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[–] 57 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Absolutely right

And Elmo has been a total cock head long before he performed his nazi salutes

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  • [–] 138 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

    Regardless of if Musk is crazy or not, they still bought an oversized truck for nothing other than to inflate their ego.

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  • [–] 58 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Which is weird, how can you boost your ego with a dumpster?

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago

    The cybertruck itself is evidence that he wasn't in his right mind.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago*

    He first publicly showed how crazy he is during the kids getting stuck in the cave, then he got more bold.

    But yeah, cybertruck started being sold after he started doing Nazi salutes.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    This is the man cybertruck owners support with their purchases:

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, it's not for the workers or the idea of American built stuff. I'm sure it's better if people buy Chinese

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Tesla use BYD batteries, and they're the real heart of the car

    So.... They're already Chinese where it counts

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    Tesla use BYD, Panasonic, their own. American made model Y and anything else that uses the new battery form factor use Tesla batteries made in America; other cars made in the US use US made Panasonic and Tesla batteries; Teslas made in China use BYD batteries I don't know what European made Teslas use

    Tesla is incredibly vertically integrated, they are much more American than any other American car builder

    Mine is Chinese, as I live in Australia which is near China and half a world from America. But I'd have thought Americans would value American made even if the company owner has bad politics

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    He was a scumbag union buster long before he "went crazy". His parents used slave labor to mine emeralds before his company built cars. The people of this country will believe any bubbleheaded legend of a good rich guy not look him up until he shows his ass. Too little, too late.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Seeing a cybertruck in the wild is the visual equivalent of stepping in dog shit. I saw one the other day up here in Canada that was covered in maple leaves and felt massively offended

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    It took me a while to realize he was a crazy con man, to my fault, it was only when he started meddling with stuff I had some understanding. Around the same time, he was investing in movies and making cameos: Thank You for Smoking, Iron Man...

    But people were already pointing that out from his time on Paypal. And you can find stuff even before that. So no,

    He was crazy/con man even before Tesla.

    There is no excuse. Just because there was a time that he posted rainbows and talked about climate does not sane wash his actions, it is just that he was targeting another kind of people. Just like companies rainbow their logos during pride month.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    That cybertruck reminds me of that Simpson's episode where Homer designed and built a vehicle at his brother's car company.

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  • We knew he was not an upstanding guy long before he bought Twitter. Just not everyone was paying attention. As well I hope they enjoy their inescapable burn chamber. That thing is more of a hazard to the owner than those around them than the Pinto was. Regular Car Reviews did a good one on it.

    https://youtu.be/L3oO510dyVI

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Is someone just walking around with a printer?

    I’m guessing they see this truck regularly. So this took some planning.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Yeah, sorry man, that doesn't work on Cybertrucks, only the old Teslas.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    I guess he didn't draw the line at the salutes?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)
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    The Cybertruck is the product of a deranged mind.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    There's this annoying Cybertruck with this custom paint job that parks on my street sometimes. Usually does quite a poor job of it.

    I see it also parked in an empty lot next to a little shopping center a few miles away.

    We were having a neighborhood gathering and somebody brought it up, wondering whose it was.

    It belongs to the boyfriend of the daughter of one of the neighbors who doesn't socialize with the rest of us. Turns out he owns a barbershop in the plaza, but it's too big to fit on any of the parking spots so he parks it in the empty lot next door.

    Anyways a couple months later and I'm in physical therapy (sciatica hit me real hard), and I overhear this older guy a few tables down, talking to the PTA. Real loud, hard to not overhear. Total boomer energy.

    He talked about his son having gotten a cybertruck, and put a bunch of money into it with custom paint and whatnot...and so I butt in..."is your son a barber?".

    Sure enough, he is. It's his dad.

    Does this make me a townie? This feels like a townie kind of story.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Cybertruck ownership is the punishment

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Elon never "went crazy", he's just a liar. And the bigger his following became the less he needed to lie about his opinions or goals.

    Engineers like Thunderf00t could already prove Elon was full of shit long before it became incredibly obvious.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Calling the rescue worker s pedophile was the mask off moment. Before that, he was trolling other rich people and promoting his Mars mission. He was always crazy, but we thought he was on our side. We wanted one rich guy on our side for once.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    The issue is thinking that anyone that rich would ever be on your side.

    The mentality that allows someone to get rich like that (besides copious amounts of sheer luck) is incompatible with the needs of the many. If they're "on your side" they have a personal agenda to get out on top over their competition. You are a tool for them to exploit to ensure their infinite growth.

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  • [+] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] [M] 58 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (27 children)

    As much as I LOL'd and agree with the sentiment, this is almost entirely about politics, not infrastructure -- the only tenuous connection is that the political shithead happens to own a car company. As such, please try to resist the temptation to post more stuff like this here.


    Edit to address some feedback:

    Yes, !fuckcars is political, but that doesn't mean everything political is on-topic. If this had been about Musk interfering with CA high-speed rail, it would be unambiguously on-topic. If this had been about the harmful effects of those trucks on other road users, it would be unambiguously on-topic (although for the record, I dislike threads hating on any one particular type of car because they risk missing the point that all of them contribute to most of the problems).

    But it was neither of those things. It was just pointing out the dishonesty of people who bought a particular product with a particular political connotation. The fact that the product happened to be a vehicle was irrelevant to the idea being conveyed. That makes it a good fit for somewhere like !politicalmemes or !enoughmuskspam, maybe, but not here.

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  • [–] 98 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It's also a shitty, unreliable, dangerous vehicle that allows them to be on the road because Elon is the richest dipshit on earth right now.

