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I don’t ride Jane Fonda to work and don’t park her in my garage. No one sees me at lunch and asks how I feel about Jane Fonda.
That's my point: There shouldn't be any controversy, it's just a meme, which was used numerous time before. People only make it a controversy because they hate Musk in the first place, this has nothing to do with his memes but everything to with him disrupting multiple industries and being the richest man in the world. He has plenty of tasteless tweets before (like the ones about ****ing a horse), it was not an issue four years ago because he's still an underdog, and US society hasn't gone completely crazy over billionaires.At least in my case it’s more an issue of my car being tied to Musk’s public whims than the whims themselves. Everybody has opinions and perspectives and of course some I will disagree with. Nevertheless I don’t want to be involuntarily looped in with Musk’s perspectives in the Costco parking lot.
I didn’t intend to sign up for the tasteless meme associations when I bought this car four years ago. Included in my decision process when I buy my next car will be the likelihood that the car will be publicly related to the political leanings and the championing of causes by the person at the helm, whether or not I’m of like mind.
Mary Barra, in my opinion, sucks for her attempt to overthrow CARB regulations, but if I show up to dinner in a Chevy nobody knows who she is. She doesn’t get on a bullhorn every week stirring up controversy. As a car buyer I would like to avoid being associated with controversy.
That's my point: There shouldn't be any controversy, it's just a meme, which was used numerous time before. People only make it a controversy because they hate Musk in the first place, this has nothing to do with his memes but everything to with him disrupting multiple industries and being the richest man in the world. He has plenty of tasteless tweets before (like the ones about ****ing a horse), it was not an issue four years ago because he's still an underdog, and US society hasn't gone completely crazy over billionaires.
Jane Fonda is just one small example, there're plenty of others, I couldn't list them all since that would cause my comment to be deleted.I don’t ride Jane Fonda to work and don’t park her in my garage. No one sees me at lunch and asks how I feel about Jane Fonda.
I truly think it’s important for those who support Tesla to realize that the bulk of customers are just regular car buyers now. These are the same folks who wouldn’t buy a gasoline Tiguan because of Dieselgate or a Honda Accord because it doesn’t come in orange. Now that the company is far beyond the affluent fanboi nerd customer base it doesn’t take as much to sway purchase decisions.
Having the Tesla brand directly tied to very frequent, extremely public, and highly controversial commentary on sensitive topics could hurt Tesla going forward. It certainly isn’t helping.
Jane Fonda is just one small example, there're plenty of others, I couldn't list them all since that would cause my comment to be deleted.
I'm not convinced this would hurt Tesla going forward, especially given: a. This is a US specific phenomena, US is just 23% of the world market; b. probably half of country actually agrees with him.
It's not a way to reach customers, it's just a something he does for fun, given how much pressure he's under and how much workload he has, I don't blame him. And this is how social media is used by 99% of the people online anyways, his usage pattern is nothing special. You can view it as a personal failing if you like, it's debatable, but nobody is perfect, frankly given what he has accomplished and is accomplishing, this is something extremely minor.It doesn’t help. And adding negative association for the other half of the US, in your example, is a weird way to reach customers.
It doesn’t “help”. I agree. I wish he didn’t do it.It doesn’t help. And adding negative association for the other half of the US, in your example, is a weird way to reach customers.
It's not a way to reach customers, it's just a something he does for fun, given how much pressure he's under and how much workload he has, I don't blame him. And this is how social media is used by 99% of the people online anyways, his usage pattern is nothing special. You can view it as a personal failing if you like, it's debatable, but nobody is perfect, frankly given what he has accomplished and is accomplishing, this is something extremely minor.
It doesn’t “help”. I agree. I wish he didn’t do it.
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Social media is a net negative on society.
Evidently a package deal. Until Elon is a net negative (which I think he is far from that), I will not be concerned.On these points we can agree.
If the media can’t give Tesla a fair shake then I wish Musk wouldn’t voluntarily stab it in the back by giving fuel for negativity.
This is good advice. Also I don't think any country likes foreigners interfering in their internal affairs so his support is likely detrimental anyway.Elon latest tweet about the protests. Tame enough for you guys? Do you approve?
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Oh don’t want to talk about him inciting the terrorists with hitler memes??Elon latest tweet about the protests. Tame enough for you guys? Do you approve?
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