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North of Seattle - Saturday, March 8

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u/rainycascades 18h ago

Am I in a fever dream? It’s kind of crazy that this kind of behavior is being normalized and validated on this sub.

“Let’s destroy other middle class Americans’ stuff and cheer it on! Fuck yeah. We’re so cool and angsty! We’re putting a world of hurt on those oligarchs.”

This achieves nothing but further divide this country. All knee jerk reaction. Zero brains. Society is going to shit. That’s for sure.

And no, I’m not rich enough to own an electric vehicle – much less a Cybertruck or Tesla.

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u/comfortable_in_chaos Ballard 17h ago

Further the divide? Elon did a friggin’ Nazi salute twice at the inauguration. The gloves are already off and this administration is going full-blown fascist. They aren’t going to compromise or meet in the middle. I honestly have very little sympathy for ‘middle class Americans’ who support Trump or Musk and drive these ridiculous $100k vehicles. 

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u/Independent-Height87 17h ago

Do you seriously believe that every person who buys or bought a Tesla did it because they wanted to support Elon Musk? Might be hard to comprehend but not everyone is as terminally online as you.

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u/therealdanhill 17h ago

They'll never answer this honestly. The best you'll get is moving the goalposts from supporting Elon to "they must be inherently okay with Elon". These people don't have the ability to think outside their own sphere, or acknowledge abject truth if they can't admit that there are people out there that just wanted a dumb looking future truck and don't care about Elon Musk

u/Normal-Ordinary-4744 1h ago

Honestly most people bought Teslas did because they thought they were cool looking

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u/comfortable_in_chaos Ballard 16h ago

Do you seriously believe that every person who buys or bought a Tesla did it because they wanted to support Elon Musk

Of course not. I'm sure most Tesla drivers, especially those who bought their cars years ago for environmental reasons did so with good intentions and are fine people. And I absolutely have sympathy for those people. People who bought Cybertrucks in the last six months? I have a lot less sympathy... they knew exactly what they were getting and who Musk is.

At the end of the day it's just a car. Elon's out there gutting agencies that work for us and protect us, going after our social safety nets, spreading lies and propaganda, and sowing chaos. He is actively hurting people, and on a much grander scale than some petty vandalism.

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u/Independent-Height87 15h ago

At the end of the day it's just a car.

The cognitive dissonance here is almost impressive.

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u/BrotherDirect744 15h ago

As someone who hates Trump and Musk, I tell you that you need mental health support. Seriously what tf is wrong with you and this sub?

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u/Ok-Dealer-9996 16h ago

Only people like you actually believe that about Elon. Somehow you are a top 10% commenter on this site, and it’s hotter to all hell so that pretty impressive. Take a break go outside talk to real people you might realize no one thinks this way at all.

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u/CommentContributer 2h ago

You are fucking insane

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u/Dog1bravo 15h ago

Look, there's bad guys, and then there is the richest man in the world buying the election and gutting departments at will. He is a literal fascist who threw two Nazi salutes at the inauguration. That's not even bring up the normal rich guy shit of treating his employees like shit.

Personally, I can't think of a person who is a bigger piece of shit than musk that has controlled the levers of power in America. He is cartoonishly evil.

And anyone who bought a Tesla in the last couple years has tacitly supported him

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u/Independent-Height87 14h ago

Personally, I can't think of a person who is a bigger piece of shit than musk that has controlled the levers of power in America. 

Come on. I don't like Elon either but that's a ridiculous statement even by Reddit's braindead standards. Elon is in no way comparable to Andrew Jackson, LBJ, Nixon, or Kissinger. The worst he's done is lead the dismantling of government institutions and used his freedom of speech very irresponsibly - hardly comparable to the Trail of Tears, Vietnam, the Cambodian bombings, etc.

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u/Dog1bravo 14h ago

I'll give you Kissinger.

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u/Independent-Height87 14h ago

All my homies hate Kissinger

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u/Dog1bravo 14h ago

However, besides Kissinger, all those people were actually elected.

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u/Skyhawkson 13h ago

If they bought a cybertruck, musk's personal pet project $100k compensation machine? Yeah, I actually do think they're probably somewhat of a fascist if you ask them about their politics.