    He's pushed past regulations and forced his shitty vehicles to be on roads all across the world, including Europe, which doesn't have the road infrastructure to handle things like the cybertruck. It's bypassing regulation after regulation to show up on the road as a massive eyesore.

    The Cybertruck is the culmination of everything fuckcars is about imo.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    IMO while the post shows a cybertruck and it is the culmination of this community, the post clearly focuses on how horrible elon musk is, which would be better suited somewhere else (even tho I vehemently agree with the sentiment)

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  • [–] 85 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    I really think that you can't divorce the car-centric hell we are currently suffering in from the politics that made it happen.

    "Fuck Cars" is 100% a political statement.

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  • [–] 55 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Guys can we please talk about how we better organize society without being so political?

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    "Guys can we please talk about how we better do politics without being political?"

    I hope your statement was satire. Otherwise I question your understanding of basic concepts.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I don't know. People are writing and calling the government every day, protesting online to attempt to improve public transportation, yet in vain. Well guess who's in control. And it's not just public transportation, you know.

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  • [–] 36 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Elon Musk is not a "political shithead" he is a primary reason why we don't have better forms of transportation, and it's worth pointing it out every single time. Also, aren't virtually all of the infrastructure issues that exist that make cars such a prevalent force in our society almost entirely predicated on politics? Was Robert Moses not motivated by his own politics? But was it not his policies that essentially birthed the modern hostility to humans that urban areas have?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Yeah, the whole hyper loop scam [1] he invented was to kill high speed rail in California. Fuck him.

    [1] just see it in Las Vegas all out is a tunnel for cars that you pray there's no accident because of fire starts you are stuck and can't escape.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Elon Musk is why America doesn't have 5 minute cities and rail transport? He's only been politically active for a handful of years dude

    He's all sorts of bad, and was put in charge of gutting the government, but his year or two with the ear of the president has nothing on the previous 90 years of damage

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Before he was "politically active" he was a billionaire making his money off of selling cars. One of the way he achieved that was by buying up contracts for high-speed rail projects and then not building them, or turning them into an entirely different car-centric thing (like his tunnel in vegas). Elon Musk didn't SUDDENLY become a piece of shit when Trump was elected, he took advantage of that fact to be a bigger piece of shit.

    Elon Musk is why America doesn't have 5 minute cities and rail transport?

    So Yeah. He is. Or at least one of them.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Elon musk himself is responsible for so much car centric bullshit. he has his own tunnels, his own chargers, he does everything he can to stop any anti-car development, and he has the most dangerous cars out there. this is only one of them by the way, the one that has sharp hard metal corners that are meant to slice pedestrians in half, but his other cars spontaneously combust.

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  • [–] -5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Thank you for being the voice of moderation! I bought a Model 3 in 2018, and the car itself has been great. Considering that it's now paid off, and that it's not okay to trash a perfectly usable resource, it would be irresponsible to replace it just to make a political statement. That said, I do have this same bumper sticker on my car 😅

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    Actually that's a factory bumper sticker. Trying to make that brand new penis-free sheen last longer.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Elon has always been a psychotic piece of shit. Anyone thats paid attention to him since fuckin paypal has known that.

    People just didnt care, in the classic self centered way, until it started to personally affect them. . and the biggest way it affects them now is riding around in his terrible fuckin vehicles, which creates an association with right wing assholery that they didnt want to have public.

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    That window doesn't look broken

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (8 children)

    The pre-orders were open before that though. It was several years until they went into production.

    Though one could argue the unveiling of the Cybertruck was the first sign he was going crazy.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Looking it up to be sure: The Tham Luang cave rescue happened in mid-2018, but the CyberTruck concept was unveiled in late 2019. So Leon had already outed himself as a full-tilt narcissistic lunatic more than a year before it was even announced.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    To be fair, which I dont think we need to be, just having a narcissistic lunatic at the helm doesnt really make Tesla worse than any other auto manufacturer from an ethics point of view. If you are forced to buy a car, I dont think there is a morally spotless company to purchase from. No ethical consumption under capitalism and whatnot.

    I would argue that elons assaults on democracy and other craziness over the past few years has pushed Tesla into a category of "worse than all other manufacturers", but maybe not in 2019?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    To remove ambiguity, the sticker should probably say, "I bought this before Elon went Nazi"?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    "I bought this before, I, personally, was aware of the extent of his derangement, and I figured that an electric vehicle from a relatively new company was the least of a whole bunch of evils. Plus, there were some nice subsidies at the time."

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    that is a good point in time of clearly has lost it. I mean the hyperloop was pretty redic but drilling and boring are very useful things so I think at that point I might have still been giving the benefit of the doubt but yeah the wierd calling the guy a pedo which on hindsite makes me think elan was pretty tight with epstein or something.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Elon fired his publicist in 2018. He’d been a known asshat to anyone online for a while by the time the cyber truck was unveiled.

    Never mind the fact that the company as a whole was extremely anti consumer the entire time.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Where's the "like" button, so I can smash the shit out of it?

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago*

    The reply is just as inane as the bumper sticker.

    Elon has always been a gross capitalist shithead.

    No "crazier" than the rest. No need for ableism.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    I dunno man, I think that's the owner sitting next to the reviewer, and he seems pretty chill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3oO510dyVI

    also, please forgive me, but this is by far the best car review I've ever watched, and I've been wanting an excuse to share it

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    If you bought a used one because you need a truck and their are really cheap used, are you still a PoS?

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I am against hating on people for their cars, only because I have also hated most of my cars. The Volvo was a piece of shit, don't blame, me I just got stuck with it.

    I would drive a cybertruck because it's funny, and I will enjoy all of the resultant stupidity. I refuse to pay more than $2K for it, though.

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