Thanks. Posted these pics as a new post to Pics and man all I am getting is hate! People frothing at the mouth to throw me shade beside I was an ultra liberal EV adopter hoping to save the world! lol. It’s crazy how fast my car went from being hated on the right to being hated on the left. Tragic really.
Tesla has had a crazy ride! Previously it was the most hated car from the right, now it’s the most hated car from the left. People who bought them can’t get rid of them fast enough.
I think it’s really sad because people who bought Tesla’s are caught in the middle of this Elon nightmare. It sounds like you’re trying to make the best of a bad situation. Sorry you’re caught up in all of it - especially since the Orange Menace is now a car salesman for “Tesler.”
I thought so! Always wanted Apple to make The Apple Car! But I posted these pics in a new post and damn did I get burned with hate and downvotes in this community!!
That’s the issue. People here are more idealists than realists and they absolutely hate all large corporations, and their anger is everywhere. But the reason everyone is rebranding their Tesla car is not a statement at all about large corporations. It’s to make a statement: please don’t vandalize my Tesla. Look, I am making a clever and obvious statement that I too hate how the CEO is a fascist who is destroying democracy and free speech!
Yeah I hear you, unfortunately I don't think you have really thought through your capitalistic ideals and there inevitable end points. Capitalism is inevitably going to end in Oligarchy and collapse... History teaches us this. Switching brands to one you think is less toxic and you still admire only tries to dodge the issue.
You are also just saying "please don't vandalise my Tesla" while still holding all of the same attitudes that got you where you are now.
And that mirrors the idealistic responses I got from almost everyone. To which I say “let he who is innocent cast the first stone”. Every person making furious comments to me was typing on their iPhone, and if they are adults they are driving cars from last capitalistic companies. Not one person on Reddit lives outside of the capitalistic world.
That is true. But a large portion of people do so out of resentment and hatred of the capitalism around them and live as frugally as they can within the capitalism around them. My car is a 14 year old Nissan worth about £3,000 (probably about $4,000) - basically scrap value! I have a car because living without one would be hell in a society that is so aggregeous and greedy and self-entitled that it would be impractical. I'm not responsible for my parents choice to have a fuck. Neither am I responsible for the world they created. I don't even have to endorse what they have done with the place! I just have to live in it.
I think you are therefore similar to me and to most intelligent people who want to just survive and hopefully learn a little along the way with a strong goal to leave the world in a better place than where we started. I’ve always had very old cars and I was taught to repair and fix anything and everything instead of throwing away and replacing. I have inherited a shop full of tools and I have been lending them and fixing neighbor’s cars and appliances since I was a teenager 40 years ago. Later in life when I finally had enough money to buy things I want, I have always chosen things I deemed most reliable and efficient, like my Tesla car which was the brand that finally started the massive technological irreversible shift moving the world from fossil fuels cars to electric. As you probably know the number one factor today polluting our air is not factories or power stations, but vehicles.
It wasn’t my fault that the CRO turned into a fascist far right power hungry lunatic!! Anyway it was nice chatting with a rare civil person on Reddit. And you’re across the Pond too.
I wouldn't do a mod at all. The fact that Tesla owners are being shamed and targeted like this seems beyond ridiculous to me. I understand the public wanting to boycott the brand moving forward, but people need to mind their own damn business beyond that.
And NO, I do not own a Tesla...I drive a '91 Chevy Caprice station wagon, thank you very much 😂
I don’t think it necessarily means they’re being shamed (though I’m sure some are). Logos are nothing but advertisements for the manufacturer and if someone no longer wants to advertise for that company, I don’t see any reason they shouldn’t remove the logo (though adding someone else’s seems a bit odd). Even in the absence of any outside pressure I can understand not wanting to be a mobile billboard for a company whose owner I l’ve come to dislike.
Where and when was this a thing? I’ve had several BMW’s since 2002, and I’ve never heard about this. It would surprise me if this was a thing before the internet was so ubiquitous, so that doesn’t leave too many years.
Late 90s, and I think it was dudes who wanted people to think their 530 was a 540, or 525 was a 535. I knew some folks, so maybe it didn’t qualify as a “thing”. Both CA and MN I lived both places then. But I drove Volvo turbos. So what do I know.
Oh I did once know someone who took all the logos off his Lotus Elan. I never understood it because I thought, “damn if I owned a lotus I’d want the logo!” 🤣 but he said exactly what you said “it looks clean”.
Brands can take action against the owner of each tesla who does this. Someone posted one of a Rivian badge and Rivian had contacted to poster who took the picture.
I don’t know, there’s a pretty tight connection between supporting Tesla, which supports Elon, who supports Nazi’s. And by owning and buying Tesla’s, you’re supporting Elon, who supports Nazi’s.
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u/rlindsley 23d ago
That’s incredible. I never would have questioned the Mazda. If I had a Tesla I would absolutely do that mod.