My friend’s father bought a 2025 Tesla after my friend begged him not to, but a boomer’s gotta boomer. Suffice to say, it hasn’t gone well for him, so the man went and put this decal on his car. My brother in Christ, you are driving a freshly redesigned car. Nobody is going to believe your swastikar is pre-COVID.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Honestly I feel sorry for anybody driving an older Tesla. I remember maybe 8, 9 years ago i had a long talk with some guy who owned the first (?) model, and I have to admit we shared the enthusiasm. Wasn’t many E-cars on that level back then.

    I didn’t follow Musk in the media and I missed the Thai cave rescue & pedo calling disaster, so it took me a few months longer to start to realize what sort of person he really is. When exactly? Must’ve been before he bought Twitter. Sometime during Trump1.0.

    And then it all came in like a retroactive flood. How he stole Tesla from the people who really started it, how delusional all his space projects are, how deeply corrupt/entwined he’s always been with the government…

    But I don’t like those stickers, no matter how old the Tesla is.

    Tesla is not the only option anymore.

    If you’re serious you sell it. I know you can get other e-cars relatively cheaply nowadays, much cheaper than a new Tesla. So, what would the resell value be on any Tesla?

    • MisterFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I remember maybe 8, 9 years ago

      They’ll be fine if they had the cash to cough up for an EV then.

      Unfortunate for them, but I don’t feel sorry. This is the reality of capitalism. The means of the production are not democratically controlled, it just so happened that Elon is particularly stupid.

    • psivchaz@reddthat.comEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I don’t get the “just sell it” crowd. Your solution is playing hot potato with a car. Like someone is still getting that car. Unless you manage to sell it to Tesla themselves I guess, but it’s my understanding that they only take them on trade-in.

      So the choices you’re proposing are: Sell a car so it’s now Someone Else’s Problem, which isn’t a great look for you. Or scrap a perfectly usable car creating a bunch of waste, which isn’t a great look for you.

      Just let people have their old cars, geez.