Anonymous
02/07/2025 14:12
Subject: Used Teslas
Anonymous wrote:
There are rumors that the board of Tesla wants to vote out Musk. If that happens, would you consider buying a Tesla?
It would help.
Anonymous
02/07/2025 14:09
Subject: Used Teslas
Anonymous wrote:
There are rumors that the board of Tesla wants to vote out Musk. If that happens, would you consider buying a Tesla?
No, because a) that’s not going to happen and would be financial malpractice, since nothing is propping up the share price except the cult of Elon and b) are they even going to make cars any more?
Anonymous
02/07/2025 14:07
Subject: Used Teslas
There are rumors that the board of Tesla wants to vote out Musk. If that happens, would you consider buying a Tesla?
Anonymous
02/05/2025 12:17
Subject: Used Teslas
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We are liberal, earthy-crunchy as it comes, and we've had one since 2019. We can't get another car right now, and doing so would be bad for the environment since there is nothing wrong with this one (except the guy who owns the company has lost his mind and soul, if ever he had one), so it is what it is. And it's actually a great car, so there's that too. We don't own any Tesla stock.
If you want to take something out on Elon, go after Elon, not your neighbors. We need to get our kids to school and ourselves to work. A car is a car. I don't get people who side eye someone for the car they drive as if it means they agree with Elon's current politics. That's just not realistic.
I don’t think anyone said they have a problem with Tesla drivers, just that we’re not inclined to go buy one.
I definitely look askance at cybertruck drivers though.
Cybertruck drivers are the exception to this, for sure. No issue with folks who have been driving the other models for years. Most of the people I know will not buy another one, though.
Anonymous
02/05/2025 12:09
Subject: Used Teslas
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm wondering if Tesla drivers are feeling strange driving them around now.
They should be! And that bumper sticker that says 'I bought this before Elon went crazy doesn't absolve you!"
So what's the answer? Sell your Tesla to a Musk supporter at a fire sale price that helps him and not you?
Anonymous
02/05/2025 10:11
Subject: Used Teslas
Anonymous wrote:I'm wondering if Tesla drivers are feeling strange driving them around now.
They should be! And that bumper sticker that says 'I bought this before Elon went crazy doesn't absolve you!"
Anonymous
02/05/2025 10:10
Subject: Used Teslas
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is there going to be a flood of used Teslas hitting the market as those who previously purchased them no longer wish to be associated with Musk?
Can't speak for everyone but the people I know who have Teslas love them but won't buy a new one when the time comes to replace it. Musk has gone too far. They are also selling their Tesla stock.
This is us. We do love our Tesla and under different circumstances would have bought another one this summer. We'll be buying something different now.
Anonymous
02/04/2025 16:50
Subject: Used Teslas
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We are liberal, earthy-crunchy as it comes, and we've had one since 2019. We can't get another car right now, and doing so would be bad for the environment since there is nothing wrong with this one (except the guy who owns the company has lost his mind and soul, if ever he had one), so it is what it is. And it's actually a great car, so there's that too. We don't own any Tesla stock.
If you want to take something out on Elon, go after Elon, not your neighbors. We need to get our kids to school and ourselves to work. A car is a car. I don't get people who side eye someone for the car they drive as if it means they agree with Elon's current politics. That's just not realistic.
I don't think you need to worry about the sedan-type Teslas, since they're very widespread and people understand most of them were bought before Elon started cozying up to the extreme-right.
PP is correct that the timing of the cybertruck rollout makes these owners seem like they just deliberately ignored red flags from that quarter (or maybe they're neo-Nazis too!). Also cybertrucks are extremely unsafe - they're very heavy, and they lack collapsible plastic fenders which make collisions with pedestrians/bicycles/etc less lethal than they might otherwise be. Without injecting politics into it, it's just a really, really, bad design and no rational car-buyer should ever be interested.
Teen DD said cybertrucks look like trash cans.
Anonymous
02/04/2025 16:49
Subject: Used Teslas
Anonymous wrote:I'm wondering if Tesla drivers are feeling strange driving them around now.
if they are, they usually have these stickers on them:
Anonymous
02/04/2025 16:37
Subject: Used Teslas
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We are liberal, earthy-crunchy as it comes, and we've had one since 2019. We can't get another car right now, and doing so would be bad for the environment since there is nothing wrong with this one (except the guy who owns the company has lost his mind and soul, if ever he had one), so it is what it is. And it's actually a great car, so there's that too. We don't own any Tesla stock.
If you want to take something out on Elon, go after Elon, not your neighbors. We need to get our kids to school and ourselves to work. A car is a car. I don't get people who side eye someone for the car they drive as if it means they agree with Elon's current politics. That's just not realistic.
