If you weren’t already boycotting everything Elon touches what the fuck is wrong with you?
Better late than never, I say. Better to praise new good behavior than complain about the delay!
Right, the best time was yesterday. Today is the second best time but it’s better than nothing.
Does it count as boycotting if you could never afford it in the first place?
just makes the boycotting that much easier.
The showrooms are still standing, so I don’t think the Yankees are protesting hard enough.
They should call the French.
Considering the number of “the French give up” jokes made by Americans I find it hilarious that Americans won’t even try in the first place. I know who the real losers are.
Well…If the French hadnt assisted the Americans in their revolution, the English would have kept them as a colony and we wouldnt all be in this mess right now.
(/s)
We also shouldn’t have sold Louisiana to them.
Louisianan here… I’m working on my French language skills… if y’all want to invade and take it back, not gonna lie we’ve got some problems (red state).
Somebody already shot one up and left a note.
And as Musk wreaks irreparable damage to his personal brand, Tesla sales are tanking, especially in Europe: In Germany, sales plunged by 59% in January, following Musk’s endorsement of the country’s far-right AfD party. They were also down 63% in France year-over-year, in January.
The EV-maker’s net income in the fourth quarter of 2024 fell 71% from the same time in the previous year […]
You love to see it.
Here’s an idea. We take all the money from the nazi CEO and solve world hunger. It’s a simple as that lol.
Solid plan.
As a current Tesla owner, can I just say that I bought my car long before this man went (fully) off the rails. Selling my car won’t hurt him, only myself. Please don’t view my car as support for this piece of shit.
May I suggest a bumper sticker indicating you don’t support him or the company any longer?
As a current owner that can’t financially walk away for another 2 or so months at best, what sticker is best?
I’m also going to replace the emblems that are removable with Luigi logos and add bear resist stickers but…I dunno.
Thing is, any damage done could potentially lengthen the time until I can exit.
Fuck Elon. I hope he gets cancer.
There’s lots of “I bought this before I knew he was crazy” variants out there.
But if you’re really committed and want to design something unique, I’ll laser engrave it on something for you for free. I can do plastics, wood, and metal that can be attached with glue or magnets. Or I can laze a template for you if you’d like to paint it on.
The irony is that it might then be a car with the potential to piss off two groups - the group that thinks the sticker is not really enough (and I’m sure they exist), and those that are pissed that someone shows they don’t show enough support for fElon and by proxy, the magats.
Not that I have any answers. I’m just glad I’m not in a similar predicament. I was definitely eyeing Teslas before I knew what a fascist fElon is. Could have happened to nearly anyone, it seems.
The irony is that it might then be a car with the potential to piss off two groups
I get why people don’t want to piss off some of the maga people. they do seem a bit snowflake-y and overly armed but at the same time not expressing yourself due to this fear is giving them more power than they deserve.
I think a lot of them are cowards are likely to just mess with the car and/or the property it’s on.
Technically the used market value can negatively affect the new market value of a brand. More people selling Tesla at lower price means people looking to buy are more tempted with used than new, and those buying new see the value decrease more off the lot.
I get that and it could happen to any brand (CEO has views that people don’t agree with - although this case is extreme).
Look at Bud Light / Nike / etc.
Destroying something you already own isn’t going to affect Elon; it’s going to affect someone that’s just trying to get by.
But if someone else buys used and not new, it still lowers direct sales for Tesla.
Same. I’m definitely one-and-done with my Tesla, but I should be able to get another good 5+ years out of it before I get rid of it.
A lot of people are in your position, and I sympathize. I will readily judge owners of new Tesla vehicles, but owners of older models are plausibly victims just as much as the rest of us.
Easiest of all to spot will be the new generation Model Y coming out this month, which have a unique single light-bar on the front, which looks like the Cybertruck.
If someone graffittis my 6 year old car, I’m not going to get mad about it. It sucks, but I can’t exactly blame them. Rivian R3X can’t get here soon enough. But I think I won’t be able to wait that long.
Selling my car won’t hurt him, only myself.
How would selling your car hurt you? Would you not be able to get a different vehicle?
How big do you suppose the market is for a used Tesla right now? How big a bath do you think he’d have to take to sell it?
That said, ONLY remembering there are people in this boat keeps me from making rude gestures at Tesla drivers (esp cybertrucks) these days.
Vehicle valuation is not a guarantee and it could be difficult to sell the Nazi-mobile but personally i’d rather sell than be seen in anything related to Nazis.
Vehicle valuation is not a guarantee
And that’s great, but this is the question you asked:
How would selling your car hurt you?
So it’s the question I answered.
it could be difficult to sell the Nazi-mobile but personally i’d rather sell than be seen in anything related to Nazis.
How wonderful for you that you would make a different decision than that other person who is not you and has entirely different circumstances in their life.
How old is it? It might be a good idea to ditch it before it becomes an even bigger liability. Teslas don’t last over 10 years without dropping large sums of cash into them.
May we also boycott oxygen from entering his lungs - would yield much quicker results
He needs the ultimate flushie, where nobody lets him come back up for air.
Later: “Due to the struggling stock market and their essential nature to the economy, we have no choice but to bail out Tesla Motors.”
Hear me out. Tesla makes (or at least made) innovative cars, they persued their vision of electric vehicles and made EVs a commonplace option for the average consumer. They needed Musk’s capital to do that. They are still capable of doing great things… But not with Elon at the helm. The best thing we can do, even if you like your Model 3, or even your damn Cybertruck, is to get Elon out of Tesla.
