Tesla demand is nosediving in EV-friendly Europe amid Elon Musk's endorsement of the far right
-
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.
-
What's the difference between someone cosplaying as a far-right edgelord and an actual far-right edgelord?
-
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.
-
Oo I hope this starts a wave of catchy mockery towards everything he touches and everything like him, like:
Go fash, stonks crash.
-
-
It should be the only image ever shown of Musk from now on.
-
Fuck around and find out is his new M.O.
-
This one is clever, I love it.
-
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.
-
Boycotts by individuals are legal.
For now...
-
-
-
It's everyday my pal
-
I have yet to find someone who is truly just "Posing" with this shit and not just using "its a joke, bro" to claim not following that ideology. If they didnt at first, they developed that ideology quickly.
-
-
I imagine that the federal government will be buying Teslas by the shipload
The army will be replacing humvees with cybertrucks.
Tesla will announce a CyberTank to replace the M1
i'm only sort of joking
-
My impression from living there is that the UK never ditched the mindset that some people are born inherently superior to others, and that's both for different parts of British society along the axis of class (an in many cases also the different nations of the UK, with the English often seeing themselves as superior) and towards foreigners (Brexit did not happen in a vacuum).
I have the theory that is because the UK never really had a Revolution started from below (the closest they had were the Barons rebeling against the King leading to the Magna Carta or the Catholic-vs-Protestant fighting which was mainly different factions of the elites re-approportioning power) or Occupation by a foreign power that crushed the existing elites and loosened their power over the entire system, hence the established elites never really changed and thus the power structures in Britain, who those structures serve and who controls them, has changed a lot less over the last couple of centuries than elsewhere in Europe.
They're not as much Fascists in a traditional sense but more an continuation of a Monarchic semi-Autocratic system were the power of the King was weakenned centuries ago and divided amongst the rest of the Landowner Class and later the Trading Burgeoisie. Fascism in Europe one of the reactions to Republicanism, but the UK never had a Republican phase and so a lot of the ideas on power and the worth of people in Fascism which are really just re-hashed monarchic thinking on who are the proper rulers are still present in the British system in their natural (though more sophisticated in means and appearence) form.
-
Destroying peoples property is not the answer. Declining sales figures is.
-
Not that much, but definitely measurable. A Tesla competitor did some tests and they got a 1% range increase.
Replacing side mirrors with cameras also has a similar impact, but costs like 3.000 euros as an option.
So your choice of wheels has a bigger impact, but it's not totally pointless. And cheap to do.
-
To give the car time to lower the window a few millimeters and avoid damaging the seal. Plus someone probably thought it would look cool or something. There's a manual release in case the car loses power, or something breaks.
It's not unique to Teslas either, a few other cars have done the same thing.
