Gold Tesla Cybertruck owner in Massachusetts says he's been threatened and harassed.
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It's Massachusetts. That their state pass time
If everyone you see (Plus, you drive a gold vehicle. Talk about self-absorbed) is an asshole, you might be the asshole
Hey, the second state pastime is giving the finger and yelling in traffic. We take these pastimes seriously, like sports and drinking.
The only way he could have made it worse for himself is if he had an RI plate. Mass residents have never been shy about letting people know how they feel about them (for better, or very worse 😅)
If there’s one thing Connecticut and Massachusetts agree on, it’s Rhode Island (but don’t worry, we can all shit on New Yorkers together)
News to me! Never been to the northeast. Anything in particular about Rhode island? Or just the typical "this state > a nearby state"?
It’s almost certainly the neighbors thing. The specific complaints are mostly that Rhode Islanders have a very distinctive accent (it’s no longer super widespread, but think Lois from family guy) and when your friends/relatives move there, they stop thinking of an hourlong drive (to visit you) as a day trip, but that might just be a trend in my circle.
That, and their clam chowder isn’t real chowder and wtf is coffee milk (yep, those are definitely just neighborly things to pick at). I always liked honey dew better than dunkin though.
Ha, thanks for sharing. I'm Midwest- Minnesota calls cheese balls (fried) "cheese curds". Weirdos.
Nothing wrong with a bit of local pride.
Different world with the population density. Would rather live vicariously
Cheese balls are most certainly not equivalent to cheese curds in any form.
Cheese curds are an ambiguous term, they are either fresh or fried.
Traditionally, fried cheese curds are what one does with their extra cheese curds after they are no longer fresh.
Cheese curds are no longer fresh once they have been refrigerated and lose their squeak. Only thing left to do with them then is to batter and fry them. But they still aren't cheese balls.
Silly blue plates don't know shit about cheese.
Also drinking while driving with an attached snow plow. I see you, Berkshire county. It's not a sport... Yet.
*pass times. As in, a way to pass the time, like with a hobby such as fishing or drinking.Edit: I stand corrected and humbled.
No, if we're going to be prescriptivists, we're going to be correct.
It's pastime.
Holy shit. I feel like I just stepped into an alternative reality. Seriously, I'm floored.
I’m guessing etymologically that’s where it comes from though.
I love etymology! I dont evem know thst much about it!
And there is never shame in gaining knowledge - as long as we all refrain from dunking on someone that is willing to learn.
I just googled "prescriptivist"
Your word game is.sick, yo
Wait, drinking is a hobby now?
Some people would say I have a problem. But according to this I’m a hobbyist.
You got change up the type and quantity of what you drink, that's what makes it a hobby.
Yeah, they couldn't possibly be yelling at him because he sucks at driving.
The truck probably is doing most of the shitty driving anyhow.
I just realized I've always thought of it as past time, I guess I usually see it written as "pastime". Past time doesn't make any sense at all, the way I've always thought of it. Neat!
"pastime" is correct. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pastime
With a single "s"? I've never seen that.
Edit: until seeing this comment. Wtaf?
https://alexandrite.app/Lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/16674217
Edit: Well, I stand corrected. Pastime is right. I cannot believe I never knew that.
We're both enriched on this fine day!
As the saying goes, if you smell shit everywhere you go, check your shoes.
They call it a 'Boston Left' for a reason.
Shows how well they have been treated for so long they feel entitled to politeness.
None of that is threatening or harassing behavior.
The vehicles are so bad that even the company that makes them won't buy them.
More like, they can't sell what they've already got so they aren't gonna take even more stock.
Yes, because they're so bad.
Also because people don't like to support the Nazi billionaire who is actively destroying their country. But the terrible quality control of their overpriced and poorly designed cars doesn't help.
Those are two different flavors of bad.
You can mix multiple flavours. It’s like a chocolate vanilla swirl except it’s just two flavours of dogshit.
There's always room for specificity.
Terrible QC is just the cherry on top. The things are just designed poorly front and back, inside and out.
Fuck the cyber truck and all, but their sales numbers are still pretty good when you compare them to the other expensive EV trucks floating around.
If they were more affordable, I guarantee you that you’d see more assholes driving these.
They have thousands upon thousands of them sitting in their factories right now that they can't sell
No they are not, last i hard they sold less than 4k cybertrucks.
Over 40k.
Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt
Why would you? They can't compare in any real metric, cause they're not a damn truck.
Oh shit, I thought I was joking that he had no way to get rid of it.
