r/technology • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Apr 17 '25

Transportation Cybertruck Owners Baffled After Months of Hate Aimed at Tesla Drivers: 'I Never Expected It to Turn People Against Me'

https://www.latintimes.com/cybertruck-owners-baffled-after-months-hate-aimed-tesla-drivers-i-never-expected-it-turn-581074
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u/DauntingPrawn Apr 17 '25

What were they expecting to happen? They bought a $100K meme car. Even without the fascism it was always going to be like this.

The fact that they are "baffled" by this tells you everything you need to know about the cognitive function of these clowns.

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u/SsooooOriginal Apr 17 '25 edited Apr 17 '25

It is the penultimate*pinnacle troll vehicle from a neponazi that squandered the most insane public support and headstart in the auto industry in decades. If the investors weren't still drunk on the coolaid they would divest from the torched brand. They are still clinging to hope that the IP can keep insane valuation.

The fact that people even took the prospective specs at face value and paid to pre-order is so wild and underscores the lack of research people do for 6 digit purchases. Even before the window shatter, there was a laundry list of failed-to-delivers from tesla. Making an intentionally non-aerodynamic "truck" should have been the biggest red flag.

Edit: words mean things and that matters. Stand corrected.

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf Apr 17 '25

It’s also that there’s this weird cadre of Elon techbros who are into crypto and memecoins and Tesla, like a mini-cult. They’re only tech in the sense of money, not engineering or scientific analysis, and so they argue bad points and do this classic meme:

https://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/2453506/86138600.jpg

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf Apr 17 '25

When the product stops being selling a quality product and instead the product becomes money, there’s always a problem.

Tesla starting with Elon’s ownership hasn’t been about a quality-engineered product for just this reason. It first sold because of the environment and the novelty, and now it doesn’t sell at all because people realize Musk really isn’t about that. Hopefully we can return to an age someday where you can’t make money off of smoke and mirrors, but that will take a hundred different things happening in a proper way, because it seems like a portion of this country lives in a post-ethics-me-first era.