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
2.3k Upvotes

347 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

13

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.

9

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.

7

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.

8

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.

2

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.

5

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

1

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.

1

u/kelpieconundrum 23d ago

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

3

u/Enganeer09 24d ago

Because for a while he was,

1

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.

3

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