I don’t think anyone said they have a problem with Tesla drivers, just that we’re not inclined to go buy one.
I definitely look askance at cybertruck drivers though.
If someone goes out right now and buys a Tesla, they are supporting Elon Musk's company. Buy whatever car you want but I don't have to be impressed with someone that's going to support that guy's company. There are plenty of other vehicle options.
Plus he seems to be actively trying to trash his brand as fast as he can. So you have to wonder about the longevity of this brand.
If you buy a Mercedes, Porsche, BMW, or VW, you are supporting families who built their wealth on the Nazi-industrial complex. Actual Nazis, not figurative ones. Similar connections can be made to Toyota and Mitsubishi with regard to the wealthy families of Japan.
If you think there is some major corporation that is not complicit in globalism, radical oligarchy, and war profiteering, I would love to know what company that is.
The profiteering was last century, PP, and you can't fault today's CEOs and car consumers for the tragedies of 75+ years ago. It's really not the same thing as knowingly buying a Tesla today, when Elon Musk made the Nazi salute last week, appeared at the German extreme-right rally and declared he would be financially supporting them for their campaign.
You most certainly can fault them. Ill-gotten gain can (and ought to be) divested. And in the interest of semantic purity, it was the atrocities of 75+ years ago, not mere tragedies.
You fault Musk for being cozy with the German far right. Do you think that Mercedes, Porsche, BMW, and VW are not feathering the nests of the powerful right wing in Germany? That is completely unrealistic.
If you want to buy a Tesla, buy a Tesla. Not giving any company of Elon musk a penny of my hard-earned money and that is my right.
Anonymous
02/04/2025 16:34
Subject: Used Teslas
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We are liberal, earthy-crunchy as it comes, and we've had one since 2019. We can't get another car right now, and doing so would be bad for the environment since there is nothing wrong with this one (except the guy who owns the company has lost his mind and soul, if ever he had one), so it is what it is. And it's actually a great car, so there's that too. We don't own any Tesla stock.
If you want to take something out on Elon, go after Elon, not your neighbors. We need to get our kids to school and ourselves to work. A car is a car. I don't get people who side eye someone for the car they drive as if it means they agree with Elon's current politics. That's just not realistic.
I don’t think anyone said they have a problem with Tesla drivers, just that we’re not inclined to go buy one.
I definitely look askance at cybertruck drivers though.
If someone goes out right now and buys a Tesla, they are supporting Elon Musk's company. Buy whatever car you want but I don't have to be impressed with someone that's going to support that guy's company. There are plenty of other vehicle options.
Plus he seems to be actively trying to trash his brand as fast as he can. So you have to wonder about the longevity of this brand.
If you buy a Mercedes, Porsche, BMW, or VW, you are supporting families who built their wealth on the Nazi-industrial complex. Actual Nazis, not figurative ones. Similar connections can be made to Toyota and Mitsubishi with regard to the wealthy families of Japan.
If you think there is some major corporation that is not complicit in globalism, radical oligarchy, and war profiteering, I would love to know what company that is.
The profiteering was last century, PP, and you can't fault today's CEOs and car consumers for the tragedies of 75+ years ago. It's really not the same thing as knowingly buying a Tesla today, when Elon Musk made the Nazi salute last week, appeared at the German extreme-right rally and declared he would be financially supporting them for their campaign.
You most certainly can fault them. Ill-gotten gain can (and ought to be) divested. And in the interest of semantic purity, it was the atrocities of 75+ years ago, not mere tragedies.
You fault Musk for being cozy with the German far right. Do you think that Mercedes, Porsche, BMW, and VW are not feathering the nests of the powerful right wing in Germany? That is completely unrealistic.
Anonymous
02/04/2025 16:28
Subject: Used Teslas
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We are liberal, earthy-crunchy as it comes, and we've had one since 2019. We can't get another car right now, and doing so would be bad for the environment since there is nothing wrong with this one (except the guy who owns the company has lost his mind and soul, if ever he had one), so it is what it is. And it's actually a great car, so there's that too. We don't own any Tesla stock.
If you want to take something out on Elon, go after Elon, not your neighbors. We need to get our kids to school and ourselves to work. A car is a car. I don't get people who side eye someone for the car they drive as if it means they agree with Elon's current politics. That's just not realistic.
I don’t think anyone said they have a problem with Tesla drivers, just that we’re not inclined to go buy one.
I definitely look askance at cybertruck drivers though.
