I mean who wouldnt want to be a fan of this guy?
Remember Musk’s cameo in Iron Man 2? People were even calling him the “real Tony Stark.” Or when Musk guest starred on The Simpsons, and Lisa called him “possibly the greatest living inventor,” even though Musk has never invented anything in his life?
With the benefit of hindsight, this was clearly ludicrous, but even at the time it should’ve been obvious to everyone that it was nonsense. Unfortunately, it wasn’t obvious to everyone, many people bought it. That’s scary. It’s scary that a megalomaniacal narcissist with enough money can convince large numbers of people that they are something that they are not.
He was also mentioned in star trek discovery alongside Edison and Einstein. It’s amazing what a lot of money and a good PR firm can do.
Edison is a pretty good comparison, though. Both just business men that larped as inventors.
He was also mentioned in Rick and Morty in a similar capacity.
Was it the fascism?
Left-leaning folks are all for EVs. Turning into a Nazi wasn’t going to go over well with Tesla’s most likely customers.
A reminder that he’s not quite as smart as he believes himself to be.
It’s not just that people on the left tend to be more interested in EVs, it’s that people on the far right have made hating them a fundamental tenet of their insane belief system. We’re talking about people who go out of their way to sabotage charging stations, who modify their trucks to intentionally produce more pollution. Even if you were a MAGA type and thought “Hey, that new Model S sounds pretty sweet” there is no way you’d put up with the abject hatred it would draw from your community.
And what’s more, because of this outright hostility to their vehicles in conservative areas, Tesla has almost no infrastructure in those places. No dealerships, no charging stations. And Tesla operate their own dealerships, so they can’t just sell through existing dealers. They literally don’t have the ability to sell cars to MAGA, even if MAGA suddenly develops the inclination to buy them after all of Trump’s shilling.
You can see this in the numbers. The most MAGA friendly Tesla vehicle, the Cybertruck, is piling up on lots. No one is buying it. Despite Tesla originally struggling to hit their production targets, they’ve actually ended up shutting down lines and retasking workers because the trickle of vehicles they produced is well in excess of demand.
Haven’t read the article but I’m guessing being a Nazi was the how.
A nice example of the distinction between reality and the media controlled world that is being shown to us. Give up the right and left and join in the search for truth. That is the less travelled path but it will make your life more interesting and honourable. Sometimes though, the truth is a hard bugger to pin down.
The Truth (and reality):
