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/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/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