “just a bit upset that his child transitioned”, because they read “non-loony lefty sources”, that downplay his transphobia.

      • Don_alForno@feddit.orgEnglish
        26·
        18 hours ago

        Ok, I’ll rephrase: Anybody who bought one of his cars after that only has themselves to blame for being ignorant and shouldn’t expect any absolution from me.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
    55·
    17 hours ago

    Honestly I feel sorry for anybody driving an older Tesla. I remember maybe 8, 9 years ago i had a long talk with some guy who owned the first (?) model, and I have to admit we shared the enthusiasm. Wasn’t many E-cars on that level back then.

    I didn’t follow Musk in the media and I missed the Thai cave rescue & pedo calling disaster, so it took me a few months longer to start to realize what sort of person he really is. When exactly? Must’ve been before he bought Twitter. Sometime during Trump1.0.

    And then it all came in like a retroactive flood. How he stole Tesla from the people who really started it, how delusional all his space projects are, how deeply corrupt/entwined he’s always been with the government…

    But I don’t like those stickers, no matter how old the Tesla is.

    Tesla is not the only option anymore.

    If you’re serious you sell it. I know you can get other e-cars relatively cheaply nowadays, much cheaper than a new Tesla. So, what would the resell value be on any Tesla?

    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      19·
      14 hours ago

      I plunked down $1000 sight-unseen in March 2016 for a first-run Model 3. I had driven a Model S (no way I could afford one) and was obsessed with Tesla. I finally received my 3 in early 2018 (I believe) and loved that car like a newborn baby. I was a rockstar in the area, people wanted to see it. Kids wowed when I drove by. The future of transport was looking bright and I was at the forefront.

      Over time, Elon’s actions became more unhinged, and for a while I had the “separate the art from the artist” attitude. The Salute was the final straw. I had gotten more and more embarrassed by my car as it symbolized everything I hated, due simply to the actions of the insane CEO. When he helped elect Trump and became butt buddies with him, I knew my car’s days in my garage were limited. I sold it to Carvana for $18300 and bought a used Audi for the same price.

      Man, I miss that car. It was everything I wanted. The FSD web of lies pissed me off, but the car was objectively great.

      I have a reservation for a Rivian R2 now and I can’t wait to get it. I’m getting the same feeling all over again. So, what I guess I’m saying is, please RJ Scaringe don’t turn into a Nazi.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        12 hours ago

        It’s not the same, but Rivian has been able to survive in a big way because of another asshole billionaire, Jeff Bezos. They were smart up mostly keep their branding off those Amazon vans, especially since most have been damaged by poorly trained drivers at this point.

        • baggachipz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          8 hours ago

          Very true, but at least he doesn’t own or run the company. If you’re going to get a large loan to start a company, you’re gonna have to deal with an asshole billionaire.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        9 hours ago

        I plunked down $1000 sight-unseen in March 2016 for a first-run Model 3.

        I’m guessing you missed a 0 there? If so, you got $8300 more out of it than you paid, 8 years later? That can’t be true.

        There’s a chinese company whose name eludes me that makes e-cars that look almost supiciously like Teslas, and another called CUPRA, apparently a branch of Seat (Spain). Just saying.