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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I wonder if someone breaking it and collecting insurance money from it would end up being the preferred option over selling it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

At this point I expect to see them abandoned on the side of the road with a "Just take it" sign over the engine

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Soon it can be scrapped for steel and you could make money off buying them.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sure am glad I couldn’t afford one of those things back when I wanted one.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For its part, Tesla has been trying to boost its image with the help of President Trump.

Yeah, that's part of the problem, Elon.

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 2 months ago (11 children)

For its part, Tesla has been trying to boost its image with the help of President Trump. On Monday, the president took to the South Lawn of the White House to promote Tesla's cars, apparently buying one despite having campaigned on an explicitly anti-electric vehicle platform.

Somehow, I don't think MAGA cult will buy electric vehicles in quantities needed to offset even a fraction of people who used to buy Tesla.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I don't think the MAGA Cult can even AFFORD electric vehicles, I mean, shit I know I can't.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Half of them are broke as fuck and the other half are heavily invested in oil company stocks. Elon made a poor choice of allegiance.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Well if they make a Cybertruck 2 that's lifted and looks like the Dildozer, they might have a new market. It'll get 50 miles per-charge, but it'll intimidate their neighbor's kid, so it's worth the $380,000 price tag (financed, of course).

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

They’re trying the “buy EVs to own the libs” angle. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton….

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Eh...put a lift kit, USA flag wrap, and a smoke machine on the cyber truck and they'd double sales.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine the CEO of Browning or American Rifles helping Joe Biden pick out a new gun from a display in the state dining room.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The difference is Biden is a gun owner. So at least it would be buying a product he actually has. There has been incidents referencing him and his wife having at least a shotgun (so 2+ guns)

With Trump hating on electric cars like he had for so long, and not knowing how to drive, it's a bit different.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Old rich guy like Biden probably has loads of nice, quality, antique guns.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

which is great, because it will increase the chance that tesla will go down and with that elon musk.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 2 months ago

Same people proudly claiming the market is self regulating shocked when the market responds to them being openly fascist cunts.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

SE Asia, East Africa, and Central and South America

Is this where American monied have compounds?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

This is beautiful

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If beattheshitoutofmytesla.com was a thing I'd do contract work on my weekends.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hell, I'll roll out for free.

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[–] [email protected] 275 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who knew that being a publicly facing cunt makes people not want to buy your product. Shocking discovery.

[–] [email protected] 116 points 2 months ago (3 children)

These people literally live in reaffirming social bubbles they have created. On and offline both. They don't see that they are overplaying their hand.

This article should bring you joy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/elon-musk-human-meme-stock/682023/

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

a cultivated image of Musk as a Thomas Edison or Tony Stark type

LMAO! See Tony Stark blow Musk off like a loser in Iron Man II:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxe1HCR7uEk

I'd be humiliated were I him. His head's so far up his ass he likely sees that cameo as a plus.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Ublock works just fine on the Atlantic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not me me on Firefox (Windows). Something I'm missing?

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