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[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 39 points 14 hours ago (20 children)

Honestly? Might not be a bad idea to consider buying a used Tesla after they tank in value.

  1. No money goes to Elon in that exchange, so you're not supporting the fascist prick. They made their money off the first buyer.

  2. It's environmentally friendly to buy a used vehicle, rather than a new one, as you extend it's life and reduce it's carbon footprint

  3. Since everybody is abandoning them, they're cheaper than other options.

My only reservation is that I'd be driving around a Tesla still, so if I did something like this I'd have to de-brand the hell out of it somehow to make it appear as a generic "an car".

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 22 points 14 hours ago

No money goes to Elon directly, but it still increases the market price of Teslas. So someone else deciding between used and new might just buy new because it doesn't cost much extra.

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[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 222 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Who knew that being a publicly facing cunt makes people not want to buy your product. Shocking discovery.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 94 points 19 hours ago (12 children)

These people literally live in reaffirming social bubbles they have created. On and offline both. They don't see that they are overplaying their hand.

This article should bring you joy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/elon-musk-human-meme-stock/682023/

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago

a cultivated image of Musk as a Thomas Edison or Tony Stark type

LMAO! See Tony Stark blow Musk off like a loser in Iron Man II:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxe1HCR7uEk

I'd be humiliated were I him. His head's so far up his ass he likely sees that cameo as a plus.

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[–] cocolowlander@feddit.nl 111 points 18 hours ago (12 children)

For its part, Tesla has been trying to boost its image with the help of President Trump. On Monday, the president took to the South Lawn of the White House to promote Tesla's cars, apparently buying one despite having campaigned on an explicitly anti-electric vehicle platform.

Somehow, I don't think MAGA cult will buy electric vehicles in quantities needed to offset even a fraction of people who used to buy Tesla.

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 40 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Half of them are broke as fuck and the other half are heavily invested in oil company stocks. Elon made a poor choice of allegiance.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 23 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

A portion also associate EVs and their ilk with environmentalists, and would probably not buy one even if their very lives depended on it.

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[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 60 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine the CEO of Browning or American Rifles helping Joe Biden pick out a new gun from a display in the state dining room.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

The difference is Biden is a gun owner. So at least it would be buying a product he actually has. There has been incidents referencing him and his wife having at least a shotgun (so 2+ guns)

With Trump hating on electric cars like he had for so long, and not knowing how to drive, it's a bit different.

everything’s computer

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Old rich guy like Biden probably has loads of nice, quality, antique guns.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Many families don't throw away guns, they pass them down. So antiques are a plenty as well. Being that his dad was born in 1915, it's very likely they have guns from before WW1 around.

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[–] dick_fineman@discuss.online 24 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Well if they make a Cybertruck 2 that's lifted and looks like the Dildozer, they might have a new market. It'll get 50 miles per-charge, but it'll intimidate their neighbor's kid, so it's worth the $380,000 price tag (financed, of course).

[–] OnASnowyEvening@lemmy.world 15 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

The GMC Hummer EV Pickup Truck has entered the chat.

205-kWh capacity battery [three times the size in a crossover], still gets only 275 miles [2023 version].

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 14 hours ago

That truck weighs a whopping 10,000 lbs though.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 10 points 15 hours ago

I don't think the MAGA Cult can even AFFORD electric vehicles, I mean, shit I know I can't.

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 46 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Sure am glad I couldn’t afford one of those things back when I wanted one.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 32 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Right? Who knew that making a product that half of the population wants to buy and then making your brand based around the exact half of the population that lives in contempt of this product instead was a bad idea?

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 17 points 15 hours ago

1/3. These cretins are a loud, fascist minority.

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 97 points 19 hours ago

Same people proudly claiming the market is self regulating shocked when the market responds to them being openly fascist cunts.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 60 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

For its part, Tesla has been trying to boost its image with the help of President Trump.

Yeah, that's part of the problem, Elon.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago

Elon out here thinking Twitter bots are real people. Too much ketamine.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 75 points 19 hours ago (6 children)
[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

whos buying used teslas? its like asking for trouble consider thier defectiveness.

[–] Lumiluz@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 hours ago

Speaking from personal experience, most likely immigrants who don't know much about us politics and still watch news and shows from their home country or in their own language.

Growing up, even though I was born in the USA, I'd only listen to what my parents heard (until I was a teen), watched what they watched (Univision, etc), are mostly Salvadorian food at home.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

At this point I expect to see them abandoned on the side of the road with a "Just take it" sign over the engine

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago

Soon it can be scrapped for steel and you could make money off buying them.

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