Judging this guy by the rest of the company he's in as far as these Cybertrucks go, I wonder how "open to differences" he is towards other people.
Didn't the people purchasing them have to sign a document saying they would not resell them to a 3rd party? Or did that not happen?
They backpedaled on that because they aren't worth shit.
I mean, if you believe that, my guy, you shouldn't have bought the nazi truck. You also definitely should not have gotten a fucking gold one. You also ABSOLUTELY shouldn't have driven it around in MASSACHUSETTS. I flip these fucks off when I see them here. I don't agree with physically threatening them, but c'est la vie I guess.
Be careful out there, flipping off other drivers is considered "road rage" in some places and can get you ticketed.
Plus, a thumbs down with a look of disgust is funnier!
I throw them one of these looks.
You're only here for the ziplines
Bro, as a Massachusettsan born and raised if you dare touch my primary form of expression ya gonna get a hot cuppa dunkins in the face. That'd be like banning wicked sick donuts in a rotary.
I point and laugh at the ones I see here in Seattle. You can do a pretty good show of it from a bike while passing them being stuck in traffic lol
Only if you do it outside the vehicle. This actually came up years ago when I took a motorcycle course. Since you're always outside the vehicle I guess you can't flick people off.
This feels like such a thin reason to get a ticket if you ask me. A rude gesture is just a rude gesture. But... be careful out there! I feel safe enough to flip them off, but I encourage safer forms of heckling them, like pointing and laughing.
I just shake my head in shame and go the speed limit so their car slows tf down.
Also a chance you’ll catch one of those guys carrying in their cars - that’s their thing. No need to put yourself in the crosshairs for an unhinged person…
It can also get you shot, people are insane in their cars.
Orrr little light vandalism if you're going to commit
I just love that someone is complaining about people being rude to him in a state with such rude, aggressive drivers that the term 'Masshole' was invented to describe them.
Eh... You don't even want to hear what they call people from Connecticut
What's wrong with the ass of New England?
Nutmeggers?
No one was physically threatening him anyway.
I hope not. The article and video were a little vague on that. Some people apparently cut him off and got out of the car to flip him off, which is a bit much IMHO.
He claims...
Yeah, massholes aren't nice to anyone unless they need it. You want someone to be kind to you in Boston? Get irresponsibly drunk and start crying on the bathroom floor otherwise they're gonna tell you to shut the fuck up, fuck right on off, and get the fuck over it because they assume you can handle hearing it and may need to.
Man, you interact with a way different kind of people in MA than I do.
It's overexaggeration for comedic effect. But also yeah my main bostonian is from a biker family, she's terrible and fun.
*drop of water. The hat will scratch it.
So threatening someone is ok because of the vehicle they drive?
Don’t buy a car to attract attention and then complain it’s not the attention you wanted.
"Did you see what she was
wearingdriving? Totally asking for it."Won’t somebody think of the Musk fanboys?!
Not at all what I'm saying. Just saying that you're using rapist's logic by blaming the assaulted for the assaulter's actions, and I think that's a pretty shitty thing to do, even if they drive an rusty nazimobile.
If a woman wears a short dress to feel pretty that is not an invitation for someone to assault them.
If someone buys a vehicle that is a know disaster, from a guy who can’t stop lying and cheating, and then makes it shiny gold to really drive home that they love their nazi-built pile of rolling garbage and then complains that people are expressing their displeasure in said person’s support of the person who is actively doing things that are killing/will kill people well buddy they can absolutely go fuck themselves.
The basic mechanism is similar, but if you can’t see the ten mile wide gap between those two scenarios I’m not really sure how to explain it to you.
Fuck Musk, fuck fascists, and fuck anyone who buys Tesla during all this garbage(some people before may, or may not, get a pass but I mean come on).
Shiny gold with an ad for a business complete with QR code on the back. That makes it even worse to me.
Not sure why you are being so heavily downvoted. This is a reasonable contribution to the conversation, even if people disagree it.
You think people making fun of a shitty car is comparable to rape?
I'm not talking about making fun of the shitty car, I'm talking threatening and harassing the driver.
No, you're talking about rape when you should really shut the fuck up.
Edit - this user has harassed me off site. He has been reported to the admins.
No I'm not, and no I won't. I'm talking about harassing the driver. I compared defending that behavior to a rapist's victim-blaming mindset. I've been very clear about that.
I'm not trying to put words in your mouth, not sure why you're trying it with me, though.
Did you see the nazi uniform that guy was wearing? He was asking for it.
