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Politics Tesla owners rebrand their vehicles to distance themselves from Trump

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u/Drink15 24d ago

MAGA types tend to like trucks. I would guess most Tesla owners are not Elon supporters

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u/keegtraw 24d ago

I agree, but being a truck owner doesn't automatically make you maga. Non-rightwing truck owners exist; there have to be at least... dozens of us.

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u/Zardif 24d ago

I own a truck, I use it to go out into the wilderness pretty often; I'm not maga. I know a bunch of people around me who do the same who aren't maga. When you live in the west there's so much to do with so much actual wilderness.

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u/GoombyGoomby 24d ago

Idk why this is even a conversation

The Ford f150 has been the best/one of the best selling vehicles in America for forever because we fucking love trucks

From left to right on the political spectrum, it doesn’t matter.

It is only an incredibly, incredibly small minority of people in this country that associate driving a truck with being right wing/MAGA, and they’re wrong to do so.

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u/Drink15 24d ago

True but i never said all trunk owners are maga.

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u/TheWizardOfDeez 24d ago

Elon was already cancerous to those paying attention by the time the Cybertruck was even announced. By the time it was released he was trying to overthrow democracy. Not a single Cybertruck owner cares about the environment, and MAGA types tend to like ICE vehicles so whats left is tech bros who are more into Elon than Trump. Which IMO is way slimier than your average MAGA cultist whose just too stupid to know whats going on.

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u/Drink15 24d ago

You can be into tech and not into Elon. I never liked him but wanted one years ago because they are very fast cars.

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u/TheWizardOfDeez 24d ago

Im a software engineer and very much not into Elon, yeah I know thats why I specified tech bros

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u/Used-Gas-6525 24d ago

Hence Tesla's 50% drop in stock price since January.

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u/cmg0047 24d ago

It had a pretty dramatic rise today, but TSLA is lining up well with the rest of the market for today's gains. Everything is down so bad.  TSLA is currently sitting at -35% since January which is less than a lot of the stocks I follow.  His actions definitely are a driving force.  Most of the stocks I follow are only sitting at -10 to -20%.  A few are even positive YTD but not by much.

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u/curtcolt95 24d ago

which is why the whole attacking people who drive teslas thing seems so weird to me. Like yeah encourage people to not buy more but mocking people who currently drive them that are very likely on your side politically seems like a terrible idea

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u/Viltris 24d ago

The left is notorious for fighting amongst ourselves. The last time we were able to unite and get something done was Obama. And even then, we fell apart in Congress and only just barely managed to pass a heavily compromised ACA.

Meanwhile, all the right-wingers who say they hate Trump eventually fall in line and start kissing his ass.

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u/streetkiller 24d ago

VERY FEW and far between are buying Cybertrucks on the right side of the aisle. $80,000 gets you a real truck.

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab 24d ago

TBF, very few and far between are buying Cybertrucks on the left side of the aisle. It's a lot less than $80,000 to get you a real truck like a Tacoma.

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u/aisuperbowlxliii 24d ago

MAGA people absolutely hate the idea of an electric truck lol. No Appalachian trump supporter would ever buy an EV

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u/whoweoncewere 24d ago

but the tech/finance bro maga love it

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u/TheeRobertDonald 23d ago

Proud Tesla owner and patriot here

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u/SolomonISbit 24d ago

Most liberal types enjoy brain dead, literal brain dead presidents like Biden.

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u/Drink15 24d ago

Same can be said for maga

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u/epicratescenchria 23d ago

My grandfather is a MAGA type. Used to drive a truck, but bought a tesla 5+ years ago. I'm not sure which came first, him turning hardcore MAGA or him becoming Elon's number 1 fan.