Very early on, I think there were some well-meaning people who were really excited about it. The idea of an all-electric truck was brand new, and the promise was huge. It unfortunately wasn’t until after many Cybertruck preorders had been secured that Elon plainly revealed his true colors, and then after it was delivered that people found out it was a piece of garbage
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Owning a cybertruck is an indication the driver is a Nazi. It was always an indicator of very poor taste, but now it marks you as a Nazi. Don’t bother trying to change my mind. I know it, my cat knows it, the mould in that tupperware I keep putting off opening in the far reaches of my fridge knows it.
No excuses now, and no bumper stickers will dissuade me. It’s been long enough, sell the thing or start sieg heiling.
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MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Idk, the first cyber trucks delivered nov 30 2023.
His takeover of Twitter was 2022, with plenty of bright red flags The “pedo guy” thing was 2019 All of his COVID violations were extremely public in 2020 and 2021
I think you’d have to be living under a rock to be completely unaware of what he was by the time preorders were locked in
nomy@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It’s just a convenient loophole for fascists to pretend they’re not fascists.
“Oh no I gave them a fully refundable $100 to pre-order it, guess I’m locked into giving this seig heiling, election interfering, pedophilic elite illegal immigrant $100k.”
There’s a bunch of defenders in this very thread.
FishFace@piefed.social 1 day ago
None of those amount to Nazism. You know what does? Throwing out a couple of Hitler salutes. But that didn’t happen until later.
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Strong disagree. Buying Twitter to amplify the voices of Nazis is pretty straightforward actions of a Nazi
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Yeah, true. But we’re like several years past that now. If you could afford one of those sins against the design gods, you could afford to take the L by now.
cdf12345@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I bet a lot of the cucks that preordered and bought them are financed to the absolute max and can’t afford to sell it now.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They couldn’t tell from the look of the thing? When he first unveiled it, I thought it he was trying to make some sort of joke. Legitimately thought he was trying to prank people! The design is atrocious!
nik9000@programming.dev 1 day ago
Every time I see one I think, “that’s so ugly it’s almost cute.” I just love janky crap.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Janky. Tap can be great if not ‘designed’ by and supporting Nazis.
Love me a70s Gremlin.
nik9000@programming.dev 1 day ago
I love it!
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
this is not an endorsement of Musk or of Tesla or of cybertruck drivers - but this is a Very Online take. My boss’ husband drives a cybertruck, he doesn’t know what tiktok is, he doesn’t know what a meme is nor does he understand them when he sees them (he asks who it’s a photo of), the only news he consumes is in regards to logistics and supply chain and a little bit of the stock market.
I imagine he has as much understanding of why people hate elon musk as to I do as to why people love Sidney Crosby and hate Alexander Ovechkin - two people I had never heard of or know nothing about before googling “hockey players people love and hate.”
I won’t even remember their names in 5 minutes. I imagine a fair amount of cybertruck owners are like that.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I guess that’s fair, though my 89 year old dad who’s also not terminally online knows this, so I have a hard time with excuses now.
Much as it sucks, if I see your boss driving that crime against fingers, I’m still gonna see him as a Nazi. Maybe someone should tell him.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
random people on the street flip him off, and some people have thrown stuff at him. He thinks they’re weirdos and it’s kinda funny. 🤷♂️
also I’m not going to tell the bosses husband people think he’s a nazi. I’m going to take my pay and enjoy my weekends and vacations.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Hey man, you’re under no obligation to tell him, nor to defend him.
So stop defending him.
nile_istic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s not a “Very Online” take, it’s a “paying any modicum of attention” take. Willful ignorance is not a valid excuse for anything, and if your boss truly thinks of Elon Musk (the richest man in the world who has bought elections and media platforms and every American’s social security number) the same way that you think of some random hockey player, then your boss is being willfully ignorant. It’s giving “i’M nOt pOLiTiCaL”, which we all know is just cowardese for “conservative”.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Does your boss’s husband know what a hitler salute is?