Wow that is some Olympic level mental gymnastics, congratulations.
Lol oh yeah I missed the context
Yes. 😘
Literal Nazis should not feel safe stepping outside
You can have my upvote, but commenting here risks the echo chamber that is Lemmy to attack this comment too.
This place is perfectly OK stooping as low as the "other side". Our violence is justified, theirs is not. Under no circumstance is the owner of that Cybertruck owned by someone that LOVES EV's and just loves its looks/capabilities. They absolutely must have bought it because they support Nazi's, no other reason. Everyone else here is virtuously perfect.
So each 'side' of America keeps stepping lower, justifying it by the previous act bringing us deeper into this hell we're building in real time.
For the record, Elon can go f%$k himself, but under no circumstances am I going to inflict violence/anger on a random AMERICAN going about their day in their stupid Cybertruck.
Your argument is bad, and you should feel bad. 🤦🏼♂️
How many logical fallacies can you spot, kids?
If you loved EVs, why on Earth would you get a Cybertruck when there are legitimately good EV trucks out there?
https://www.caranddriver.com/rivian/r1t
If you scroll down to the list of other EV trucks, the Cybertruck is the most expensive after the Hummer, which, no shit that’s ridiculously overpriced like all Hummers. That’s not an endorsement.
Seems a question you'd have to ask the person that bought it, not me.
I think everything about them is stupid. EVs in general do not fit my use case.
I do track days / time trials in my fun car I tow a boat and haul stuff with my truck (sometimes hundreds of miles). I guess if I could have a third commuting car a EV might work, but I use my motorcycle for that whenever possible.
You're the one who came up with the explanation that it's about loving EVs, not the person who bough it. So I'm asking you.
Reread what I originally wrote...
I was, in fact, expressing how silly it is for someone to assume the Cybertruck owner was a Nazi or wanting to suck off Elon. That it couldn't possibly be owned by someone that loves EVs or the Cybertruck for their own reasons not within the narrow narrative associated with someone that would purchase such a vehicle assumed in this thread.
That's all the more effort I'm putting into this.
Yes, I read what you wrote. You came up with an explanation for why someone would do that. Then you acted like it wasn't your explanation. Now you're just outright refusing to back up what you said.
It's not a good look.
Fuck off with the bullshit moral equivalence.
Damn straight, violence against Nazis is justified when violence against egalitarian people is not! What the fuck is wrong with you, that you think defending against hate is wrong?
I think your reply got attached to the wrong comment.
Oops, yes it did. Thank you.
Dude he bought a truck and it's a little tacky. Settle down...
Found the nazi
Absolutely.
No, but I'll still enjoy every article where they complain about it.
Why is he ok with people that don’t treat others as human, yet expects to be treated as human himself, then?
I think the easy answer is that people like that have a narrower definition of human.
I agree. Those people are twats.
Because the best summary of conservative logic I ever read way "I get to tell you what to do but you don't get to tell me what to do."
GOLD Cybertruck…
“Look at me! Pay attention to me!”
“…oh no, not like that.”
There's no billboard on the car in the article. There's likely a small sticker somewhere. This is a common practice by business owners so they can file their personal vehicle as a business expense and dodge some of their tax liability. Frankly it's a pretty shitty practice.
The billboard is on the back, complete with QR code. LOL.
It's common to buy whatever the new eye catching vehicle is and wrap it for a business, we saw it when the new VW Bug was introduced, and again with the PT Cruiser, but for a cybertruck, he should have looked at WHY it was eyecatching... like a fish hook.
I like that you got a couple downvotes, I guess for calling a large text URL that spans the entire tailgate width and a giant fuckin QR code and the logo for the foundation a billboard? Like it's not as flashy as a lot of advert wraps but it's plainly visible from a decent distance, and it's on a gold cybertruck so I guess it is flashy. I wonder what the opposition to you calling it a billboard is
Maybe they wanted the picture? 🤔
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/02/12/worcester-man-wants-to-return-tesla-cybertruck-after-nazis-sticker-incident/
Somehow this, and I didn't know how this is possible, makes me feel even less sympathy for him than I did before seeing it.
That is a terrible way to advertise. Who is going to use that QR code, other drivers? Put it on the side of the car.
Oh, so it's even more offensive because it's a goddamn advertisement?
Edit: and a fucking tax dodge, to boot!
It's just digging this entitled fuckwad's hole even deeper.
Isn't tax dodge the true American dream?
No.
