I'll at least give people with Teslas the benefit of doubt, but if I see you with a Cybertruck I'm going to judge you.
Cyberstuck
A place to post your Cybertruck fails! We're here to make fun of this hunk of shit and throw as much shade as we can to that garbage bag of a human elon.
No doxxing No slurs No racism And no fucking nazis!
I've started seeing the Juniper model Ys in my town. There are people who bought the Cybertruck before he was a nazi, but everyone who owns a Juniper Y was well aware he was a nazi when they bought the car.
It's unfortunate. It's actually a seemingly very cool car.
They might have made a refundable deposit on the truck, it was still refundable and Musk had shown the world he's a moron years before that.
Yeah I put down a deposit on a Cybertruck years ago. Not because I thought it was a cool car, but because it was an EV truck for $40k.
By the time they actually came out at 2.5x the price and Elon started throwing around sieg heils, it was a super easy decision to cancel the reservation.
Plenty of CEOs are morons/assholes. I bought my model 3 after we knew he was an asshole, before it became public knowledge that he was donating to the Trump campaign, but I did buy it used so that he would get as little of my money as possible. Buying a Tesla after we knew he was a nazi is on a different level.
Dude, I was one of the first pre-orders for the cybertruck, but I canceled my order when I got the email that production started, and it was time to complete my pre-order.
We striking the line at the Nazi salute or the "pedo" comment about the cave rescuer?
I think the pedo comment should have woke people up in regards to the idiocy but the brand was still viewed relatively well at the time. The far-right philosophy and tantrums after the Twitter buy was when I think the line was visibly crossed for people with any morals. The nazi salute didn't cross that line any farther but dismantling needed/important government services starts hitting where unempathetic people can feel it, their wallets. Trump can advertise Teslas on the white house lawn as much as he wants, so long as Musk is affecting people's wallets the support he'll get is minimal.
The cave diver comments were what did it for me.
I mean, back then I was all about being against the popular thing, so I already was just tired of seeing his name in headlines. But after that I kinda went "oh so he really IS a piece of shit, that's some middle school level insults."
It was all downhill from there. The more you learned about him, the more you realize he's a garbage human who doesn't deserve to breathe air, let alone be in charge of anything.
Every comment on Twitter just screams" look at me, look at how cool I am please like me I'm so ~~lonely~~ awesome"
Most people were just giving him passes left and right because he bought tesla and spacex and managed to convince people he was in charge from the start and lead r&d. Scratching the surface even slightly showed none of that was true, but a lot of people didn't bother.
There was a YouTube channel that was called muskwacth, then he made that comment and the channel disappeared overnight.
Howabout SolarCity?
Totally fradulent demonstration.
Hyperloop?
Laughably stupid in concept, Musk pretends he invented the idea... he did not. Never amounted to anything, other than its actual real purpose: setting back high speed rail in California by a decade +.
Neuralink?
Hired the assistant to an actual pioneer in the field, possibly illegally replicated his work, proceeds to torture a bunch of pigs and monkeys to death, most of the original team bails, and currently has produced a brain implant that is no better than, and may actually be worse than existing brain implants designed to help parapalegics and those with serious nervous system disorders, etc.
Rewriting history to pretend he actually founded Tesla?
Saying he's going to put cold gas thrusters in Teslas to make flying cars?
The Tesla Semi being a shitshow of false promises that were not delivered on?
All of the insane nonsense around BFR, now Starship+Superheavy?
Oh yeah, I'm still waiting to catch my reusable ICBM trip from Seattle to Tokyo, where the ICBM will be ready to go again in 2 hrs.
Starlink sats fail at such a high rate they are now about 90% of all known orbital debris that could endanger aircraft or the ground.
Starting out saying AI is a potential grave threat, being a skeptic, then suddenly doing an aboutface when maybe he can make more money by ... doing exactly what he'd warned against, barreling forward, developing it without extreme caution?
He's been an obvious con artist for at least half a decade now, more like a solid decade, purely from anyone just looking at his actual 'business acumen', ignoring all of his personal views or opinions of a political nature.
... But he developed a cult of personality around him, a whole bunch of emasculated, aggreived male dorks looking for the dork messiah, just believing Elon was personally the man who would transform today into the tomorrow of our dreams from the 80s and 90s.
Very few people actually stopped to check if his math actually mathed, and when they did check, and found it to be very, very sketchy at best... well Elon's fanboys and bot armies harassed them mercilessly.
It is a condemnation of the general public, all society, that it took until Elon just overtly became a goddamned supervillain Nazi Lex Luthor President for the general sentiment toward Elon to actually go negative.
Any one of those is damning enough to show he's a snake oil "idea guy" and a terrible leader, and you threw in the whole works with the kitchen sink. Well done.
A couple more that might be worth mentioning:
- He's a neglectful and absent parent, according to his daughter that disowned him.
- He's also a shit person and bigot, by evidence of dead naming his trans daughter and acting like his "son" died.
- He pays people to play video games for him, lying and pretending that the records and accomplishments on his account are his own achievements.
- He claims to be a "free speech absolutist" while hypocritically censoring certain words on Twitter and trying to silence people who say negative things about him and his actions.
Also very good ones.
I'll throw in one more: At one point he went on an arc or 'era' on Twitter of using Deus Ex avatars and memes.
He thinks he is JC, when in reality, he's a more pathetic, attention seeking and far less competent Bob Page.
He is the ultimate poser, and I hope he crash lands on Mars and never comes back.
... what do you want to bet he never even realized you can save Paul?
