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Video: Cybertrucks Show Up to Mardi Gras Parade… And Are Pelted with Trash and Booed

Tesla’s Cybertruck just made its grand debut at Mardi Gras 2025, and, well… it didn’t go great. Watch the Video: The Crowd Was Not Having It A group of Cybertrucks rolled through the Orpheus Parade, a generally tame, family-friendly event known for marching bands, fabulous floats, and an all-around good time. But when the small […]

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lemmy.world

If I worked at Tesla, I’d be watching this nervously. How much more damage can the brand stand before it makes like a Cybertruck and just falls apart entirely?

👀

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moist.catsweat.com

I sorta wonder how any of musks companies can retain good people now. they required some really talented people and I keep on thinking how I would want to run from there. I mean facebook, amazon, microsoft, apple, google, sure there is the corpo evil do I want to work here still but it would make me physically ill to work for musk now.

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Alexreply

People went back to Twitter when Musk realised he had over fired and needed some of those he culled. I don't know if they got a salary bump to be enticed back though.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Here is a reddit post by a marshal riding in one of the trucks. It includes an update with a link to a response (on Twitter, sorry) from the owner and the marshal's response to it.

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I love this so much. Anyone who buys a cybertruck should be punished

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new orleans. It took less effort to find out than it took you to link to wikipedia in your comment.

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Looking at the linked reddit comments really made me roll my eyes and remember why I left. So many centrists...

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fedia.io

These were just people at a parade though, not protestors in any way. Probably brought little Timmy and Tommy who are only 9 years old with them. Do you just expect people to have molotov cocktails on themselves and ready to go at all times?

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Do you just expect people to have molotov cocktails on themselves and ready to go at all times?

Might be a good idea.

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Do you just expect people to have molotov cocktails on themselves and ready to go at all times?

Well, thinking about it... it may become handy in the times we are heading towards...

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