Ah, so he deserves it, then
"Look, it's an ugly gold Cybertruck! Clearly I must go to this medical spa that I don't know the name of or that it exists at all!"
Dude, Tesla's CEO endorsed a racist, misogynistic, transphobic and pauperophobic rapist. He shows up at AfD and FdI rallies.
You're Syrian, once they've rounded up all the poor brown people they'll come for you. After all, a god-fearing, bible-thumping, red-white-and-blue bleeding American could be given your business.
And your taste in cars sucks, by the way.
Yeah, and a non-zero amount of humans are insufferable bastards bent on subverting, dismantling and exploiting society for their own gain.
This. Being human doesn’t excuse you being a piece of shit and a danger to others.
Non-zero is an extremely low estimate.
Right, it is the 1% who do it maliciously and another 20+% who do it out of ignorance or because they were brain washed by fascist propaganda
Even without the whole elon shitshow, it's still cunts like that who buy cars that endanger everyone around them.
It sounds like we all agree. Despite all the rightful cybertruck hate and despite the garish gold color, this driver was not even particularly persecuted. He was just living the life of a normal Bostonian (which always includes other drivers cursing at you, cause that's what we do here).
So... This is actually just a non-story. The headline could have been "Ridiculous gold cybertruck exists in Massachusetts, driver treated normally"
Or perhaps,
"Driver of ridiculous gold cyber truck somehow still isn't getting enough attention!"
Man buys ridiculous car gets ridiculed. More news at six.
Right!
I once had someone throw a beer bottle at me from their car as I was walking the dog. They yelled 'Dog Wanker!' Where's my news story?
Ok, that's a bit messed up. And "wanker"? Did you walk the dog all the way to London?
You sure they didn't say "fuckhead" and maybe it only sounded like wanker?
That doesn't help their persecution complex...
Freedom of speech doesn't mean your free from consequences.
He is encouraging a nazi oligarch through the purchase of what is a gross flashy display of his wealth in a time where the wealth gap has never been so wide. You're just asking for it at this point.
This is why the current administration is beginning the removal of freedom of speech (by enforcing removal of certain words from all government forms/sites/documents)
Oh no. Anyways…
He thinks his family isn't safe in it... Yet he continues to drive it
You drive a rolling swastika and BLARING sign of historical wealth inequality that you've literally wrapped in gold - you deserve so much more fucking hate culminating in a brief rest of your heavy head that wears the crown on the guillotine. Tone deaf, fucking ghoul.
Poetry
Apparently he tried to trade it in, but Tesla isn't accepting cybertrucks back. Wonder why....
"I wish to buy something that tells everyone that I'm richer and better than them."
Later...
"Waaaah! Everyone's being mean to me because I'm telling everyone I'm richer and better than them!"
Gold swasticar*
noice!
Dude who can take anyone who drives this thing seriously.
YOU LOOK RIDICULOUS.
Me driving around in my clown car "I just don't understand why everyone keeps calling me a clown and laughing at me 😭"
I laughed at a broken down cybertruck once from my literal clown car (an overstuffed Honda Fit) in below freezing weather
NGL, it gave me a serotonin bump
Laughing is one thing
Threatened is something else. No excuse for that
We all know this guy is embellishing. "My wife screamed how she would never drive it again!" No, that didn't happen.
And then if it did, uh, good? Points to the wife for refusing to drive a symbol of hate.
Do obnoxious stuff for "librul tears".
Cry like a baby when people do obnoxious stuff back.
Hard to find any sympathy for the guy. A cybertruck costs almost 3 times the amount of comparable electric trucks.
You pay that much extra because you want the hate.
"I bought this car because FUCK THE LIBS! But why are they harassing me?!"
Funny that the people with Teslas used to be libs.
There's stickers going around that day "I bought this Tesla before Elon went crazy".
I hate Elon as much as the next guy but there's no need to spread blatant misinformation.
Cybertruck MSRP: $80-100k
Ford F-150 Lightning MSRP: $50-90k
Chevy Silverado EV MSRP: $55-95k
and that is the majority of your options. Obviously cybertruck isn't near as capable as the other two and it's also an ugly piece of shit, but there's no need to make things up to diss the idiots buying them, they do it themselves.
*Edit: formatting
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/30/23663618/ford-f-150-lightning-price-hike-original-price
When it was originally released the lightning started at 40k and that's what I was thinking of. Your point about the price today are fine, but there is no need to assume things.
He’s a doctor what kind of doctor lacks the foresight to buy a Cybertruck.
