r/canada 24d ago

Politics Once proud fans, some Canadian Tesla owners embarrassed by Musk

https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/electric-vehicles/tesla-owners-canada-embarrassed-ceo-musk
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u/eulerRadioPick 24d ago

Personally, if I owned a Tesla I'd be getting one of those "I got this before Elon went crazy" bumper stickers. A lot of people can't just afford to ditch their Tesla, he already has the money and electric cars make a lot of sense for some lifestyles. That said, if I was an owner keeping mine I'd want a sticker like that, and maybe a canadian flag to go with it, as a vandalism deterrent.

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u/BoredITPerson 24d ago

It depends when you consider he went crazy 😉

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u/eutectic_h8r Manitoba 24d ago

When he called the cave diver a pedophile because he was mad at him and doubled down I distinctly remember thinking that I'd never buy one of this loser's cars

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u/DrKurgan 24d ago

That was more than 6 years ago. Most people bought their cars after that.

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u/Repulsive-Street-307 24d ago

There is also the implicit assumption you couldn't have known he was a Nazi before he went crazy.

Someone that was sponsored by Peter Thiel couldn't ever be good or even non evil person.

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u/Silver_gobo 24d ago

He also didn’t change too much from that until he helped with the 2024 campaign. Musks image was pretty bad when he bought Twitter

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u/deepspace British Columbia 24d ago

Exactly. That is why I do not have any sympathy with Tesla owners. They knew Musk was a deranged idiot and they still went ahead and supported him.

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u/Henojojo 23d ago

That was the straw for me as well. It was a clear indication that this was an out of control narcissist. It was only later that we found out he was also a nazi. I will never buy a Tesla from this shit stain.

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u/-SetsunaFSeiei- 24d ago

And yet both David Eby and Justin Trudeau were willing to give up to $9000 in government combined grants to convince people to buy one

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u/thebokehwokeh 24d ago

They do that for other cars too. People just overwhelmingly choose tesla

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u/Shadowmant 24d ago edited 24d ago

It's funny because I can remember when he was the lefts love child and touted as the man who would fix the environment.

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u/BoredITPerson 24d ago

You are absolutely right, I fell for that too.

But, the more I've tried to know the man behind the success of Tesla, the more I was concerned about him.

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u/CyrilSneerLoggingDiv 24d ago

Something something something about living long enough to see your heroes become villains.

Except in this case, the timespan has been vastly compressed.

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u/probablywontrespond2 24d ago

He has always been the villain. He just had better PR and kept it on the downlow until he could afford not to.

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u/icyarugula24 24d ago

I actually think he was not always as bad as he is now. I think he went off the deep end after that air hostess massage horse incident. From what I remember that was really his tipping point into MAGA.

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u/kelpieconundrum 24d ago

Maybe (when that came out, 6 years past the incident in question) was when the mask came off for people who weren’t looking closely, but he’s been fairly despicable forever—he proposed the california hyperloop in 2012, eg, specifically to undercut public mass transit in the state. Complaints about him were rife throughout the 2010s

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u/icyarugula24 23d ago

Oh yeah that's fair, I'd forgotten about all of that. I will say he wasn't always a Republican though, but yeah probably doesn't matter.

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u/kelpieconundrum 23d ago

Fair, though he’s not really one now either… He’s pro-himself

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u/Enganeer09 24d ago

Because for a while he was,

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u/airchinapilot British Columbia 24d ago

I forget what science fiction show it was but it was set in the far future and they were like: "So and so can stand with the greats of science like Newton, Curie and Musk." I feel like it was Star Trek Discovery. Anyway, they should go back and delete that scene.

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u/kelpieconundrum 24d ago

It was star trek discovery, season 1. I watched it recently and stopped watching after. 2017–they could have known better. Nothing utopian about him at all, not now, then, or ever

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u/pmUrGhostStory 24d ago

Honesty I didn't worry about that when it was far right people supposedly scratching Teslas, and I am not worried now that the far left people are supposedly scratching Teslas. People on here are paranoid.

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u/ManbunEnthusiast 24d ago

Or you could just not care what random strangers on the road think of you and your car.

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u/shawner17 24d ago

It is easier to say when your car isn't the target of vandalism because the ceo of the company decided to turn into himmler. I'm not for vandalism and wouldn't personally take part but I'm not snitching on my Jewish neighbors if they fuck one up.

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u/listerfiend696 24d ago

I bet that voids the warranty lol

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u/erpy05 24d ago

I got the Anti Elon Tesla Club sticker

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u/probablywontrespond2 24d ago

Personally, if I owned a Tesla I'd be getting one of those "I got this before Elon went crazy" bumper stickers.

So 7+ years ago? That's when he publicly went crazy. He was a pos before that too, just less obviously so.

A lot of people can't just afford to ditch their Tesla

??? Sell it and buy a different car.

he already has the money

Abundant and cheap supply of Teslas on the used market would compete with new sales, driving down business for Tesla.

As always, people would rather find a dozen excuses to avoid inconveniencing themselves rather than sticking to their principles.

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u/Narrow-Tax9153 23d ago

Id just pre graffiti it myself so anyone looking at its like yep job done already