This “political opponent” is actively destroying much of what I love about my country. Feeding our hard-earned institutions straight into the wood chipper. Establishing his oligarch buddies as the new nobility. Illegally subverting democracy with the help of his rancid think tanks. People will be dying from lack of medical care, drinking tainted water and soiled food, getting sent to concentration camps with no recourse, wallowing in abject poverty with no safety net, and all the while these ghouls will be smirking and clinking their glasses, still somehow thinking that they’re the good guys.
The word “opponent” doesn’t even begin to describe it. Musk and his ilk must never be seen in public again without being swarmed by protestors. Let them wallow in their pathetic cult bunkers with their concubines for the rest of their natural lives.
And frankly, I’d rather have BYD or Xiaomi anyway.
I'm not a fan of elon or the cheato, but there are corps in the US that deserve people's ire much more than tesla. You could just start with a list of the "incinerating the poor" industry. Or any of the other murder for hire corporations.
I would never own a tesla myself, simply because of the level of surveillance. But they do have the most well developed charging network, and the integration of that network with the vehicle's nav system is the most stand out feature of the brand. No other EV maker comes close in this regard.
I agree with the sentiment that elon is scum, but I would also say that if you want to protest against a company, there are many that do much more damage to society than tesla...
Anything that gives Musk a dollar of additional funding to fuel his megalomaniacal ambitions must be neutered, and much of Musk’s power comes from his Tesla holdings.
If the Tesla board does not want their company to be doomed, they need to evict Musk. If they don’t, they reveal their full complicity with his madness.
“I'm not a fan of elon or the cheato, but there are corps in the US that deserve people's ire much more than tesla. You could just start with a list of the "incinerating the poor" industry. Or any of the other murder for hire corporations.”
I don't think tesla "funding" will have any material effect on his political activity.
Tesla could completely go away, and he would still be the world's richest man.
This is just a sad case of tilting at windmills...
Protesting General Dynamics, or any of the other companies making bombs or landmines that are still dismembering children around the (third) world would be much more appropriate. I wonder why no one is protesting Space X instead?
Protesting an electric car company is just counter productive, regardless of who owns it...
I wouldn't argue with that, but I would say this is a subset of "consumers have no agency in relation to neither US federal politics nor the behavior of the oligarchy".
The word “opponent” doesn’t even begin to describe it. Musk and his ilk must never be seen in public again without being swarmed by protestors. Let them wallow in their pathetic cult bunkers with their concubines for the rest of their natural lives.
And frankly, I’d rather have BYD or Xiaomi anyway.