*seeing that his practice is called Sculpting MD
Oh never mind.
Ben Carson was a brain surgeon... need I say more?
Ah, but Ben Carson made a ton of money by grifting to the right. The billionaire class collectively throw billions at their propaganda machines
Well... yeah, but he was also a completely incompetent idiot yet was inexplicably a highly trained surgeon. Which was the point.
There's only one reason to get a cybertruck, the one thing it is excellent at: grabbing attention.
Mission accomplished buddy.
Demolition Derby?
Same with any sports car, come on
Make shame great again! ✊
Weird that he's driving around a swasticar from a company run by a guy that would probably like to deport him...
Good.
The obvious thought.
“Violence is only bad when it’s against people I like.”
Dumbfuck.
Paradox of tolerance
“Wahhh wahh”
the hypersuck isn't allowed on the road in normal countries. just because fascistan allows it doesn't mean people should tolerate this death machine on the road. I hope it totals, so maybe it should drive over some puddle or whatever stupid thing makes these explode.
Harassment and threats are not violence. If I were to punch a trumper, that would be violence.
At the bottom of the article, the swasticar owner makes a similar "people who disagree" argument. This is fascism we're talking about, not pizza toppings. Idiot.
Based. Sometimes this space annoys the fuck outta me
Oh no! Are you being held here against your will!? Blink S.O.S.!
OR don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split ya on the way out.
Cringe reply
Nice punctuation, Grammar Police.
If that's what you believe, maybe don't drive a symbol that is the opposite of these?
Play stupid games...
Bis wife started screaming after seeing a "profane sticker"? Sounds like an "and then everybody clapped" story to me.
She was, crying, screaming out of her throat, even. The horrors.
I put a post-it note on a cybertruck that said "STUPID." I bet his was similar. Fucking crybabies.
Man goes to Worcester in an expensive car, is upset it gets fucked with.
For those not from the area, Worcester has been one of the rougher cities in MA forever. It's not the worst by any stretch, but it has been going through waves of gentrification which leads to fun stories like this one as worlds collide.
I wouldn't park a gold wrapped K car parked in Worcester. But now I want to park a chalk board painted K car in Worcester. Should go exactly as you'd think.
F-him, the gold color represents the MAGA diapers, ear diapers, shoes and watch.
Hasn't he suffered enough. I mean, he's driving a 'gold cybertruck'
If you don’t want to be treated like a nazi sympathizer, then don’t drive a nazi vehicle. Simple.
Man, if only we were hip to what an asshole musk was a month ago. His fans could have known that buying a cybertruck was going to get negative attention. But I guess there were no signs to warn us. And really, who drives cybertrucks more than single moms living paycheck to paycheck, day laborers, and other marginalized folks? We should just assume that anyone in a gold cyber truck had zero idea what they were doing, had no intention of being an edgy dbag, and only uses it to deliver fresh produce to the local food banks.
I flip them the bird every time I see one now, fuckin nazi simps need to know they’re hated
Even if it is 10 degrees, I'll roll down the window and make a jackoff gesture. Fucking clowns. I have appointments near a Boeing office, you'll be shocked to know that more than a few Boeing employees drive Wankpanzers. Boeing planes are built to the same standards lately so it tracks.
Too bad there's no way to get rid of that thing.
That's weird. I'm never threatened and harassed when driving my nazi Sturm panzer. I don't see why the ugly American equivalent would enrage people. Maybe just because it's really ugly. I could understand that.
Buy goober toys, get goober responses
That's the entire point of this administration: retaliation. That's why we're here in the first place.
It's the little things that give me hope... Stuff like this. Get fucked, supporters of Elon Musk.
Yes, if you drive his car, you support him. Sell it, watch the value drop overall from you and others doing it, and you'll be back on the other side of the fence.
I always make the blowjob motion at a cyberfuck when I saw one. It’s ok to bully nazi supporters.
Are they sure you're not advertising services? That hand motion isn't very clear on that essential point.
I donno. Don’t really care either
So, they're free, then?
So trashy looking. I'm not surprised people make fun, but threats are also trashy.
Yah, driving a car that symbolizes the guy helping destroy the nation isn't going to win you points. Sounds like he (Syrian immigrant) bought it a couple of years too early before Elon revealed his stripes.
Elon revealed his stripes years ago. It is only willful ignorance to act surprised now
did he consider changing as a person?
talk about excellent life choices
Behold! The Golden Swasticar!
Wow. Even if Musk was still an OK guy and the cybertruck a decent car - a golden car simply points out the owners mental deficits.
