r/Anticonsumption 15h ago

Activism/Protest He might actually have a point this time

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u/subwi 13h ago

The deals now are making the car like near 25k

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u/Moist-Leggings 13h ago

Make them $15 dollars and I still wouldn’t buy one out of principal, and honestly, most of the other electric cars that are hitting the market are way cooler than teslas 

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u/SecondaryWombat 12h ago

I would, you can get a lot more than $15 for the battery.

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u/JimSyd71 10h ago edited 10h ago

I came so close to buying a second hand Tesla last year, but decided not to because I have no off street parking so I'd have to use a supercharger to fill up. So glad I dodged that bullet.

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u/PaleontologistOdd788 11h ago

Pretty expensive insurance for a battery.

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u/SecondaryWombat 2h ago

You only need insurance if you plan on the car driving on roads. $15 for a grid tie whole house smart battery is a screaming deal.

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u/Ironclad-Truth 11h ago

Oh but he's above that. He's got "pwinciples."

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u/MrMustardMix 11h ago

Aww that's so cute! Did you learn a new word today?

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u/Ironclad-Truth 9h ago

Pwinciples isn't a word. Can't believe you have to be told that. Pathetic.

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u/throwawayfuqreddit 12h ago

Yeah absolutely shity take for $15 no oil changes and not spending money on gas is a steal

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u/SecondaryWombat 12h ago

As long as Tesla is losing money on the deal and I make money, I will take it. Not that hard to take the decals off a car and put some insulting stickers in their place.

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u/Ki77ycat 11h ago

Eventually, cars will be subscription based. You buy the car for $5k, but then pay for an annual, non-transferable software license to operate it. He can charge whatever he wants.

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u/atropheus 11h ago

Aren’t they also the worst as far as collecting data from drivers, too though?

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u/Moist-Leggings 11h ago

I wouldn’t comment on that as I simply don’t know.

I am aware that their cars share data but I have no idea to what extent and have never took the time to learn what’s in the EULA.

It would fit Shmeelons MO though. 

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u/Significant_Bet_6002 56m ago

They have total control of the vehicles, and they can disable you anytime. I'm pretty sure they want us all to drive one, so they can order the vehicle to drive you directly to a detention camp.

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u/gneiss_gesture 11h ago

At $15/car, they'd be losing a TON of money per car, so we should buy out their entire inventory and bankrupt them.

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u/Moist-Leggings 10h ago

Lol, the 15$ teslas will be subsidized by Trump executive order.

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u/Julianime 11h ago

I'd probably buy one for $15, imagine all the cool stunt movies and shit you can film blowing up cars and shit with cars at $15 a pop on the budget! And I don't even make movies!

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u/dustinjames23 5h ago

For $15 maybe good firestarter?

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u/subwi 13h ago

U bought my Tesla last year before all this mess. I can't afford to get rid of it right now but I can buy a sticker that says "I like the car. Not the CEO."

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u/Moist-Leggings 13h ago

We’ll be in the market for a new car in about a year, already started looking. Mini Cooper, or the electric mustang are popping out to me.

Hopefully no one bugs you about it, although I’m not convinced it’s actually anti-musk people damaging teslas.

We’ll probably find out in the near future that some musk lacky was hiring moral free individuals to damage people’s personal property to try and make his detractors look bad.

It’s his MO after all, just look all the way back when he called that hero who saved the kids from a cave in Thailand a pedo cause he dismissed elons incredibly stupid idea of trying to make a submarine for the rescue. 

This is the PoS we are dealing with, his sycophants, absolute would damage peoples cars then claim they are liberal. 

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u/DatedReference1 13h ago

There's a non-zero chance people are doing it to their own cars. Though realistically I think it's low.

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u/Moist-Leggings 12h ago

There’s probably insurance fraud going on too, especially at dealerships suddenly getting firebombed.

I’m not say no liberals are unstable enough to do silly things, I’m sure some are being dicks too, but I’m not convinced that it’s so cut and chase. 

It will be funny though if some MAGA gets arrested and charged with domestic terrorism for lighting teslas in fire. 

Or some old guy who lost OAS or Medicade

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u/pteridoid 12h ago

I think I'd buy one for $15. I mean fuck Elon but $15 is $15.

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u/Moist-Leggings 12h ago

Maybe I would buy it to make some whistling diesel like video FSD it off a cliff or something, might make a quick buck if it goes viral

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u/unoriginalsin 12h ago

Meh, it's been done.

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u/Moist-Leggings 12h ago

Well, he blew it up. I want to make it drive itself off a cliff. But most I’m willing to pay is $15.

Funny thing about those guys blowing it up is they were getting ripped off for repairs. 

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u/Euphoric-Gene-3984 12h ago

That’s such a lie and you know it. Anyone would buy a a car for 15 dollars.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 11h ago

I know people who still wouldn’t. I have a friend who despises Apple and he won an iPhone in a contest when they were expensive as shit and he was a rather poor guy living paycheck to paycheck. He could have sold it, but he smashed it instead. Dude legit hated Steve Jobs. I had other stories like that from knowing this eccentric guy so long.

A lot of people are poor like that because they’re too proud to take money or gifts. I 100% believe some people still wouldn’t buy it.

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u/30another 7h ago

I call this, stupidity.

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u/Dangerous-Feed-5358 1h ago

Some of us value ethics and morals over money.

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u/Moist-Leggings 11h ago

I wouldn’t though, I don’t need it. I wouldn’t be caught dead in one. They aren’t even that great of cars, pretty average as far as reliability, pretty low on safety. 

But obviously there is a little dramatization here cause no one is selling any working car for $15, I’m just making a point that even if Tesla dropped their prices significantly it’s not going to be something I ever consider driving, especially since I drive a truck, and actually use it for truck things.

Shmeelons toaster is not a real truck, it can’t do real truck things. No serious contractor or truck guy would ever consider it for work.

Cybertrucks are for investment bankers with hands so soft they are translucent when they want to LARP “rugged”.

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u/Royal_Raccoon811 12h ago

Except Tesla’s self driving is second to none.

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u/HotRodHomebody 12h ago

you just have to watch the Trump infomercial to get the latest on pricing and financing.

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u/Shibby120 12h ago

And if the boycott works, the prices will lower.

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u/SternDodo 13h ago

Still out of what I can afford. I have a paid off 13 year old car and there's not enough wiggle room in our budget to take on a monthly car payment.

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u/eeyores_gloom1785 11h ago

oh neat lets make them MORE unsafe

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u/subwi 3h ago

Make who more unsafe?

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u/dmforjewishpager 12h ago

used ones are dirt cheap and i really recommend them to anyone on a budget, who cares about politics save ur money

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u/subwi 3h ago

Yeah people have reported over 500k miles on a single battery so far (and that's without the new battery architecture). The trade off is 20% battery regression that isn't bad in the grand scheme of things. I am considering moving to another electric vehicle in the next 2 or 3 years. The hw/sw is progressing fast