My favorite I’ve ever seen:
“I bought this before Elon went crazy.”
on a Camry
Based tesla user???
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Fortatech@gregtech.eu to [deleted]
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Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He’s been toxic for a long time though, a long long time. I do remember the first kink in his public armour was when those people were stuck in a cave and he called one of the rescuers a pedophile for not taking his advice
Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
To be fair, Tesla began production of their first cars in 2008. The pedo cave thing was 2018.
Retrospectively, there were many signs but in 2015, I don’t think the general public had their attention directed to Elon’s bs.
I understand that Tesla feels like a young company and that everything that Elon did happened super recently. But it has been 17 years. E.g. Elon has talked about self-driving cars in 2015, promising them for 2018. Elon has failed to keep his promise of self-driving for 7 years now.
I am not arguing that Elon wasn’t a weird fascist with a toddler RP kink in 2008. Or that we couldn’t have known what kind of man he is. But rather that I don’t think the general public knew and understood in the early years of Tesla.
Armand1@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Now that you mention it…
deaf_fish@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
You are correct, but the average person is not paying attention to that kind of stuff.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
The Muskrat was always Mad!
Fortatech@gregtech.eu 3 weeks ago
Ah, nevermind then…
kamenlady@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, but there was a time where he would be referenced in Star Trek or host SNL.
Imagine referencing him now as someone that helped mankind to progress or thinking “oh, let’s get Elon to host the show next time, should be fun”.
dalekcaan@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Yeah, but it took people a while to realize. He had good PR at first, but he managed to fuck that up with the submarine thing and it’s been downhill from there.
lengau@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Honestly I view Teslas with these sorts of stickers as even worse than not having them, because Musk was always this bad.
An “I didn’t know and now I regret it” sticker would garner much more sympathy from me.
lefixxx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Your memory is faulty. Musk “was” a visionary savant that tried to advance humanity by making EV mainstream and advancing the mars mission. The facade dropped recently
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
July 16, 2018. That’s when Musk called that rescue work a pedophilia.
That’s when his antics couldn’t be hand waved as eccentric or trolling. The rumors that he was a shitty boss weren’t back up yet, he was still pro-LGBT and he had renewed public interest in space travel after the shuttles were retired.
FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I agree with lengau too. He’s always been a grifter, claiming other people’s achievements as his own, implementing unsafe practices in his factories, union busting, etc…
lengau@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
He was always this bad and I’ve been warning people about him for a decade or more. That’s the point - own the fact that you were ignorant rather than pretending this was some sort of change in him.
Madison420@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, their memory is fine. You’re knees are just a bit more scuffed then theirs.
Fortatech@gregtech.eu 2 weeks ago
Well, it probably means the latter, just that the person probably didn’t know of the political situation back then.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It means people were to ignorant or too dumb to notice some clearly huge red flags Elon was a nazi scam artist.
Bieren@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Musk has always been a shithead. He was always batshit crazy. It just took people 20 years to realize it.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
would have been even longer if he just kept his mouth shut.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Would have been longer if he didn’t stop paying his PR team.
Sivilian@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I say the same as others he has always been mad. When he takes over a company he trys to erase history and make it seem like he created it. That is the behavior of a crazy person.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
TBF, it wasn’t really that widely known until he started tweeting like mad.
Sivilian@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That is true. And I wouldn’t criticize someone who was just buying a car because they wanted an electric car. My main criticism is the people who’ve made it their whole personality, thdy are now backing out because they didn’t research and only found out because he took off his shallow mask that was public faceing. But I need to move on I have wasted to much time talking about him.
Tabooki@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
He took over a tiny company with a couple of people and turned it into a global powerhouse.
stoy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Ok, lets say that Teslas big break was Elons doing, that is an amazing achievement, yet he wasn’t satisfied, he had to be one of the founders of the company badly enough to sue to get the title.
That is not the actions of a sane person.
mastod0n@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The “don’t vandalize my car pls” sticker
Armand1@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
"Power does not corrupt, it reveals."
- John Steinbeck
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We’ve also just created a system that rewards psychopaths.
gabbath@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This. This. This. So much this. There’s absolutely value in analyzing the individual level, like the effects of power on people and so on, but goddamn it’s probably also relevant that all the opportunity (ahem, “meritocracy”) ladders that can be climbed are just different sports in the Psycho Olympics.
Tja@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Too verbose. I have a simpler one on mine:
FCK ELN
sasquatch7704@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sorry, but Elon was always nuts, self driving cars and hyper loop, just saying
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cannot be based just by looking at the Novo Mesto registration plates.
Catchmeifyoucan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is so weak… these tesla owners are pitiful.
wanderwisley@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
These stickers are just hilariously stupid if you have the money to buy a Tesla, you have the money to sell it for a better naziless vehicle.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unless its a 2008 tesla roadster it’s not “pre-madness” and even then it’s very debatable.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
“Pre my awareness of world politics”
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
When is ignorance an acceptable excuse?