I saw a fully hogh gloss chrome car the other day. No idea what make/model but it was a jarring sight and hard on the eyes due to reflecting the sun. I didn't feel nearly as much disdain towards the driver as I do from the photo of a gold dumpster with windows.
Luckily, this is illegal in civilized countries.
What a fucking loser.
Oh? How does it feel? Turnabout is fair play.
Can't he just drive it to a "safe space"?
Bad things happening to bad people
That photo gave me a some serious Goldeneye 007 on the N64 vibes, its like he unlocked the cheat code to get the golden car to go with the golden gun.
Until now I didnt think it was possible to make that thing look more low-poly.
Good keep it up guys
That goes to the museum of the 2k20s. Everyone with a sturdy key or a can of paint may leave a messsge on that time capsule. Imaging having a guarded wiki page about you the guy who painted a dick on the golden disk of these pathetic times.
Git em, eat em
Cyberjunk owners:
I didn't think much about it until I thought about the trump towers
Oh no! The consequences of my shitty actions!
Good. hope that thing explodes with him inside.
I'm against threats and harassment. In any case even if that vehicle wasn't Musk related it still is an eyesore - equivalent to brutalism architecture - and doubly so being the colour of piss ;)
Why are people defending physical violence over a vehicle? I don't get it. Sure, he made a poor purchasing decision. No wonder, the culture war has been so successful at dividing us.
The article never suggests any physical violence, though. The problems he reported to CBS are a "hateful sticker", "threats online", "somebody tried to cut me off" and "three guys pointing the middle finger and [...] screaming at me". Not super cool either, but they're not physical violence. Those last two might even be legal, depending on the circumstances.
For anybody curious, since the article doesn't mention what the "hateful sticker" was, from a quick search it was: "NAZIS FUCK OFF".
Seems like a good sticker!
Pretty sure the last two are not just legal, but required under MA law while merging onto any highway.
Really the bottom three, but that's just because we haven't gotten the nearly impossible to remove electrostatically charged stickers from Snow Crash yet. Soon as we get those puppies it's game on!
Heh. Deep cuts w/ Vonnegut should've been a podcast.
Physical violence? Did I miss where the dude got dragged from his vehicle and beaten?
Go out in public proudly displaying political symbols, and you should expect people to answer back with a yell or a finger. A sticker about how your car sucks. Maybe even a blast of coal-rolling exhaust. Words invite words; symbols invite symbols - no one's throwing hands, so I'd say this is just about how I'd like culture war to work.
You would "prefer" a "culture war" of slap fights and clever rejoinders? How bougie can you get without admitting it? 🙃
The musk nazi stuff is recent, dude could have easily bought the cybertruck before musk started going full nazi with the mask off. We don't know anything except what the article says.
Edit: Man yall are sensitive. Unless I say Musk bad anytime it comes up, yall get the pitchforks out. Chill out, this isn't an article about Elon musk even.
Musk being a massive POS goes back years, but specifically entered the public consciousness when he called that dude trying to save the trapped kids in the mine a pedophile.
Where the fuck have you been?
Nazis Fuck Off. Their toadies, too. Off with ya.
The Cybertruck was released on November 30, 2023. Two weeks before, he endorse an antisemitic tweet.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/16/elon-musk-antisemitic-tweet-adl
You know when he apologized for it? November 30th.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/29/investing/elon-musk-dealbook-summit/index.html
Either this guy knew Musk said that and didn't care, knew Musk said it and forgave him when he didn't know better, or didn't even bother paying attention to something that was national news at the time.
And whichever it was, it doesn't speak highly of him.
I don't have a Twitter, and I don't follow Elon Musk religiously. I wish he'd go away, but, well, we both know that's not happening.
Unless you were the one who bought the Cybertruck, this isn't about you and I don't know why you think it is.
No, he absolutely could not have. Musk was full mask-off Nazi before the Cybertruck was released.
In 2023... no he wasn't.
Yes, he fucking was! Either you're an apologist or you weren't paying attention.
Definitely a he said, she said moment right here. I'm not gonna engage with that.
No it fucking isn't. It's a matter of historical fact, and you are just flat-out wrong.
Also, thank you @[email protected] for bringing the receipts.
Divided? That douche-whistle had so much money, he spent it on a golden turd. Not only did he divide himself, the dude put up walls to separate himself from the poors.
USA is all about class wars. No one else on the planet gives a flying fuck what you drive. But in US? It's somehow the most hanious thing you can do.
