Tesla demand is nosediving in EV-friendly Europe amid Elon Musk's endorsement of the far right
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Even if Musk wasn't a Nazi, he's still a big enough douchebag that I wouldn't want to buy a car associated with him. And even if he wasn't a douchebag, the Cybertruck has demonstrated what kind of stupid shit Tesla does when they take orders from him. And even without Musk's influence, I still wouldn't buy a Tesla because there are so many other options on the market, and people have gotten very vocal about things like the build quality of Tesla cars.
That's gotta start hurting their stock price at some point.
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I think Brexit disproves all that.
I've lived in Portugal, The Netherlands, Britain and Germany and the most unhinged ideas of populism I ever saw upclose which were the most widespread amongst the population, were in Britain during the Leave Referendum and afterwards - the same unhinged Racism of the Far Right all over Continental Europe which at the time had less than 20% overall support, in Britain yielded to the Leave faction of the Tory Party one referendum and two Parliamentary Elections and would've won them a 3rd one if the Populist Rightwing vote hadn't been split due to the rise of the (even more unhinged) Reform UK party and a First Past The Post system that turned that split vote into lots of constituency losses (to the point that Labour got 64% of MPs on only 34% of votes).
Don't confuse the quality of image management that results from the training most British Politicians got as children in very expensive and very posh private schools, with them not being populist - somebody like Boris Johnson was spreading the same kind of ideas as Trump, Orban or the Far-Right in the rest or Europe, he was just much smoother at it, mostly because whilst for example in the US the idea of "important person" is somebody who is loud, cares not about manners and sounds confident, in Britain it's somebody who is posh, has soft upper class accent and sounds confident, so populist leaders in Britain, being well adapted to local prejudices, project a different image than the loud and brutish ones abroad, whilst defending the very same ideas.
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This definitely fits the bill of ‘make the problem worse’
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The thing is that the far right in Germany is nowhere near as popular as the Republicans in the US. And the intersection of Tesla buyers and far right voters is very small. Musk made a grave mistake in the marketing department here.
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Great!!
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Elon Shitler has a nice ring to it. #PresidentElon please use this hashtag in all your sm post. We need to sew divide wherever we can and baby Trump really cares about shit like this.
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These are working class people you are talking about. Please keep the focus on millionaires and billionaires.
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That's just a straw man argument.
I'm saying every news article now has the same thumbnail so half of the time I don't even notice the new evil stuff he is doing. That's BAD because it's the opposite of what we should be doing. Which is to recognize all the bad stuff he's doing. But now it's all just "oh he's saluting again".
I even believe there is a small chance they are forcing this image down our throats to make us immune to it.
So again, stop using the same thumbnail all the time, add it somewhere in the article or or post it in the comments or wherever. Because that's all absolutely amazing and I support that.
It's like your phone would have the same icon for every app. At some point you don't even notice the new ones.
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Iirc, the subsidy was ~7000€. When the subsidy ended, car prices dropped by roughly 5000€. Meaning, there was a gift for the manufacturers and nothing changed.
Of course, you can't brag about your 40k car anymore because it's only 35k now. And other smaller effects like the ads are different now. -
Hopefully, the Tesla nose dive spreads to his other businesses.
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people who use teslas definitely deserve some vandalism, but i dont think that would tell them it makes them shitty people. It would more likely just push them even more towards some hateful ideology. They should be made look like rejects they are, not victims. Though maybe if someone was to flip the tesla logo, it looks just like someone on kkk hood, just upside down.
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I wasn’t thinking of it that way, but you are probably right.
I was thinking he can’t have real immortality so he settled on being as memorable as possible. But in his twisted conservative mind, maybe this is him wanting to be remembered as a hardass rather than an [insert slur for gay men].
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But that's only 3 factories that they do have, building new ones would take years, they have lost the first mover advantage if they ever have one.