When he tweeted about taking the red pill was the line for me. He was getting weird but that was when he took the mask off.
For me the line was the HyperLoop. It was such a dumb idea and so obviously designed to distract from high speed rail projects. But most egregiously, it was an idea that had been tried and abandoned multiple times previously.
There is no line. He's always been this way, he just wasn't as bold about it before.
I'm actually getting really pissed by this narrative that Musk only recently became a massive piece of shit. Check out his Behind the Bastards episodes, he's ALWAYS been a horrible person. Just like his father.
His image was pretty good though. He hadn't seriously fucked up in the public eye until he called that guy a pedo who saved all those kids in Thailand back in 2018. It was all downhill from there.
Just a friendly reminder that Elon Musk won that defamation lawsuit, so you can call Elon Musk a pedo guy as much as you want and it isn't defamation in the US.
Let's not mince words. Enough of the soft language.
If you bought a cybertruck, or any Tesla after Musk went full mask off, you are a Nazi collaborator. That is not hyperbole. That is not exaggeration. You are literally a Nazi collaborator. And you have the exact same moral culpability as an Nazi collaborator during the reign of the historical German Nazi Party. You voluntarily signed up to give tens of thousands of dollars to an overt white supremacist hellbent on the extermination of entire social groups. You gave tens of thousands of dollars to a Nazi. You are a Nazi collaborator.
If you use Google, in any way, even by using an Android phone, you agree with the genocide of palestinians. That is not hyperbole. That is not exaggeration.
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true, if you use the internet at all, in any capacity you support the lifestyle of nazis (nazis use the internet)
Cybertruck was first sold in November 2023. Musk was visibly vile long before, but particularly after the first half of 2023, and even more visibly in October when he officially purchased twitter and began onboarding nazis
I can see no way one could know about the cybertruck to buy it without also knowing how stupid Elon is. Even when they announced it, my first thought was "I like the look, but it's a Tesla so fuck that noise."
And yes, I do like how it looks. It's different, and I like the low-poly shape. If it wasn't also a huge piece of shit, made by a racist asshole I'd probably want one. Though I also thought it was half the size until I saw one in person.
You forgot the hazard sharp geometries pose to the world around you. Sadly, this car shape must not be allowed. That being said they are not allowed to be driven where I live due to these reasons.
It kinda looks neat in photos but in person it looks dog shit and the doofuses driving them look even more idiotic than the average lifted truck driving types somehow
Seeing one in the wild is like running your hand over smoth and lacquered wood and then catching a splinter.
You very well could slice your hand open running it across the surface of a cybersuck.
I like the shape too but this car is a terrible, worthless pos in the most useless category of vehicles.
They look so much better painted. There's one in my area with an iridescent paint job that actually looks pretty awesome, or it would, if it wasn't an oversized nazimobile.
My current theory is that the Muskrat knows this and just figured out how to pass the cost for a paint job directly to consumers.
And yet you STILL own it.
Well to be fair, the argument is similar to telling folks about to suffer from client change to sell their property and move. How are they gonna get rid of it? They're probably upside down on it too. Maybe you get lucky and sell it to a wealthy conservative?
I don't have much pity for people who are upside down on a vehicle that sells for the price of a Cybertruck
I remember seeing too that because of fear of scalpers, Tesla made a lot of Cybertruck buyers sign an agreement saying they wouldn't sell the car for X number of years.
There was never a time when the truck was not a stainless steel turd. I have never seen a review (by a technical person, not an influencer wank) that said "buy this truck, it's pretty good."
I really don't understand why there hasn't been a hostile takeover to boot him out of the company yet. Capitalism is all about money, money, money and "shareholder value", yet they keep letting him tank that company into the ground.
He stacked the board with people who are loyal to him. That's how he took control of Tesla to begin with. He didn't found the company, he stole it from the original founders.
The lion's share of the money is held by Conservative billionaires. They like his propaganda machine, because it allows them to gradually rob the US in broad daylight while Elon jingles keys to distract everyone who should care.
What few ultra-wealthy people who aren't Conservative either can't or won't try to take it over because it would be a huge expense, they also get benefit from the ultracapitalism it promotes, and/or the current SEC and FTC would never allow it (they work for Trump, not the people).
Like Tesla, social pressure on the users is about the only thing that will exert any meaningful influence upon Xitter. The billionaires enjoy Elon being in charge, otherwise.
Just yesterday, on a return trip from weekend camping, my wife and I saw like 4 Cybersucks. Also on that same trip, we saw a either a Model 3 or S with a bumper sticker that read "Tesla? Yes. Elon? No." Imagine tanking your company's image so hard that owners have to put fucking disclaimers on their cars. Ford Edsel and Delorean owners had more pride in their purchase.
Elon has always been crazy, saying he went crazy after you bought a Tesla makes you dumb and ignorant for not seeing it sooner.
On the other hand, driving around with an advertisement saying, "Elon is crazy and this was a bad investment" isn't the worst thing in the world.
Elol has been a dipshit for years but ok.
you could pre order it like, a year or two before it actually released? Does the pre-order timing line up with this?
OFC you could still probably cancel that pre order, but idk what the timing looks like on that one.
anyone who is not banking on it to become a wild collectors item in 50 years or is a complete braindead idiot with too much money cancelled their preorder.
There are more beautiful cars than the cybertruck.
*Buys a Pontiac Aztec, drives it through some brush and into a ravine, smears shit all over it, and lights it on fire*
"Yup, still more beautiful than a cybertrash"