Its a fucking car. Get over yourself. Musk isn't hand building them. It's easy to "boycott" something you can't afford. I'm sure everyone here avoids amazon and nestle, right?
Buying new car is stupid regardless, but if my model 3 breaks down tomorrow, I'll go buy another model 3. But it won't, because it's literally the best EV on the market. I test drove BYD literaly today, it is the 2nd best EV I've driven (and I've driven A LOT of EVs) but it's generations behind what Tesla offers. This isn't some subjective opinion, tesla is the best in range, efficiency, road noise, safety, software and "self driving" (while not ready, might never be, they're still the best at it). They're also likely the cheapest option.
You're meant to skip that for what? Internet keyboard warrior fame?
It’s even easier to cry like a baby about not being able to afford to drive a different car, when just the golden wrap on your luxury vehicle cost more than an entire normal car.
Nobody fucks with standard teslas lol. Even our wannabe pharaoh here is barely getting fucked with compared to the baseline Worcester experience
We shall see. Comments online surely show how unhinged people are. Or how about the highly upvoted post of standard Tesla being rattle canned with a huge swastika on it? 90% of the comments saw no issue with it.
And let's not pretend it's just tesla thing, look at Nvidia cards, people are rooting for People's cards burning down because they couldn't get one.
There are more examples, HPA in airsoft is another hobby I follow, people want it banned off sites.
Zero about understanding, no, people are just cunts.
I couldn't care less about this golden twat, but look at any other post about tesla here? People are advocating torching them. When called out will pretend it's only when they self set on fire!
I'm getting really tired of it. It's just hate hate hate. Me vs them. I hope you see my point.
I agree hate is a terrible thing. Tbh though it’s ridiculous to try and direct your empathy towards the richest most unaffected people getting flamed for engaging in their luxury hobbies while vulnerable minorities are increasingly being targeted by actual violence.
Maybe luxury car owners, high end computer enthusiasts, and adults larping as soldiers with their expensive little toy guns should wake the fuck up to the situation that is developing around them if they care so much about peace and love. Hope you see my point
Nah, fuck that. People deserve to have fun and not be miserable all the time being there's a war/famine/genocide going on. What exactly you're doing on the internet while people are suffering? How dare you entertain yourself? And you hit nail in the head, it's just whataboutism and jealousy. "If X is miserable, so should you be! "
Back at the boycotting something you can't afford/want is the easiest shit to do.
Typical rambling argument against random shit nobody said.
You are the one using your limited time to jump to the defense of society’s lowest, most pathetic losers. Look up this guy’s business, he’s a fucking scam artist. Worcester would be significantly better off if they drove him out of town over his dumbass car.
You, yes you personally, should direct that energy into defending trans people and immigrants whose lives are actually threatened by violence instead of wasting it on wealthy people who are merely made “uncomfortable” by people telling them to fuck off lmao. You know, since you are the one who claims to be so bothered by hate and everything.
Or just continue to hallucinate and argue with yourself about the deep philosophical trimmings of whether or not anybody at all should be allowed to experience any form of pleasure if even one among us anywhere in the world is suffering. That’ll come in handy in the future I’m sure, especially if you keep bringing it up when nobody asked
Then maybe quit supporting the hateful. If you can't take it, don't help dish it out.
The people in this thread saying "fuck him" and "he deserves it" is the reason why we're so divided. The same reason we have hate and turmoil in this country. Who gives a shit if he drives a cybertruck. Similar to the Gulf of America. Who gives a shit about the change. It'll be changed back eventually anyway.
No, no no
Trump has been pushing for a divide for about a decade now, continuously pushing one part of the country, his fan base, against the rest.
Now what you're saying is that now that people are fed up and start pushing back, we are the problem?
You are the problem
So, you're on team "divide everyone" because Trump is doing it?
You're not pushing back, you're playing the game.
They love being divided. "Us versus them".
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/cybertruck-ford-pinto-20160527.php
Cybertrucks are killing people at very alarming rates (even worse than the other oversized SUVs and pickups.) If anyone drives a vehicle that endangers the lives of others then we have every right to hate them for it. Your right to swing your fists around ends where my face begins.
Sounds more like bad drivers than just a faulty vehicle. Even had the cybertruck bomb in there for added effect.
A safe vehicle doesn't because anyone from bad driving
Are we seriously stooping to the level of our supposed betters when it comes to dealing with criticism or disagreement? Elon Musk and Trump, two individuals who have no qualms about using their influence and power to bully others into silence.