Probably, because they drive a cybertruck.
Gathorall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
God damn they better never give you any responsibility because you’re the most gullible person I’ve ever known. Your boss doesn’t want to tell you he’s a fascist.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
there’s no need to make it personal to me, I’m just telling you about a guy I know.
I think its very reasonable in America that one wouldn’t be exposed to specific anti-Musk language if one didn’t engage with social media or news.
I think this is a case of
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
You’re telling us about a guy you know who you seem to believe.
It isn’t reasonable to not engage with any news whatsoever while living in America. And crazy to extend that much benefit of the doubt.
He knows.
Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
That seems really odd to me. Generally people do at least a bit of research about a vehicle purchase, especially that expensive. I’m not even referring to Musk shit, just vehicle buying in general. Anyone looking up anything about the cost/value of a cybertruck would pretty quickly get an abundance of info about it being a bad buy without getting into any of the Musk stuff.
I guess if your boss’ husband just has the money and liked the look/what it said it’d do, then fair enough. Just seems strange to knowingly buy a lemon.
FishFace@piefed.social 1 day ago
Have you read or watched a review of the cybertruck? I have, it did not say it was shit.
In fact the main reason I watched was to see whether they addressed the elephant in the room of how it looks like a stretch dumpster. They did not.
The hard-line anti-cybertruck stuff is absolutely not universal, same as the anti-musk stuff.
French75@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
If he’s that out of the loop on news, the poor bastard probably doesn’t even realize he dies in a fire locked inside it every time he drives.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No excuses now, and no bumper stickers will dissuade me. It’s been long enough, sell the thing or start sieg heiling.
Hard to sell them when the only potential buyer market is people you want to avoid at all cost or a used car place that will buy it for an insulting fraction of it’s value.
And buying a replacement in this economy? We can judge new buyers all day long, we can judge people with 200k salaries that keep them, but the folks that can’t sell it are stuck with a car that no one will buy; maybe they got laid off, had to take a big salary cut to keep living, can’t afford a new car, and because they can charge the car for free at work they have extra moey for food.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
No sympathy.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People bought into the marketing hype pre-2020, and it was pretty much the only viable full EV in North America due to the charge network. A lot of people got them with good intentions for the environment.
Most people take out loans to buy new cars. When you sell or scrap a car the loan doesn’t go away. If you have 30k left on a loan, scrap the car for 10k - you’ll be left with a 20k loan and no car.
Regardless of a car’s financial worth, having a functional car is worth a lot more.
What your asking people to do is about as financially crazy as if someone told you to sell your car for $500, spend a thousand into maintance, and then go to buy a new one the leftover cash. In other words - blow your a sizable chunk of your own money because the owner of the car is a shit person. Who does that help? Musk already got his money, reselling the car does jack shit to him and completely fucks over the seller.
Stormy@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
They said “no sympathy” pretty clearly
lobut@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
No excuses now
I believe this.
At the same time, they’ll get what’s coming to them. They bought a shitty cybertruck that will break down and has shitty resell value.
DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
… It’s been long enough, sell the thing or start sieg heiling.
Or at least sieg selling… AMIRIGHT? 😅
I’m really hoping to pick one up cheap and make the monster-truck-DeLorean-time-machine of my dreams reality 🤓 But I’m only going up to $3.50 USD… gotta’ crash the whole CyberShmuck™ economy in the process 🤑
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yeah. I flip them off every time.
I never flip anyone off. Never honk. Never do much of anything…
But I flip Nazi’s off every time.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I too, flip these car/trucks over anytime I see them. They aren’t going anywhere upside down.
Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 1 day ago
And the Tupperware also got more brain than a cybertruck driver.
three@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I saw a very obviously trans person driving one the other day. Asked them if they were taking themselves to the camps or if they were into it rough.
ikidd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Rough trade.
ceenote@lemmy.world 1 day ago
See, that’s what we call an appeal to authority