There are signs the billionaire is becoming unpopular with the very demographic group most likely to buy EVs
Hate the man, hate the cars. Im not even kidding buy any other ev and theyre so much better.
Listen - there’s famous people who, if you heard they suddenly died somehow, you’d only expect better for the near future in major aspect of human civilization.
Elmo’s been on that list since before he got tricked into buying the world’s biggest forum and turning it into his own fascist circlejerk.
If he slips in the bathroom tomorrow morning and never speaks again, what reasonable person is going to feel worse about the EV market, human spaceflight, American politics, or online discourse?
I’ve blocked Twitter, I bully Teslas in traffic, I charge double my regular rates to install Starlink(s) and I steadfastly refuse to have Starlink on my own vessel until Dickhole has divested himself.
It’s not much, but it’s honest effort.
Don’t bully anyone in traffic.
I bully car drivers in traffic. If a car is stopped in the middle of the pedestrian crossing I give the hood a bang with my hand as I pass. But honestly anyone who drives a car deserves to be made fun of.
If you touched someone’s private property because you don’t like where it’s currently stopped it says more about you then them.
Mercs, BMW, Lexus, RRover, Tesla, they can all fucking wait because we all know those drivers are twats.
Stopping in the middle of pedestrian crossings is illegal. The car is using a public road, and not following the social contract. I think drivers who behave that way should forfeit their cars.
Being a public nuisance is also illegal, as is property damage.
The driver in this imaginary scenario is a real dickhead, but you’re also a massive twat.
Whatever makes you feel like a badass and helps you forget you’re just a normal asshole.
You and everyone else break the law a dozen times a day so don’t get pedantic.
I break the law in prosocial ways. Stopping in pedestrian crossings is antisocial. I’m physically abled, but what if someone with a wheelchair or a walker needs to cross? They can’t do that if there’s a car in the way. The strong have an ethical duty to protect the weak from the strong. If I was a better person, I’d be spitting on the cars instead of just annoying the drivers with a tap.
Yes
Zero emotional intelligence. What a stupid, stupid man-child. In retrospect, it is utterly unsurprising that he dove in head first on red pill, pro-maga, pro-putin joe rogan toxic meathead idiocy.
I mean, not much intelligence, period. The only thing Elon ever did intelligently is invest his father’s blood diamond money.
reminder that you shouldn’t buy teslas anyways bc their manufacturing quality is dogshit and they’ll blame you when shit breaks
I mean… Fucking duuuuuhhhhh
Tesla’s image is definitely tarnished. It may not be meaningfully affecting their bottom line or forecasts yet, but a bad reputation is hard to fix. As competitors start to step up and current owners look to replace their aging Teslas over the next few years, it’s going to make a difference. I’ve got high hopes for Rivian, personally.
Absolutely maidenless behavior from Tesla
Their revenue was down 50% last quarter. It is very visibly affecting their bottom line.
I won’t buy one because of Musk and I know there are others like me.
I wanted one badly before I started learning more about him. I’m not longer interested.
Who is his target market now?
Who is his target market now?
It’s hard to feel like you’re making any impact in saving the environment when you’re actively funneling money towards a guy who has straight up tried to hamstring and dismantle the EPA. Funding Elon is funding Trump and funding Trump makes one complicit
It’s not driving away his target market, it’s fully changed it. His target market is now MAGA brain-rot Republican weirdos, who also want an EV. It’s not a big market.
People with concern for and a desire to do something about Climate Change are the largest demographic buying EVs, and they are a very left-leaning bunch. To say Elon’s rhetoric has pushed that market section away is a dramatic understatement.
I would’ve bought a Tesla years ago, if it weren’t for that piece of shit.
I did buy a Tesla years ago. Won’t consider replacing it with another one when the time comes…
The next Tesla will be a diesel version of the Cybertruck, for real men who don’t drive sissy electric cars. And it’ll have a “roll coal” button as standard.
I bet he’ll change the company name to something stupid and edgy like he did with twitter
Sexla
He’ll call it CarX
Will it be a 4X4?
He’s still the same wannabe edgelord he’s always been. Hard to believe his target market is bothered by that.
Shareholders, on the other hand, might have issue with what he’s doing and its effect on the stock price.
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You’re wrong. He didn’t always spout Nazi bullshit. That’s a huge change that happened in the last couple of years.
I have coworkers who worked with him in the past, and I can say with 100% certainty that he’s always been like this. He’s just more open about it now/his PR team isn’t keeping it from the public.
He’s trying to sell EVs to the truck nuts demographic, so, yeah, I’d say things aren’t really going super well…
BUT ITS THE TRUKKK THAT BLADE RUNNER WOULD DRIVE
-actual fucking claim from the savior of humanity
What gets me is that he’s hitched himself to the MAGA ride when the other way would’ve been far more lucrative in the short and long term.
Big brain dude
Seriously, build an expensive high-end product, then alienate all the “elite” who would buy it. Brilliant business plan.
Um, I hate to burst your bubble but I live in a pretty well-to-do county and it’s only after he went fascist that Teslas started taking off here.
Might want to consider reading up on the petite bourgeoisie and their role in the rise of Nazi Germany.
But far less conducive to his pathological narcissism. In maga he can cultivate the personality cult he so desperately craves.
He used to be tech jesus which would have only grown had he not went off the deep end!
Maybe it’s the brain worm. Or maybe it’s all a deep ruse to convert the cult to electric for the good of humanity. The coal rollers
