Cyberstuck

I've started seeing the Juniper model Ys in my town. There are people who bought the Cybertruck before he was a nazi, but everyone who owns a Juniper Y was well aware he was a nazi when they bought the car.

It's unfortunate. It's actually a seemingly very cool car.

I think the pedo comment should have woke people up in regards to the idiocy but the brand was still viewed relatively well at the time. The far-right philosophy and tantrums after the Twitter buy was when I think the line was visibly crossed for people with any morals. The nazi salute didn't cross that line any farther but dismantling needed/important government services starts hitting where unempathetic people can feel it, their wallets. Trump can advertise Teslas on the white house lawn as much as he wants, so long as Musk is affecting people's wallets the support he'll get is minimal.

Howabout SolarCity?

Totally fradulent demonstration.

Hyperloop?

Laughably stupid in concept, Musk pretends he invented the idea... he did not. Never amounted to anything, other than its actual real purpose: setting back high speed rail in California by a decade +.

Neuralink?

Hired the assistant to an actual pioneer in the field, possibly illegally replicated his work, proceeds to torture a bunch of pigs and monkeys to death, most of the original team bails, and currently has produced a brain implant that is no better than, and may actually be worse than existing brain implants designed to help parapalegics and those with serious nervous system disorders, etc.

Rewriting history to pretend he actually founded Tesla?

Saying he's going to put cold gas thrusters in Teslas to make flying cars?

The Tesla Semi being a shitshow of false promises that were not delivered on?

All of the insane nonsense around BFR, now Starship+Superheavy?

Oh yeah, I'm still waiting to catch my reusable ICBM trip from Seattle to Tokyo, where the ICBM will be ready to go again in 2 hrs.

Starlink sats fail at such a high rate they are now about 90% of all known orbital debris that could endanger aircraft or the ground.

Starting out saying AI is a potential grave threat, being a skeptic, then suddenly doing an aboutface when maybe he can make more money by ... doing exactly what he'd warned against, barreling forward, developing it without extreme caution?

He's been an obvious con artist for at least half a decade now, more like a solid decade, purely from anyone just looking at his actual 'business acumen', ignoring all of his personal views or opinions of a political nature.

... But he developed a cult of personality around him, a whole bunch of emasculated, aggreived male dorks looking for the dork messiah, just believing Elon was personally the man who would transform today into the tomorrow of our dreams from the 80s and 90s.

Very few people actually stopped to check if his math actually mathed, and when they did check, and found it to be very, very sketchy at best... well Elon's fanboys and bot armies harassed them mercilessly.

It is a condemnation of the general public, all society, that it took until Elon just overtly became a goddamned supervillain Nazi Lex Luthor President for the general sentiment toward Elon to actually go negative.

When he tweeted about taking the red pill was the line for me. He was getting weird but that was when he took the mask off.

For me the line was the HyperLoop. It was such a dumb idea and so obviously designed to distract from high speed rail projects. But most egregiously, it was an idea that had been tried and abandoned multiple times previously.

There is no line. He's always been this way, he just wasn't as bold about it before.

His image was pretty good though. He hadn't seriously fucked up in the public eye until he called that guy a pedo who saved all those kids in Thailand back in 2018. It was all downhill from there.

Well to be fair, the argument is similar to telling folks about to suffer from client change to sell their property and move. How are they gonna get rid of it? They're probably upside down on it too. Maybe you get lucky and sell it to a wealthy conservative?

It kinda looks neat in photos but in person it looks dog shit and the doofuses driving them look even more idiotic than the average lifted truck driving types somehow

You forgot the hazard sharp geometries pose to the world around you. Sadly, this car shape must not be allowed. That being said they are not allowed to be driven where I live due to these reasons.

I thought the same thing; I'd love to see more low-poly style IRL. The CT looks impressively terrible from the back though.

They look so much better painted. There's one in my area with an iridescent paint job that actually looks pretty awesome, or it would, if it wasn't an oversized nazimobile.

My current theory is that the Muskrat knows this and just figured out how to pass the cost for a paint job directly to consumers.

He stacked the board with people who are loyal to him. That's how he took control of Tesla to begin with. He didn't found the company, he stole it from the original founders.

The lion's share of the money is held by Conservative billionaires. They like his propaganda machine, because it allows them to gradually rob the US in broad daylight while Elon jingles keys to distract everyone who should care.

What few ultra-wealthy people who aren't Conservative either can't or won't try to take it over because it would be a huge expense, they also get benefit from the ultracapitalism it promotes, and/or the current SEC and FTC would never allow it (they work for Trump, not the people).

Like Tesla, social pressure on the users is about the only thing that will exert any meaningful influence upon Xitter. The billionaires enjoy Elon being in charge, otherwise.

If you use Google, in any way, even by using an Android phone, you agree with the genocide of palestinians. That is not hyperbole. That is not exaggeration.

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*Buys a Pontiac Aztec, drives it through some brush and into a ravine, smears shit all over it, and lights it on fire*

"Yup, still more beautiful than a cybertrash"