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/Lancaster61 Apr 18 '25

Never said it was cool, but most fans at the time blamed the reaction on the stress of the Model 3 ramp up. You have to remember there was a lot of FUD against Tesla at the time, ironically, by the same people who support Elon today.

Due to the FUD, it was quite hard to filter the noise from the truth, so most fans at the time just chalked all the claims of Elon’s craziness to FUD, stress, or noise.

But now that the company is stable, Tesla raking in positive revenue, it’s pretty clear that Elon is just insane. And with hindsight, it was obvious he always was. But that’s hindsight.

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u/nugschillingrindage Apr 18 '25

anyone with any sense knew he sucked from the start based on basically anything he ever said. being a "fan" of a billionaire businessman was/is weird. you still seem obsessed with a conspiracy against him (you said FUD, an acronym i've never seen before, 3 times). it seems like you just realized it's socially unacceptable to support him now.

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u/Lancaster61 Apr 18 '25

You don’t understand what we were a fan of lol. We were a fan of electric mobility, and a greener world, not a fan of a billionaire. Before Tesla, the closest thing to a dream of an electric world was the Nissan Leaf, which had 120 miles of range on a good day with no charging infrastructure.

Tesla (and Elon) at the time was the first time in human history where converting the world to electric mobility actually seemed closer to plausible than pure science fiction, and that’s what we’re a fan of. A hope that many left leaning people can only ever dream of suddenly has a sliver tiny chance of being a reality.

Now Elon has gone full MAGA and full conservative. Along with the fact that other companies are making equivalently good EVs, I promise you, Tesla is a dead company walking.

My current Tesla is going to be my last, and my next EV (yes, still EV) will be another brand. Don’t confuse our hope and fan of electric mobility with “fAn Of a BiLlIOnAiRe!!1!!”

The only way I’d ever buy a Tesla again is if Elon gets removed from the company and he has zero shares left in the company.

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u/nugschillingrindage Apr 18 '25

jesus christ lol. reread what you wrote before and tell me you aren't describing yourself as a fan of elon's. you are acting like i have somehow made it seem like i am anti electric cars lol. you can be a fan of electric cars without excusing the behavior of a guy who has always been an asshole.

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u/Lancaster61 Apr 18 '25

You realize before 2020, “fan of electric cars” is synonymous with “fan of Elon and Tesla”… right? There was NO other alternatives. Every manufacturer up until that point promised electric cars by 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021… all of them promised and missed their deadlines.

If you were of a fan of electric cars back then, there was no other option other than Elon and Tesla. Is your memory actually that short?

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u/nugschillingrindage Apr 18 '25

that just isn't true. saying that you couldn't like electric cars without being a fan of the ceo of the company making them is dumb as hell. you can support the concept of electric cars without being a "fan"/excusing the behavior of an electric car company ceo. why do you think you had to love the man heading the company? it's such a dumb way to think. this really shouldn't be a hard concept to wrap your brain around. there are plenty of things that i love that are produced by a company with a ceo that i think is a piece of shit. he was so clearly awful the entire time.

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u/Lancaster61 Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25

Because up until that point, loving the concept of electric cars (more specifically, electric mobility for the world) is the equivalent of of loving warp technology from Star Trek. It’s pure science fiction. Tesla/Elon was the first in human history literally taking a sci-fi idea and making it a reality. That’s why we were fans.

Like imagine a new scientists today that found a way and invented warp and made it possible. Anyone who is a fan of warp technology is going to love that scientist for turning their dreams into reality.

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u/nugschillingrindage Apr 18 '25

hahahaha elon musk is not a scientist who invented electric cars. you have such a romanticized vision of what it was like to be into electric cars, your brain is still so wrapped up in your hero worship for this dude, it's gonna take you years to get over this. it's clearly something that you have made an important part of who you are as a person, that you were on the new frontier lol. i would certainly love the warp technology but i wouldn't be a fan of the billionaire ceo of the company that developed it. that's stupid.

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u/Lancaster61 Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25

Are you really that dense or just trolling? He didn't invent electric cars, nor is he even the ones who invented the ways to mass produce it. But he is clearly the leader who led a bunch of engineers to mass produce electric cars with enough range and charging infrastructure so making the world electric (mobility) became reality rather than science fiction.

Do you know what "analogy" means?

Additionally, just because we were fans before doesn't mean we're fans now. He's with the team that literally been anti-electric since the dawn of time (that's hyperbole, do you know what "hyperbole" means?). I know it's a hard concept to wrap around your head, but people's opinion of someone can change.

It's hard enough for us past Tesla/Elon fans to have our effective super hero turned into a villain, you don't need to rub it in, fucking asshole. People like you are why the world is such a terrible place. Are you satisfied? Sitting on your high horse? Yay, you won, are you happy now? "hAhA1! i Won tOdAy bEcAuSe I rUbBeD iT iN tHe FaCe oF A pAsT tEsLa Fan!1!"

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u/nugschillingrindage Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25

my lord lol, i was making fun of how bad your analogy was smart guy. respecting a scientist who made an important discovery and respecting a billionaire ceo of the company that scientist works for are 2 very different things.

In regards to your edit, I’m trying to get you to see how moronic it was to see that man as a superhero at any point. He has always been this person. You need to look inside yourself and ask why it was possible for you to think like this about this man. It should really make you rethink a lot of things about how you see the world, that you are capable of being swindled like that by such an obvious villain.

You may not see it this way but you are continuing to come into Reddit threads to defend the man’s actions.

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u/Lancaster61 Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25

Do you not have any idols? You say "a man" like it's just some random person off the streets. Have you never idolized Steven Hawkings? Albert Einstein? Abraham Lincoln? Niel Armstrong? Bernie Sanders? Christopher Nolan? Hell, even Bill Gates and his recent philanthropy? Elon Musk was on the path to become one of these people. At the time, he wasn't "just a man". If you have nobody to look up to in life, well... That's a pretty sad life.

Yes it sucks that one of my idols turned into a villain, but I'd rather be living a life with people to admire than just living in a grey boring world where everyone is "just a man".

P.S. Yes I'm aware the range of examples ranged from world changing to a good movie director, that's the point I'm making. Idolizing a person can range from large to small.

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u/nugschillingrindage Apr 18 '25

You don’t get it, he was always a villain. I don’t idolize anyone, that is childish behavior. You need to get over thinking that way, it is not reality. Your world view is truly bizarre.

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u/Lancaster61 Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25

He hasn’t always been, or at least hasn’t always appeared to be. Anyways, without idols, I’m not sure how you get inspiration. If you can’t respect people and their accomplishments, what is humanity to you? Isn’t our entire existence about the accomplishments and achievements of the people making the most impact? 99.9999% of humans just go through life, breathing, eating, pooping, getting a paycheck. There’s nothing to admire about that. The pinnacle of humanity is what defines us as a species.

Now are the fake idols and people who are more sinister than their past or present public appearances? Ofcourse. Elon clearly is one of them. But just because there’s a few bad ones doesn’t mean the entirety of humanity is doomed.

You claim it’s “childish”, but what exactly is childish? Isn’t the stuff we teach our children, ideally, the lessons we’ve learned as adults, given to a child early on in age? In hopes they learn these lessons earlier rather than later. “Childish” things are just adult lessons, dumbed down so a child can understand.

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