• TheDoozer@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    You know in those movies where the hero has to beat the living hell from a thousand grunts before they are able to get at the boss? And you don’t feel too bad for the grunts, even though they’re not millionaires or the guys doing the big evil stuff, because they chose to align themselves with a villain like the boss?

    It’s kind of like that. If people don’t want to own a Tesla because they’ll be targeted for aligning themselves with Musk, Tesla’s stock goes down, which hurts the boss.

    I’m not saying I support it (and I’m not saying I don’t), but saying that this is hurting the Working Class and not the real Bad Guy is missing the point.

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      18 days ago

      Counter point = some folks bought Tesla (the normal ones not the weird “truck” things) because they wanted a more environmentally friendly option for a car. Back before awareness that Musk is an asshole was common.

      Like some of the owners might be regretful but not in a position to sell at a huge loss and buy a different EV.

      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        The huge loss (in sales volume and therefore 2nd hand price) has mainly occurred because Musk is meddling politically.

        Shit dropped from drones is just icing on the cake.

      • teejay@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        Nah. Musk was calling that rescue diver saving kids trapped in cave a pedo before the model 3 came out. It was clear, public knowledge that he was a douchebag very early on.

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          18 days ago

          Not everyone is online as much as we are. Lots of people are utterly unaware that ever happened.

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            18 days ago

            Being unaware doesn’t protect from consequences. Even morally, in a democracy, it’s up to the people to be informed. Buying decisions drive policy. It should worry people that they don’t have the time nor tools to be informed. This alone should start a general strike.

            With all the things that are looming, imagine the price you are going to pay because you were not online enough.

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                18 days ago

                No. That’s why this is important:

                It should worry people that they don’t have the time nor tools to be informed

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          18 days ago

          Yeah but I kind of expect every CEO to be on that level of douchebaggery. We wouldn’t be able to buy everything if that’s the bar, because the CEO of every company is on that level.

          Also we can’t expect everyone to be aware of that story.

          It’s when he bought Twitter and started going on about woke mind virus that he revealed himself as a bigger douche than most CEOs.

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            18 days ago

            Yeah, the twitter debacle fucking broke him I wonder if there’s an alternative timeline where he weaseled out of having to buy it and decided to calm down and shut the fuck up afterwards.

            Maybe this is the timeline where he eats enough drugs to explode his own heart on a livestream.