A fellow just gets harassed for driving a car that he's passionate about. Can you imagine how it feels to be constantly singled out and shunned because of something so mundane as the shape of your vehicle? The Cybertruck is a polarizing design, but should that make one a target for abuse?
The stickers on his car are just the cherry on top of this toxic behavior. It's not just harassment, it's vandalism. I can only imagine how dehumanizing and demoralizing it must be to have people's hate projected onto your property.
This incident is a perfect example of how our society has become increasingly divided and tribal. We're more likely to attack the person or the idea rather than engaging in constructive dialogue. The 'other' becomes a target, and we lose sight of what really matters - empathy, kindness, and understanding.
I'm truly sad to see this happen. The owner of the Cybertruck is not some kind of ideologue who deserves to be attacked. He's just an average person who wants to drive his car without fear of reprisal or ridicule. And what will it achieve? Will it make him think twice about his choices? I doubt it. If anything, it'll reinforce his conviction and anger.
We need to learn to treat each other with respect and dignity, even when we disagree. Harassment and intimidation are not solutions to problems; they're just symptoms of a deeper issue - our inability to listen to opposing views and engage in civil discourse.
While I agree with the General Sentinment of your comment, I think public shaming needs to be used more. If you're driving a swasticar, you should be shamed for it.
While you're joining in the pointless mud slinging about a person's choice of vehicle, the government is being dismantled, we're filling our first concentration camps and threatening to invade Canada.
The solution isn't to play the game of pointless division which got us into this mess in the first place. The people with power that are breaking our society got that power by tricking people into worrying about trivial differences within their class.
The solution to that problem isn't to continue worrying about trivial differences amongst your class.
They can start first if they have such a problem with it. Conservatives have been lambasting and attacking anyone who disagrees with them since the 90s. My car was vandalized at work after the 2000 election because of a bumper sticker.
Don't start a fight if you don't want to finish it
Too bad Kamala wasn't the winner. She was all about "take the high road". It seems that since she lost, people have interpreted this as "I must get as dirty as the other side to win". Sorry, I don't want to play those low, nasty games that the other side has played forever.
The right is living out their wet dream right now, in charge of almost every facet of the federal government. Unfortunately for them, that also comes with the responsibility to improve things in some way. By almost any metric you can imagine, we haven't seen much improvement. I think if they don't want to get tossed out next election, they had better start building up some wins. I do not think the public, no matter how MAGA-ly aligned will gladly accept 3.9 more years of "b-b-b-b-but Biden made the economy so bad we can't do anything".
Why was Trump before the election saying "Give me a day and I'll fix this country" and then after it saying "Well, things are real hard, but we'll give it a shot...". It's because the guy is all bark and no bite. It's a lot easier to promise all-encompassing fixes to the USA than it is to actually do them, and I think other than just blindly tearing down (expensive) federal agencies and claiming that as a win, he has no real plan other than disruption. Unfortunately for those of us in the USA that just want to live day by day, we aren't rooting for random chaos.
I think about half the voters just want to see the world burn to "own the libs" and the other half wants improvements in housing costs, food costs, improvements in wagers, worker's rights, etc. My crystal ball says we will see much more disruption and vanishingly few improvements to life for the average American, but let's find out! I'd be glad to be wrong and Trump transforms the USA into a utopia. I just don't think it's very likely.
Then you are exactly why the democrats continue to lose so goddamn always
Enjoy your vision of a nasty America where everyone is rude and annoying forever!
At which point in the last 30 years has the Democrats taking the high road had any effect on that?
I'd rather have one party slinging mud than two. Apparently there's a lot of people who want "revenge" and permission to be nasty "because that's what the other guys do". Go ahead, if that's what tickles your pickle, but I'm not joining in. I don't want to sink to the lowest common denominator.
I'd like to think the Democrats will win because the Republicans will get nothing of substance done during the next 3.9 years and the Democrats will come up with some decent plans for the nation. It seems like a lot of people just want to see the Democrats get better at slinging mud instead. I don't agree with this.
I’d rather have democrats in power for more than four months over 40 years so they can actually fix things.
Because that’s what always happens: Republicans sling mud and break shit, Democrats get elected because shit is broken and refuse to sling mud to fix it, and then Democrats lose because they won’t sling mud.
But if you don’t want to break the cycle we’ve been stuck in since Reagan because it’s mean then I don’t know what to tell you.
And your concern is that people aren’t being nice enough to them and their supporters.
Collaborators can eat shit