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optimaximal.bsky.social • 57 days ago

Are you sure? I'm pretty sure he saw Tesla as helpful pocket money for other endeavours.

He's already made the brand toxic and if/when the big OEMs finally push it into the daisies, he'll quickly disinvest...

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optimaximal.bsky.social•57 days ago

...as by then SpaceX will be loaded up with government contracts obtained through corruption and Twitter will likely be back on a even keel now all the big brands are going back to it.

tarpeianrock.bsky.social•57 days ago

i'm definitely not sure, but i know anecdotally that the maga people on the outskirts of my life are all horned up for the cybertruck, and that would 100% not be the case if elon didn't slide over to the lunch table that doesn't make fun of him and actually thinks he's somehow cool and funny.

optimaximal.bsky.social•57 days ago

The problem is the product isn't really practical in the ways the people who live out of their Raptors want or need. It's hopeless off road, it can't be repaired easily and it explodes if you cough near it. It will be interesting if Trump and Elmo come to loggerheads, which is almost guaranteed.

tarpeianrock.bsky.social•57 days ago

i see the truck itself as a concept vehicle (sorry) for making electric cars seem permissibly cool to republican men. never heard a republican say anything remotely positive about electric cars until elon's heel turn and more so the cybertruck rollout.

optimaximal.bsky.social•57 days ago

I seem to remember them hating it before, so it's more than likely vacuous hero worship than actually liking the product.

tarpeianrock.bsky.social•57 days ago

Right, and the vacuous hero is serving as the skids-greaser lol

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