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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 315 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

All his fanboys should be absolutely shitting bricks about this since Elon has been out there for years saying that people who purchase Tesla vehicles absolutely own them. He's been spouting this bullshit since they got caught remotely crippling software features YEARS ago, but this is further proof Tesla owners are completely at the whim of a tyrannical douchebag who decides if you get the privilege of using something you paid for the way you want.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 147 points 11 months ago

If it weren't for double standards, he'd have no standards at all.

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

And neither would the fanbois

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 71 points 11 months ago

His fanboys are mostly reich-wingers nowadays, and they're completely impervious to reality-based arguments

[-] Tosti@feddit.nl 20 points 11 months ago

Reich-Wingers.. nice i'm totally stealing that

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 11 months ago
[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 months ago
[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

I'm your plastic pal who's fun to be with

[-] badaboomxx@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Don't forget that they are smug thinking they are saving the planet

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 12 points 11 months ago

Not sure how many diehard Musk / Tesla fans even believe in climate change

[-] badaboomxx@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

You ate correct, but they won't waste any chance to be smug

[-] ripcord@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

Reich wingers are smug about that...?

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 11 months ago

EVs exist to save the auto motive industry, not the planet

[-] badaboomxx@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago
[-] ares35@kbin.social 24 points 11 months ago

you don't even own all the bits you do buy. you pay extra to unlock them. preinstalled, extra-cost dlc.

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They won’t. His fanboys will find an excuse for his shitty behavior like they always do.

It’s like hoping flat earthers would suddenly come to their senses once they see the evidence. They won’t. They would find some other shitty excuse for their stupid belief.

Edit: stupid autocorrect. lol.

[-] dragontamer@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I do believe that flat feathers exists somewhere on this pale blue dot / sphere of a world. But methinks you accidentally added an "f" to eathers and don't mean to talk about feathers.

[-] ripcord@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

I would guess that 80-90% of owners are ignorant (some willfully), or try to separate the man from the company, and not just unrepentant fanboys/girls

But yeah, agree on the fanboy thing. SpaceX too (which personally I find extra unfortunate since they've done some REALLY good things in the LEO launch market and space stuff in general).

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

I wonder how much of SpaceX's success has happened not because of Musk, but despite him

[-] ripcord@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

I'm not even remotely a fan of the guy at this point, but from everything I've read, a lot of it was actually because of him.

Tesla too.

But also a lot of the negative parts of those companies, and failures. And at the Boring Company. And TwitX, etc.

Whatever contributions he's made are rapidly evaporating, though. He had plenty of problems 1015 years ago, but the last 5 have been a massive, rapid slide in his contributions, reputation, etc.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Each time he pulls shit like this, more people see the light about him. This one is going to disproportionately affect people who either still like him or just thought that they could own a Tesla without being affected by his stupid shit. It might hurt the stock price as some come to understand that his Twitter feuding can boil over to his other companies. Today might be the best time to exit a Tesla position (or maybe that's just wishful thinking).

this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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