If someone goes out right now and buys a Tesla, they are supporting Elon Musk's company. Buy whatever car you want but I don't have to be impressed with someone that's going to support that guy's company. There are plenty of other vehicle options.
Plus he seems to be actively trying to trash his brand as fast as he can. So you have to wonder about the longevity of this brand.
If you buy a Mercedes, Porsche, BMW, or VW, you are supporting families who built their wealth on the Nazi-industrial complex. Actual Nazis, not figurative ones. Similar connections can be made to Toyota and Mitsubishi with regard to the wealthy families of Japan.
If you think there is some major corporation that is not complicit in globalism, radical oligarchy, and war profiteering, I would love to know what company that is.
The profiteering was last century, PP, and you can't fault today's CEOs and car consumers for the tragedies of 75+ years ago. It's really not the same thing as knowingly buying a Tesla today, when Elon Musk made the Nazi salute last week, appeared at the German extreme-right rally and declared he would be financially supporting them for their campaign.
Anonymous
02/04/2025 16:24
Subject: Used Teslas
Anonymous wrote:We are liberal, earthy-crunchy as it comes, and we've had one since 2019. We can't get another car right now, and doing so would be bad for the environment since there is nothing wrong with this one (except the guy who owns the company has lost his mind and soul, if ever he had one), so it is what it is. And it's actually a great car, so there's that too. We don't own any Tesla stock.
If you want to take something out on Elon, go after Elon, not your neighbors. We need to get our kids to school and ourselves to work. A car is a car. I don't get people who side eye someone for the car they drive as if it means they agree with Elon's current politics. That's just not realistic.
I don't think you need to worry about the sedan-type Teslas, since they're very widespread and people understand most of them were bought before Elon started cozying up to the extreme-right.
PP is correct that the timing of the cybertruck rollout makes these owners seem like they just deliberately ignored red flags from that quarter (or maybe they're neo-Nazis too!). Also cybertrucks are extremely unsafe - they're very heavy, and they lack collapsible plastic fenders which make collisions with pedestrians/bicycles/etc less lethal than they might otherwise be. Without injecting politics into it, it's just a really, really, bad design and no rational car-buyer should ever be interested.
Anonymous
02/04/2025 16:20
Subject: Used Teslas
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We are liberal, earthy-crunchy as it comes, and we've had one since 2019. We can't get another car right now, and doing so would be bad for the environment since there is nothing wrong with this one (except the guy who owns the company has lost his mind and soul, if ever he had one), so it is what it is. And it's actually a great car, so there's that too. We don't own any Tesla stock.
If you want to take something out on Elon, go after Elon, not your neighbors. We need to get our kids to school and ourselves to work. A car is a car. I don't get people who side eye someone for the car they drive as if it means they agree with Elon's current politics. That's just not realistic.
I don’t think anyone said they have a problem with Tesla drivers, just that we’re not inclined to go buy one.
I definitely look askance at cybertruck drivers though.
If someone goes out right now and buys a Tesla, they are supporting Elon Musk's company. Buy whatever car you want but I don't have to be impressed with someone that's going to support that guy's company. There are plenty of other vehicle options.
Plus he seems to be actively trying to trash his brand as fast as he can. So you have to wonder about the longevity of this brand.
If you buy a Mercedes, Porsche, BMW, or VW, you are supporting families who built their wealth on the Nazi-industrial complex. Actual Nazis, not figurative ones. Similar connections can be made to Toyota and Mitsubishi with regard to the wealthy families of Japan.
If you think there is some major corporation that is not complicit in globalism, radical oligarchy, and war profiteering, I would love to know what company that is.
Anonymous
02/04/2025 16:15
Subject: Used Teslas
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We are liberal, earthy-crunchy as it comes, and we've had one since 2019. We can't get another car right now, and doing so would be bad for the environment since there is nothing wrong with this one (except the guy who owns the company has lost his mind and soul, if ever he had one), so it is what it is. And it's actually a great car, so there's that too. We don't own any Tesla stock.
If you want to take something out on Elon, go after Elon, not your neighbors. We need to get our kids to school and ourselves to work. A car is a car. I don't get people who side eye someone for the car they drive as if it means they agree with Elon's current politics. That's just not realistic.
I don’t think anyone said they have a problem with Tesla drivers, just that we’re not inclined to go buy one.
I definitely look askance at cybertruck drivers though.
If someone goes out right now and buys a Tesla, they are supporting Elon Musk's company. Buy whatever car you want but I don't have to be impressed with someone that's going to support that guy's company. There are plenty of other vehicle options.
Plus he seems to be actively trying to trash his brand as fast as he can. So you have to wonder about the longevity of this brand.