That means boycotts. Don’t use their chargers, don’t rent or buy their cars, don’t subscribe to their full-self driving, and black them out on social media.
Even if Musk gets fired, he’ll still own a huge percentage of the stock. If the goal is to hurt his net worth, then the boycott shouldn’t end with his dismissal.
Agreed. He should be separated from shares (imho) before any person should feel good about helping out Tesla.
Yeah I got a tesla and still retain my stocks in tesla from years back. Ever since I realized how shitty Elon is, I haven’t bought any more. Though, I haven’t pulled out either because elon can be replaced, and I think the company is still capable of innovation.
I’m not really qualified to give stock advice, but from what I understand, Tesla’s stock price is seriously over-valued for what they produce, and a large chunk of it’s price is speculation on what Elon is going to do. When it becomes clear to even the dumbest investor that Elon is toxic, that shit is going to tumble fast. IMO, it’s a big wave that has to crash down at some point. Sell high.
Not a stock market expert though, talk to someone who knows their shit about it.
Nah probably. But at the time when I put money in them, no big name car manufacturer had an electric car to their name. Like it or not, Tesla lit a fire behind their asses. Even now, it might be overvalued, but It’s not like I’m investing more in the company, I’m in it to see how far it can get.
you’re a joke, tesla sucks and is made a joke by the Chinese.
All subsidised with billions and still failing in the world market.Lmao. Tesla made luxury vehicles.
Better than nothing, but not good enough. Please visit your local government buildings and get involved. Not buying Teslas won’t make a difference like actual difference-making will.
Tesla has become the official automobile brand of magastan. When you see one rolling down the road, or more likely stuck in 2 inches of snow, at least you’ll know where its owner stands on things like equality and the new national norm of fascism.
Cybertrucks, maybe. But the sedans were, for a long time, the only real EV game in town. Owning them now does nothing to enrich Musk, and selling them does nothing to harm him. In fact, a mass selloff (of vehicles, not shares) may very well be helpful to his bottom line, since if you increase the used stock you make buying a dealer-new Tesla more attractive (when a bunch of them sit on a dealer lot all shiny, they’re essentially advertisements). Plus, if you replace one with a gas vehicle, you’re enriching the petroleum lobby that also helped put
MuskTrump in office.Tesla owners who care about making a difference should reduce waste by hanging on to their vehicles until they’re falling to pieces (which won’t take long in the case of the cybertruck), and then replace it with a low-cost EV made by someone else. In the meantime, cancel any recurring subscriptions on the vehicle, put a meaningful statement of resistance on the bumper, drive it to protests and campaign events for non-fascist candidates, and use it to contribute significant mutual aid within your community.
Even at this point, I doubt it. Many might be people that bought in before they knew who and what Musk is and are just riding it out. I’m not sure what the used market is like for Tesla right now, but even with normal depreciation, selling a used car and trying to find a comparable replacement may set you back.
I can never tell if you lot are just your typical purity testing Americans, well meaning but dimwitted „allies" or trolls sewing divisiveness amongst actual allies. Regardless, this rhetoric is indicative of why your country is imploding.
Our country is imploding because it pivoted hard towards fascism. I’m not trying to call out well-meaninged folks in the process, but blaming fellow liberals for associating the Tesla brand with Nazis is not a genuine sentiment. This is Musk’s and MAGA’s fault exclusively.
For those who regrettably went Tesla before all this mess and aren’t in a position to sell, put a bumper sticker on it, or find another way to show your disdain for what’s happening. Again, you can’t blame people for using tools like speech and economy. And, ignoring what’s happening is a self-defeating endeavor that only results in normalization.
but blaming fellow liberals for associating the Tesla brand with Nazis is not a genuine sentiment.
You’ve said a lot of stupid things here, but this may be the stupidest. Absolute cucumber sandwich level of cognition. Saying you lots purity testing is part of why the American „left” is ineffective is a genuine sentiment.
Just throwing around insults… You’re very clearly not looking to have a serious discussion.
Why is the focus on musk? He’s not the root problem. Trump is the one who gave him power, even if m is removed, t will put another big donor in power.
You know how we “make an example” out of people who do things we don’t like?
We need to make an example out of billionaires that put up hundreds of millions of dollars to manipulate elections. Billionaires and big business should have no place in politics.
So the purpose is to change the law that allows unlimited donations? It’s kind of too late…. Do you not remember the inauguration photo of trump surrounded by billionaires? He doesn’t care about the law, no one can touch him. The us is a dictatorship now. The old way of thinking needs to change. We need new strategies.
Trump doesn’t care about his ratings. He doesn’t care about the protesters, and is waiting for things to get “out of control” so that he’ll enact martial law. T will keep giving billionaires taxpayer money, whether or not the citizens want him to, and whether or not the citizens are buying their products.
So the purpose is to change the law that allows unlimited donations?
That is not a law. That was a supreme court power grab. The law says donations are limited to $2000.
Be sure to share this on Twitter! Keep using his platform, guys!
Tesla is done anyway, they desperately need to cheat with tarrifs and rules to keep moderately competing with the Chinese.
And even then they are of far lesser quality and more expensive.
The billions in subsidies this clown has gotten for his cars he is now getting in bigger quantities as a military contractor.
Starlink and SpaceX are getting massive government contracts.
This can only help some of these protesters conscience, as if they’re doing something.wow you are reeeeaaaal revolutionaries!
that will show them!
