• arankays@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Good on you for having principles. Unfortunately a lot of Tesla owners are limp dicked piss baby champagne socialists who’d rather just put a 5 dollar sticker on their bumper instead of selling it.

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      1 month ago

      Not everyone is the position to sell their car, especially at huge finacial loss. So they buy the stupid sticker to make them selves feel a little better.

      Many bought the thing 5+ years ago when Tesla was basically the only electric with a real charging network and in a time before Musk went from eccentric billionaire to an out-of-the-closet Nazi.

      Now anyone buying one new today, that’s a different story (Which makes it harder to sell the damn thing).

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        1 month ago

        Why the fuck are you defending this shit?

        Also I am tired of hearing about how Musk only recently went insane, dude has been off the rails for as long as I can remember.

        Eccentric billionaire? My ass dude, he was an asshole and insane always for anyone paying at least a little bit of attention.

        It just finally caught up to him and now everyone wants to cry wolf that has been supporting him? Fuck off.

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          1 month ago

          What are you talking about? Most Tesla owners are progressives. This whole thing is a gut punch to Tesla owners.

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          With as strong and emotional you seem to feel about this topic, I sincerely hope you have never used an iPhone, used Facebook, bought a product off Amazon, taken an Uber ride, or consumed any Nestle products.

          If you’ve eaten a single hot pocket, you have no ground to stand on here.

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              1 month ago

              I love that comic, but it’s unfortunately not applicable to this conversation. If anything, it’s more applicable in response to @MellowYellow13.

              This person is clearly being overly reactive to the situation and isn’t listening to reason. By all means, don’t buy a Tesla in the year of our lord 2025, but if you bought one in like 2019, that’s kind of irrelevant. Those people shouldn’t be punished for what they saw as an innocuous purchase at the time. To tell people they just straight up need to sell their car is asinine.

              I’m not saying “omg you participate in society, you’re just as bad”, moreso pointing out how absolutely ridiculous @MellowYellow13 's platform here is. Things that have already been done are irrelevant, let’s look to the future to improve things, no? If you’ve bought a Tesla in the past, it does not matter, just as if you’ve bought an iPhone, used Facebook, etc.

              You completely missed my message.

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          I do not have a problem with people owning Teslas sold before 2020 or so. Even buying an older one used is no big deal in my opinion. If you buy a 2021 Tesla today, none of that money goes to Musk. You are not agreeing with him. You are not propping him up.

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          I didn’t think they were defending it. The reality is some people live in a bubble and don’t pay close attention to the media, and switching cars is not exactly an easy thing to do without getting fucked over.

          Many people are upside down on their car note, and when you trade in with negative equity on a car loan, that negative equity gets added to the new loan balance. It’s kind of a big deal for the average person.

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              Many bought the thing 5+ years ago when Tesla was basically the only electric with a real charging network…

              Until relatively recently, if you were an American who wanted to buy an electric car and wanted to guarantee you wouldn’t be stranded somewhere with a dead battery, Tesla was literally the only option.

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                1 month ago

                I had all of those things and didnt buy one as many others. Crazy that when you buy a car from a nazi lunatic things dont work out

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                  K live in your fantasy bubble and revise history all you want, not even a decade ago Teslas were considered very good cars, and the only viable electric option for some. Not hard to figure out why people bought them then, just like it’s not hard to figure out why people are selling them now.

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                    Considered by fucking who? lmao jesus christ, it’s also not hard to figure out Elon has been a Nazi for a long while