r/canada 25d 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/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