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Politics Tesla owners rebrand their vehicles to distance themselves from Trump

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u/NoCoFoCo31 23d ago

Eh, Elon had already jumped the shark by then. They were just ahead of the time.

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u/Superfluous999 23d ago

well, I think it could be because, depending on where you lived, driving a Tesla put you at risk of being coal rolled by some dude in a lifted truck that was trying to mess with what they assumed was a liberal

...now that dynamic has almost completely flipped

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u/No_Goose_1355 23d ago

The world is bonkers now, just a few years ago who would have thought those to groups would be intertwined

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u/treple13 23d ago

Sort of like how being anti-vax used to be an almost exclusively far left thing

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u/Superfluous999 23d ago

Not me, my friend...not me...had a few of my predictions blown up since the election

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u/19eighties 23d ago

The master plan is to sell to one half of the demographic while the other half hates them, then when sales slump flip the script and sell to the other demographic and repeat.

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u/1dot21gigaflops 23d ago

It feels like that was the plan, but I still don't see MAGA buying an EV. And TSLA sales figures reflects that.

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u/Active-Candy5273 23d ago

As someone who drives a Smart Car in the south, this is probably it. I’ve had more than my fair share of assholes try to “alpha” me when I drive it. Brights turned on when behind me, following so close I can’t even see their lights, etc. If I drive my wife’s regular sedan? No issues aside from the typical idiot drivers. 

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u/t0ny7 23d ago

I got coal rolled a few weeks ago by a lifted pickup with trump stickers. They still hate EVs.

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u/IncorrectRedditUser 23d ago

Funny part is - none of these MAGATS are buying a Tesla either…. Not sure the target demographic anymore.

Polestar/Rivian CEOs just sitting back smiling.

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u/namerankserial 23d ago

The dynamics haven't completely flipped though? I don't think those coal rolling guys are buying teslas and neither are the people who used to buy teslas.  Honestly, if this American shit show got right-wing people to buy electric cars, it might actually be worth it.  But I don't think it has, yet anyway.

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u/Superfluous999 23d ago

Well I didn't say it completely flipped, but almost has...and I meant the dynamic of who thinks what about Tesla.

Sales wise is a different animal as right wingers would have to basically drop their entire stance on electric vehicles, no doubt, and the stigma that it's helping advance the climate change "agenda".

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u/nirbyschreibt 23d ago

Let’s just wrap it up: everyone who bought a Tesla because they believe that electronic cars are the future and wanted to do a good thing for the environment, is fucked for years.

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u/Cheap-Chapter-5920 23d ago

I wonder how hard would it be to convert my Subaru into rolling coal. For now it just burns oil but nothing visible ... maybe I should be adding oil to my gas. (I'm kidding if that's not obvious)

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u/Spare-Bodybuilder-68 23d ago

I think rolling coal is only for diesels, or at least primarily.

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u/AML86 23d ago

I've ridden in a non-diesel that did this. It was one of the dumb upgrades to a Honda Civic. Chop the exhaust. Run a pipe up and through the hood. Then you run it rich, and you have a happy little choo choo train!

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u/TPf0rMyBungh0le 23d ago

Yeah, now instead of some redneck laughing at you and revving his Cummins, some purple-haired sociopath with a nose ring will spray paint or set fire to your private property.

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u/fren-ulum 23d ago

I don't condone the destruction of other people's property but I got the world's smallest violin for you if it does happen to you. Sucks to suck. Same for when people actually have nazi/fascist symbols on their car and if a window gets smashed. Too bad.

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u/TPf0rMyBungh0le 23d ago

You do realize that the majority of Tesla owners are progressive, left leaning people, and that it may be nearly impossible for some to get out of the lease even if they wanted to, right?
Do you expect them to just burn their own property instead?

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u/Hdjbbdjfjjsl 23d ago

Yeah you tell them Mr. Bunghole. 🤯

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u/TPf0rMyBungh0le 23d ago

It's true, whether you like it or not. The videos are virtually a daily phenomenon on reddit now.
Rednecks vandalizing Teslas on the other hand is extremely rare or non-existant, and Teslas have been common since 2012.

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u/Level_Ad_6372 23d ago

Yeah, I guess the difference would be that the CEO of Tesla wasn't actively destroying our government in 2012.

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u/Significant-Ideal907 23d ago

You'd be surprised! musk has been lobbying for more than a decade for the government to stop funding NASA and instead contracting with private companies. This is how spaceX miraculously "appeared at the right time" to be awarded all of those juicy public contracts! Now NASA lost so much of its internal expertise that they can't do most stuff themselves anymore and are stuck to rely exclusively on spaceX (and the massive entry cost of the space exploration market prevent any competition)

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u/TPf0rMyBungh0le 23d ago

This coming from the party of "democracy".
Political vandalism and threats are fascist strategies.

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u/Superfluous999 23d ago

yeah I mean ... I feel like that's totally possible

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u/randomserious 23d ago

can confirm, sold all my tsla shares 2yrs+ ago due to his behavior

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u/Vivian-Midnight 23d ago

Me, too. I could tell he was only going to get worse. Glad I did.

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u/MusicianKind1050 23d ago

You go girl!

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u/timmah1991 23d ago

Nice, yeah investing with your emotions is usually a pretty good idea.

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u/kingDavid425 23d ago

Yeah and that’s a sane a logical response to that behavior. You didn’t go ruin someone’s vehicle. It’s not okay behavior

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u/doctordisco03k64 23d ago

what they must of felt like

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u/ATS200 23d ago

Originally, teslas would be vandalized by MAGA people because they associated them with liberals who are worried about climate change. Now it has entirely flipped and somehow it’s still Tesla in the center of it. They can’t win I guess