Tesla demand is nosediving in EV-friendly Europe amid Elon Musk's endorsement of the far right
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Strap him to the heatsheild on the next starship flight.
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Musk’s clown car of leadership finally careens into reality. When your CEO’s political acumen involves cosplaying as a far-right edgelord, even Europe’s EV adopters—historically tolerant of overpriced gadgets—start side-eyeing the brand. Tesla’s not a car company anymore; it’s a vanity project for a man who thinks “free speech” means platforming Nazis.
Meanwhile, European automakers are quietly eating Tesla’s lunch with actual innovation, not just empty hype. Musk’s fanbase? A shrinking cult of tech bros and crypto gamblers. The rest of us? We’ve moved on to cars that don’t come with a side of embarrassing billionaire tantrums.
Democracy’s broken? Sure. But watching Musk torch his own empire? Chef’s kiss.
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Judging on the fact that it jumped up after election day, investors are expecting corporate nepotism to boost profits.
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"In the short term, the market is a voting machine, but in the long term, it is a weighing machine" - Benjamin Graham ("father" of value investing and mentor to Warren Buffett)
Meaning that in the short term, stock prices can be swayed from a company's true value by investors' emotions and opinions.
But eventually the stock price will align with the company's actual profitability and growth potential.
And you're right that these are crazy times, and the "short term" irrationality can last a lot longer than past experiences.
Historically, we've used examples like the 17th century tulip mania, or the dot com boom, but it won't surprise me if Tesla becomes the poster child for this quote in the future.
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Traditional door handles actually reduce smug flow by 60% - the Tesla door handles produce a much more smugrodynamic profile.
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The Blackrocks and hedge funds of the world prop up whatever corp it wants to succeed and buries whatever it wants to short into bankruptcy. They set the price of their shares to benefit capital owners. Retail has practically no power. It's a fugazi, just another means of control. A big club that we're not in.
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What's the difference between someone cosplaying as a far-right edgelord and an actual far-right edgelord?
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The difference? One is a poser draped in the aesthetics of reactionary outrage to court attention and controversy, while the other is fully marinated in the ideology, living and breathing it. The former plays dress-up for clout; the latter believes the costume is their skin.
But let’s not split hairs—both are toxic. Whether it’s cosplay or conviction, the result is the same: amplifying regressive garbage under the guise of “provocation.” One just happens to be better at monetizing it.
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Oo I hope this starts a wave of catchy mockery towards everything he touches and everything like him, like:
Go fash, stonks crash.
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It should be the only image ever shown of Musk from now on.
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Fuck around and find out is his new M.O.
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This one is clever, I love it.
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Having lived in a couple of countries in Europe, including a decade in Britain, I would say the UK is one of the most Fascist countries in Europe (for example having a citizen surveillance system even more extreme than the US and Press censorship in the form of D-Noticies), though elites there are extremelly good at being subtle and posh about it so the will keep up appearences: you won't see goose stepping on the streets but for example in peaceful demonstrations the police will charge the crowd and News will report that - by showing the footage in the inverse order - as people first charging the police responding to it and you won't see an over Secret Police but once in a while out pops a leak of how they've infiltrated Ecologist groups with undercover police officers (which came out because some female Ecologists ended up pregnant) or kept Greenpart leaders under surveillance.
Back during the Nazi times the British elites were even pro-Nazi (there's a picture of Queen Elizabeth as a child being taught by her uncle - then King - to do a Nazi salute) and it was only the Nazi invasion of Belgium that changed their minds, so geopolitics rather than a dislike of their ideology.
All this to say that to me, having lived over there for a decade, the British's minimal response to Fascism compared to the rest of Europe isn't surprising.
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Boycotts by individuals are legal.
For now...
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It's everyday my pal
